🎰 Party 7 (2000)

🎥 Katsuhito Ishii
🎭 Masatoshi Nagase, Akemi Kobayashi, Tadanobu Asano
💬 7 eccentric characters are brought together by a stolen suitcase full of yakuza money - but who will keep it?

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🏁 Black Test Car / 黒の試走車 (1962)

📽️ Yasuzō Masumura
🎭 Jiro Tamiya, Junko Kano, Eiji Funakoshi
💬 Two car companies enter a dangerous game of espionnage - and seek information at any cost, human or otherwise…

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🕵🏻‍♀️ Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! / 探偵事務所２３ くたばれ悪党ども (1963)

📽️ Seijun Suzuki
🎭 Joe Shishido, Reiko Sasamori, Tamio Kawachi
💬 Maverick detective Tajima infiltrates a gang to expose their shady deals - and wisecracks/sings/dances his way into a whole lot of trouble!

#nowwatching #japanesecinema #japanesefilm #cinemastodon #seijunsuzuki #joeshishido

On September 6, 1989, Mystery Train debuted in France. Here’s some Joe Strummer, Rick Aviles, and Steve Buscemi art!
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#MysteryTrain #JimJarmusch #JoeStrummer #RickAviles #SteveBuscemi #AnthologyFilm #IndependentFilm #80sMovies #Memphis #JapaneseFilm #TCMUnderground #Art #MovieArt #MovieHistory

📽️ A Man Vanishes / 人間蒸発 (1967)

🎥 Shōhei Imamura
💬 Oscillating between fiction and reality, an investigation into a simple disappearance yields unexpected results…

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🍥 Diner / ダイナー (2019)

🎥 Mika Ninagawa
🎭 Tatsuya Fujiwara, Tina Tamashiro, Anna Tsuchiya
💬 Assassins & the service industry come together in this visual feast from photographer Mika Ninagawa

#nowwatching #japanesefilm #cinema #cinemastodon #mikaninagawa

WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (’60): This is something very special indeed. Not to overuse the word but Mikio Naruse was a special director (and a favorite of mine), and he had that knack for just this sort of picture about women, desperately trapped in the seemier side of a man’s world, hoping for escape but finding it thwarted at each turn. Hideko Takamine turns in a magnificently heartbreaking performance, so much of her suffering told in micro-expressions. #japanesefilm #60sfilms

A former banker flees the corporate world for an old school sense of manly autonomy as a gangster in Seiji Izumi's ironic dramedy, Those Swell Yakuza, https://wp.me/p1x9li-jOa

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🎞️ Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate / 幕末太陽傳 (1957) x 🍶 Jūhachi Zakari Yamadanishiki Junmai Daiginjo

Frankie Sakai, Yūjirō Ishihara - and a young Akira Kobayashi! - star in this classic red light district comedy! With an equally sunny sake, all bright mango and lemon sorbet, with a sweet summery acidity. 🥭🍋☀️

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A wanderer returns home and finds himself torn between a desire for acceptance and revenge in an early Tai Kato jidaigeki, Wind, Woman and Road. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jLx

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A blocked writer is dragged into intrigue while searching for "adventure in the night" in Toru Kawashima zeitgeisty drama, Like a Savage. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jKh

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A young man finds himself caught between the new Japan and the old while befriending the last remnants of a nomadic people in Ryohei Sasatani’s poetic drama, Sanka. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jJM

Screened as part of this year's JAPAN CUTS

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A small family struggles to repair itself after eight years of wartime separation in Heinosuke Gosho’s post-war melodrama, Yellow Crow. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jIU

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The staff of a hotel along with its guests find themselves trapped in an infinite two minute loop in Junta Yamaguchi's strangely poignant farce, River. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jI9

Screened as part of this year's Fantasia International Film Festival.

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Two men attempt to come to terms with a traumatic past by solving present mystery in Takahisa Zeze's eerie millennial serial killer drama, The Cold-Blooded Trap https://wp.me/p1x9li-jHR

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Employees at a nude modelling agency find themselves in the firing line when a “bloodsucking painter” escapes from a psychiatric institution in Motoyoshi Oda’s B-movie thriller, Ghost Man. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jG9

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*香華は3時間半あって、岡田茉莉子さんは十代から晩年までを戦前中後と演じる。

モンペ姿の主人公が、白昼の#玉音放送 を広場で聴く人たちの姿を見るシーンを思い出すのだけど、それは #秋津温泉 の方だっただろうか・・　どっちもいい映画だけど、記憶内で接続する。#marikookada #japanesefilm

先日、Cosmo Corpusのアフレコ第一弾。with YUIKO。みんなどんどん色々試してみようって感じになっていって、神秘的でした。動画はインスタへ。
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cvb96SRM1fq/?igshid=MmU2YjMzNjRlOQ==

#cosmocorpus #コスモ・コルプス #quantumrealism #YUIKO #yoknahasegawa #長谷川億名　#japanesefilm #映画制作 いろいろタグつけてみた

An aimless young man embarks on a spiritual journey after being sent to Mongolia to look for the daughter his grandfather left behind 70 years previously in the dreamlike debut feature from actor KENTARO, Under the Turquoise Sky. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jEE

Screening in New York Aug. 4 as part of Japan Society Film's JAPAN CUTS

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The destructive patterns of class and patriarchy conspire against the lives of two women who had once been good friends in Tadashi Imai's supernatural chiller, The Possessed. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jEo

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