Hello everyone, and welcome to Cinema Nippon, a study in Japanese film. On this channel, you'll find videos analyzing some cult classic Japanese movies, as well as some more obscure ones.
Forever top 5. The tone is very haunting in this video Lol but It's just a weird sort of fucked up comedy with some great horror thrown in to me. Lol. Soundtrack is wonderful. Bizzaro world amazing. ❤❤❤❤❤ best.❤❤❤ I was actually recommended this by a boy that was always nice at best buy I'd go in and buy dvds regularly. Would buy them for my boyfriend mostly but I was getting into anime and Asian cinema just over 2 decades ago for myself cuz I found the horror more to my taste. he recommend this and I took his word. It was everything I could have hoped for and more. Angel right there. 😊❤ I know everyone here might know but in case your new or it slipped the cracks I also really love japanese 'premonition' great! 'the eye' is very scary. (Not japanese i dont think) If you like quirky but cute 'kamikaze girls' is fave 💓 'Infection' is fun 'Dark water' was haunting. 'Suicide club' was much more quirky then I thought it would be. Loved it. A bit darker then this but you get everything. What a ride. I love the hospital. Glam rock rocky horror horror song lol wasn't expecting that. Let's happily kill ourselves all together 1-2- jump in front of trian. Blood everywhere. 😂❤ You need to get this gozu on DVD and not just watch on an app. Or at least look for the interview with Takashi Mike and guerimo del Toro together talking about this movie. I love him talking about how the world was so strange as a kid and wandering the next corner was a weird mysterious adventure. A little scary interesting and wonderous. That was his inspiration. For a lot of this. That concept really resonates with me I like that a lot. Very pee wees big adventure vibes. Lol. But more real. Still stupid. ❤😂 Tim and Eric. I'm all hyped talking about these things I love now. I wanna find a new good. Asian horror. I hope someone can enjoy one of these things I've mentioned. If you like bizzaro fun + eerie horror I think you would enjoy.
Beef is categorized as food. Food is one of the major components for human to survive. In order to show the deep resentment and hatred towards The Evil USA, Occult were made as a reminder for the younger westernized Japanese and their government, that the old wounds are never going to heals...ever! The occult here is The evil USA. While the main character represent the repented young-un of Japan, that once, just like the other japanese kids, idolizing The Evil USA/Western. Even the land and the mother nature's of Japan, hates The Evil USA/West, but, even though the main character are on a journey to cleanse himself from the sin of forgetting The Evil bombing of Japan from The Evil USA/West, eating the junk food from The Evil USA establishments, messed up the signal and his understanding. The mother nature's trying to send him to bomb the train that carries the poisonous beef from The Evil USA, but instead, the main character read it as bombing the innocent citizens of Japan...just like The Evil Occult from The Evil USA did before. This is the simplest way to explain about this movie, no need to go around the planet, period!
There's one big factor you didn't note, and neither did Akihiro Hino, if your quotes sum up his overall attitude. Contrary to what he said, I do not think Americans are at all un-receptive to Japanese things. Godzilla does well over here, many Japanese-developed video games do well over here, many anime do well over here, etc. There are lots and lots of people in the USA and other western nations (not sure about Africa and the Middle East) who are fascinated to Japanese things BECAUSE they're Japanese. And Yokai, as a base concept, actually DO fall into that zone. Anyone can be thrilled by a scary-looking monster or laugh at an absurd-looking one. The problem is that this series' take on Yokai was less about the traditional and famous ones and more about ones that it made up to be puns...and puns don't translate. This is an aspect of the franchise that I think a lot of people won't notice unless they actually know a lot of the Japanese language, and it seems quite possible that the ones in charge of localization did not. Japanese, as languages go, does not have a large variety of different sounds, so inevitably it has enormous quantities of homophones. They've been able to get around this because their writing system utilizes lots of Chinese Kanji, which are symbols for THINGS rather than sounds. But the sounds are still there, so you get strings of syllables that can mean wildly different things, like "Unchikuma", which depending on which Kanji are used to spell it, can mean either "Demon of vast knowledge" or "Poop bear". In Yo-kai Watch, often the joke is that the Yo-Kai are BOTH. It's the sort of joke that resonates well with its original audience, and it might even have special value to children since they are first taught words phonetically and then gradually learn the correct Kanji for them. But almost none of these sorts of jokes can be translated. Sure, they are often given new puns as names in whatever new language they're translated into, but some of the original logic is inevitably lost. The aforementioned Unchikuma got rendered into "Poofessor", which doesn't really convey WHY there is a bear that is simultaneously a pretentious intellectual and eats poop. The result is a series that not only comes off as more bizarre than funny a lot of the time, but undoubtedly puts localizers in a bind with how to twist it back into something that makes sense again. They were never going to have the same appeal as they achieved in Japan, for that reason. If a bit more of what their monsters did was fight, a la Godzilla or Pokemon, and a bit more were designed to look good instead of be visual puns, things might have been different. For most Japanese monster franchises, they ARE different. But choosing to have a very particular sense of humor, while it definitely made for a unique and memorable franchise, also made it one impossible to take out of its original context. Ironically, the Shadowside series that apparently didn't resonate with their original audience might have done better abroad, had they just kept exporting it a little longer.
You don’t suppose Hayao Miyazaki has disowned his own son after making two of Ghibli’s worst films ever made? After shaming his company a second time, I feel him saying out loud, “I HAVE NO SON!”
I love Battle Royale 2, I find it to be a much better commentary on the government and how the government cannot be trusted and will literally stoop to sacrificing children for their own power and means. Whereas the first one doesn't touch on that as much and is much more about youth, connections/relationships and how young people react to such a situation. Both I feel are very good in their own right.
The lady (villain), in Beast Stable (part 3) was one of the prisoner in Jail House ( part 2). She appeared in the second movie when all of the girls was meeting the Inspector.
Returning here just to say this. If anyone here has not seen them... Go to the youtube channel Asian Horror and look up "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi". In it Shiraishi plays a cameraman working for a small production company that specializes in documentaries where they look into strange videos that are sent to them. They go to those that recorded the video of the episode and... hijinks ensue. It's kind of more on the comedic side, while still having legitimate scares. And boy... at the end. At the last few films. They frigging go places. Places I would never want to spoil. But they had my jaw dropped several times for the sheer audacities they do. :D
You can play it now :) github.com/DerekPascarella/GrauenNoTorikagoRestorationPatchDreamcast No translation patch yet, but I will try to make it happen if I can.
I know this is a rlly old video (never seen it) but I am the one who wrote the original article on the wiki and kickstarted the search for this extremely rare film aka I am the ElasticDog mentioned in this video. I had a friend add it to the RYM film database with some intriguing genre tags (he was going through old obscure catalogs he had from the 90s) and when I asked him about it he said it was mysterious to him as well. That's when I went to the Wiki for help, this was 2013-2014. There was a chatbox and I asked on a whim if anyone with a Cinemageddon account could see if it was on there. I genuinely had no idea dyacite went out of his way to actually find someone in Japan who owned the tape, love the energy! It was so cool to witness in real time and i'm proud I had a significant role and bringing attention to this incredibly atmospheric film. Liked and subscribed, thank you for properly crediting me 🥰❤️
I just recently watched this because of Twice’s what is love MV. The is story is so deep. Anybody else think he wrote her name in books with titles that revealed his feelings for her? Like the last book was “remembrance of things lost”. If so, then the books would be his love letters to her in school.
I still have no idea what was going on. He had sex with Mia who... Somehow birthed a fully grown adult lady who looked exactly like Mia. I still don't understand why Mia was able to do that. And then new Mia which was actually the girl in the well, can now give birth to any aged person when they inject DNA into her. What?
This was a absolutely thrilling sci-fi ride. Does NOT stop once it starts. It's truly awesome that Body Hammer really takes an action route while still maintaining just body horror and surrealism from the first film.
I would like to mention that you kinda overlooked a key detail of Yo-kai Academy Y: that the main characters use their watches to transform into Yo-kai Heroes to battle Yo-kai like creatures called Onryo
I absolutely love Occult! It's pace is slower than most other Shiraishi movies, but it pays off so well in the end. The way the mystery was set up and unveiled had me so invested. I also binge watched all of Senritsu Kaiki, which are some of the most creative and campy found footage j-horror. Compared to Sadako v Kayako which had a bigger budget, I think Shiraishi shines in the analog style, like with Cult and Ura Horror. Although I am still very much looking forward to his new upcoming film, Sayuri, an adaptation of a horror manga of the same name.
So happy you guys mentioned Silent Hill! I felt extremely heavy Silent Hill vibes in this film, especially in the later half. The heartbreaking isolation of the characters moving through an empty shell of a world constantly losing touch with each other resonated massively for me, & I think has more relevance than ever in a post-pandemic world. This film is less subtle & arguably less layered than the utterly masterful "Cure", but I think it affected me more strongly emotionally, I truly felt the sadness and loneliness rippling through the 2nd half of this film in my soul
I felt the manga was the top of the pile. They go through three loves and all three of them they teach different things which youta learns and matures. The manga made me cry I am realist but by the time the ending came I didn't care I just wanted Ai to live. When Ai leaves with the kissing scene I with the text saying they didn't even get to tell each how they felt but thier hearts were connected on a whole different level i just broke down crying.
Years later, but; It's a horror film. It aims to unsettle and disturb, focusing on dread. I felt that it's approach to horror was not dissimilar to the horror felt in something like Hereditary, where it's constant, creeping dread, almost to an existential or cosmic degree; Likewise, I think it's stories has a fair few similarities to Lovecraftian horror, better known as cosmic horror. It's, partly, to me, an experience about knowing the things that drive us to madness, the deep unknowns of our own psyche and not precisely who we are, but what we can be.
"This movie is Japanese and about serial murders so it must be about SOCIETY and about how the Japanese work really hard and are polite without ever having sex, so deep" No it isn't about society, it's about ancient occult practices, not everything has to be a psychological flick about some guy's mid life crisis you freak
