Looking back, maybe my favourite movie of all time
Really well written and thoughtful movie which despite feeling long is well paced and no minute is wasted. Maybe my favourite from Sono I've watched so far. Basically no overdone shock value which is appreciated and feels like his most mature movie. Feels like he's holding back a little.Very interesting characters and really interesting thematically probably the richest themes and the most thoughtful thing I've seen from Sono so far which is saying a lot. Really interesting as well.
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Really grew on me after I watched it
Very slow moving horror movie without many visual scares but with an overwhelming and creeping existential dread. Dark, depressing, and fatalistic, but oddly beautiful, building up to a very memorable climax and ending.Very natural acting, great camerawork, and a really effective soundtrack by Hair Stylistics. I don't know why more horror movies don't opt for music like this. Also if you are looking for it you can find a bootleg ost very easily online to listen to.
Not for everybody, it is very slow moving, but if you are the kind of person who would enjoy a movie like this, you would get a lot out of it, and I would recommend.
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Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani?
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I think it felt a bit pretentious and trying too hard to be artistic being needlessly slow at times with a pretty absent storyline.
Tadanobu Asano looks very cool and I'd still recommend the movie just for the visuals alone, it helps if you like noise though.
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
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Beautifully made biopic, very artfully shot, probably one of the nicest looking movies compositionally I've seen. Beautiful musical score as well. Meaningful and fascinating, and I would wholeheartedly recommend but to get the most out of it I'd recommend being familiar with Mishima and Japanese history.
Watched this bc it's Kimsundo's favourite movie, ik you probably aren't reading this but thanks man for everything, and good luck in everything going forward, I hope to see you again someday.
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Become erect... with your heart!
I feel like this is the kind of movie that could be considered a classicI mean it already is a cult classic but I think this movie is kind of timeless
This movie does not feel like 4 hours at all, and never gets dull
If somebody saw what I looked like watching the entire last hour and a half they'd think I'm insane
Very thematically rich while delivering one of the most ridiculous and engaging stories I've seen in a film so far and hitting emotional beats very effectively, also made me laugh a fair bit
Great characters, acting was realistic when it mattered and goofy when it needed to be
If you can find a four hour time slot and are up for some wild and sometimes disturbing stuff, I wholeheartedly recommend Love Exposure
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It's Hell if I stay. Hell if I go. If both are Hell…
Absolutely beautiful and tragic movie, really unique visuals, and fantastic soundtrack. Great acting from Miki Nakatani especially as the titular Matsuko, who is probably one of my favourite movie characters. Very engaging and entertaining tragicomedy which balances the two opposing tones very well. Extremely sad but also beautiful.Nakashima is an amazing director. Having watched Kamikaze Girls and The World of Kanako now, I can say that Memories of Matsuko is my favourite of his (and probably one of my favourite movies period). I'd also say that he is one of my favourite directors, the way he incorporates music into his scenes is fantastic and burns both the scenes and the songs into your head.
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A wild ride but unmistakably Nakashima
Interesting movie with great directing and editing (as usual for Nakashima) with a great cast and great visuals, however the story becomes really hard to follow towards the end. Interesting character writing and themes about family and childhood.The movie was not very subtle with its themes but they also somehow get buried under how batshit crazy the final act is. It probably makes sense to somebody but that somebody is not me. The general message and ending is clear but the majority of the events in the last act are just insane.
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Interesting commentary on perversion and sexualisation in Japan from some girls chasing material but empty desires, and some men who are pathetic and lonely and others who are screwed in the head.
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Lingers in your mind long after the end credits
Edit: I still find myself thinking about this a LOT. One of the most memorable movies I've ever seen, I can see myself still remembering this in decades. Probably the most impactful movie I've ever watched. It refuses to leave my mind, but I can't bring myself to give it 5 stars.A good movie with some really great moments bogged down by an overreliance on shock value which cheapens some scenes. Compared to some of Sono's other movies, I found that some of the shocking scenes didn't have as much artistic merit and it detracted from the experience.
Absolutely insane performances from everybody, the two leads being the standouts. Denden's Yukio Murata was well acted and terrifying but Kippei Shiina's Joe Murata was the better Murata imo. Mitsuru Fukikoshi's Shamoto was an interesting character and very well acted. Some scenes were genuinely chilling. The visuals were also nice in general and the soundtrack was also well used. The Skater's Waltz can be really scary (⓿_⓿).
Really uncomfortable and unnerving watch which I found more fucked than The Forest of Love. I think the reason I prefer The Forest of Love is because it was done with more sense and more tastefully, as tastefully as intense gore can be I guess. It felt like things had purpose and a meaning. I guess the point of this is it felt like it didn't have purpose or meaning. Interested to watch more Sono, he is an interesting director. If you can't stomach gore, absolutely do not watch this. This is definitely something that will linger with me for a long time.
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Awesome fight choreography
Really really awesome fight choreography, definitely lives up to its title.The plot is pretty basic but its easy to follow and get into and it helps facilitate some of the coolest and most exciting fights I've seen in a while.
The fights in here felt like exactly what live action Ryu Ga Gotoku fights should be. Thank you for the rec @bjorkshandy, this was very fun.
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"Flowers are meant to bloom, not to dry up."
A very bleak, angsty, and introspective but beautiful story of shattered dreams, dying and blooming flowers, and disillusioned youth lost to violence and neglect, mundane with sudden bursts of extreme brutality and violence. Well directed with a great soundtrack and some really pretty shots. Toyoda and Kasamatsu have a great eye for shot framing. Compelling and very sad throughout.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
Go in blind please
"All life must be treasured.""The world beyond the exit... Is it heaven? Or could it be hell?"
Better than it looks, I won't say anything but going in blind would be best. At first I watched it ironically (idk who would watch this unironically tbh ?) but ended up actually really enjoying it.
I recommend. A bit degenerate sometimes though so be warned.
If you want to watch this with English subs, just contact me
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Interesting but hard watch
I had a lot of doubts going into this but I was pleasantly surprised that it was actually pretty interesting. The whole porn part is not there to be pleasing or something, instead it is intentionally unsettling, which I am happier about than the alternative. Very surreal and trippy, goes some absolutely crazy places and really fucks with your mind, I still feel a bit dazed and confused writing this review. Packed full of symbolism and philosophical dialogue to the point where it bordered on being pretentious but I'm glad it didn't cross that line for me.Some well executed commentary on freedom, trauma, taboo, feminism/antifeminism, repression, and hypocracy that almost gets lost in Sono trying to make something really artistic.
I recommend... with caution.
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An adaptation which adds one good part but is overall worse than its sources
Decent movie which I feel would've benefited from a longer runtime to develop the characters further. There were several missed opportunites with the source material with some characters being much more interesting in the source material, also adding to the emotional punch of the story.Some great scenes though always love to see Kitano too I just feel what was here could've been elevated with more time for plot points to breathe and characters to grow on you.
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