/a/ - Animu & Mango

>>910787

Of course. Kaiju films always have a sci-fi element to them.

>>910791

Shimura. HMPH

Sunday's Double Feature will be:

Frankenstein Conquers the World aka Frankenstein vs Baragon: We haven't watched a kaiju movie in ages so we're going to watch one that even I haven't watched. During WWII the German's steal an immortal heart from Dr. Frankenstein's research lab and pass it off to the Japanese where it is eventually irradiated in Hirosaki. Also, Baragon shows up (this is his first appearance).

Suicide Club aka Suicide Circle: A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides. Despite the simple premise it is supposed to be quite the unusual film. Recommended a while ago in the thread.

Runtime: 3 hours 20 minutes

Surprisingly it's already been a year (or maybe a little past that, I think we started in February) since the movie stream has been running, and who knows how long since the original thread itself. The dark days of disconnects and streamchan are long behind us. Here's to another year.

>>910578

I'll try to remember to post the links at the end of the streams but remind me if I forget.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1inFUTMGdnlASUgFIa2vx97-lDR5j1tn6

>>910796

乾杯

>>910791

It has to be Takeshi. The guy is such a champ.

This Sunday's movies will be sequels to both the films we watched this past Sunday:

War of the Gargantuans(1.5 hours long): Frankenstein's cells ended up creating two new monsters, one in the sea who is peace-loving, and one in the mountains who is violent.

Noriko's Dinner Table (2.5 hours long): This is supposed to fill in several plot holes of Suicide Club, both before, during, and after. It is also about an hour longer than Suicide Club was.

Runtime: 4 hours

>>912155

Haven't been able to locate this yet but I'll keep looking.

>>912487

Added to the list.

Please upload Stray Dog/Nora inu. That movie seemed to be good.

>>913249

Thank you.

Sunday's Movies will be:

Gamera: Guardian of the Universe: The first entry in the Heisei Gamera reboot pitting Gamera vs Gyaos. Major upgrades include a bigger budget, less obnoxious children, improved special effects, and the list goes on. It's not hard to say that the reboot improves on almost every issue I have with the original. It is much more similar to the Heisei Godzilla films (and in fact it's one of the greatest missed opportunities that Toho declined the offer to do a Godzilla vs Gamera film).

Shiko Funjatta (aka Sumo Do Sumo Don't): A college student gets blackmailed by his professor into joining the sumo team in order to graduate, along with other reluctant sumo team members. A ragtag misfits sports comedy.

Runtime: ~3 hours and 30 minutes, each film is about an 1 hour and 40 minutes

>>914703

Sunday's Movies will be:

Gamera 2: Attack of Legion: A strange meteor lands in Japan unleashing hundreds of insect-like "legion" creatures which find their way into Tokyo. Note: Legion is pronounced like Rhegion.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang, is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out. This movie series launched the trend of jitsuroku yakuza films which were based on true stories and thus the yakuza act more like thugs.

Total runtime: about three and a half hours

>>915169

Added to my list.

Tomorrow's movies will be:

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris: The final installment of the Heisei Gamera trilogy.

Tony Takitani: Based on a Murakami short story. Murakami got the inspiration to write the short story when, at a garage sale on Maui, he found a yellow T-shirt that said, "Tony Takitani, House (D)."

>>920776

Sunday's movies will be:

Tetsuo: The Iron Man: A businessman is slowly turned into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal. This is a low-budget cyberpunk body horror film.

Ken aka The Sword: Ken is the story of Jiro Kokubu, star pupil of the university of Kendo club, for whom the sport is a way of life. Unwavering in his asceticism, he willingly forgoes girls, parties and rock music devoting his entire being to the practice of Kendo.

Based on a short story by Yukio Mishima

Yukoku aka Patriotism: A Noh dramatization of Lt. Shinji Takeyama, a participant in the 2-26 incident, and his wife Reiko.

Written, directed, produced, and starring Mishima. Also appeared in the very first /jp/ thread if you recall.

Runtime: About 3 and a half hours as both Tetsuo and Yukoku are short. Tetsuo is about an hour while Yukoku is half an hour.

>>920368

I'm glad you enjoy them. What were your thoughts on Tony Takitani? To me it seems like a cautionary tale about getting rid of meaningful things. His wife said that buying new clothes fills up something inside her. Certainly it's just a kind of obsessive impulse that makes her buy all these clothes. But compare this with how Tony reacts after her death. He at first tries to physically replace her with a secretary but can't. So he eventually gets rid of all of his wife's clothes. And then he does the same thing with his father's collection of old records when he dies. It is at this point, when he has sold off everything, that he becomes completely alone and what drives him to try to reconnect with the secretary. Memories fade but possessions can serve as a reminder. This is at least what the film made me think, I don't know whether this was Murakami's intention or not. And of course, he fails at reconnecting with her, underlining his loneliness. He calls and she doesn't answer.

>>920795

>Tetsuo The Iron Man

>Mishima

I've missed a lot of these but I swear I'm going to watch this one.

As per request.

>Tetsuo

https://drive.google.com/open?id=18fJPZvtO1_V5VtIOmhSqVlBLioPdM08d

>Ken

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_H4YOLmcy-9O0X38hxhlr8B-P8AQjD-A

>Yukoku

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tXU_zsYMedFpClbcGfe9nZQrkpMpsDKM

>>923748

Interesting story about the Lupin movie that Oshii was originally working on, Legend of the Gold of Babylon.

>Flushed with the success of Hayao Miyazaki’s earlier Castle of Cagliostro, the producers hoped to find a similarly big name, and initially hired Mamoru Oshii on Miyazaki’s recommendation. Oshii, however, provided a script that was characteristically off-the-wall, unhelpfully deconstructing many elements of the Lupin III franchise, and not actually featuring Lupin at all, choosing instead to focus on the detectives trying to track him down. He was thrown off the project before a single frame had been drawn, although certain elements of the Babylon script would be recycled in Oshii’s later works.

>Having lost their big name from the anime world, the producers of Babylon instead approached Suzuki, freshly returned from a 1984 retrospective of his films at the Pesaro Film Festival.

This Suzuki is none other than Seijun Suzuki, the man who directed Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, and Fighting Elegy.

>>923513

Watch the Ghidorah from '64, it's one of the greatest kaiju movies ever. Also here is a guide with most of the Toho kaiju movies on it and another guide with the most important, must-watch movies. Then go to Daiei and the Ultra series when you're done and looking for more.

Tomorrow's movies will be:

Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon: A Lupin movie directed by Seijun Suzuki.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance: The first in a series of Lone Wolf and Cub jidaigeki based on the manga by Koike. Directed by Kenji Misumi, the guy behind the original Zatoichi series as well as, amazingly enough, Ken the movie based on a Mishima story we watched not two weeks ago. Koike himself wrote the screenplay.

Runtime: Three hours and fifteen minutes about.

It has been too long since we've seen a Kurosawa film, so this Sunday we will be watching:

Kagemusha: Kurosawa's return to Japanese movie making after a 10 year hiatus (he made a film in the USSR 5 years before). A jidaigeki about Takeda Shingen's kagemusha, which literally means "shadow warrior" but more accurately means "body double".

Running time: 3 hours, no intermission.

Just once, I want to see an MST3k episode, just for kicks.

>>920795

Late reply but tony takitani was magnificent my favorite pick you've done by far. I loved the theme of loss and regret. I loved the subtle details the narrators provided for the viewers. Multiple narrators was a nice touch. Also, since my brother in law passed a few years ago i could see my sister a bit in Tony. and how she mourned his loss.

I think we all see ourselves a lot like Tony does as we get older our passions become secondary to survival and companionship but as you pointed out when we loose those relationships material things becomes our reminder.

This is where I'm not sure what the message is but the prison metaphor for tony at the end is strange. He might be in a prison because he gave away his possessions and reminders of those he loved and is stuck in the prison of his own memories of what love was lost. He is in a prison like his father was but of his own making one that is likely impossible to escape from by discarding the things that would help him to expedite himself from the metaphorical room in his mind.

Regardless of intent this film hit me hard and for a good few hours after watching it it may have been raining in my room.

This Sunday will be slightly unusual. The feature will be Maquia (see >>926589 ) since it's Mother's Day and this anon has already encoded the movie for viewing but the light intro movie will be a kaiju episode from MST3K. Either Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (aka Ebirah, Horror of the Deep) a movie which we did watch but ran into troubles with; or Gamera vs. Guiron the first of the two cash-grab Gamera movies (the fourth and fifth entries) which featured two child leads, one white, one Japanese, and padded out the runtime with stock footage from the previous movies. I haven't decided, but I will probably opt for Godzilla. Start time will be as normal, but intermission will go on just a little bit longer to meet the 8:00 start time for Maquia.

Tomorrow's double feature will be:

Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer: Neither remake or sequel, but a similar movie to the first (with a higher budget). Look forward to more iron fusing with flesh.

Sayonara Jupiter: In the future, humanity has grown to the point where Earth can no longer hold all of them. As a result, humanity has begun to spread throughout space and there is now an attempt to turn the planet Jupiter into a second sun in order to make other planets hospitable.

Total runtime: 3 and a half hours

Tomorrow's movies will be:

Battle Royale: A movie that probably needs little introduction as it's premise is widely known. Takeshi Kitano makes a bunch of school kids kill each other for his amusement. Caused a minor moral panic over its depiction of high school aged children killing each other. The later DVD release was itself postponed because of Nevada-tan.

Swing Girls: Like Linda Linda Linda but with school band and jazz instead of punk.

Total runtime: about four hours. Battle Royale is two hours and Swing Girls is one hour and forty five minutes.

>>929432

You will listen to jazz and you will like it.

Tomorrow's films will be:

√964 Pinocchio: Pinocchio 964, a lobotomized cyborg sex slave, is thrown out onto the street by his owners because of his inability to maintain an erection. He is befriended by a criminally insane, memory-wiped, homeless girl. Meanwhile, the corporate entity who manufactured and sold him plots to kill him because of his malfunction. Directed by Shozin Fukui, one of the assistants for Tetsuo the Iron Man.

Minagoroshi no Kenju aka Slaughter Gun or Massacre Gun: A Nikkatsu action yakuza noir directed by Yasuharu Hasebe, known for later directing such films as Rape!, Raping!, and of course Rape! 13th Hour. Starring Jo Shishido.

Requesting we watch Always Sunset on Third Street.

Apparently it's a super popular film in Japan and everyone has fond memories of it. There are also sequels if we want to watch more. It's based off a manga.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_Sanch%C5%8Dme_no_Y%C5%ABhi

This week's movies will be more wholesome fare than the hellscape that was Pinocchio.

Shoplifters: A 2018 film about an impoverished Japanese family that makes ends meet through shoplifting.

Zoku Otoko wa Tsurai yo AKA Tora-San's Cherished Mother: The second Tora-san movie. Tora-san hears that his mother is still alive and returns to Tokyo to track her down.

>>932012

>>932032

Added to the backlog, though no subs for GCCX movie means it may be a while till we watch it. *Unless we want to try to live translate while we watch.**

>>932009

Mothra dies for our sins. Rodan is also pretty crazy in that movie, even more than in his own, but Ghidorah is definitely the star of the show.

>>932370

I wouldn't mind watching it raw and live translating, but I don't know about others. It is all in Kansai dialect, but I've watched enough Gaki to get by, I think.

Tomorrow's stream will be a father's day double feature:

Lone Wolf and Cub: Babycart on the River Styx: The sequel to the first Lone Wolf and Cub movie. Based on the manga by Kazuo Koike about Ogami Itto, a wandering assassin, and his young son, Daigoro.

Always Sunset on Third Street: Set in a neighborhood in Tokyo during the economic rebuilding after the war (the film is set around the time of the construction of the Tokyo Tower, so 1958 or thereabout).

If I end up having to delay the stream a little, I'll make a post about it tomorrow.

This is a list of every live action Japanese film that Roger Ebert gave a top score to. Lots of Kurosawa on it as you can see. My Neighbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away also got top scores confirming Ebert as a dirty normalfag.

Floating Weeds (1959)

Harakiri (1962)

Red Beard (1969)

The Only Son (1936)

Ikiru (1952)

Ran (1985)

Rashomon (1950)

The Seven Samurai (1954)

Tokyo Story (1953)

Ugetsu (1953)

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

Samurai Rebellion (1967)

Yojimbo (1961)

Vengeance is Mine (1980)

The Life of Oharu (1952)

Tomorrow's movies:

Gezora, Ganime, and Kamoeba: Decisive Battle! Giant Monsters of the South Seas: Extraterrestrial amoeba-like alienshijack a probe and, after crash landing on a small South Pacific atoll, create gigantic monsters from native lifeforms with plans of conquering the Earth. Directed by Ishiro Honda with score by Akira Ifukube. Gezora was played by Haruo Nakajima.

Jigokumon aka Gate of Hell: A samurai who tries to marry a woman he rescues discovers that she is married. This film won a slew of awards in '54, including at Cannes. It is also a very early Japanese color film, Daiei's first.

Total runtime: 3 hours

>>933517

Here is a list of Kurosawa's top 100 films, from Broken Blossoms by D.W. Griffith to Hana-bi by Kitano, with brief comments from Kurosawa rather poorly translated. I gave it a cursory edit on some of the worst spelling mistakes but the grammar is still pretty bad.

Sunday's movies will be:

The Human Vapor: The film is the story of a librarian and his love for a dancer and his ability to transform into a gaseous state. A sci-fi detective story of sorts.

Tasogare Seibei aka Twilight Samurai: Set a few years before the Meiji Restoration, it is about Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai employed as a bureaucrat. Poor, but not destitute, he still manages to lead a content and happy life with his daughters and his mother who has dementia.

Total runtime: 3 and a half hours about.

Note: there seem to be a few problems with processing files on Google Drive this weekend, so in the event that Tasogare Seibei isn't done (The Human Vapor has been sitting on my drive for weeks so it's been finished), I do have an episode of MST3K as a back up. It's called Fugitive Alien, originally a Japanese SF TV series by Tsuburuya Productions then the rights were sold to an American company who produced a film cut and dubbed it. Interestingly, the TV show featured Jo Shishido, the star of Minagoroshi no Kenju, Branded to Kill, Youth of the Beast, and a few other yakuza movies we've watched.

>>936879

Can we get DEAD OR ALIVE next time? Not to be confused with the videogame mind you.

Sunday's double feature will be:

Sukeban Deka: By request, this film is about a schoolgirl delinquent who is recruited by the police as a detective. She fights using her yoyo. Based on the similarly named manga.

Hitokiri: A film about the four hitokiri of the Bakumatsu, four samurai who were concerned invincible in battle. Yukio Mishima himself stars as one of the four. Directed by Hideo Gosha who also directed another jidaigeki we watched, Sword of the Beast.

Sunday's Double Feature:

Dead or Alive: Not to be confused with the movies based off the video game series, this a yakuza film directed by Takashi Miike. He is mostly known for making extremely bloody and violent movies, such as the Ichi the Killer live-action adaption. The only movie of his we've watched is One Missed Call so I'm looking forward to see something which is more indicative of most of his other movies.

Kikujiro: Beat Takeshi helps a young boy look for his mother during summer vacation as a sort-of picaresque. Joe Hisaishi did the score, as usual for Kitano's early movies.

Sunday's stream will be KyoAni related. Disappearance? All of Fumoffu? Might encode some other stuff and see if it processes on time. I'm not sure. We can take a poll when the time comes to decide what to watch. If you'd like to contribute, encode something into mp4 and upload to a Google Drive account.

Unfortunately, I got a job so this Sunday's stream will have to be pushed back by two hours to 8:00PM EST. I am not sure yet how this will effect the time of future streams but I will let you all know. See you all tomorrow at 8:00.

>>944090

I am enconding Fuomoffu. If you want something else, let me know.

>>944090

>Fumoffu

>stream pushed back to a time I can make

This is gonna be good. Thank Kami-sama KyoAni burnt down.

>>944090

>stream has to be pushed back two hours

Holy shit, I might actually be able to make it again!

>>944090

I am getting Amagi Brilliant Park and Kanon prepared.

I watched hitokiri yesterday and I can't stop thinking about it. I really liked it. There were so many great shots in this movie. I really liked how in many scenes Okada acts very dog like, especially in the scene in which he is imprisoned.

Sunday's movies will be:

Ultraman (2004) aka Ultraman the Next: Fighter pilot Shunichi Maki collides with an odd red light; soon after, he starts experiencing telepathic messages and is eventually able to transform into a gigantic alien fighter codenamed "The Next".

The Burmese Harp: In the war's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk. Directed by Kon Ichikawa who directed a wide variety of films from family-friendly comedies to serious war movies. He directed Nobi (Fires on the Plain) and was also in charge of filming the Tokyo Olympiad documentary for the 1964 games.

I finally have a more or less regular work work schedule. For the future, all sunday streams will be at 7:00 EST, that is one hour later than usual. Otherwise everything will remain the same as before.

Tomorrow's movies will be:

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!: Police detective Tajima, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a blood-bath. Directed by Seijun Suzuki

Kato Hayabusa Sento-tai: A 1944 biopic of a real life flying ace in the Second World War. One of the only war movies made during the war that I could find that is subbed. Besides this, the film is also noteworthy for 1. being the origin of the Hayabusa song and 2. having special effects done by Eiji Tsuburaya who got his start doing special effects for war movies. The special effects he did for The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya, which depicted the attack on Pearl Harbor, was so realistic that the American occupation force initially mistook it for actual footage of the event. Unfortunately, it doesn't have subs though it is also on youtube (just like Kato Hayabusa).

Remember: the stream will be at 7:00 EST.