Post by petrolino on Jul 11, 2018 0:46:37 GMT
I'd like to see the 'Stray Cat Rock' series from the 1970s but it's so expensive to buy the box-set. I bought the 'Hanzo The Razor' collection and didn't much care for any of the films, so it's always a gamble, though that collection I got very cheap. The dvd distributor Arrow Academy are releasing 'Horrors Of Malformed Men' (1969) soon which is exciting. Also, the 'Buddhist' trilogy by Akio Jissoji which I'd never heard of before. They're keen to release films from Yasuharu Hasebe, another top director whose work I'm not at all familiar with. Perhaps they might release something from Koji Wakamatsu who I've also seen nothing from. .
The history of Japanese cinema is so incredibly rich and diverse, where do you start. But anyway, I said I'd knock up a list off the top of my head, and there's a quite a few recent titles here because I like J-horror - I currently have 'Sadako Vs Kayako' (2016) in my "to-watch" pile. I'm surprised to find I have very little from the 1980s and 1990s though, when Japanese genre films were often very clinical and slick in presentation.
I’m hoping to get a hold of Jissoji’s Buddhist trilogy, I’ve already seen the first film This Transient Life and it’s fascinating.
Another very worthwhile set from Arrow was Yoshishige Yoshida’s Love + Anarchy trilogy. The first film in the series, the 3+ hour Eros + Massacre is arguably the centrepiece of the Japanese New Wave.
You have a lot of great films on your list, but a lot I’ve yet to see. I need to catch up on my 70s Japansploitation.
Yes, that Meiko Kajo photo's some google find. She's totally killing it in those funky trousers!
I've seen the 'Lone & Anarchy' box-set on sale at Amazon. I'll add it to my general target list, with the 'Buddhist' box-set. Thanks!
With regards to my list, if I could recommend anything from the 1970s, I'd say in my experience, any movies directed by Teruo Ishii and Norifumi 'Noribumi' Suzuki are probably worth seeing. The reason being they are both gifted visual stylists with an experimental streak, men who make genre films with arresting visuals, based upon those I've seen.