Japanese movies

[H4U]

Mcdermott, is that you in the pic? wtf are you holding a revolver to your head??

[mcdermott]

Nah, it's 'Beat' Takashi Kitano from the Yakusa film, Sonatine.

Here's some clips.

I think my favourite of his movies is Kikujuro no natsu though.

[H4U]

That was brilliant Mcdermott, cool, i love 90"s movies too...ive seen a lot of japanese animate movienks and its wicked. nice one for the link, is amazing how you do that{heres some clips!!}

[H4U]

Here a tip from me...... GOOGLE " watch movies online for free" and the first result is a link to movies.net that enables you to find and watch :a variety of old skool and current movies for FREE . My favorite new hit is "THE DARK KNIGHT"

[mcdermott]

Wow, that site's got some really recent movies. I think that Apaloosa only came out in the US cinemas a week or two ago.

My kids watch the japanese anime stuff as well. I haven't seen too much of it, but there's one guy, Hayao Miyazaki, who makes some phenomenal animated films. They call him the Japanese Walt Disney.

Here's one of them -- Howl's Moving Castle -- in full, on Google.

Spirited Away won the Oscar for best animated feature in 2002, but it's better in the Japanese than with English dubbed voices, IMO.

Oh, and here's the whole movie.

Perhaps we need a film thread as well as a book thread?

[H4U]

Nice one Mcdermott, will now be spending the next couple hours enjoying watching quality stuff, thank you , speak later.

[mcdermott]

There's another Anime that was produced by Mayazaki's studio, Studio Ghibli called Grave of the Fireflies, which is also awesome and worth checking out if you can find a copy. They showed it on Film 4 a couple of weeks ago.

Here's a review by Roger Ebert

[H4U]

Yes mcdermott, ive seen :grave of the fireflies" Briiliant japanese anamae , its about a brother and sister who lose their mum due to ww2 and then the sweet little girl dies from ilness- wasnt it due to malnutrition or was it the radation mcdermot?? it came on again last night on film4 as you probably know how they love repeating movies.

[H4U]

I really thought that the horrible woman who took the brother and sister was terrib'le, she was greedy with the food wasnt she? then again ww2 created shortage of food. Also wasnt it sweet how the little girl loved her tin of "fruit drops"

[mcdermott]

Yeah, that's the saddest bit of the movie, how their auntie screws them over for their food. I've been reading a lot about post-War Japan lately, and they really did have an awful time of it, but the idea that someone could see kids starve while they ate their food is beyond me.

I wasn't sure if it was the radiation or the food that got her either. What struck me though, was how dark it was for a cartoon. We tend to see animation as being aimed at kids, but the children in this lose their parents, get screwed over by their auntie, live in the direst of poverty, eating mud pies and stones and shit.

Also, yeah, they re-run it on Channel 4 or Film 4 quite a lot, so if anyone hasn't seen it, it's worth keeping your eyes open for.

[bp]

Having a 'Media and Culture' section is a wonderful idea; how does one post to it?

B

[H4U]

Having a 'Media and Culture' section is a wonderful idea; how does one post to it?

B

Hi B, it would be the same as posting in one of the other sections- no difference.

[bp]

If that's the case then why are there no postings; there isn't a reply option. However, thanks for the reply, and I still think it's a great idea, McDermott is licking this site into great shape.

B

[H4U]

Mcdermott, there is a problem with posting a "new topic" in this section, there seems to be a "send topic" in the place of "new topic" and that dorsent work,
B has encountered this problem as well, will you kindly use your magic ang sort this glitch out!! thanks

[H4U]

Mcdermott, there is a problem with posting a "new topic" in this section, there seems to be a "send topic" in the place of "new topic" and that dorsent work,
B has encountered this problem as well, will you kindly use your magic ang sort this glitch out!! thanks

SORRY!! My mistake, it seems to be fine for me, dont know about others, hopefully should be fine for everyone else too.