Fragmentos de 2019, Outubro-Novembro

The Big Boss (1971) 

Women Are Born Twice (1961) de Yuzo Kawashima: ****
Irresponsible Era of Japan (1962) de Kengo Furusawa: **
Attack on the Sun (1970) de Kiyoshi Nishimura: ****
The Big Boss (1971) de Shintaro Katsu: ****
Sex Up And Down (1972) de Shin Takukawa: *
Mount Hakkoda (1977) de Shiro Moritani: ***
Erotic Liaisons (1978) de Yasuharu Hasebe: ***
Ending Note - Death of a Japanese Salaryman (2011) de Mami Sunada: ***
Leaving on the 15th Spring (2013) de Yasuhiro Yoshida: **
The Big Bee (2015) de Yukihiko Tsutsumi: **
Natsumi's Firefly (2016) de Ryuichi Hiroki: *
Killing (2018) de Shinya Tsukamoto: ****
Hard-Core (2018) de Nobuhiro Yamashita: **
A Dobugawa Dream (2018) de Asato Watanabe: *
Life - Untitled (2019) de Kana Yamada: **
Videophobia (2019) de Daisuke Miyazaki: **
The Forest of Love (2019) de Sion Sono: 0
Tezuka's Barbara (2019) de Macoto Tezuka: *
The Promised Land (2019) de Takahisa Zeze: **
Fly Me To The Saitama (2019) de Hideki Takeuchi: *
You Shine In The Moonlight (2019) de Sho Tsukikawa: *

Fragmentos de 2019, Setembro-Outubro

Lear on the Shore (2017)

The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen (1938) de Kiyohiko Ushihara: ***
Epitaph to My Love (1961) de Masahiro Shinoda: **
Legacy of the 500.000 (1963) de Toshiro Mifune: ***
The Water Was So Clear (1973) de Yoichi Takabayashi: ****
Cute Devil (1982) de Nobuhiko Obayashi: ***
Blow the Night (1983) de Chusei Sone: ****
Save the Last Dance for Me (1986) de Hisayasu Sato: ***
Light Sleep (1993) de Hisayasu Sato: **
King of Sha-kin (1997) de Seiji Izumi: *
I Thought About You 2 (2002) de Yukio Kitazawa: *
We'll Keep Walking, That's All (2009) de Ryuichi Hiroki: *
Oh! Father (2012) de Michihito Fujii: 0
Zentai (2013) de Ryusuke Hashiguchi: **
Hana's Miso Soup (2015) de Tomoaki Akune: **
Yoko the Cherry Blossom (2015) de Gen Takahashi: **
Kaiju Mono (2016) de Minoru Kawasaki: 0
Double Mints (2017) de Eiji Uchida: *
Lear on the Shore (2017) de Masahiro Kobayashi: ****
Sakurada Reset Part 1 (2017) de Yoshihiro Fukagawa: 0
Sakurada Reset Part 2 (2017) de Yoshihiro Fukagawa: 0
Brutal (2018) de Takashi Hirose: **
We Are (2018) de Michihito Fujii: *
My Friend A (2018) de Takahisa Zeze: **
Riding Uphill (2018) de Kan Eguchi: ***
Every Day a Good Day (2018) de Tatsushi Ohmori: ***
My Dad Is a Heel Wrestler (2018) de Kyohei Fujimura: **
Fortuna's Eye (2019) de Takahiro Miki: *
Back Street Girls (2019) de Keinosuke Hara: *

Fragmentos de 2019, Agosto-Setembro

Hairpin Circus (1972)

A Pheasant's Eye (1935) de Jiro Kawate: ***

Bored Hatamoto - Island of No Return (1960) de Yasushi Sasaki: **

Cruel Ghost Legend (1968) de Kazuo Hase: ***

Hairpin Circus (1972) de Kiyoshi Nishimura: *****

The Black Battlefront Kidnappers (1973) de Eizo Sugawa: ****

Saburai - Way of the Bohachi (1974) de Takashi Harada: ***

Faraway Tomorrow (1979) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ***

Zoom Up - Seiko's Thighs (1982) de Koyu Ohara: *

Lesbians in Uniforms 2 (1983) de Hiroyuki Nasu: *

Curtain Call (1984) de Haruki Kadokawa: *

Woman in a Box - Virgin Sacrifice (1985) de Masaru Konuma: 0

Bu Su (1987) de Jun Ichikawa: ****

Some Kinda Love (1996) de Shunichi Nagasaki: **

A Tender Place (2001) de Shunichi Nagasaki: ***

Dear My Love (2009) de Yoshihiro Fukagawa: *

Heaven's Story (2010) de Takahisa Zeze: ***

Into the White Night (2010) de Yoshihiro Fukagawa: *

Girl (2012) de Yoshihiro Fukagawa: 0

Tokyo Nameless Girl's Story (2012) de Akiko Ohku: **

Don't Lose Heart (2013) de Yoshihiro Fukagawa: *

Kid Mon - Real Name Unkown (2015) de Akihito Kajiya: **

Strange Tales of Love and Strangers (2017) de Raita Kuramoto: *

Cat Cafe (2018) de Hikaru Okita: *

It Comes (2018) de Tetsuya Nakashima: ***

Love at Least (2018) de Kosai Sekine: ***

Lenses on Her Heart (2018) de Kazutoshi Inudo: ***

The Forest of Wool and Steel (2018) de Kojiro Hashimoto: **

Ten Years Japan (2018) de Akiyo Fujimura, Yusuke Kinoshita, Chie Hayakawa e Megumi Tsuno: **

Diner (2019) de Mika Ninagawa: 0

Samurai Marathon 1855 (2019) de Bernard Rose: **

Fragmentos de 2019, Julho-Agosto

Did the Red Bird Escape? (1973)

The Seven Vows - Part 1 (1956) de Yasushi Sasaki: **
The Seven Vows - Part 2 (1956) de Yasushi Sasaki: *
The Seven Vows - Part 3 (1956) de Yasushi Sasaki: **
A Man's Crest - Flower and the Long Sword (1964) de Eisuke Takizawa: **
A Man's Crest - Violent Path (1965) de Eisuke Takizawa: **
A Man's Crest - Rule of a Wandering Man (1965) de Eisuke Takizawa: **
A Man's Crest - We Kill (1965) de Motomu Ida: **
A Man's Crest - Cruel Tiger and Dragon (1966) de Akinori Matsuo: ***
A Man's Crest - Birth of a Young Hero (1967) de Motomu Ida: *
Foreigner's Mistress Oman - Holland Slope In The Rain (1972) de Chusei Sone: ***
Did the Red Bird Escape? (1973) de Toshiya Fujita: ****
Unrelated Murder Cases (1977) de Chusei Sone: ***
Joke with a Sorrowful Heart (1985) de Masaharu Segawa: ***
Tarch Trip (1994) de Hiroyuki Oki: ****
Wet Hot Sake (1996) de Yoichi Nishiyama: *
White Panic (2005) de Shugo Fujii: 0
It All Began When I Met You (2013) de Katsuhide Motoki: 0
Sayonara (2015) de Koji Fukada: ***
Golden Orchestra! (2016) de Toru Hosokawa: *
Samurai Hustle Returns (2016) de Katsuhide Motoki: *
Death Note: Light Up The New World (2016) de Shinsuke Sato: *
Tourism (2018) de Daisuke Miyazaki: ***
We Make Antiques! (2018) de Masaharu Take: **
You Are The Apple Of My Eye (2018) de Yasuo Hasegawa: **
Ghost Master (2019) de Paul Young: ***
Mimicry Freaks (2019) de Shugo Fujii: 0
Snow Flower (2019) de Kojiro Hashimoto: 0
Tamaran Hill (2019) de Tadasuke Kotani: **
12 Suicidal Teens (2019) de Yukihiko Tsutsumi: *
Dynamite Soul Bambi (2019) de Takuya Matsumoto: **

Fragmentos de 2019, Junho-Julho

You Can Succeed, Too (1964)

Man Who Causes a Storm (1957) de Umetsugu Inoue: ***

Station Front Inn (1958) de Shiro Toyoda: **

The Black Super-Express (1964) de Yasuzo Masumura: ****

You Can Succeed, Too (1964) de Eizo Sugawa: ****

Three Little Devils (1970) de Motohiro Torii: *

Blood For Blood (1971) de Yasuharu Hasebe: **

The Shootout (1982) de Toru Murakawa: **

The Enchantment (1989) de Shunichi Nagasaki: **

The Games Teachers Play (1992) de Hideyuki Hirayama: ***

Many Happy Returns (1993) de Toshihiro Tenma: ***

The Letters (2006) de Jiro Shono: *

My Sister, My Love (2007) de Hiroshi Ando: *

The Taste of Fish (2008) de Shingo Matsubara: *

On Next Sunday (2009) de Satoshi Kenmochi: **

8000 Miles 2: Girl Rappers (2010) de Yu Irie: ***

Time Traveller - The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2010) de Masaaki Taniguchi: *

Signal: Luca on Mondays (2012) de Masaaki Taniguchi: *

Tale of a Raindrop (2012) de Ryutaro Nakagawa e Yoichi Emoto: *

August in Tokyo (2014) de Ryutaro Nakagawa: **

Orange (2015) de Kojiro Hashimoto: 0

A Summer Day, Your Voice (2015) de Tomoyuki Kamimura: **

Fake (2016) de Tatsuya Mori: ****

Seto and Utsumi (2016) de Tatsushi Ohmori: **

Tornado Girl (2017) de Hitoshi Ohne: ***

Random Lives (2017) de Takahisa Zeze: 0

Love and Goodbye and Hawaii (2017) de Shingo Matsumura: ***

Women Who Eat (2018) de Jiro Shono: *

Nisekoi - False Love (2018) de Hayato Kawai: *

Thicker than Water (2018) de Keisuke Yoshida: ***

The Master Samurai (2018) de Kazushi Watanabe: 0

Sakura Guardian in the North (2018) de Yojiro Takita: **

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (2018) de Takahisa Zeze: **

Bread, Bus and the Second First Love (2018) de Rikiya Imaizumi: **

LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp! (2018) de Satoshi Miki: *

Fragmentos de 2019, Maio-Junho

Foujita (2015)

Kyoto (1969) de Kon Ichikawa: ***
Without Complaint (1975) de Hiromichi Horikawa: ***
New - No Longer Human (1978) de Kohei Yoshidome: ***
Death Powder (1986) de Shigeru Izumiya: *
Love Bites Back (1988) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ***
Remembrance (1988) de Takehiro Nakajima: ***
Mikadroid (1991) de Tomoo Haraguchi: *
Skyscraper Hunting (1991) de Mitsunori Hattori: 0
Immoral - Indecent Relations (1995) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: **
Peanuts (1996) de Takashi Miike: *
Like Nothing Ever Happened (2003) de Ryusuke Hamaguchi: **
Casting Blossoms To The Sky (2012) de Nobuhiko Obayashi: *
Foujita (2015) de Kohei Oguri: ****
Isao Takahata and His Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2015) de Akira Miura e Hidekazu Sato: ***
Ranmaru - The Man with the God Tongue (2016) de Yukihiko Tsutsumi: 0
Twisted Justice (2016) de Kazuya Shirashi: **
Innocent Curse (2017) de Takashi Shimizu: 0
We Love (2018) de Yuichi Sato: 0
Saint Young Men (2018) de Yuichi Fukuda: **
Sunny - Our Hearts Beat Together (2018) de Hitoshi Ohne: ***

Fragmentos de 2019, Abril-Maio

Appassionata (1983)

A Man's Crest - Winds of Change for Two Dragons (1963) de Akinori Matsuo: **
A Man's Crest - Courage First (1964) de Eisuke Takizawa: **
Men and War (1970) de Satsuo Yamamoto: ***
Men and War: Part 2 (1971) de Satsuo Yamamoto: ***
Wet Lips (1972) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ***
Men and War: Part 3 (1973) de Satsuo Yamamoto: ***
Wet Lust - Opening the Tulip (1975) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ****
Cruel History of Women's Torture (1976) de Shinya Yamamoto: 0
Dannoura Pillow War (1977) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ****
Children Drawing Rainbows (1980) de Mariko Miyagi: ***
Lady Karuizawa (1982) de Masaru Konuma: *
Appassionata (1983) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ****
Flight Attendant - Scandal (1984) de Masaru Konuma: 0
A Homance (1986) de Yusaku Matsuda: ***
Bedtime Eyes (1987) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ***
Megalopolis Express Way Trial (1988) de Katsuji Kanazawa: *
Shadow of the Wraith (2001) de Toshiharu Ikeda: 0
Hamon - Yakuza Boogie (2017) de Shotaro Kobayashi: **
Ernesto (2017) de Junji Sakamoto: *
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (2018) de Ayuko Tsukahara: *
Shino Cannot Say Her Own Name (2018) de Hiroaki Yuasa: **
Kasane - Beauty and Fate (2018) de Yuichi Sato: 0
The Man from the Sea (2018) de Koji Fukada: *
Waiting For Spring (2018) de Yuichiro Hirakawa: 0
Perfect World (2018) de Kenji Shibayama: 0
Last Letter (2018) de Shunji Iwai: **

Fragmentos de 2019, Março-Abril

The Terrible Couple (1980)

Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman (1957) de Katsuhiko Tasaka: **

Sasaki Kojiro - Part 1 (1957) de Kiyoshi Saeki: **

Sasaki Kojiro - Part 2 (1957) de Kiyoshi Saeki: *

Magistrate Toyama - The Whirlwind Magistrate (1959) de Masahiro Makino: **

Bride of Peacock Castle (1959) de Shoji Matsumura: **

The Mad Fox (1962) de Tomu Uchida: ****

The Dragon of Macao (1965) de Mio Ezaki: ***

A Thirsty Life (1968) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ****

Sex Rider - Wet Highway (1971) de Koretsugu Kurahara: **

Bodyguard Kiba (1973) de Ryuichi Takamori: **

Love in a Small Room (1975) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ****

The Three Undelivered Letters (1979) de Yoshitaro Nomura: **

The Terrible Couple (1980) de Shinji Somai: ***

Love Letter (1985) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ****

High School Teacher (1993) de Ken Yoshida: *

Hong Kong Night Club (1997) de Takayoshi Watanabe: *

Ambition Without Honor 2 (1997) de Takashi Miike: **

Timeless Melody (1999) de Hiroshi Hokuhara: ***

Dogfight - Stray Dogs' Elegy (2000) de Atsushi Muroga: *

Ikka (2003) de Akira Kawai: *

Pink Ribon (2004) de Kenjiro Fujii: ***

When You Love And Are Loved (2010) de Takahisa Zeze: * 

Monsterz (2014) de Hideo Nakata: *

Kinki (2014) de Kotaro Wajima: 0

Again (2015) de Sumio Ohmori: *

Summer on the Frontline (2015) de Tetsuya Matsushima: *

A Flower Aflame (2016) de Hiroshi Ando: ***

Demekin (2017) de Yoshitaka Yamaguchi: *

The Lowlife (2017) de Takahisa Zeze: **

Hibiki (2018) de Sho Tsukikawa: 0

Hanalei Bay (2018) de Daishi Matsunaga: 0

Cute Devil (2018) de Hisayasu Sato: 0

Fragmentos de 2019, Fevereiro-Março

Women Who Do Not Divorce (1988)

The Legend of Big Cat on Nabe Island (1949) de Kunio Watanabe: ***
The Eagle and the Hawk (1957) de Umetsugu Inoue: ***
The Wandering Princess (1960) de Kinuyo Tanaka: **
G-Men in the Pacific (1962) de Teruo Ishii: **
Rub Out The Past (1966) de Masaharu Segawa: **
Narcotics/ Prostitution G-Men - Terrifying Flesh Hell (1972) de Shin Takukawa: **
Girl Junior High School - Too Young To Play Like This (1972) de Akira Kato: *
The Moon Mask Rider (1982) de Yukihiro Sawada: *
Women Who Do Not Divorce (1986) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ****
Die! Directors, Die! (2011) de Makoto Shinozaki: **
Sharing (2014) de Makoto Shinozaki: **
Asleep (2015) de Shingo Wakagi: *
Kidnap Tour (2016) de Yoshiyuki Kishi: **
Her Mother (2016) de Yoshinori Sato: **
Dad's Lunch Box (2017) de Masakazu Fukatsu: **
The Cat In Their Arms (2018) de Isshin Inudo: *
Killing for the Prosecution (2018) de Masato Harada: *
My Teacher, My Love (2018) de Sho Tsukikawa: 0
Love Disease (2018) de Kota Yoshida: **
Rent A Friend (2018) de Mayu Akiyama: ***
Vision (2018) de Naomi Kawase: 0
Gintama 2 - Rules Are Made To Be Broken (2018) de Yuichi Fukuda: **

Fragmentos de 2019, Janeiro-Fevereiro

Murderer! (1976)

Three Women of the North (1945) de Kiyoshi Saeki: *
Inn of the Floating Weeds (1957) de Seijun Suzuki: **
The Winner (1957) de Umetsugu Inoue: ***
Four Sisters (1962) de Masaharu Segawa: ***
The Cat Gambler (1965) de Hiroshi Noguchi: **
Woman Gambler (1965) de Hiroshi Noguchi: **
Revenge of the Woman Gambler (1966) de Hiroshi Noguchi: **
Man & Woman Behind the Fusuma Screen - Enduring Skin (1974) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ****
Murderer! (1976) de Hitoshi Obuchi: ****
The Ancient City (1980) de Kon Ichikawa: **
Onna Jimuin - Shikijo Seikatsu (1982) de Shin'ichi Shiratori: *
The Woman With The Red Hat (1984) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: **
Gakidama (1985) de Masayoshi Sukita: ***
Guzoo - The Thing Forsaken by God (1986) de Kazuo Gaira Komizu: 0
Female Inquisitor (1987) de Kazuo Gaira Komizu: 0
Rope and Boys 2 - Boy Hell's Messenger (1988) de Shuji Kataoka: 0
Battle Girl - The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay (1991) de Kazuo Gaira Komizu: 0
Mistake (1995) de Yutaka Ikejima: *
Twilight Dinner (1998) de Yutaka Ikejima: **
The Wicked Reporter 3 - The One That Got Away (1996) de Rokuro Mochizuki: **
Midnight Stalker (2002) de Yutaka Ikejima: **
The Japanese Wife Next Door (2004) de Yutaka Ikejima: *
The Japanese Wife Next Door 2 (2004) de Yutaka Ikejima: 0
School Wars - Hero (2004) de Ikuo Sekimoto: *
Educating Yuna (2005) de Yutaka Ikejima: 0
Tokyo Strangler (2006) de Yutaka Ikejima: *
Chasing My Girl (2009) de Yuichi Fukuda: *
Looking For A True Fiancée (2011) de Yuki Iwata: *
A Woman's Holes (2014) de Kota Yoshida: 0
You Don't Even Like Me (2016) de Kota Yoshida: *
Happiness (2016) de Sabu: **
Hanagatami (2017) de Nobuhiko Obayashi: *
Her Sketchbook (2017) de Masaya Ozaki: **
Lights of Kyoto (2017) de Keiichi Kobayashi: ***
Chambara - The Art of Japanese Swordplay (2017) de Sadao Nakajima: ***
My Little Monster (2018) de Sho Tsukikawa: 0
The Garden Apartment (2018) de Umi Ishihara: *
Domains (2019) de Natsuka Kusano: 0

Fragmentos de 2018 e 2019, Dezembro-Janeiro

Beijing Watermelon (1989)

Girls of the Night (1961) de Kinuyo Tanaka: ****

Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san (1961) de Masamitsu Igayama: *

Reckless Boss (1961) de Seijun Suzuki: **

Our Blood Will Not Forgive (1964) de Seijun Suzuki: ****

Boneless (1967) de Seiichi Fukuda: *

Glorious Moment - A Woman's Scroll (1972) de Isao Hayashi: **

Circuit of Sorrow (1972) de Toru Murakawa: ****

Evening Primrose (1974) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ****

Lesbians in Uniform (1983) de Hiroyuki Nasu: **
I'm Dandy (1989) de Hiroyuki Nasu: *

Beijing Watermelon (1989) de Nobuhiko Obayashi: ****

Shimanto River (1991) de Hideo Onchi: ***

XX - Beautiful Weapon (1993) de Kazuo Gaira Komizu: *

The Wicked Reporter 2 - The Rebirth of Horserace Betting (1994) de Rokuro Mochizuki: *

XX - Beautiful Hunter (1994) de Masaru Konuma: *

XX - Beautiful Target (1995) de Naosuke Kurosawa: *

XX - Beautiful Beast (1995) de Toshiharu Ikeda: **

XX - Beautiful Killing Machine (1996) de Takahito Hara: *

XX - Beautiful Prey (1996) de Toshiharu Ikeda: **

Free and Easy 9 (1997) de Tomio Kuriyama: **

Love Song For Rapper (2003) de Sho Fujiwara: 0

The King And I (2012) de Tetsu Maeda: **

A Sparkle of Life (2013) de Bunji Sotoyama: *

A Living Promise (2016) de Kan Ishibashi: 0

The City of Betrayal (2016) de Daisuke Miura: **

The Lies She Loved (2018) de Kazuhito Nakae: *

Wasted Eggs (2018) de Ryo Kawasaki: **

Over Drive (2018) de Eiichiro Hasumi: 0

What a Wonderful Family! III: My Wife, My Life (2018) de Yoji Yamada: ***

Fragmentos de 2018, Novembro-Dezembro

A incapacidade da mão acompanhar os olhos, da reflexão acompanhar a visão, mostrou-se capital para o longo interregno deste blogue de pequenos apontamentos sobre filmes japoneses. No entanto, os nossos olhos continuam a ver. Por isso, a dia 20 de cada mês voltaremos a tornar públicas somente as notas dos nossos visionamentos mais recentes. 

Midnight Fairy (1973)

Tarao Bannai - The Man of Seven Faces (1960) de Shigehiro Ozawa: *

New Tale of the Genji (1961) de Kazuo Mori: ***

Tange Sazen and the Princess (1961) de Sadatsugu Matsuda: **

Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3 (1962) de Daisuke Ito: **

The Third Contest (1965) de Tetsuya Yamauchi: ***

Gambler's Luck (1966) de Yoji Yamada: ***

Seven Gamblers (1966) de Shigehiro Ozawa: **

Delinquent Girl Boss - Tokyo Drifters (1970) de Kazuhiko Yamaguchi: **

Delinquent Girl Boss - Ballad of Yokohama Hoods (1970) de Kazuhiko Yamaguchi: *

Narita - The Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971) de Shinsuke Ogawa: *****

Midnight Fairy (1973) de Noboru Tanaka: ****

Black Panther Bitch M (1974) de Koretsugu Kurahara: *

The Key (1974) de Tatsumi Kumashiro: ****

13 Steps of Maki (1975) de Makoto Naito: **

Rope Hell (1978) de Koyu Ohara: *

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985) de Macoto Tezuka: **

Knockout (1989) de Junji Sakamoto: ****

Revenge (1999) de Kosuke Suzuki: ***

Devilman (2004) de Hiroyuki Nasu: 0

Control Tower (2011) de Satoshi Miki: **

The Magnificent Nine (2016) de Yoshihiro Nakamura: *

Mr. Long (2017) de Sabu: ***

50 First Kisses (2017) de Yuichi Fukuda: 0

Blank 13 (2017) de Takumi Saitoh: **

Principal: Am I a Heroine Who is in Love? (2018) de Tetsuo Shinohara: 0

After the Rain (2018) de Akira Nagai: **

Laughing Under the Clouds (2018) de Katsuyuki Motohiro: 0

Planetist (2018) de Toshiaki Toyoda: **

When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends To Be Dead (2018) de Toshio Lee: *

Asako I & II (2018) de Ryusuke Hamaguchi: ***

Shoplifters (2018) de Hirokazu Koreeda: ****

Call Boy (2018) de Daisuke Miura: **

The Scythian Lamb (2018) de Daihachi Yoshida: ***

Dynamite Graffiti (2018) de Masanori Tominaga: ***

Forgotten Planets (2018) de Takayuki Fukata: *

Jesus (2018) de Hiroshi Okuyama: **
Last Hold! (2018) de Yukinori Makabe: 0

Last Winter, We Parted (2018) de Tomoyuki Takimoto: *

Chihayafuru Part III (2018) de Norihiro Koizumi: **

The Kamagasaki Cauldron War (2018) de Leo Sato: ***
Melancholic (2018) de Seiji Tanaka: ***

Laplace's Witch (2018) de Takashi Miike: 0

Fragmentos de 2016/02/02

The Whale God (1962) de Tokuzo Tanaka: ****

Naquela que é a versão japonesa de Moby-Dick, Tokuzo Tanaka afinca o talento fotogénico num filme que é um herdeiro da composição triangular de Akira Kurosawa. Mais importante do que a história de dois caçadores de baleias que competem pela fortuna e filha do chefe da aldeia é o modo como a câmara consegue dinamizar a presença dos corpos no plano, afirmando claramente que o significado pleno da imagem psicológica se alcança quando três entidades (corpos ou objectos) se relacionam no mesmo plano e dividem as intensidades hierarquicamente. Para alcançar essa composição triangular é necessário desenvolver a profundidade do campo (e como aqui Tanaka e Setsuo Kobayashi - director de fotografia de muitas obras de Kon Ichikawa ou Yasuzo Masumura - desenvolvem essa profundidade dava para várias lições de cinema) e distribuir os actores no plano sem forçar ou tornar demasiado abstracto o seu movimento. Nesse sentido, as duas presenças deste filme (Shintaro Katsu e Kojiro Hongo) são essenciais, pois a brutalidade de um e a finura do carácter de outro desenvolvem uma narrativa que, paradoxalmente, da vida à morte e da morte ao renascimento (e que cena poética essa em que o caçador, prestando as honras à caça, se torna ela mesma) os vai purificando.

Eyecatch Junction (1991) de Takashi Miike: 0
Lady Hunter - Prelude to Murder (1991) de Takashi Miike: 0

Os dois primeiros filmes de Takashi Miike são duas incursões nos géneros mais populares do V-Cinema: a comédia ligeira e o filme de acção. Lady Hunter, a primeira película filmada por Miike mas a segunda a ser lançada no mercado, narra a aventura de uma ex-militar que defende uma criança de uma organização criminosa que pode estar envolvida num escândalo político internacional. Já Eyecatch Junction conta com a presença de um grupo de mulheres polícia que quer desmantelar uma rede de prostituição ilegal enquanto abre a sua própria divisão policial feminina. Como seria de esperar, ambos os filmes são apenas curiosidades de percurso para o dedicado admirador miikiano e revelam-se pouco ou nada marcantes se vistos isoladamente ou no conjunto da sua filmografia. Lady Hunter tem um ou outro apontamento na edição que poderá lembrar-nos as introduções frenéticas que faria mais tarde e se o final pessimista pode ser inesperado, tudo o resto é bastante linear e até um pouco bocejante. Eyecatch Junction, por sua vez, revela não só um mau-gosto no humor, sempre básico e sem piada, como uma incapacidade para estabelecer uma atmosfera coerente. Desde gags cartoonescos a cenas sexuais com plásticos (e um fetichismo qualquer com uniformes de ginasta), não é por acaso que este filme ficou perdido no reino obscuro dos VHS.