Tamiya Iemon is the absolute worst. I have seen multiple adaptations of Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, from Keisuke Kinoshita’s Shinshaku Yotsuya Kaidan / Yotsuya Kaidan Part 1 & Part II (1949) to Nobuo Nakagawa’s 1959 adaptation, Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan / The Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959) to Takashi Miike’s […]
Enjoy this salvaged 1984 performance of Yukio Ninagawa’s Medea! The peformances, costumes and design are incredible. “This is an RF-rip of Yukio Ninagawa’s 1984 performance of Medea, aka, 王女メディア. Released by Toho video only on VHS….This performance itself was referenced in an episode of Chris Marker’s The Owl’s […]
A dilapidated mansion. An eerie, mist-shrouded forest. A lone samurai making his way home late at night meets a seemingly defenseless beautiful and refined young woman. So begins Kuroneko–Kaneto Shindo’s tale of cats, vengeance, and the wrongs visited upon women (and powerless men) by entitled men. Kuroneko is […]
At Bullseye, Jesse Thorn interviews the legendary Billy Dee Williams! Listen here.
At The Vulture, Matt Zoller Seitz interviews Gary Farmer! “Much like Uncle Brownie, the shambling, warmhearted eccentric he played for three seasons on Sterlin Harjo’s Reservation Dogs, Gary Farmer takes the long view of things and rarely turns down the chance to be funny about it. Even when […]
A few weeks ago, the Indian cinema-focused Twitter account Cinema Rare posted a list of “some of the trippiest Indian films,” and with wording like that, I knew I had to investigate the whole thing, regardless of how likely I was to agree.* Skimming the 25 titles, I […]
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