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1981

★★★★ Liked Watched 07 Jun 2025

The clean camera cityscape rulebook of Kadokawa seishun eiga is used to play a yakuza satire, but despite the gleeful silliness in a teen idol schoolgirl becoming a crime boss, it’s never a flatout comedy? The violent reality Izumi now inhabits is never far behind the excellent shooting and sound. With long takes, subtle tricks, and eye-catching experimentation, Shinji Sōmai is a confident contemporary to Obayashi’s own creativity within 80s youth drama. Somber and often pitch black, but energized, and…

1981

★★★★ Liked Rewatched 06 Jun 2025

The thing is. This is a very funny fucking movie. 

Pretty weird to watch with a crowd, but it’s still one of the most sterling Incredibly Divorced™️ movies ever made. Sam Neill is Dan Stevens’ progenitor species and Isabelle Adjani is one of the most beautiful and terrifying women to ever do it. Lifting higher than apocalyptic female hysteria, a hateful mutual psychotic break of a marriage turns to pure monstrosity, a wickedly deranged sense of humor and steadily building…

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2005

★★★★ Liked Watched 05 Jun 2025

This is so sweet! Not my usual speed for this sort of thing, but very cozy and impressively unhurried. A calm pace through a gentle teenage hurdle. A really subtle, but very silly, sense of humor, and it balances a surface-level disaffected grammar (nearer to its brutal coming-of-ager contemporaries) with comfort and a lazy, self-assured charm. I’ve become so used to the era’s devastating high school apocalypses, and while I’m not sure I expected that here the relaxed tenderness this…

1994

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched 04 Jun 2025

Rewatch, went to a screening with a friend! It’s a historic cinema, we got balcony seats! 

SYNETHESTIC SMORGASBORD OF WEIRDOS AND SILLY GOOSES! Christopher Doyle and Andrew Lau’s exemplary photographic haze ripples and shudders and glides as Wong Kar-wai’s jukebox sensibility shoves and jogs and dances and fumbles its way through a crowded and positively glowing Hong Kong. Literally a perfect movie. I need Tony Leung in this so badly it hurts.

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