Yeah, no way the writer of Hunger Games hadn't heard of BR before writing HG, it's okay to get inspiration from it, but denying it seems just disingenuous to me.

es la vida dura senda; solo se llega a buen puerto, si se va de dos en dos!!

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Just watched this movie, and this is a wonderful breakdown of it. 13:48 I'm sure this was beyond the scope of this video, but I want to add that in the scenes of Ichi playing video games, he seems to always be shown playing as the character Hwoarang in Tekken. Hwoarang isn't a sadistic character, but he does exclusively fight with kicks, just as Ichi himself does. It's an interesting detail to keep consistent. Perhaps pushing the hyperbolized commentary on extreme video game usage by showing he learned how to kill from the game. Maybe the manga makes this explicit and it's just a detail taken wholesale, but the novelty of it really added to my enjoyment of these scenes. Seriously great video, got my noggin joggin

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❤❤❤TARO AND JIRO. Saw the movie many, many times. Always makes me cry at the end. Vangelis music is astonishing. RIP Vangelis. Greetings Dirk Belgium

Lets thank the MEN who made this feminine power fantasy for the ladies.

RE: Genre - you forgot to include "musical."

13:41 I disagree. I still have as much, if not more fun with Yo-Kai Watch till this day. Pokémon is kinda boring. Nah, not boring, but like, It's not even close to be as enjoyable as Yo-Kai Watch.

Good thing It's rising again. :D

The fact that in her audition, and indeed in most scenes in the movie she is wearing entirely white clothing and something about her sleek, black perfect hair gives her an unnatural feel. I immediately started thinking she was like a Yuki-onna (Yokai). White is associated with death in Japanese culture so from the get go she seemed off to me. The weird thing with her throat at the end and her talking despite being dead could also reflect her not being human (if we accept that that's actually happening as opposed to the protagonist just tripping balls).

It's been a long time since I've seen Noriko's Dinner Table. I do recall that that it was boring to me at the time and also not nearly as interesting as Suicide Club. I was hoping that the kids cult was going to be explored more. This was better than rewatching NDT.

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I'm about to watch this director's movie A Fugitive from the Past. It's 3 hours so this director does long movies too.

I loved the ending AND every goofy special effect. The whole point of a "miracle" is something witnessed by a human that cannot exist in the natural world. It makes sense for these miracles to look unnatural. If it could exist naturally in our world then it wouldn't be a miracle.

This is my understanding of the film. the Pacic War was a confrontation btw East and West. Mr.Lawrence who understands Japanes, his thougts go back and forth btw them. Also another confliction is depicted in the film, which is about class disparities among British hostages. Mr.Lawrence's thoughts bump around there too. During the war, Japanese authority banned all sorts of Western things such as langage, culture, religion and so on. Christmas is very Western thing, I think. However Hara san gave the hostages permission to celebrate the day. I think Hara san knows Japan's defeat. He probably felt everything was ludicrous. In the end Hara tells Mr.Lawrence that he is ready to die, but he doesn't understand why. Everything he or Japanese army did was the same as other Western countries have done in Asia. "Merry Christmas, Mr.Lawrence" Mr.Hara's face stopped to end the film stands for the war,itself was ludicrous. Emptiness of the war stays there...then Sakamoto's music plays.

This series was literally my childhood

after watching several times, you start noticing shadows in the corner more and more as the film progresses. you're never 100 percent sure if it's your imagination or if there really are figures in the backgrounds, or if the people in the background are normal people or ghosts. Also, when I watched the first time, I always got the impression that the reason people feel despondent after entering the 'forbidden room' and seeing the ghosts is that they get a glimpse of the afterlife, that it's dark and lonely, and that affects them psychologically. And when they disappear they really don't die or become ghosts, rather they're going to be somewhere in the middle. Edit: another take I have is that the 'forbidden room' is an allegory to the internet itself, and that once you are drawn to it and enter, you become addicted, and you can never escape from its grasp and gradually lose interest in interacting with real people. This couldn't be more true in this day an age. BTW: it's available on the MAX app as of Oct 2024

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It seems to me that if the band has had so many members in it come and go, the way to get at the truth is to hunt down each member and interview them. Why hasn’t that been done ?

So right now blasters and 3 both go for around 250€ in the european market ( also for american versions), while you can find american or european Versions for up to 2.500€ I didnt see a version of blasters for that price

but the question is, where to watch this now?

the artwork is similar to karagarga logo , guess the artwork designer is a member! ;)

2:07 killed me so unexpected. That’s how you earn a sub baby

Loved the film. It is like a gentle meditation on positivity, growing up and coping with loss.

Pulse was kinda boring but cure was awesome

this movie disturbed me too much

Great news -- this game has now been translated to English! (subtitles) 🙂

Forever top 5. The tone is very haunting in this video Lol but It's just a weird sort of fucked up comedy with some great horror thrown in to me. Lol. Soundtrack is wonderful. Bizzaro world amazing. ❤❤❤❤❤ best.❤❤❤ I was actually recommended this by a boy that was always nice at best buy I'd go in and buy dvds regularly. Would buy them for my boyfriend mostly but I was getting into anime and Asian cinema just over 2 decades ago for myself cuz I found the horror more to my taste. he recommend this and I took his word. It was everything I could have hoped for and more. Angel right there. 😊❤ I know everyone here might know but in case your new or it slipped the cracks I also really love japanese 'premonition' great! 'the eye' is very scary. (Not japanese i dont think) If you like quirky but cute 'kamikaze girls' is fave 💓 'Infection' is fun 'Dark water' was haunting. 'Suicide club' was much more quirky then I thought it would be. Loved it. A bit darker then this but you get everything. What a ride. I love the hospital. Glam rock rocky horror horror song lol wasn't expecting that. Let's happily kill ourselves all together 1-2- jump in front of trian. Blood everywhere. 😂❤ You need to get this gozu on DVD and not just watch on an app. Or at least look for the interview with Takashi Mike and guerimo del Toro together talking about this movie. I love him talking about how the world was so strange as a kid and wandering the next corner was a weird mysterious adventure. A little scary interesting and wonderous. That was his inspiration. For a lot of this. That concept really resonates with me I like that a lot. Very pee wees big adventure vibes. Lol. But more real. Still stupid. ❤😂 Tim and Eric. I'm all hyped talking about these things I love now. I wanna find a new good. Asian horror. I hope someone can enjoy one of these things I've mentioned. If you like bizzaro fun + eerie horror I think you would enjoy.

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Beef is categorized as food. Food is one of the major components for human to survive. In order to show the deep resentment and hatred towards The Evil USA, Occult were made as a reminder for the younger westernized Japanese and their government, that the old wounds are never going to heals...ever! The occult here is The evil USA. While the main character represent the repented young-un of Japan, that once, just like the other japanese kids, idolizing The Evil USA/Western. Even the land and the mother nature's of Japan, hates The Evil USA/West, but, even though the main character are on a journey to cleanse himself from the sin of forgetting The Evil bombing of Japan from The Evil USA/West, eating the junk food from The Evil USA establishments, messed up the signal and his understanding. The mother nature's trying to send him to bomb the train that carries the poisonous beef from The Evil USA, but instead, the main character read it as bombing the innocent citizens of Japan...just like The Evil Occult from The Evil USA did before. This is the simplest way to explain about this movie, no need to go around the planet, period!

2nd best movie ever, only behind Apocalypse Now.

There's one big factor you didn't note, and neither did Akihiro Hino, if your quotes sum up his overall attitude. Contrary to what he said, I do not think Americans are at all un-receptive to Japanese things. Godzilla does well over here, many Japanese-developed video games do well over here, many anime do well over here, etc. There are lots and lots of people in the USA and other western nations (not sure about Africa and the Middle East) who are fascinated to Japanese things BECAUSE they're Japanese. And Yokai, as a base concept, actually DO fall into that zone. Anyone can be thrilled by a scary-looking monster or laugh at an absurd-looking one. The problem is that this series' take on Yokai was less about the traditional and famous ones and more about ones that it made up to be puns...and puns don't translate. This is an aspect of the franchise that I think a lot of people won't notice unless they actually know a lot of the Japanese language, and it seems quite possible that the ones in charge of localization did not. Japanese, as languages go, does not have a large variety of different sounds, so inevitably it has enormous quantities of homophones. They've been able to get around this because their writing system utilizes lots of Chinese Kanji, which are symbols for THINGS rather than sounds. But the sounds are still there, so you get strings of syllables that can mean wildly different things, like "Unchikuma", which depending on which Kanji are used to spell it, can mean either "Demon of vast knowledge" or "Poop bear". In Yo-kai Watch, often the joke is that the Yo-Kai are BOTH. It's the sort of joke that resonates well with its original audience, and it might even have special value to children since they are first taught words phonetically and then gradually learn the correct Kanji for them. But almost none of these sorts of jokes can be translated. Sure, they are often given new puns as names in whatever new language they're translated into, but some of the original logic is inevitably lost. The aforementioned Unchikuma got rendered into "Poofessor", which doesn't really convey WHY there is a bear that is simultaneously a pretentious intellectual and eats poop. The result is a series that not only comes off as more bizarre than funny a lot of the time, but undoubtedly puts localizers in a bind with how to twist it back into something that makes sense again. They were never going to have the same appeal as they achieved in Japan, for that reason. If a bit more of what their monsters did was fight, a la Godzilla or Pokemon, and a bit more were designed to look good instead of be visual puns, things might have been different. For most Japanese monster franchises, they ARE different. But choosing to have a very particular sense of humor, while it definitely made for a unique and memorable franchise, also made it one impossible to take out of its original context. Ironically, the Shadowside series that apparently didn't resonate with their original audience might have done better abroad, had they just kept exporting it a little longer.

You don’t suppose Hayao Miyazaki has disowned his own son after making two of Ghibli’s worst films ever made? After shaming his company a second time, I feel him saying out loud, “I HAVE NO SON!”

a lot of eating in his films tho

I still consider this a horror film but I think your argument about CURE'S genre is very compelling. Loved this review. Great work as always!

Am I the only one who thinks Battle Royal 2 suck? I love the first one... but the second wasn't really good.

The lady (villain), in Beast Stable (part 3) was one of the prisoner in Jail House ( part 2). She appeared in the second movie when all of the girls was meeting the Inspector.

Returning here just to say this. If anyone here has not seen them... Go to the youtube channel Asian Horror and look up "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi". In it Shiraishi plays a cameraman working for a small production company that specializes in documentaries where they look into strange videos that are sent to them. They go to those that recorded the video of the episode and... hijinks ensue. It's kind of more on the comedic side, while still having legitimate scares. And boy... at the end. At the last few films. They frigging go places. Places I would never want to spoil. But they had my jaw dropped several times for the sheer audacities they do. :D

You can play it now :) github.com/DerekPascarella/GrauenNoTorikagoRestorationPatchDreamcast No translation patch yet, but I will try to make it happen if I can.

I know this is a rlly old video (never seen it) but I am the one who wrote the original article on the wiki and kickstarted the search for this extremely rare film aka I am the ElasticDog mentioned in this video. I had a friend add it to the RYM film database with some intriguing genre tags (he was going through old obscure catalogs he had from the 90s) and when I asked him about it he said it was mysterious to him as well. That's when I went to the Wiki for help, this was 2013-2014. There was a chatbox and I asked on a whim if anyone with a Cinemageddon account could see if it was on there. I genuinely had no idea dyacite went out of his way to actually find someone in Japan who owned the tape, love the energy! It was so cool to witness in real time and i'm proud I had a significant role and bringing attention to this incredibly atmospheric film. Liked and subscribed, thank you for properly crediting me 🥰❤️

i seem to remember the anime sexualizing 12 year olds but i haven’t watched since 5th grade so idk (for context I’m about to be a senior)

Quite literally just finished this. This movie Made me scared at times, didn't expect it to. The atmosphere is so ominous I loved it. Great film.

Iida was the screenwriter of the 1995 Ring TV movie.

I think I have thought about this film at least once every day since first watching it, back in 2011...

Can you guys please review Carved aka the slit mouth woman

I have seen this movie, probably, 100 times. It has its flaws, but it's spectacular. I cry every single time I see it.

This film has reduced my sadness by 50%

One last Tetsuo film from Tsukamoto would be incredibly amazing and would SHOCK the modern audience.... If exucuted well!

Whats more odd to me is how no one has adapted Loop, that thing is wack!