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Vital(Movie), Bullet Ballet(Movie), Tokyo Fist(Movie), Kotoko(Movie), Haze(Movie), Killing(Movie), Gemini(Movie), The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome(Movie), Dog Star Man(Movie), The Outer Limits(Anime), Tetsuo II: Body Hammer(Movie)
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going back & forth between hong kong & japanese cinema can be such a whiplash of tone and pacing that it's hard to consider the fact they're neighbors. an additional whiplash is tsukamoto's tendency to mesh budget exploitation thrills with languid arthouse. here's another one where i don't know how to process the fact 75 minutes felt like double. don't get me wrong i love his voice. it's unlike anything else, but it does have this creeping habit of making me sleepy. like, for conceptual cinema, anything over an hour is pretty long, y'know? read
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it occurred to me just now that on the strength of merely tetsuo and tetsuo ii, i was willing to essentially blind-buy shinya tsukamoto's entire filmography with this arrow blu-ray boxset. upon realizing it was 'missing' one of his features, gemini, i purchased that as well. this feels like his most accomplished film so far, and i find myself saying that with each one i see. i've more or less been watching them in the order they've been made, and he improves on his storytelling and craft exponentially with each new film. i can say this for a snake of june, gemini, and all of tsukamoto's films... read
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