#Shinzô Shibata

[mariocki]

Tôkyô nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter, 1966)

"Otsuka! You call yourself a yakuza?"

"Money and power rule now. Honour means nothing!"

#Tôkyô nagaremono #tokyo drifter #seijun suzuki #japanese cinema #yakuza film #1966 #Yasunori Kawauchi #tetsuya watari #chieko matsubara #hideaki nitani #tamio kawaji #ryûji kita #eiji gô #isao tamagawa #eimei esumi #tomoko hamakawa #takeshi yoshida #michio hino #shuntarô tamamura #shinzô shibata #yûzô kiura #hiroshi chô #an absolutely beautiful film; a visual masterpiece and a calculated fuck you from Suzuki. Nikkatsu‚ frustrated by the director's attempts #to inject avant garde visuals into their straight genre pieces‚ slashed his budget and his schedule and basically said make a yakuza film #and don't get weird. in response he delivered his most visually experimental piece to date‚ a pop art kaleidoscope take on the gangster #ballad which also critiques the lack of reward that comes from loyalty to a corporate system (i wonder what that could be about Seijun..) #and also manages to parody american western cinema and the burgeoning spy film boom. it isn't quite perfect (i get what the bar room brawl #scene is doing as pastiche‚ but it's still too long and too messy) but as a paring down of the themes of yakuza cinema (and then inverting #those themes‚ so that loyalty and honour become a weakness) mixed with the sheer joyful spectacle of the film is nothing short of joy #Watari and Matsubara would be reunited for the (excellent) Outlaw Gangster series‚ which plays these same tropes deadly straight

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Blind Woman’s Curse 1970

#Blind Woman’s Curse #Dainichi-Eihai #Meiko Kaji #Hoki Tokuda #Makoto Satô #Hideo Sunazuka #Shirô Ôtsuji #Tôru Abe #Yoshi Katô #Yôko Takagi #Tatsumi Hijikata #Shirô Yanase #Shinzô Shibata #Ryôhei Uchida #Bumon Kahara #Akira Takahashi #Yûzô Harumi #Hiroshi Chô #Toshizô Kudô #Nobuko Aoki #Yoko Otaki #Masami Maki #Chieko Harada #Nobuko Yamabe #Yasue Nishihara #Iwae Arai #Kokan Katsura #Yoshihiko Tabata #Shirô Ôhama #Ken Mizoguchi

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Tokyo Drifter 1966 aka Tôkyô nagaremono

#Tokyo Drifter #Nikkatsu #Tetsuya Watari #Chieko Matsubara #Hideaki Nitani #Tamio Kawaji #Ryûji Kita #Eiji Gô #Isao Tamagawa #Eimei Esumi #Tomoko Hamakawa #Tsuyoshi Yoshida #Michio Hino #Shuntarô Tamamura #Hiroshi Midorikawa #Hiroshi Chô #Akira Hisamatsu #Shinzô Shibata #Yûzô Kiura #Yû Izumi #Ikuo Nikaidô #Masaaki Honme #Shirô Tonami #Wataru Kobayashi #Mitsuru Sawa #Iwae Arai #Yôko Yokota #Hiroshi Takao #Kiyoshi Ôba #Tessen Nakahira