It's the Monkeys meets Minbo, as in this comedy a Yakuza member leaves prison only to find that the family have gone legit and entered the idol business. In the family pursuit of legit business, they find the entertainment industry, is more corrupt and seedy thank organised crime. It has a real decent 80 city pop soundtrack, as this comedy is quite the surprise.
Consider Chūsei Sone made softcore (including an Angel Guts) and also made the proto Larry Clarke…
Are these the days of Saki and Snowflakes...
I haven't noticed it in the comments but I did get a slight Leaving Las Vegas vibe from this. I know a lot of people are saying Drive my Car but I have had the blu ray of that on my shelf for nearly a year un-watched at this point.
Two lonely and damaged people, one a hostess who is suffering depression from the death of her partner and having to give…
Mexican horror fans in the early 1960s asking "Can we get Vincent Prices' The Fly or Christoper Lee's Dracula", and the studio saying "we have that at home... in the same dish!"
I really like the first ten mins of this, as a heathen* is burned at the stake by the Inquisition, and swears revenge on the town to return in 300 years as a demon to destroy their families. I kinda wish we had seen the events leading up…
Could you say this is a "black" comedy,
Got real precursor vibes to Ishii's Crazy Family, oh by the way this is nuts and feels like a Chuck Jones animation, meets a really nihilistic How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - via the Japanese "black" film.
Told in the first and third person with a narrator, which routinely in the first person breaks the fourth wall. Visually it is such a flex, with subliming editing, weird effects (like…
