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Post by quentincompson on Nov 5, 2008 18:21:04 GMT
Seijun Suzuki(1923- )1. Tokyo Drifter 5/102. Youth of the Beast 5/10
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Post by Michael on Nov 27, 2008 3:39:21 GMT
Oh, I apologize for making another thread. I didn't notice this one. Sorry!
1. Tokyo Drifter (1966) ***
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Post by Anasazie on Jun 2, 2009 0:19:55 GMT
1. Branded to Kill (1967) 7/10 2. Pistol Opera (2001) 5/10 3. Tattooed Life (1965) [blue]5/10[/blue]
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Post by Omar on Jun 2, 2009 0:38:46 GMT
I went through a slew of his films through Netflix about 2 1/2 years ago. I liked the majority of what I saw, some more than others. I won't bother rating them, because they aren't fresh enough in my head to warrant such.
"Youth of the Beast" was excellent. Amazing use of color and set pieces. Great opening too. "Tattooed Life" was my least favorite at the time. I hardly remember any of it now. "Tokyo Drifter" also had great use of color. The humor infused with the genre stereotypes was very nice as well. "Fighting Elegy" I remember liking quite a bit, though don't remember too much of it. I remember the grittiness of it, the rough black and white, and the fact that it was, of sorts, a period piece. "Branded to Kill" was very good as well. It starts very similar to the other Yakuza movies he did (though in gritty black and white), and then drifts off into a bizarre world of negatives and nameless numbering of killers that the main character is after. A wild ride. "Zigeunerweisen" was a big departure from his earlier films. Very much like a something Lynch would do. The atmosphere and mood were very bizarre throughout. "Kagero-za" was a lot like it, but not as rewarding.
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Post by quentincompson on Jul 9, 2009 7:19:19 GMT
Ah, I want to see Branded to Kill now. The two I've seen were really imaginative as far as design goes, and Tokyo Drifter in particularly was clever in its indvidualistic themes, but there was too many things going on that just seemed pointless and dull, like the intentional terrible acting in Lynche's films or something.
On the hole I find him quite unique and hard to place, but I'd say he's somewhere between Tarantino and Godard if were making a spectrum of somewhat likeminded artists.
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