A beautiful work that I actually found too stressful to fully vibe with.
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Zatoichi and the Chess Expert 1965
The twelfth film in the Zatoichi series. After viewing the film immediately preceding this one, Zatoichi And The Doomed Man, I worried that the series would continue to move forward with that film's overtly self-reflexive approach. Well, the producers of the series must have had the same worry, because Zatoichi And The Chess Expert scales everything down, with original helmer Kenji Misumi once again bringing the blind swordsman back to a world more closely resembling reality. The plot is complicated…
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Late Spring 1949
This 1949 film is my fourth experience with the work of Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu. At this point, I feel I've become accustomed to the director's uniquely sparse filmmaking, yet with every viewing I come away marveling at the complexities that emerge from what initially seems like an incredibly simple approach. His films almost always concern themselves with the dynamics of family and the different outlooks on Japanese life between generations, but the specifics between each entry are given subtle…
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