I first learned about this film through a mostly unrelated essay on the structure of comedy by Umberto Eco. He implies that Rashomon is a comic work whose humour is understood only in Japan. It certainly fits into Eco's elaborate framework of comic comprehension being fundamentally tied into the culture of its creation. We can feel the tragic drama of the film's events, 'but we don't understand when and why the Japanese laugh.' Yet perhaps we do. This film works…
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
We as a society are in desperate need of more author biopics, especially if they’re as lucidly gorgeous and unique as this. This film does such an incredible job of integrating his novels into his life story, just beautiful
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