Delsaber

Delsaber Patron

Favorite films

  • The Case of Hana & Alice
  • Millennium Actress
  • 5 Centimeters per Second
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Recent activity

All
  • The Nest

    ★★★

  • Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

    ★★★

  • Sand Land

    ★★★

  • Decalogue V

    ★★★★

Pinned reviews

More
  • Door

    Door

    ★★

    Haven't you people ever heard of
    closing the goddamn
    Door (Banmei Takahashi, 1988)

Recent reviews

More
  • The Nest

    The Nest

    ★★★

    Well there's yer problem! Got bees in there!

    One of the alternate titles for this is Consumed and I'll be damned if that's not setting off a ton of uncomfortable images in my head that might be hard to shake at 4:12AM.

  • Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

    Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

    ★★★

    What an odd title, given the actual content of the film. Whatever movie plays in your head upon reading the words Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka I'm guessing has nothing to do with the short film anthology of three very charming lightly dramatic/comedic romances they ended up making.

    The second story might be the better of the three, if only because there's a scene in the middle in which a crowd of spectators leaves a "nudie show" and once spotted…

Popular reviews

More
  • Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

    Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

    ★★★★★

    What if anime looked like this all the time? Sure, that might be too much of a good thing and we'd all eventually become jaded and desensitized, thus robbing it of its power, and yet... hey, what if anime looked like this all the time?

    Respectfully, reviews out there calling Night Is Short, Walk On Girl "like x meets y" or "like x on drugs" or whathaveyou are doing the film a disservice. It is itself, more than everything else,…

  • One Pound Gospel

    One Pound Gospel

    ★★★

    In France this is called Royale Gospel.

    Possibly the least interesting of all these old Rumiko Takahashi OVAs, but when the others are about superpowered space wrestling heroines and mermaid body horror it stands to reason that the drunk nun/gluttonous boxer meet-cute might not hit the same. It's still perfectly fine Rumiko fare with a few standout laughs worth seeking out.

    Might pair well with Kids Return?