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  Masked and Anonymous 2003

  Watched 17 Mar 2025

  he’s literally the antichrist he basically admits it here

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  Green Fish 1997

  Watched 15 Mar 2025

  the ultimate fantasy: to never actually fuck

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  Serpent's Path 2024

  Watched 08 Oct 2024

  got to ask the man himself right afterwards about the weird skip cut when one of the hostages get shot— he said that actually wasnt intentional, it was to cover up a malfunctioning prop gun, 失礼します, which was disappointing/suspicious given his track record of using jarring, discontinuous editing to make meta-textual gibes at the medium itself— the protagonist fading and reappearing for seemingly no reason in Barren Illusions (1999), the infamous kitchen knife cut to bus ride sequence in Cure,…

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  Cure 1997

  Rewatched 10 Oct 2024

  I GOT A SELFIE WITH KUROSAWA!!! 😭😭😭

  first time watching this masterpiece in a theater and i only just noticed mamiya has a different lighter (normal plastic one->slightly fancier one->the iconic zippo) each time… much to think about

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