The english title is very misleading since it makes this sound like a cutesy romcom and the description here on letterboxd isn’t much better.
Expect something much more melancholic, yet somewhat hopeful from this great film.
Tsukamoto basically blasted out the fucking gates with his first masterpiece. Pure industrial madness.
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I have seen far from everything by Tsukamoto, but this emotional and powerful nightmare is easily one of his best films.
It’s a more subdued film in general, something that actually, in my opinion, enhances the frantic and nightmarish bits when they do pop up. There is no doubt that the shining star here is the incredible Cocco, giving the performance of a lifetime (echoing of Isabelle Adjani in Possession).
A fantastic film with an incredible lead performance.
Hauntingly beautiful, I haven’t been this awestruck by a film in a very long time.
I bought this without any expectations. Well, except for the fact that I’m somewhat familiar with the first Evil Dead Trap (which, however, I haven’t seen) and Unearthed Films in general, therefore expecting something a bit more gruesome than your regular horror-film. While there are a few scenes of explicit violence (especially toward the end) that are quite nasty, it is not the gore that stands out here.
What really makes Evil Dead Trap 2 a genuinely great film is the eerie…
There's a long way from Tetsuo I and II to a boxing-film, but it is amazing how well Shinya Tsukamoto utilizes his very specific style of filmmaking in a much more conventional narrative. Tokyo Fist uses the frantic pace and nightmarish imagery from the Tetsuo-films in the best ways possible, making this quite simple story both harrowing and fascinating.
The shining stars of the film are the cinematography and lighting, it looks absolutely incredible.
Needless to say, I love this film!
You can keep your little pokemons and dragonballs, I only watch real MANime like M.D. GEIST!
With the still ongoing 80's-90's-obsession, rising interest in city pop and vaporwave still being a thing (I think?), I find it mind-boggling that this OVA seems to have flown under the radar completely.
There's not much to talk about in terms of narrative but stylistically, it's as if this was tailor-made for the internet-crowd so obsessed with this style and music, 30 years in advance.
I don't know how these things usually gain traction online but I wouldn't be surprised if one day, this explodes in popularity.
I’ve discovered a fair few old tv-movies while going through my vhs-purchases from the past months. Last Light (or Cellblock 7 as it’s titled on my Swedish vhs) is heavy-handed to say the least, but three very solid performances from Forest Whitaker, Kiefer Sutherland and Clancy Brown makes it well worth watching.