Thoroughly enjoyable even if it gets a bit cheesey or try-hard edgy. The fact that each story doesn't stay more than it's welcome adds to it.
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Japanoise has been a part of my life ever since I watched We Don't Care About Music Anyway back in 2010. From Hijokaidan and Gerogerigegege to Keiji Haino and Incapacitants, it has been one of the genres that taught me a lot of things. While western noise seems to be preoccupied with what is morbid or misanthropic, japanoise always seems to carry a kind of peace behind its tumultuous surface. And in the end, noise is what you, the listener…
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Yakuza Graveyard 1976
Just give me a Fukasaku flick full of gunshots, ultraviolence, screaming, shaky camera, epic music and ethically grey characters and I'll just be the happiest camper. And with Meiko Kaji and the Great Iconoclast, Nagisa Oshima himself in the cast? Say no more, I love it with all my heart.
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