Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The only 5* English language film in my opinion. About as depressing as it gets.
Note on rating system:
0.5 star = Not worth watching (I detest it's existence on ethical grounds)
1 star = Not worth watching (objectively bad)
2 star = Not worth watching (but I can see the appeal)
3 star = Worth the time spent on watching it
4 star = Worth spending time to find it or setting time aside. Deserves to be watched
5 star = Pinnacle. Either has no meaningful flaws or redefines the genre or filmmaking in general
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Material and mystical. Bitter and humorous. Sets its eye on the yakuza lifestyle without romanticisation, with two characters set on a collision course with eachother right from the start and ending with a haunting sequence that acts as a thesis statement for Kenzaki's philosophy on life
Note on rating system:
0.5 star = Not worth watching (I detest it's existence on ethical grounds)
1 star = Not worth watching (objectively bad)
2 star = Not worth watching (but I can…
Incredibly dumb and nonsensical but virtuoso in it's execution of the surreal
Note on rating system:
0.5 star = Not worth watching (I detest it's existence on ethical grounds)
1 star = Not worth watching (objectively bad)
2 star = Not worth watching (but I can see the appeal)
3 star = Worth the time spent on watching it
4 star = Worth spending time to find it or setting time aside. Deserves to be watched
5 star = Pinnacle. Either has no meaningful flaws or redefines the genre or filmmaking in general
Waited ~2 years for an English release and I wasn't dissapointed, so it's worth at least 2 years of your time
Note on rating system:
0.5 star = Not worth watching (I detest it's existence on ethical grounds)
1 star = Not worth watching (objectively bad)
2 star = Not worth watching (but I can see the appeal)
3 star = Worth the time spent on watching it
4 star = Worth spending time to find it or setting time aside. Deserves to be watched
5 star = Pinnacle. Either has no meaningful flaws or redefines the genre or filmmaking in general