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YoKnome

Favorite films

  • Millennium Actress
  • Chungking Express
  • Galaxy Express 999: The Movie
  • Digimon Adventure

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  • One Piece Episode of East Blue

    ★★★★

  • The Last Emperor

    ★★★★

  • Double Team

    ★★★★

  • Flying Swords of Dragon Gate

    ★★

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  • One Piece Episode of East Blue

    One Piece Episode of East Blue

    ★★★★

    The 100% definitive primer for anyone whose friend is dangerously into One Piece.

    In just 100 minutes, you'll have all you need to understand approximately 30% more of their obsessive nerd rants.

    You'll be able to answer questions like:

    "What is a devil fruit?"

    "Why is that guy so stretchy?"

    "Who is Shanks?"

    "Why does everyone want to fuck Shanks?"

    "Why does everyone want Shanks to fuck them?"

    "Am I attracted to Shanks?"

    "Am I Shanks's type?"

    "If I asked…

  • The Last Emperor

    The Last Emperor

    ★★★★

    Loses a point because Bertolucci is a fucker who didn't need to kill an actual mouse on screen, but yes, this is otherwise terrific.

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  • Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

    Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

    ★★★★½

    Zombie apocalypse as metaphor for systemic corporate exploitation POWER!

    Final monster was 10/10, kinda want a live action Gyo movie now.

  • Double Team

    Double Team

    ★★★★

    I must wonder if Double Team was the original shooting title, given how rarely the Team Doubles up throughout the film.

    The best stuff in this movie has gotta be the montages of Jean-Claude training/recovering. It's a trope which a lot of movies tend to boringly indulge in (see Rurouni Kenshin 3), but this stretch somehow felt like a series of "Fuck Yeah" moments despite obviously being something Van-Damme, Hark and co. could probably produce in their sleep.