Please cue up the tune... Hurt So Good!

I found it amusing that the publicity machine for the film handed out barf bags at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Stockholm International Film Festival!

Even more amusing was the fact that it was subsequently banned in Norway after news of someone actually upchucking in said barf bag and another in the audience had fainted! Malaysia and Germany subsequently banned the film as well!

Obviously this isn't a film for mainstream audiences! You would think the minute someone started handing out barf bags that would have clued the "faint of heart" in on the type of film that was to be shown and perhaps they should pass on the film…

Honestly, without exaggeration, the most depraved film of all time. I've been putting this off for six years and after testing the waters by venturing into Visitor Q (Sorry God), I've finally found the guts to watch it, turns out it's just as twisted, absurd and gory as I've expected it to be; I beg you, don't see me as some sort of delusional maniac for saying this, but I love it, really, every inch of it.

Ichi the Killer is a film that features everything under the sun that is frowned, spitted or vomited upon by a normal, healthy, functioning society-- that includes abuse, murder, torture, sadism, masochism, necrophilia, misogyny, rape, penis mutilation (though toned down a lot compared…

interrupted in sketching out my new 3-part yt doc breaking down bimbofication vs. jokerification having always been necessarily a false dichotomy pushed upon us as a system of control not at all mappable onto the trans woman/blackpill dichotomy which is maybe less false but still totes wrong by YET ANOTHER ichi the killer thirst rewatch the first in a while though bc i was feeling down the internet said maybe i should check some 00's rom-coms for that glowy/cozy snow-day quarandemic vibe and digging through my dvd treasure chest of random boxes from the liquor store in 2010 i thought this would hit the spot and gosh did it ever turns out the way to get me to buy into…

The World Is More Than Enough 3: You Haven't Seen That Yet?!

3/30 - Japan

It says here that Ichi The Killer is 129 minutes long. Not hours.

So how come it felt much longer? I am a fan of Takeshi Miike but from the films I've seen from him, generally it seems I'm in trouble when he decides to do something longer. The only exception to that would be Gozu, a film I regard as something of a minor modern masterpiece of violent delirium, sexual deviance and black comedy.

Where Gozu succeeds yet Ichi The Killer and, to a certain extent, Lesson Of The Evil fail is that despite the fact that it is not always advancing its main…

I have no idea how to rate this, but does anybody?

Total delinquent cinema with a real "who gives a fuck? Let's just do it" attitude to just about everything ranging from cinematic form, violence, sexual politics, you name it. This is probably the zenith of Miike's V-Cinema tendencies that would soon fade into oblivion as the United States absorbed the market and the money dried up in Japan. Here, Miike comes into full grasp of his inclinations toward Sadistic Chuck Jones cartoon buffoonery with hacked limbs, sliced tongues and busted bodies. None of this is real but it is so because of an animated spirit processed through live action special effects. The movie feels overlong, but it wouldn't be…

This is one of the rare occasions where I actually like the movie character version way more than the manga version, Kakihara is just perfect in the movie, amazing wardrobe as well.

I simply have no words on how incredible this movie is, the first time I've watched was exactly a year ago, I was amazed by it and I had no idea why I didn't watch it earlier. After finishing it, I kept thinking about this movie over and over again, like if it was growing inside me, besides listening to the soundtrack almost every week. The art style and directing is so experimental and art house, the camera work almost reminds me of Fallen Angels in some shots.…

Look at me, watching all sorts of quality movies nowadays! I’m in something of a winning streak, if I say so myself.

We all know how depraved Japanese midnight movies can get, but how about this whopper of a manga adaptation? I can’t believe this was a contender in several film festivals — imagine the controversy it cooked up at the time! Everything one might deem inappropriate and offensive is crammed into this two-hour movie, to the point where one might start wondering why a scene is getting too unorthodox. This is definitely not a movie for anyone, and I’m probably not gonna recommend it to any of my friends anytime soon ... but boy, is this exactly the kind…