Synopsis
An unforgettable human drama of search and survival ...
A family of foxes fight to survive against the harsh but beautiful backdrop of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island.
1978 ‘キタキツネ物語’ Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara
A family of foxes fight to survive against the harsh but beautiful backdrop of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island.
Kita-kitsune monogatari, Tanz der Füchse
● Shibō Shū ● Mid-Year Challenge: Japanese June
Film: 5 of 30
Let me start by saying; Just LOOK at that poster. It's gorgeous. A Japanese documentary on foxes from the 70's with a poster like that? I can't think of anything more appealing. I'm somewhat new to Kurahara's work but I'm told that this a strange departure from his usual output. Part nature documentary, part narrative non-fiction with questionable non-fiction elements and part experimental film. There are multiple fox deaths and apart of me wondered if this film pulls a 'Milo and Otis' with it's inhumane kitten sacrifices, but I haven't been able to find any information on animal cruelty in this film. I'm hoping that it's a sign…
Serious hazy VHS vibes. Feels like something you caught on TV as a kid and have long since forgotten, shrouded in the mists of memory. I watched the English version and I'm not sure if there's a great disparity (if any?) between this and the original version; I can see why some might find the narration and somewhat incongruous soundtrack grating but for me it somehow added to the odd atmosphere of the film. This definitely takes a Watership Down approach to depicting nature so if you're expecting something fuzzy and heartwarming be warned. Does anyone know of any other films like this? Nature documentaries with a distinct "vibe" and visual style, kind of becoming an art piece in their own right? The only other film I've seen that could really fit the bill is Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Le monde du silence. I need a print of that poster ASAP.
A look into the life of a red fox named Flep and his family over the course of a year. It's a tale full of action, adventure, loss, and excitement. Has some of the most upbeat music I've heard too, some of it incredibly out of touch with the sad scenes being shown on screen.
A lot of the scenes involving humans were probably staged, and the director was a touch heartless, despite the reverence he shows the foxes through the narration. Not to be watched by the faint of heart.
“In this raw and hostile land...”
Beneath the otherwise saccharine veneer, simplified, in its efforts to appeal to a younger audience, often to the effective tipping point of being “dumbed down”, where the broad strokes no longer conceal, reflect the intimacies of the grander things, but rather speak to them sparingly, cloyingly, verging on condescension, where what’s left is left out and not evocation of the ineffable things that fill in The Gaps, a curious romanticism still manages to break through, charging the imagery here with a playfulness that appeals to, captures what’s rare, invaluable, impermanent about youth, not what’s missing, naive, unexposed to Darkness. So much so, Herzog might just approve of this portrait of love and violence in…
my bro always puts these kind of things on when im staring out the window too much. i like them but not as much as he thinks. this one's a real sad life and death tale tho. the can openers are really mean. couldn't one of the guys following rera just take the stupid metal off her feet? anyway, foxes are pretty much dogs but cuter and less dumb if you've never heard of one before like me. theres this one scene where one of the sons in the litter grows up and catches one of those rare rainbow thumping birds and it looks so fun!! foxes also are good pouncers, live in holes, eat their babies, and kill themselves sometimes too lololol it's pretty scary that can openers shoot them though, id only ever seen guys kill those one retarded horses with the boners on their heads. or other humans, of course.
Didn't watch the whole thing. Not yet. Just thought it was funny to put "The Glacier Fox" next to Tiger King. Dynamite motion picture, though. I love the 70's. I love the way that these odd co-productions, dubbed voices, and 8 track cassette chamber music, give everything a dreamlike collage feel. The VHS dub I found makes everything twice as snowy as as the original image, and if I was the wind, this would be a land I'd choose to haunt. These are the 3-toed pawprints I'd press into the UHF snow. Beautiful. Thank you.
A look into the life of a red fox named Flep and his family over the course of a year. It's a tale full of action, adventure, loss, and excitement. Has some of the most upbeat music I've heard too, some of it incredibly out of touch with the sad scenes being shown on screen.
A lot of the scenes involving humans were probably staged, and the director was a touch heartless, despite the reverence he shows the foxes through the narration. Not to be watched by the faint of heart.
“In this raw and hostile land...”
Beneath the otherwise saccharine veneer, simplified, in its efforts to appeal to a younger audience, often to the effective tipping point of being “dumbed down”, where the broad strokes no longer conceal, reflect the intimacies of the grander things, but rather speak to them sparingly, cloyingly, verging on condescension, where what’s left is left out and not evocation of the ineffable things that fill in The Gaps, a curious romanticism still manages to break through, charging the imagery here with a playfulness that appeals to, captures what’s rare, invaluable, impermanent about youth, not what’s missing, naive, unexposed to Darkness. So much so, Herzog might just approve of this portrait of love and violence in…
my bro always puts these kind of things on when im staring out the window too much. i like them but not as much as he thinks. this one's a real sad life and death tale tho. the can openers are really mean. couldn't one of the guys following rera just take the stupid metal off her feet? anyway, foxes are pretty much dogs but cuter and less dumb if you've never heard of one before like me. theres this one scene where one of the sons in the litter grows up and catches one of those rare rainbow thumping birds and it looks so fun!! foxes also are good pouncers, live in holes, eat their babies, and kill themselves sometimes too lololol it's pretty scary that can openers shoot them though, id only ever seen guys kill those one retarded horses with the boners on their heads. or other humans, of course.
Serious hazy VHS vibes. Feels like something you caught on TV as a kid and have long since forgotten, shrouded in the mists of memory. I watched the English version and I'm not sure if there's a great disparity (if any?) between this and the original version; I can see why some might find the narration and somewhat incongruous soundtrack grating but for me it somehow added to the odd atmosphere of the film. This definitely takes a Watership Down approach to depicting nature so if you're expecting something fuzzy and heartwarming be warned. Does anyone know of any other films like this? Nature documentaries with a distinct "vibe" and visual style, kind of becoming an art piece in their own right? The only other film I've seen that could really fit the bill is Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Le monde du silence. I need a print of that poster ASAP.
● Shibō Shū ● Mid-Year Challenge: Japanese June
Film: 5 of 30
Let me start by saying; Just LOOK at that poster. It's gorgeous. A Japanese documentary on foxes from the 70's with a poster like that? I can't think of anything more appealing. I'm somewhat new to Kurahara's work but I'm told that this a strange departure from his usual output. Part nature documentary, part narrative non-fiction with questionable non-fiction elements and part experimental film. There are multiple fox deaths and apart of me wondered if this film pulls a 'Milo and Otis' with it's inhumane kitten sacrifices, but I haven't been able to find any information on animal cruelty in this film. I'm hoping that it's a sign…
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