New Directors from Japan: Takashi Ono
Japan | 2016-2023
Dir: Takashi Ono
The Angel Guts Collection
Japan | 1979-1994
Dir: Chusei Sone, Noboru Tanaka, Takashi Ishii, Toshiharu Ikeda
Cast: Jun Izumi, Mayako Katsuragi, Naoto Takenaka, Yuki Mizuhara
The Maiku Hama Trilogy
Japan | 1994-1996
Dir: Kaizo Hayashi
Takashi Ishii: 4 Tales of Nami
Japan | 1992-1994
Dir: Takashi Ishii
Cast: Kimiko Yo, Maiko Kawakami, Naoto Takenaka, Shinobu Otake
Please read this whole post. It’s a long one, but well worth it.
I didn’t really plan on sharing this in this way, but I had a few people urge me to do this.
First: The Disc-Connected is NOT going anywhere. And if I can help it, will never go anywhere.
Now, with a spirit of
More good stuff from @thirdwindow
Double bill of Toshiki Toyoda films: 9 Souls and Blue Spring on April 6 in London @thenickelcinema!
Hosted by @JamesBalmont
Both films feature video introductions by @toyodatoshiaki!
http://thenickel.co.uk/screening/246 &
http://thenickel.co.uk/screening/245
Ikeda's ANGEL GUTS: RED PORNO (1981) is the most overt critique in the series of gendered double standards within sexual kink, quickly establishing a predatory environment during a nighttime walk that spirals into media obsession over the paradoxical virginal slut feminine ideal.
Our first film for our next episode of 26 Movies from HELL is
DOOR (1988) directed by Banmei Takahashi
