Transcending Dimensions
Japan | 2025
Dir: Toshiaki Toyoda
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
Sone’s ANGEL GUTS: RED CLASSROOM (1979) bridges art & exploitation through polished psychological voyeurism, exploring hyper-sexuality as an act of survival & control, using the woman with a past trope to expose male gaze driven savior fantasy as just another form of consumerism.
Favorite first watches of March:
1. Floating Clouds (1955)
2. Angel Guts: Red Classroom (1979)
3. Angel Guts: Red Porno (1981)
4. The Decameron (1971)
5. Opera (1987)
6. Angel Guts: Red Vertigo (1988)
7. Kagemusha (1980)
8. Afternoon (2015)
9. Angel Guts: Nami (1979)
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Various ways to stream I AM BASEBALL #野球どアホウ未亡人 @1996ONOT for free in North America before its bluray release on April 20!
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/i-am-baseball
New Directors from Japan: Takashi Ono's I Am Baseball and other Showa-inspired Stories reviewed @andrew_amphlett!
Discover the works of @1996ONOT with our bluray set out April 20th!