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
Enter Takashi Ishii’s nightmare world!
A Night in Nude ヌードの夜
Part of the collection Takashi Ishii: 4 Tales of Nami
Out on bluray & digital from #thirdwindowfilms!
https://thirdwindowfilms.com/films/takashi-ishii-4-tales-of-nam
If you want to know what this is about:
I reviewed Transcending Dimensions and the three short movies a few months ago (Spoiler: They are great!).
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Your chance to win a copy of Third Window Films' new Blu-ray collection of films from the director Takashi Ono.
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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)
