One of the genre's biggest and most prolific names, Yutaka Ikejima has rightfully earned the nickname 'Mr. Pink' for his dedication and devocation to the genre crafting some of the best efforts released under the lable. Originally released as Chô-inran: Shimai donburi back in 1998, this is one of Ikejima's most profound horror/erotica entries and emerges as one of his finest entries. Facing murder charges, lonely Kazuhiko (Kyôsuke Sasaki, from "Tokyo Train Girls 2: Supervixen") finds himself under a police investigation and forced to revisit his past crimes. Recalling how he met Tsukiko Kurotani (Yumi Yoshiyuki, from "Crazy Lips") and her sister Mayako (Kanae Mizuhara, from "Semen Demon") who move into the apartment complex across the street …show more content…
Rather than the out-and-out exploitation efforts usually featured here, this goes in a diferent direction by offering a touch of class to the proceedings. There are plenty of scenes here featuring more traditional camera-work and setups than would be found in a simple pink film of that time, from the stylized look of Shoji Shimizu's cinematography showing the sisters leaving the apartment and being out on the hunt to the scenes of Kazuhiko and Mayako making love in her apartment framed by a series of ornamental statues lying in the room. These shots, as well as more intricately-arranged scenes spread liberally throughout the movie make it feel much bigger and grander than a traditional pink film and really elevate the film. Likewise, production values are certainly high and most elements present, from the gore effects at the end to the strong sex scenes that have a hint of erotic charm during all the scenes …show more content…
Kyôsuke Sasaki as Kazuhiko is extremely effective. Asked to play emotionally vulnerable in the flashbacks to feverish insanity during the investigative questioning, these two sides of his personality come off effectively and he manages to be quite convincing. Kanae Mizuhara as the younger sister Mayako comes off even better than her costar, generating plenty of sensuality and vulnerability. The chemistry with Sasaki is a large part of the success for their scenes and when mixed with the vampire traits makes her a genuinely sympathic character. Yumi Yoshiyuki plays older sister Tsukiko rather coldly, as her distances and icy demeanor causes Tsukiko to be far more mysterious in her delivery. Obviously hiding the secretive nature of the sisters better than Mayako, she plays the part well and brings the central trio into a watchable group
The film “Smoke Signals” tells the tale of how two boys travels to Arizona in order to retrieve one of their father’s ashes. During this journey there are several flashbacks to the boy’s, and father’s, lives. During one of the father’s, Arnold, flashbacks he asks his neighbor what was the worst thing that they had ever done, after their reply he vaguely states that he “broke three hearts, too” (Eyre 1998). At first I saw this to be a plain and simple explanation, breaking somebody’s heart is an awful thing to do to a person. As I looked into who’s hearts he broke, I noticed that Arnold broke four hearts not three. The first three people that I instantly thought of when Arnold stated this quote was: Thomas, Victor, and Arnold’s wife. But, I also think that Arnold broke his own heart along with the other three. Overall, I believe that Arnold acknowledged that he broke Thomas, Victor, and his wife’s heart, but he didn’t realize that in the process he also broke his own heart.
The movie Dope, written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, follows the story of Malcolm through his senior year of high school in the Inglewood California. He lives in a poor neighborhood, with only his mom, yet he still strives for greatness. He has a couple of friends, and they all love 90’s hip hop culture. They try to do their best to stay out of trouble and away from bullies. Malcolm sees a girl he likes and ends up following her to a drug dealer’s birthday party. When the cops bust the birthday party, he unknowingly goes home with all the drugs and the gun that the drug dealer owns. This sets off a wild chain reaction, as he now has to sell these drugs to payoff the supplier, who happens to be the Harvard Alumni that Malcolm’s needs approval
The Dragon's Claw crime family, led by Boss Wang (Tomorowo Taguchi) are causing trouble in Tokyo. Tatsuhito Kiriya (Kippei Shiina), a police detective of Chinese descent is in charge of the investigation into the group, though his task becomes complicated when he learns that his brother is working for Wang as a lawyer.
"Fed Up (Soechtig, 2014)." narrated by Katie Couric, focuses on the growing link between sugar consumption and the obesity epidemic. The film aggressively attacks the food industry, advertising, and the government who, it claims, all contribute to the U.S. sugar-dependent, obesity problem. The film sets out to prove the government, and food industry is knowingly causing an increase in the amount of obese children. It reserves its most critical comments for government advisory panels who make and enforce food and health policy, and its failure to properly regulate the food industry. They claim lobbyists for the sugar board have been instrumental in the removal of negative statistics from research papers worldwide. Instead
While still acting within a male paradigm, given the film’s director is a man, Departures still manages to give its female characters the space and time necessary to create depth and a strong, essential narrative. While the film does the work of deconstructing the bias against women in film, the view is left to absorb these characters and appreciate them as the strong figures they are without reducing them to or denying them of their womanhood. This turn towards modern feminism represents a trend of post-war Japanese film towards globalization and anticipating the role of international film festivals in the films demographic. While Takita sets up the film against the universally accessible themes of death, honor and questions of womanhood, he also teases the specifics out with predominantly Japanese cultural references. The end product is a film that resonates with everyone, but rings particularly true to Japanese culture, while nodding its head to the changing nature of Japanese womanhood and all that
In the documentary “Fed Up,” sugar is responsible for Americas rising obesity rate, which is happening even with the great stress that is set on exercise and portion control for those who are overweight. Fed Up is a film directed by Stephanie Soechtig, with Executive Producers Katie Couric and Laurie David. The filmmaker’s intent is mainly to inform people of the dangers of too much sugar, but it also talks about the fat’s in our diets and the food corporation shadiness. The filmmaker wants to educate the country on the effects of a poor diet and to open eyes to the obesity catastrophe in the United States. The main debate used is that sugar is the direct matter of obesity. Overall, I don’t believe the filmmaker’s debate was successful.
The pacing and dialogue are often too fast and the plot is jumbled and ultimately a bit silly, requiring long explanations that can be hard to follow. If the audience can’t follow on what’s going on with the film, they’ll lose interest. The plot is to hard to piece together, if the audience blinks they will miss the clues. One example of this is all the location changes that goes through the film, the audience never gets a clear notification to where our main characters are til they are already there. It’s hard to follow our heros’ role, everything seemed fast paced. Here’s a second example, Holmes ponders, “What does the greatest criminal mastermind want with a simple fortune teller? It’s her brother, I tell you!” This is how the audience finds out that the fortune teller character, Madam Simza, has a brother. Where the clues that lead up to this? It just seemed like everything just shifted so fast that I missed the clues. Some of the most interesting scenes are the quiet ones where the brilliant minds and begrudging admiration of Holmes and Moriarty face off. But Ritchie, seems more interested in using them merely as springboards for fights, chases, and
The movie Shock Doctrine revolves around the concept of the same name. The film begins by discussing psychological research on the effects of shock therapy. It is evident that a person under extreme stress and anxiety commonly experienced during a crisis functions and performs inadequately. It is noted that the studies are conducted by a man by the name of Milton Friedman, from the University of Chicago; the studies took place in the past, and some of the subjects are still recovering in the aftermath. From this research, interrogation techniques were learned and the concept of the shock doctrine was formed. Essentially through causing a crisis, the population of a country can be shocked into complying with accepting laws that favors the United States and capitalism. This theory coexists with Friedman’s belief in that government regulation is bad, and through a crisis a country would better itself with deregulation. The video uses Chile as an example and shows how America allowed a crisis to occur in Chile, through coups, interrogations and subterfuge. In the end a new government is formed that allows capitalism. Unfortunately afterwards violence and riots occur, as the rich gain most of the wealth and poverty rises. In addition to Chile, Argentina, Russia and even Iraq underwent the shock doctrine. Almost in every account, poverty rises and violence ends up erupting. The movie ends by showing how the US was in the process of the shock doctrine, and still is but the population has taken notice. Protests such as Occupy Wall Street are some of the initiatives necessary to bring awareness to the problems of class inequalities in order to prevent capitalism from benefitting the rich and increasing the wealth gap among the classes.
Trainspotting presents an ostensible image of fractured society. The 1996 film opens, famously, with a series of postulated choicesvariables, essentially, in the delineation of identity and opposition. Significant here is the tone in which these options are deliveredit might be considered the rhetorical voice of society, a playful exposition of the pressure placed on individuals to make the "correct" choices, to conform to expectation.
In the film, “North by Northwest” we see a series of shots that creates suspense and danger. The point of the film is very vague and it ends without a resolution to the main conflict. The incredible camera work and techniques that Alfred Hitchcock did created a feeling of danger and suspense, making the audience want to see more. Also, Hitchcock's film main character Roger O. Thornhill creates suspense with his mistaken identity and fight for his escape. The film uses a handful of shots, for example, medium shots, close ups, long shots and shot-reverse-shots. I found particularly interesting how a handful of shots can create suspense and the feeling of danger can create a misleading plot.
Sex, love, depression, guilt, trust, all are topics presented in this remarkably well written and performed drama. The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Annie Baker, serves to provide a social commentary which will leave the audience deep in thought well after the curtain closes. Emporia State Universities Production of this masterpiece was a masterpiece in itself, from the stunningly genuine portrayal of the characters of Avery and Rose, to the realism found within the set, every aspect of the production was superb.
The film, Fruitvale Station, is based upon a true story of a young, unarmed African American male, Oscar, who was shot by a Caucasian BART police officer. The film displays the final twenty-fours of Oscar Grant’s lives going through his struggles, triumphs, and eager search to change his life around. There will be an analysis of the sociological aspects displayed throughout the movie that show racism, prejudice, and discrimination.
“The Color Purple” is a 1985 period drama film. It’s based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel.The movie was filmed in North Carolina. It tells a story about a young African American girl named Celie Harris. The movie shows the problems that African American women had to confront during the 1900s for example poverty, which means poor also racism.
In an old house on a hill somewhere in Oregon, there is a little door in the wall. During the day and to the casual observer, this door leads to nowhere. But at night, if the right person opens it, the door leads to another world. A world where everything appears perfect. A world where mothers make dinner every night, where fathers create spectacular gardens and spend time with their daughters, where there are gravy trains and talking toys, and where jumping mice perform tricks and stunts for children. A world with button eyes. This is the world created in 2009 by director Henry Selick in the 3-D, clay animation film Coraline. Based off the children’s novel written by Neil Gaiman, this intricately created
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence is a Steven Spielberg science fiction drama film, which conveys the story of a younger generation robot, David, who yearns for his human mother’s love. David’s character stimulates the mind-body question. What is the connection between our “minds” and our bodies?