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There’s a new movie out from the director of the very, very good ‘Machine Girl’, Noboru Iguchi, and Yoshihiro Nishimura, the special effects guy from ‘Tokyo Gore Police.’ Boasting “Geisha missile, geisha dance, geisha army, geisha chainsaw, geisha harakiri, acid breast milk, fried shrimp, handicap gun (my favorite)” and so much more, this is incontrovertibly [...]  Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story First aired on VH1 in July, 2001, Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story hit all the plucky young working class blokes work hard and get it right success story buttons, taking care to offer an easy to digest gloss on how a bunch of good friends who just love good times [...] Shoko Nakahara stars in Yoshihiro Nishimura’s 2008 tour-de-abattoir Tokyo Gore Police (Tokyo Zankoku Keisatsu) as the hard-nosed avenger of decency without mercy Ruka. Preternaturally calm, dangerously certain of her purpose and her use of the katana in the black and white battle between criminal indecency and the directives of the privatized Tokyo Police Corporation, Ruka [...] I just read in the Times this morning that, in addition to the Godard’s ’60s series playing out this week and into the summer at Film Forum, there’s an international series of films being put on at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Entitled simply 1968 , it’s a film record of the sentiment, urgency, and power of that peculiar time, so alien 40 years on. It began yesterday, and carries on through May 14th. |
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