Visual Coercion
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Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story 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. As the Film Forum folks (FFF) have so elegantly put it, With his starring roles in bona fide classics by Kurosawa and Kobayashi, and multiple leading parts for masters as disparate in style and subject matter as Naruse, Okamoto, Gosha, Teshigahara, Kinoshita, and the late Kon Ichikawa, Nakadai’s career provides a core sample right through the heart of the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema…. I’m imaging a French New-wave episode of Friends adapted for the big screen, a bunch of idealistic kids who wish they could have been Futurists but, for reasons of temporal nativity and philosophical fortitude, in the end were just part of that whole exciting decade whose anticlimax paved the way for our awareness of virtuality. |
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