In the Realm of the Senses/愛のコリーダ (Ai no Korīda) (1976) - Ôshima's psycho-sexual shocker

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A tense and intimate moment between a man and a woman in old-fashioned Japanese garbs make up most of this exceedingly text-littered poster for Nagisa Ôshima's In the Realm of the Senses

In Japan in the 1930s, the young woman Sada is increasingly obsessed with her lover Kichizo, despite his married status, and her urge to possess him only increases.

 

In the Realm of the Senses is written and directed by Nagisa Ôshima (Ai to kibô no machi (1959)). The original Japanese title translates to, 'bullfight of love'. It is a fictionalized account of the real-life sensational murder of her lover by Sada Abe in 1936.

Ôshima's film is a blindingly strange and uncompromising one with sexual malaise, a psycho-sexual relationship in which the sexuality becomes all-encompassing and fatal. Shockingly explicit, - SPOILER including a scene in which Sada pinches a naked boy's penis, - In the Realm of the Senses is hard to watch, heavy as well, and inauspicious as a date movie. It is nevertheless a remarkable film.

 

 

Watch a scene from the film here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: In excess of 7.65 mil. $ (France and West Germany alone)

= Uncertain but likely at least a huge hit

[In the Realm of the Senses premiered 15 May (Cannes Film Festival, out of competition) and runs 108 minutes (original cut)/102 minutes (producers' cut). The film's explicit sexual content meant that it would not pass Japan's censorship: Ôshima planned to get around this by making it as a French production in Japan, and shipping the film to France for post production. Shooting took place in Kyoto, Japan. Despite optically censoring, reframing and blurring his film to appease the censors, Ôshima was nevertheless sued with obscenity along with a man responsible for a book release based on the film. Both were found not guilty in 1979 and again in 1982. The film was met with outrage, longer or shorter bans and extraordinary interest in most countries it was released in. In France and Germany alone it sold 2.4 mil. tickets, grossing 7.65 mil. $. It also grossed 1.4 mil. SEK in Sweden. The film's cost and world gross is regrettably unknown, but it was likely a huge hit. Ôshima returned with 3 TV credits prior to his theatrical return Empire of the Senses/Ai no bôrei (1978). Eiko Matsuda (Jack no irezumi (1970)) returned in Ôoku ukiyo-buro (1977); Tatsuya Fuji (Radiance/Hikari (2017)) in Empire of Passion. In the Realm of the Senses is fresh at 84 % with a 7.50/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

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Isle of Dogs (2018) - Anderson goes to the dogs in overrated folly

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Probably the largest ever canine cast assembled on a single poster, here for Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs

The nephew of the Japanese dictatorial mayor Kobayashi loses his beloved dog Spots, when all canines are placed in exile with their dog flu virus on a garbage island, and so the boy ventures out to find him.

 

Isle of Dogs is written, co-produced and directed by Texan master filmmaker Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket (1996)), whose 9th feature it is. Roman Coppola (Asteroid City (2023)), Kunichi Nomura (Lost in Translation (2003, actor)) and Jason Schwartzman (The Darjeeling Limited (2007)) contributed story elements.

With incredible-looking animation, mostly stop-motion and doll-based, Isle of Dogs is nevertheless still even less engaging and even more vexing than Anderson's first animated venture, Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). It is weird and without sweeping characters, as they are cerebrally oriented, alienated dogs or strange humans with few expressions, respectively. 

Accompanied by a droning, "witty" score (by Alexandre Desplat (Lee (2023))), which makes Isle of Dogs even more tooth-pulling. Without laughter, and with a starry voice ensemble that don't elevate matters but only increases the bewilderment at this doggone picture.

 

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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - A very very good dream 
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - Anderson's technically, visually admirable but a bit tiring animation 
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) - Anderson beautifies but still wins with India-journey favorite  

 

  

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: Reportedly 35 mil. $

Box office: 64.6 mil. $

= Big flop (returned 1.84 times its cost)

[Isle of Dogs premiered 15 February (Berlin International Film Festival) and runs 101 minutes. The film opened #15 to a 1.6 mil. $ first weekend in 27 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #7 and in 1,947 theaters (different weeks), grossing 32 mil. $ (49.5 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 8.3 mil. $ (12.8 %) and China with 6.8 mil. $ (10.5 %). The film was nominated for 2 Oscars, losing both: It lost Best Score to Ludwig Göransson for Black Panther and Animation to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It was also nominated for 2 BAFTAs and 2 Golden Globes, among other honors. The film additionally grossed an estimated 4.7 mil. $ on the domestic home video market alone, according to The-Numbers.com. Anderson returned with The French Dispatch (2021). Bryan Cranston (Better Call Saul (2022, TV-series)) returned in 3 TV credits prior to his theatrical return in El Camino (2019). Isle of Dogs is certified fresh at 90 % with an 8.00/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

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Ichi the Killer/ 殺し屋１(Koroshiya Ichi) (2001) - Miike's world-shocking yakuza splatter

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Pain, mutilation and pleasure seem to converge on this raw poster for Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer

The boss of a Yakuza gang has gone missing with a lot of money. Needle enthusiast/psychopath Kakihara gets to a conclusion through the use of extensive torture: It is a brainwashed guy by the name of Ichi who has murdered the boss.

 

Ichi the Killer is written by Sakichi Sato (Doreiku: Boku to 23-nin no dorei (2014)), based on the same-titled 1998-01 manga by Hideo Yamamoto (Homunculus (2003-11)), and directed by Takashi Miike (Shinjuku kuroshakai: Chaina mafia sensô (1995)). The original Japanese title translates to 'hitman one'.

'The Japanese are nuts. Totally depraved.' - This could be one fair takeaway from watching Ichi the Killer. 

The story of the film is very strange, and it is mostly made up of torture and murder scenes, along with very long takes of things that are hard to comprehend, and a bit of dialog. Some of the setups are beautifully staged, and the sound side and special effects of the film are impressive.

Everything is aesthetic in this highly Japanese vision of horrific sadomasochism.

 

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Takashi Miike: Imprint (2006, TV movie) - Venture far, far abroad with Miike's hard-to-watch Masters of Horror entry

1999 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 

Audition/オーディション (Ōdishon) (1999) - Miike hamstrings your sleep 

 

Watch a trailer for the movie here

 

Cost: Estimated 1.4 mil. $

Box office: Unknown

= Uncertain

[Ichi the Killer premiered 14 September (Toronto International Film Festival) and runs 130 minutes. Shooting took place around August 2000 in Tokyo, Japan. Details surrounding its commercial performance in Japan and the few other markets it was released in (besides a long list of festival screenings) are regrettably hard to come by. The film was banned in Norway and Malaysia and cut in other countries. Miike returned with Agitator/Araburu tamashii-tachi (2001). Tadanobu Asano (Shogun (2024, TV-series)) returned in Mizu no onna (2002); Nao Ômori (First Love/Hatsukoi (2019)) in Quartet (2001). Ichi the Killer is fresh at 65 % with a 6.10/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

What do you think of Ichi the Killer?

Imprint (2006) - Venture far, far abroad with Miike's hard-to-watch Masters of Horror entry

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This poster for Takashi Miike's Imprint clearly indicates that the film is ripe with horrific, grueling images, gore and torture

An American journalist (Billy Drago (Supernatural (2008, TV-series))) is looking for his lost love on a cursed Japanese island, where torture-loving whores with gruesome abortion backgrounds have their home.

Imprint is written by Daisuke Tengan (The Eel/Unagi (1997)), adapting the 1999 novel Bokke e, kyōtē by Shimako Iwai (Rakuen (2003)), and directed by Takashi Miike (Shinjuku kuroshakai: Chaina mafia sensô (1995)). It is the 13th and last episode of the first season of TV movie anthology series Masters of Horror.

Without reservations this is a disgusting film, in fact so much so that one almost agrees with the series' executive producer Mick Garris and the executives at Showtime who decided to shelve it and never run it on TV as part of the anthology. But in the atmospheric, stylized universe conjured up here, and in the extreme imagery that goes along with it also lie the unshakable elements of the cultural clash that is Imprint.

 

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Dance of the Dead (2005) - Hooper's ugly Masters of Horror nonsense
Chocolate (2005) - Flavors, visions and eroticism in Garris' TV movie thriller
Deer Woman (2005) - Landis and son's solid Masters of Horror entry 
Cigarette Burns (2005) - Carpenter burns out in weird, tiresome TV movie    

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Takashi Miike: 1999 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 

Audition/オーディション (Ōdishon) (1999) - Miike hamstrings your sleep 

 

 

Watch a clip from the film here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: None - TV movie

= Uncertain

[Imprint premiered 25 February (Yubari Interntational Film Festival) and runs 63 minutes. Shooting took place in Japan, including in Tokyo. Miike claims that he checked up during production and thought that he created something within the bounds of what could be screened on US TV, but the film was nevertheless denied screening when completed. Instead it was shown theatrically in Japan as well as through screenings in festivals in several other markets, along with on TV in yet other markets before getting a home video release broadly. It is the only film in the Masters of Horror series to get shelved due to its content. Miike returned with Waru: kenketsu-hen (2006, video) and theatrically with Taiyô no kizu (2006). Drago returned in Seven Mummies (2006). 7.7k+ IMDb users have given Imprint a 6.9/10 average rating.]

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The Boy and the Heron/君たちはどう生きるか (Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka) (2023) - Magic dissipates in Miyazaki's universe

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A strange, animated image of a boy who may be flying makes up this poster for Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron

 

Mahito is a big boy when, during WWII, a major hospital blaze takes his mother from him. A new life in the countryside with his father and new stepmother follows, where Mahito goes exploring in a mysterious tower and befriends a bizarre heron.

 

The Boy and the Heron is written and directed by Japanese master filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Mirai shônen Konan (1979)), whose 14th feature it is. The original Japanese title translates to, 'how do you live?'.

The film is a departure from the whimsical, fantastical, gripping animation classics of Miyazaki's past, and the master's old age seems apparent in it and regrettably not as a good thing. Miyazaki is one of the greats whose films plummet in quality in his last years as a filmmaker. Despite the overwhelming praise for the film, - seemingly an automatic reaction to anything released by Miyazaki, - The Boy and the Heron is an unsatisfying film. It revels in its maker's childhood memories and idiosyncrasies in a free-form adventure that is too preoccupied to make the narrative sensible and meaningful for the viewer.

War, death, self-harm, hatred and universal destruction are some of the gloomy themes that this almost fun-free and often quiet film mulls over. The boy is hard to understand; the story, - which sees him searching for a lost stepmother in the tower with the big-nosed, heron-caped male companion, seemingly fall in love with a girl, and meet a kind of god figure, - is obscure and generally uninvolving.

The sound design is terrific, and the animation is striking but lacking in warmth, depth, sweetness and personality, - qualities that make Miyazaki's best films transcendent. The Boy and the Heron mostly leaves you cold and puzzled.

 

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Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: 167.2 mil. $ and counting

= Uncertain

[The Boy and the Heron was released 14 July (Japan) and runs 124 minutes. Miyazaki began working on it after he had announced his retirement in 2013. The production dragged out for years due to his slow working pace, making producer Toshio Suzuki claim that it is the most expensive film ever produced in Japan, - but failing to back the boast up with a specific cost figure. It was released without any marketing campaign in Japan besides a single poster. The film opened #1 to a 13 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent one more weekend in the top 5 (#3) and grossed 45.8 mil. $ (27.4 % of the total gross). North America was the film's 2nd biggest market. Its biggest was Japan with 56.1 mil. $ (33.6 %), where more than 5.5 mil. paid admission, and South Korea was 3rd biggest with 14.9 mil. $ (8.9 %). It is nominated for the Best Animation Oscar. It has won a BAFTA, 1/2 Golden Globe nominations and a National Board of Review award, among other honors. Despite this being lauded as his career's last film, Miyazaki is reportedly working on another, yet to be announced film. The Boy and the Heron is certified fresh at 97 % with an 8.50/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Ponyo/崖の上のポニョ (Gake no Ue no Ponyo) (2008) - Magical animation masterpiece from master Miyazaki

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+ 3rd Best Movie of the Year

+ Best Adventure Movie of the Year + Best Family Movie of the Year + Best Huge Hit Movie of the Year + Best Japanese Movie of the Year 

 

 

Disney's poster for the Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo does its best to recall the public's attraction to one of the biggest animation hits in the preceding years, Pixar's Finding Nemo (2003)

Goldfish Ponyo gradually becomes a girl with magical powers, when it tastes the blood of the boy Sosuke, The two become good friends, while a storm surge ravages the boy's native area.

 

Ponyo is written and directed by Japanese master filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro/Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (1979)), whose 11th feature it is.

It is another wonderful, - and often truly strange! - film from Miyazaki. That Liam Neeson (Schindler's List (1993)) voices the womanly character from the sea in the English language version is just one of these peculiarities, and the classic H.C. Anderson mermaid fairytale also gets a dramatic altering here. 

The animation sucks your eyeballs to every single one of the amazing (entirely hand drawn) images, and especially the animation of the treacherous, dangerous ocean is stunning.

Ponyo is also a jolly and quite funny film, and a wise film that is enormously rewarding for all ages, - pure cinema magic. It is one of those rare works of mankind that is so good it could be worth presenting for other life forms (simians, aliens etc.)

 

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Porco Rosso/紅の豚 (Kurenai no Buta) (1992) - Childlike qualities help propel strange Miyazaki adventure 

 

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 34 mil. $

Box office: 204.9 mil. $

= Huge hit (returned 6.02 times its cost)

[Ponyo was released 19 July (Japan) and runs 101 minutes. 12 companies cooperated in the financing and production of the film. Production began in May 2006 in Japan, with Miyazaki's animation concept for the film building on traditional hand-drawn techniques rather than incorporating CGI as he had done in earlier films. The film opened #9 to a 3.5 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it fell on the chart from then on, grossing 15 mil. $ (7.3 % of the total gross). It was the film's 2nd biggest market. Japan was its biggest with 164.5 mil. $ (80.3 %), and South Korea was the 3rd biggest with 6.9 mil. $ (3.4 %). Roger Ebert gave the film a 4/4 star review, equal in rating to this one. Miyazaki returned with Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess/Pan-dane to Tamago-hime (2010, short) and theatrically with The Wind Rises/Kaze tachinu (2013). Ponyo is certified fresh at 91 % with a 7.60/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Porco Rosso/紅の豚 (Kurenai no Buta) (1992) - Childlike qualities help propel strange Miyazaki adventure

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A smiling pilot pig in a red airplane against a sweltering sky makes up this upbeat poster for Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso

Rosso is a master pilot, who hunts 'air pirates', and gets help from a 17 year-old girl to repair his plane, so that he can get back home to Milan, Italy. - Oh, and a curse has turned him into a pig.

 

Porco Rosso is written and directed by Japanese master filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro/Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (1979)), whose 7th film it is. It is based on the three-part 1989 watercolor manga Hikōtei Jidai by Miyazaki. The English title is in Italian, because the character is Italian, and it means 'red pig', a literal translation of the film's original Japanese title.

Almost everything about Porco Rosso seems truly peculiar, but never absurd or grotesque, because Miyazaki's often beautiful compositions and exciting scenarios are accompanied by a warmth and a childlike matter of course. This makes the mostly strictly realistic (believe it or not), fantastic and deeply childish story very inviting and enjoyable. The strange norms and foreign values make the film even more worthwhile.

Something that's never quite cleared up bothers me though: Why exactly is the protagonist a pig?

 

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Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 9.2 mil. $

Box office: 45.3 mil. $

= Big hit (returned 4.84 times its cost)

[Porco Rosso was released 18 July (Japan) and runs 94 minutes. Japan Airlines was a major investor behind the film, which was to be a 30-45 minute long in-flight animation. But Miyazaki made the film longer and secured a theatrical release, although the airline reportedly showed it in-flight long before the premiere. Nevertheless the film was the highest-grossing on the Japanese market of 1992, making 43 mil. $ (94.9 % of the total gross). Disney created an English dub version for their home video release of the film in 2005. The film has been re-released on several occasions. Miyazaki returned with Nandarou (1992, TV short), Chage & Aska: On Your Mark (1995, music video) and theatrically with Princess Mononoke/Mononoke-hime (1997). Porco Rosso is fresh at 95 % with an 8.00/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Princess Mononoke/もののけ姫 (Mononoke-hime) (1997) - Miyazaki's grand, magical adventure masterpiece

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The titular princess atop the giant wolf under a roof of dense foliage makes up this poster for Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke

A young prince in Japan hundreds of years ago gets a nasty scar from an unpleasant wild boar demon, whereupon he ventures out to find the god of the forest, who may be willing to help him. But a war between humans, the animals of the forest and the gods is underway, as our hero falls in love with the wolf princess Mononoke, who stands between the parties.

 

Princess Mononoke is written and directed by Japanese master filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro/Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (1979)), whose 8th feature it is. Neil Gaiman (Doctor Who (2011-13)) wrote the English translation. Though popularly understood as a name in the West, 'Mononoke' is reportedly "a Japanese word for supernatural, shape-shifting beings that possess people and cause suffering, disease, or death."

A knock-out film visually, it is also a complex narrative that's difficult to recount but wholly engrossing throughout. It is an aesthetic enjoyment and a grand film in every way. The sound and music side (score by Joe Hisaishi (Shinka no toki (2019))) is absolutely phenomenal, and the animation is equally resplendent.

Big and important metaphysical elements are juggled in this singular film that's wild, psychedelic and enjoyable.

 

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Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 23.5 mil. $

Box office: 194.3 mil. $

= Mega-hit (returned 8.26 times its cost)

[Princess Mononoke was released 12 July (Japan) and runs 133 minutes. Miyazaki had been developing the ideas in the film since the late 1970s. He reportedly created the Irontown in the film with inspiration from John Ford's westerns. Computer animation is reportedly used in approximately 10 % of the film, which is designed to blend in with the hand-painted animation. Miyazaki preferred the title The Legend of Ashitaka (the prince in the film) but accepted producer Toshio Suzuki's choice of Princess Mononoke. The film was an enormous hit in Japan, becoming first 1997's biggest hit and then for a while the highest-grossing film ever in Japanese cinemas, (beating E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)), - until Titanic (1997) took over the honor. For the North-American release, a Disney contract landed the film at Miramax's desk, where executive Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut it to 90 minutes. Determined rejection and a samurai sword sent directly to him from Miyazaki reportedly made sure that the film was released uncut with the English dub. It opened #33 to a 144k $ first weekend in 8 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #24 and in 129 theaters (different weeks), grossing 2.3 mil. $ in its first run there. The film has been re-released in several markets several times since its original release, continuing to woo new audiences. It has also made more than 268 mil. $ on the home video market in Japan and North America alone. Roger Ebert gave it a 4/4 star review, equal in rating to this one. IMDb's users have rated the film in as #80 on the site's Top 250 list, sitting between Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Good Will Hunting (1997). Princess Mononoke is certified fresh at 93 % with an 8.00/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

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