Tag: rentarômikuni
Blu-ray Review: KWAIDAN, Sensational, Surreal Colors Of An Ancient Japanese World
From the opening moments of 1965's ghostly anthology Kwaidan, the viewer experiences a dissonant display of color and atmosphere matched only by its precisely sparse experimental musical score (courtesy of Takemitsu Toru). Recounting four disparate yet separate classical ghost stories from...
PROFOUND DESIRES OF THE GODS Blu-ray Review
Masters of Cinema:The culmination of Shôhei Imamura's extraordinary examinations of the fringes of Japanese society throughout the 1960s, Profound Desires of the Gods [Kamigami no fukaki yokubô] was an 18-month super-production which failed to make an impression at the time...
