Toronto line-up so far

[Don Brown]

No, I meant Miike's film called "Audition", and its climax which explores 
fascinating new directions in podiatry.
Koroshiya No. 1 sounds interesting, without knowing a lot about it(?).  
I've heard it sticks fairly closely to its manga origins, but then again 
Miike's work has often been described as steeped in manga aesthetics.  
Anyone caught his zombie musical yet?
So you've seen Koroshiya No. 1, and now my friend back home in New Zealand 
has just seen Ishii Sogo's "Electric Dragon 80000" at the Auckland 
International Film Festival.  And here I am in Osaka, having seen neither 
of them.  Funny, for some reason I thought being in Japan would make it 
easier for me to see Japanese movies.  Not necessarily the case.
Opinions on "Electric Dragon", anybody? 
Don Brown

>From: "Julien Seveon" <js97 at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Subject: Re: Toronto line-up so far
>Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 00:15:11
>
>I'm not sure, but are you talking about the "new" Miike film, Ichi 
>The
>Killer ? I've seen it two weeks ago and must admit that the level of
>violence is indeed pretty high. At first the film rather look as a 
>very dark
>comedy than a straight nasty violent film - although the gore scenes 
>are
>only attended for strong at heart viewers ! But, after a while, the 
>violence
>really get to me and by the end I was really feeling bad. I don't 
>want to
>say too much about it, in order not to give up any surprise, but the 
>final
>scenes were just too much for me. Did I like the movie ? I'm not 
>sure
>exactly what to think of it. If you're looking for a good shocker 
>then Ichi
>is a film you don't want to miss. Otherwise most people would 
>probably want
>to stay away from it.
>In any case Miike is definitly the most surprising director I've 
>ever seen !
>
>Julien S騅駮n

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