Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
“the magician who vanquished the Nazis”
if this movie has given me anything’s it’s my ideal reference look for my barber re: Koji Yakusho that’s my Freaking Guy
big zooms, fountains of blood, umbrella sword, yup! knew I was gonna have a blast and it always feels good to watch something like this in a sold out theater where people MOSTLY behaved. very fortunate that Meiko Kaji was in attendance to share her impressions and sing the theme song - she’s cool as hell. Also she shot a tshirt gun lmao.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
How DO you live?!? Idk Miyazaki I’m trying my best out here!
This is one that will absolutely require a future viewing. I left the movie being both absolutely SURE of what some of the characters and beats were trying to say and UNSURE of how exactly it all comes together. It acknowledges and explicitly references the rich tropes of his old movies while figuring out what the lasting effects of those films mean for him and his family.
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