Can we have a thread dedicated to trippy/counter-cultural classic anime? The director Shuiji Terayama has influenced anime far more than people have realised.
There is a certain edgy charm to Belladonna Sadness or Midori that you see in classic anime that you don't really see in modern anime, sure there's plenty of edgy modern anime but it's not the same - you have to know that everyone involved in the production was tripping balls on the hardest drugs possible.
Oh wait, I forgot that Zig Forums is just gay circle-jerk generals now so having a thread outside of those circle-jerks is pointless :^)
I wish I could go to japan with like 5 grand and a week to just stroll a book-off. Shit gives me wet dreams I can just imagine all the amazing shit I could find.
I heard that there is a lot of underground shit not even present on the internet at all, would love to watch that weird stuff
You're not wrong but being an asshole isn't a good way of getting people to want to post in your thread.
Yeah a japanon on Zig Forums told me manga from the 80s and older can go for like 10 cents a volume
>Midori
Dude had a new movie come out last year. Horizon Blue raws never. He also occasionally post short like 5 to 10 second animations to his youtube channel. There is something special to using things like water colour and markers for animation that speaks to me.
Also I personally didn't like Belladonna of Sadness. It was too in your face at certain parts and a lot of it just turned me off. I can see how someone would like it, but it just didn't vibe with me.
Oh also Horizon Blue is the thing he was making all these years. Solo animated it and it took him something like 24 years to make. That's the reason I kinda want to watch it.
I know, I am just frustrated
>the modern day the Thief and the Cobbler
What's it about?
You can really feel the European influence, especially Fellini, in Belladonna. It might help appreciating it if you're into cinema from the era.
I admit it's a bit tiring of a watch, though; there's only so much narrative content and you're just watching the visual splendor for most of the runtime. It might've been more popular had it been split into three short films.
post his channel
anyone else read the other stuff by Suehiro Maruo? He should be talked about more, though it makes sense why doesn't appeal to a larger audience
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I have very little knowledge of film from that era, but I've seen a few anime from that era and Belladonna is definitely special. I'd say it was ahead of it's time in terms of Japanese animation at least. I agree that it would have probably been better split into a few short films, but I remember it's also part of that trio of movies that bankrupted MushiPro (along with 1001 nights and Cleopatra), so I doubt it would have worked out in the end.
I remember reading about him starting Gekiga or something. Other than that I have no idea about his stuff. Always wanted to get into Gekiga stuff, but I always find it to off-putting to actually finish anything. Anything in particular that you think is his best work and should be read?
Laughing Vampire would be his best, art and story telling at his peak. His adaptations of Rampo are alsp top tier.
I am just reading his anthologies, very interesting if you can stomach him - a similar experience as the more shocking works by Baudelaire and Pasolini
>I have very little knowledge of film from that era
let me throw you off the deep-end youtube.com
Is it true that Midori is a lost film?
damn, thank you very much for the link
I'll be sure to check them out
Just hope I can swim back up after diving in. Thanks user.
Oh look, a pseud.
Then don't create this thread every day.
I'm quite sure I saw the very same thread about the twitter trends yesterday
>Harada has a YT channel
>MIDORI is gettin restored
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>hearing the voice recordings in High quality
Dude something like this wouldn't even get attention in a pre-00s thread. If you're not talking about the same shit literally everyone has heard of from shitty futurefunk synth AMVs or stuff popularized by youtubers then you aren't going to get much discussion. You might be able to stir up some talk if post a webm of it but it's not much. The classic anime community here and in general is a fucking joke. 80s faggottry has brought the worst kind of newfags.
damn, had no idea he was working on a new film. wish we could get a copy, I'd be willing to translate some subs for it
>Shojo Tsubaki's Original camera Negative (the real one) Gets re-discovered and Harada now has a new personal film copy and an HD scan for a tentatively Bluray release!
>UNCENSORED!
>all the rumors about the movie being taken and destroyed by the japanese goverment due to its content turned out to be Bullshit!
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>Meanwhile the original film elements for project A-KO are gone forever, to the point that Discotek is working on a laserdisc domesday capture upscale
2020 is been the craziest year in human infamy.
I took my wife to see belladonna of sadness because I thought it was some indie thing. Somebody walked out of the screening and my wife wanted to leave too.
Your wife is a dumb cunt.
A LD of Daicon turned up a few years back which was great, though the quality wasn't much better than the betamax rip. I'm still holding out for the uncensored HnK movie to be found in the basement of an Italian movie theater.
Hold on, where did you get that info?
We divorced since then. My new one is even more squeamish about violence and sexual violence. I can now only watch horror or shit with rape in it on my phone while I'm on the treadmill because it's the only time I'm alone.
Can't wait for quarantine to be over
Holy shit you sound like a fucking pussy. Paying alimony to your last wife while you hunch over your little phone so you can watch your dirty cartoons without your wife getting upset and denying you sex.
Excuse me, I'm just gonna go watch La Blue Girl on the big screen t.v. and sound bar.