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01-23-2007, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Tangent View Post

It is a biopic about author Yukio Mishima and follows his life story partially with techniques that invoke stark naturalism and for the rest on beautiful stage sets to create a dream-like feeling and it uses the most beautiful colours you could ever see in a film. So completely shocking, yet artistic and beautiful and tragic at the same time.
I love that about Japanese films, the cinematography is amazing!

I've always had a major soft-spot for Miyazaki films, like Totoro, Spirited away, Howle's moving castle, and Kiki's delivery service.

Hold Up Down is also a favourite - only because it's so weird and *achem* stars Junichi Okada...
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