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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
Sonatine.
That's probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite film by him.
The only ones I haven't seen are kids return, brother (both at my house right now through netflix), getting any, and glory to the filmmaker...
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Brother is good though it sometimes seems like a compilation of moments from Sonatine and Hana Bi (you'll recognize some of the cinematography tricks, i.e., a shoot-out in a pitch-black building where the flashes of the guns are like the X-ray effect of lightning on a landscape); and it has dialogue that I can only assume was originally written in Japanese then translated to English and spoken by unquestioning English actors (strange stunted use of L.A. slang).
I'm hoping to get a copy of A Scene By The Sea soon. I remember seeing it on TV ages ago at 2am-ish and thinking it was brilliant (I was in one those edge-of-consciousness zones where a 5-minute still of the sea can seem intensely moving – I hope it doesn’t prove to be boring now).
The only film that has shocked me recently is Ichi The Killer. I saw someone's uncut copy and it wasn't the CGI gore but the undercurrent of rape-fetish, and the moment when someone kicks a prostitute to death... It just seemed so ugly, bad for the soul.
Two childhood memories still disturb me today: a random nightmare scene from a mainstream 80s thriller (can't remember the name) where blood starts seeping from a teddy bear's eye - there's just something about that – and an old Rupert The Bear cartoon where a stark, gnarled tree comes to life and starts running around the countryside.