Dan Kletter 🥑Jan 11
Watched “Diary of a Shinjuku Thief” (1969), a #JapaneseNewWave film directed by Nagisa Ōshima, about a young man who is caught stealing books from a Kinokuniya by a clerk at the shop which ignites a mutually manipulative sexual relationship. https://archive.org/details/diary.-of.-a.-shinjuku.-thief.-1969.1080p.-web-dl.-ddp-2.0.-h.-264-sb-r
settimaApr 1, 2025

I completely missed that on March 25, Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda [篠田 正浩] had passed away.

#篠田正浩 #MasahiroShinoda #JapaneseNewWave #NūberuBāgu #cinemastodon #film

The Japan TimesApr 4, 2024
Junji Inoue’s semi-autobiographical film is a love letter to independent cinemas — and their fans. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/04/04/film/hijacked-youth-dare-to-stop-us-2/ #culture #film #kazuyashiraishi #japanesenewwave #kojiwakamatsu #cinemas
‘Hijacked Youth Dare to Stop Us 2’ captures origins of indie theater boom

Junji Inoue’s semi-autobiographical film is a love letter to independent cinemas — and their fans.

The Japan Times
Schlockluster VideoSep 13, 2023
On September 13, 1969, Funeral Parade of Roses debuted in Japan. Here’s some fan art to celebrate!
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#FuneralParadeOfRoses #ToshioMatsumoto #QueerFilm #JapaneseFilm #ExperimentalFilm #QueerCinema #OedipusRex #JapaneseNewWave #ArthouseFilm #Art #MovieArt #TCMUnderground #MovieHistory
Schlockluster VideoJan 28, 2023
And done! Really happy with how this turned out, and glad to add another portrait of Peter to the portfolio! Onto Mick Jagger next …
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#TCMUnderground
#Drawnderground
#Art
#NewArt
#JapaneseNewWave
Dustin Kiyeon ChangJan 10, 2023
It starts out w/newsreel of the 60s violent student demonstration against the riot police, double exposed w/our protagonist getting his head bashed in. He flees but only to get into an argument w/ his older brother who is a cop. During the struggle, the brother gets shot by his subservient wife. The two flees to the North Country haunted by guilt. They become sullen lovers. Running in Madness, Dying in Love is #KojiWakamatsu ‘s protest against the rigid, conservative society. #Japanesenewwave
Dustin Kiyeon ChangDec 28, 2022
"I had a lizard I kept in a Coca Cola bottle. I fed it and it grew. It got too big and I couldn't get it out of the bottle. After years of humiliation, do you have to guts to stand up for yourself, Japan?," Terayama was directly addressing young moviegoers in Japan in the late 60s early 70s, at the height of Vietnam War, when the US was using Japan as a one big military base. Playful & hard edged, Throw Away Your Books, Rally on the Streets is quite a show. #japanesenewwave #shujiterayama
Dustin Kiyeon ChangDec 27, 2022
Terayama's take on the subjective nature of memories and time is a dazzling array of surrealistic whimsy. Pastoral takes place in a small mountain village and concentrates on core group of people. The film is full of contrasts : the villagers are stuck in the past, oblivious of the fast changing society elsewhere. Pastoral is a very Japanese film, a reflection of changing times still under the shadows of its war past. I loved its messy lyricism and playfulness. #japanesenewwave #shujiterayama
Dustin Kiyeon ChangDec 23, 2022
As one of the boys faults his passivity for the death of their teacher who preferred bawdy songs of the working class rather than songs of nationalistic fervor, the film equates boys' pent up sexual desire to the political action. Further condemning and destroying the myth of the rise of Japanese Nationalism, it ends with the failed fantasy rape with the speech about Japan's first emperor being of Korean ancestry. Sing a Song of Sex has a real bite to it. #japanesenewwave #nagisaoshima
Dustin Kiyeon ChangDec 23, 2022

A human blowfish Hanada is a contract killer. Despite his quirks- he has a fetishistic tendency to the smell of cooking rice- he is damn good at his job. But when he fails an assassination job, hired by butterfly collecting femme fatale, he gets hounded by the invisible 'guild'.

This is a wild ride. Visually inventive, ultra modern sets & goofy humor, the Seijun Suzuki's gangster flick plays out like the adult, perverted combo version of Michel Gondry and WKW. #japanesenewwave #brandedtokill