For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting off with The Fifth Seal (1976), a Hungarian WW2 drama in which a trio of men in fascist-controlled Budapest hold a thought experiment: which would you prefer to be, an amoral tyrant or a moral slave? Drama ensues when the participants start getting a little too into the game, and their dirty secrets are revealed. It is by far the best-known and best-regarded work of director Zoltan Fabri, being both the highest-rated Hungarian film on Letterboxd, and ranked #149 on the site’s Top 250 films of all time. Great reviews for this one across the board, so let’s check it out. After that is Kikujiro (1999), a road-trip comedy from Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano. A boy goes on the road to look for his missing mother; he meets a crotchety man, played by Kitano, and they proceed to go on adventures. Dudes rock. We previously watched his yakuza-vacation film Sonatine (1993), which was a hit on Hextube, so let’s give another of his a shot.
We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here:
https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- The Fifth Seal: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-fifth-seal/
- Kikujiro: https://letterboxd.com/film/kikujiro/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- The Fifth Seal: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
- Kikujiro: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199683/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
CWs for The Fifth Seal:
- Mention of child sexual abuse in a hypothetical context to demonstrate amorality. Not depicted.
- Fascism.
- Holocaust setting, which is plot-relevant, though no atrocities are shown.
CWs for Kikujiro:
- A child is abducted by a man who tells him to take off his underwear. No sexual acts are depicted, nor do they even happen off-screen, as the protagonist stops the man and beats him up.
- Nudity.
- Fistfights
- Comic violence.
- Ghosts.
- Nightmare sequence.
Links to movies:
- The Fifth Seal: https://vimeo.com/907098161
- Kikujiro: https://vimeo.com/907299241
The Fifth Seal has wrapped up, and Kikujiro (1999) is about to start. Get in!
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