He made a 10hr film criticizing Japan's role in WWII (based on the autobiography of Junpei Gomikawa ) titled The Human Condition 「人間の條件」, burning indictments of samurai code Harakiri 「切腹」 and Samurai Rebellion 「上意討ち 拝領妻始末」, and a collection of folk ghost stories called Kwaidan 「階段」 to name a few.
Basically if you like Kurosawa films but wish they were more critical of power, check this guy out
Dude also looks like a Japanese DeVito
I'll update this post with DLs for some of his films in 1080p once they're done uploading
Link to movies listed above https://mega.nz/folder/1fJHnAqT#CUx2qWMD_aBtnN4-z-I2lA
If you give them some time to process, you'll be able to watch them in browser
I just came back to the old gdrive link to finish downloading everything and was sad to find it gone, so I searched for this comment to find out who posted it and if they had re-upped anywhere, and lo and behold you edited the comment to include the new link.
o7 comrade, thank you for your service and the movies
Of course! I figured gdrive wasn't that safe opsec-wise, so I moved most of my movie and other shares to mega which at least is end-to-end encryption
Either way, glad you found it again, enjoy!
Completely agreed. Harakiri's masterful plotting and breathtakingly dramatic action sequences (and unerring view of cruelty) puts it well above anything Kurosawa did, jidaigeki wise.
Different director but I think the film Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) directed by Sadao Yamanaka and focuses around these people living in a slum in Edo.
I watched for a film class about Sumurai films and it was the first one the professor showed, not what I expected but I really liked it.
Interesting thing we talked about is that the film was made before Japan kicked off its invasion into China and there is a feeling of dread present in the film, even the director was drafted and died in 1938.