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1. Tokyo Story

   2019-11-30 16:31:24 UTC

   What a great movie.  1953.  Some say it’s slow paced but the emotion and realism is amazing.  I read somewhere that the director’s movies were not brought to an international audience because his movies were too ‘Japanese’.  I would totally disagree with this as the plot line is really universal: …

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2. Tokyo Drifter

   2019-11-02 02:11:00 UTC

   In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is thwarted when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. Director Seijun Suzuki’s onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colors is equal parts Russ Meyer, Samuel Fuller, and Nagisa Oshima—an anything-goes,…

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