Should we have a golden age of Japanese cinema thread, /tv/?

>old black and white movies

fuck off grandpa this is a GOT board

Not while GoT redditors are about

Japanese new wave starts before the mid 60s, so you're a little wrong there, face of another and TD fall into new wave as well.

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I love Tokyo Drifter

>>85069540
i can barely sit through a black and white movie let alone a japanese one
fuck off

most movies from this era are pretty good in japan, but i think Gate of Hell was extremely overrated

>>85069540
The answer appears to be no

But Im a weeb so please recommend some classics for me to download preferably with samurai

>>85069540
Thanks to Criterion old Japanese movies became more mainstream. It's pretty amazing how many Japanese films they released, including some less known, like works of Hiroshi Shimizu.

>>85070009
https://mubi.com/lists/kenjis-japanese-canon

Start here. It's a shame that today Japan is mostly remembered for anime and chanbara movies. Their cinematic history is more rich than many Western countries.

>>85070101
Look, I'm a fan of jap cinema, but in no way is it more rich in history than say, French cinema.

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>>85070101
Nothing wrong with rating jap-anime high, it's great.

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>>85070261
>french cinema
disgusting

>>85070261
>many

>>85070283
Anime is mostly childish garbage.

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>>85070009
https://www.criterion.com/explore/19-samurai-cinema

Criterion rips are more easily available, but they're missing a few classics. Lady Snowblood, Lone Wolf & Cub series, late Gosha films like Goyokin. They also have the Zatoichi series but it's not on this page for some reason. Generally the masters of the samurai genre are Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Gosha, Misumi, Okamoto, Shinoda. If you're done with those, look into Eiichi Kudo or Hiroshi Inagaki for more serious stuff or series like Hanzo the Razor if you're into the more pulpy wacky stuff.

There's of course more to Japanese cinema than samurai films.

>>85070283
Stop outing yourself as a pleb anon, and look up French expressionism and poetic realism.

>>85070301
wow wtf im now anti-anime
>>85070359
if i wanted to kill myself by boredom i'd watch french crap

>>85070009
Harakiri (1962), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo (1961), 13 Assassins (1963), Throne of Blood (1957).

>>85070359
French impressionism.

>>85070409
>boring
This thread is not for you retard, go back to the Spider-Man general.

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>>85070477
I do like Japanese cinema, so this is a thread for me.

I dislike French cinema. Does that trigger you so much? Are you French? All of that cultural marxist crap should've been burned - though there are exceptions ofc. Mostly French cinema did spread socialist talking points and see where that has lead France?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Js8wntdk4

Kobayashi and Teshigahara are like two of my most favorite directors.
While Teshigahara is stylish as fuck, Kobayashi keeps things visual simple, but still good looking, but both create good stories.

>>85070451
>>85070323
>>85070101

thanks ill get on these

I have Zatoichi and the chess master downloaded because I like chess but havent watched it yet

>>85070622
I love them both. Kyoshi Kurosawa is underrated af.

>>85070538
Do you? Because Japanese New Wave directors were as socialist, if not more than the French. Many of their films are anti-American and anti-capitalist.

>>85070655
>anti-American.
You can be anti-American without being (cultural) marxist. You can be Japanese Nationalist f.e.

but you didn't answer my q.

>>85070684
They were not. They criticized Japanese conservative government, American involvement in Vietnam, Japanese treatment of Koreans and so on. They also loved violence and sex so their films were full of both.

>>85069540
Literally what is good about Ozu? I don't get it, they're just boring dramas shot in a boring way with mediocre actors.

>>85070684
Because it's a rhetorical question.

>>85070785
They are beautiful and gentle explorations of human condition.

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Was this supposed to be so convoluted? I can barely follow those flicks. The fact that everyone looks the same and there are 300 mumbo jumbo asian names introduced in every film doesn't help. It's still fun though somehow. It's like watching dogs fight in the street, you don't really need their backstory

>>85070825
That's so general I can apply it to Bling Ring

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>>85070622
Woman in the Dunes seems to be gradually ascending into "greatest films ever made" status, especially after the extended cut was popularized a few years ago. I saw "Pitfall" a few months ago and noticed the similarities between them. It's not really a precursor, but there are moods and themes referenced in Pitfall that are developed more extensively in Dunes.