RoboGeisha

While on the Trash culture site, I might as well plug RoboGeisha. Another trailer you must see - it is freakin' crazy. See it on the site I mentioned for District 9.

Wow...just wow.

I dunno man, I'd be a lot more shocked these days by a Japanese film that had subtlety, a coherent narrative free of culturally-specific arcane references, and less almost surrealistic absurdity. Something closer to Kurosawa, Ichikawa, or Ozu, I guess. That would surprise me.

Once you work through the Miike canon, see the old Seijun Sezuki stuff, and watch the REALLY twisted Japanese stuff like ORGAN and DEATH POWDER then everything else seems almost par for course.

Michael Barnes wrote:

I dunno man, I'd be a lot more shocked these days by a Japanese film that had subtlety, a coherent narrative free of culturally-specific arcane references, and less almost surrealistic absurdity. Something closer to Kurosawa, Ichikawa, or Ozu, I guess. That would surprise me.

Once you work through the Miike canon, see the old Seijun Sezuki stuff, and watch the REALLY twisted Japanese stuff like ORGAN and DEATH POWDER then everything else seems almost par for course.

Yeah but this got ninjas, giant robots, ninja robots, I think zombies, geishas who are ninjas and robots and zombies (I think). It's not just the twistedness of everything, it is just...everything. It was wild.

Hey, I didn't say it was going to be _bad_! ;-P

Zev. Find the trailer and scenes for Hausu.

Most amazing movie I've seen in awhile. Especially how oddly out of time it seems. Some of the editing is extremely modern, then some very 30's looking stuff, and combine some almost Gilliam-esque cutout animation.

As to Robogeisha....Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police are nice warmups for the full movie. Tokyo Gore Police might be a really good movie, or really dreadful exploitation--I can't quite work out which.

OK, just saw the trailer for Hausa. Wow. Bad wow. But I gotta see it

The only way I was able to watch it is (cough) torrent. There is a rip of the German DVD with a replacement file of english subtitles.

Hausu is actually not really a bad movie. The guy who did it made TV commercials, and got enough to make an ultra-low budget horror movie. The special effects are way overreaching what could be done with no budget in 1977, and would be replaced with awful CGI nowadays.

The sets are all done with a lot of really dubious matte-work....but then the director starts to play with the fact that his backgrounds mostly have dubious matte work.

You really do get the idea that the director wanted to basically make Evil Dead II, but with perhaps 1/20th of the budget and 4 years before anyone ever heard of Sam Raimi. Given the amount of surreal slapstick in Hausu, the end result is definitely what he was going for.



Also, ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/ is an amazing thing. A free Java-based UPNP server that can transcode video on the fly and stream it to a PS3 or Xbox360. Also supports seperate subtitle files, and zillions of options.