#Toshiyuki Nagashima

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Films Watched in 2024: 61. ゴジラ×メガギラス G消滅作戦/Gojira tai Megagirasu: Jī Shōmetsu Sakusen/Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) - Dir. Masaaki Tezuka

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Threads: Our Tapestry of Love

Movies watched in 2024

Threads: Our Tapestry of Love (2020, Japan)

Director: Takahisa Zeze

Writer: Tamio Hayashi (based on a song by Miyuki Nakajima)

Mini-review:

This was good, but I can't say I loved it, cause I expected something very different. While it's beautifully shot and brilliantly acted, the script didn't fully work for me. For starters, the leads share like 30 minutes of screentime at most. Their individual storylines are more than interesting enough, but they're barely interconnected. There were so many times where I felt like I was watching two different movies that had been sort of mashed up together. The film is clearly going for the star-crossed lovers route, but for it to work you need to give the characters way more interactions than they have here, and I don't necessarily mean being on screen at the same time. Anyway Threads: Our Tapestry of Love is a solidly made movie, but these tropes have way better iterations elsewhere.

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Godzilla vs. Biollante (Kazuki Omori, 1989)

Cast: Kunihiko Mitamura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Masanobu Takashima, Koji Takahashi, Toru Minegishi, Megumi Odaka, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Ryunosuke Kaneda, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Kazuma Matsubara. Screenplay: Shinichiro Kobayashi, Shin'ichi Sekizawa, Kazuki Omori. Cinematography: Yudai Kato. Production design: Shigekazu Ikuno. Film editing: Michiko Ikeda. Music: Koichi Sugiyama. 

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The Lady in a Black Dress (1987)

黒いドレスの女 The Lady in a Black Dress (1987) directed by Yoichi Sai cinematography by  Takeshi Hamada

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

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The Discarnates (1988)

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Gonin

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MOON OVER TAO: MAKARAGA

Suikyou: “Whew!  I got away from the makaraga!”

Makaraga: “Oh no you didn’t!”

Time for the old “wine jug in the mush” trick!

Makaraga: “Hey, that stuff’s pretty good.”

Makaraga: “Ooh, look, there’s more!”

Glug! Glug! Glug!

Makaraga: “I don’t feel so good...”

Suikyou: “That’ll teach you, ya rummy.”

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) ☰

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ゴニン / Gonin (1995)

Directed and written by Takashi Ishii

“An unflinching gaze into the abyss, Gonin is a savage, stylish, and thoroughly absorbing work that starts as a crime thriller but morphs into a jet black exploration of death, loss, and meaning. The film's gangster flick set up -- a quintet of disenfranchised losers take out a yakuza office -- dispenses with genre formula by the second act: there are no explosions, no likeable characters, and no cathartic confrontations. Instead, there is impending, inescapable doom. As the mob's hitmen bear down on the five like wrathful gods, their attempts to shelter their loved ones from their misdeeds inevitably lead to their demise. Their plight is reduced to a horrible clarity: either die with guns ablazing or die with a bullet in the back.“

- Review by Jonathan Crow on allmovie.com

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Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion (1996)

My rating: 6/10

Fairly average kaiju movie, very much in the mold of the Godzilla movies of the time - complete with weird psychic connections, magical pixie dust and tacked on environmental message. It's not bad, mind - the kaiju battles are good, though I wish less of them were set at night - but also not really very remarkable.

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#114 Godzilla vs. Biollante - Kazuki Ohmori 1989

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Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report released on April 9, 1994.

Studio(s): Studio Pierrot and Movic

Director: Masakatsu Iijima

Producers: Haruo Sai, Ken Hagino, and Naoji Hōnokidani

Score: Yusuke Honma

I'll also list all of the artists involved in making the background art and the key animators! This movie looks incredible and directors tend to get a much bigger cut of the credit than they deserve.

Background Art: Emi Kitahara, Emiko Koizumi, Hideaki Kudo, Hirofumi Shiraishi, Hisae Saito, Hitoshi Nagasaki, Ikuko Ōoka, Kaoru Inoda, Kazuo Ebisawa, Kumiko Nagashima, Masumi Nishikawa, Mio Isshiki, Ryō Kōno, Sadayuki Arai, Sawako Takagi, Shigenori Takada, Shinichi Uehara, Shinobu Takahashi, Shuichi Hirose, Toshiharu Mizutani, Toshiyuki Yoshimura, Yasunari Usuda, Youngil Park, Yuka Kawashima, Yuka Okamoto, Yūko Kobayashi

Key Animation: Akihide Saitō, Chihiro Hayashi, Fuminori Kizaki, Hajime Kamegaki, Hideyuki Motohashi, Hikaru Takanashi, Hiroharu Nishida, Hiromi Niioka, Hirotaka Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Kanbe, Hiroyuki Okuno, Hisahito Natsume, Isao Sugimoto, Junichi Kigawa, Junko Abe, Kari Higuchi , Katsuichi Nakayama, Kazumi Minahiro, Kazuya Kuroda, Kazuyuki Ikai, Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Keiko Shimizu, Kenji Yamazaki, Kunihiko Ito, Mamoru Hosoda, Mamoru Kurosawa, Masahito Yamashita, Masaki Hosoyama, Masayuki Fujita, Mayumi Hirota, Munenori Nawa, Naoyuki Owada, Osamu Nabeshima, Satoru Iriyoshi, Satoshi Fukushima, Shinji Seya, Shinsaku Kōzuma, Shuji Kawakami, Shunji Suzuki, Susumu Yamaguchi, Tadakatsu Yoshida, Tadashi Abiru, Takashi Yamazaki, Takayuki Gorai, Takenori Mihara, Takuya Satō, Toyoaki Shiomi, Yasunari Nitta, Yoshiaki Tsubata, Yoshinori Kanada, Yoshiyuki Kishi, Yuichi Endo, Yuko Kusumoto

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Heck yeah, who loves that big plant girl!!! And also psychics?? I guess??

Movies discussed beneath the cut!

GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE (1989)

Written and directed by Kazuki Omori Produced by Shogo Tomiyama and Tomoyuki Tanaka Story by Shinichiro Kobayashi Starring Kunihiko Mitamura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Masanobu Takashima, Megumi Odaka, Toru Minegishi, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Yoshiko Kuga, Ryunosuke Kaneda, and Koji Takahashi Music by Koichi Sugiyama Cinematography by Yudai Kato Edited by Michiko Ikeda

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Virus