Japanese New Wave

What are your favorite films? Directors? I personally really enjoy The face of another, God Speed You! Black Emperor, A Colt is my Passport and Tattooed life.

What film would you recommend others as an entry point into this movement?

Never heard of this, but would like to know more.

What is this New Wave about? Noir thrillers with jazz soundtracks?

>Noir thrillers with jazz soundtracks
That actually perfectly describes a couple of them lol

Taken from wikipedia
> Although they did not make up a coherent movement, these directors shared a rejection to the traditional conventions of classical Japanese cinema, favoring more challenging works—both thematically and formally. Coming to the fore in a time of national social change and social unrest, these films dealt with taboo subject matter, including sexual violence, radicalism, youth culture and deliquency, Korean discrimination, and the aftermath of World War II. They also adopted an unorthodox and experimental approach to composition, editing and narrative.

I think the composition, editing and narrative is the most important part that really differences this film movement from many others, i feel like "dream like" is an overused term but i think that's the best way to explain it. The films just does what they want, when they want. Scenes are cut short or jump completely without any explanation for who this character is or what they are doing. Music and psychedelic visuals are also a major point. You just have to go with the flow and accept what is happening on screen. There is no real world logic in the films, they operate on another level.

It's auteur film making, some will like it and some will hate it.

I should finish Teshigahara's filmography.

Watched his short films. Watched his short films a while back but never his feature.s

>What film would you recommend others as an entry point into this movement?
Pitfall
Woman in the Dunes

Don't know if Imamura is also new wave but:
Pornographers
Profound Desire of the Gods

also:
Onibaba

I would count Imamura in, also, Onibaba is great

All these look really interesting
What's the easiest way of getting my hands on these?
I don't mind paying for DVDs but am also willing to torrent or use a streaming service

There are some in the criterion collection, check out Seijun Suzuki's films,Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara and the nikkatsu noir eclipse collection

But your best bet is torrenting. Especially on the more obscure ones, it can be impossible to find physical media in the west

Nice, I'll wait till the next criterion sale comes around and get some of those
I'll choose from there if I want to go further
I realised Tattooed Life and Woman in the Dunes were already on my watchlist so I'll probably start with those

Madoka Magica Part 3 is my favorite.

Woman in the Dunes and A Pale Flower are fantastic.

A Pale Flower being one of my more recent favourite films.

Woman In The Dunes is one of the best films I've ever seen.
Eros + Massacre is great as well.

Koreyoshi Kurahara has some cool stuff. The Warped Ones, Black Sun, Intimidation, I Hate But Love.

Vengence is Mine is a amazing one. I really should watch Shuji Terayama's flicks soon

If you are willing to pay check out Filmstruck coming out in November. It has TCM and Criterion movies for streaming

japanese new wave have a lot in common with a french mouvement of the same name desu. I personally recommend Onna no mizuumi

I really need to go back and rewatch vengeance is mine. I haven't seen it in years

Fuck it's only gonna be available in the US and I live in Canada
I'll have to check how it's gated when it releases whether it's IP blocked and I have to get a VPN or if it's payment blocked I can just get a relative in the US to pay

I'd love to watch some older Japanese movies, but I'm having a hard time finding a reliable source and things like Netflix, Amazon Prime etc. are basically useless here in Europe for that.

>Filmstruck
>In what countries is FilmStruck available for viewing?
>At the time of our October 2016 launch, FilmStruck will only be available in the United States.

The thing sounds extremely appealing, but since im in Austria...

Black Sun was a really neat premise but I didn't really like it. Too French New Wave-y for me

Netflix is useless for older movies in America too

Rengoku eroica
Den-en ni shisu
Furyo shonen

Oh I didn't notice. That's pretty lame, but the VPN thing might work. It's a real shame because the only other option for streaming movies in other countries like this is mubi and they are pretty low tier (at least here in the US)
You could try to hunt down a avistaz invite. I could cook one up if anyone drops an email address ITT.

is kwaidan new wave?

Find me a film as visually striking as woman in the dunes that was part of the French new wave (60's)

Last Year at Marienbad

That's not Nouvelle Vague you fucking imbecile.

>wanting to watch real movies without having access to good trackers

how do you even manage to make it through the day without suicide

I had a phase where I watched a lot of Japanese, some Korean and some Chinese movies, but that has died down.
Now I watch whatever I have in my "backlog" and can find on various DDL sites.

>These films were contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave (la nouvelle vague), though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement. He had closer links to the "Left Bank" group of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and an interest in left-wing politics.
It's all pretty arbitrary but yeah, you could call him either

Avistaz is open every now and again. They have just about everything you would ever want.

ichi the killer and the one where the girls stuff octopusses in their pixel-vaginas

>tfw got leached on aviztas because i was a retard and only downloaded films that almost no one downloaded so i didn't get to seed anything

i realized my mistake when i was to late

>Noir thrillers with jazz soundtracks?
>Noir in a 1960s movement
>Nips
Stop posting.

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Are you serious?

That happened to me with Kg

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