Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/20262010s, one Japanese film per year 10 Outrage 11 About the Pink Sky 12 The Drudgery Train 13 Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 04: The Truth! Hanako-san in the Toilet 14 Fires on the Plain 15 Our Little Sister 16 Same Old, Same Old 17 Party 'Round the Globe 18 Asako I&II 19 To the Ends of the Earth 010
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm sure I'll enjoy it more now, just for that structure alone, it's become like a cheat code for me since then lol Special shout out to Daigo Matsui's Just Remembering 010
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/20262000s, one Japanese film per year 00 The Whispered City 01 Pulse 02 Blue 03 Vibrator 04 Vital 05 My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me 06 Memories of Matsuko 07 Kill Ugly TV 08 Sex Is No Laughing Matter 09 Occult 020
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This one was like pulling teeth, you can't make me choose which Kitano, Tsukamoto or Oshii to shout out 010
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/20261990s, one Japanese film per year 90 The Legend of Zipang 91 Stray Dog Kerberos Panzer Cops 92 Original Sin 93 Sonatine 94 Angel Dust 95 Love Letter 96 Haru 97 Cure 98 Bullet Ballet 99 Adolescence of Utena 110
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/20261960s, one Japanese film per year 60 The Bad Sleep Well 61 A Wife Confesses 62 Harakiri 63 She and He 64 Gate of Flesh 65 Samurai Spy 66 The Face of Another 67 Two in the Shadow 68 Death by Hanging 69 Eros + Massacre 020
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/20261970s, one Japanese film per year 70 This Transient Life 71 Sympathy for the Underdog 72 Hairpin Circus 73 The Petrified Forest 74 Extreme Private Eros Love Song 1974 75 The Bullet Train 76 In the Realm of the Senses 77 A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness 78 Lost Love 79 Vengeance is Mine 020
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Ooh, allow me to get in on this please 1980s, one Japanese film per year 80 Four Seasons Natsuko 81 Station 82 A Pool Without Water 83 The Family Game 84 W's Tragedy 85 Typhoon Club 86 Save the Last Dance for Me 87 The Red Spectacles 88 Wuthering Heights 89 Violent Cop 020
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just about midway through Long Vacation and having a fantastic time. If it takes a nosedive in the back half like Love Generation I'll never trust again. That's the thing with tv shows, when they hit, they *hit*, but if they can't sustain themselves, they come off way worse than a mediocre movie 000
Reposted by SpocBOOlian Singleton 🎃👻 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This new career-spanning interview with Koji Shiraishi is an essential watch from the folks at @jumpscarecast.bsky.social! And they break the news that we’re likely getting his next film next Summer!! 04220
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Needed a bit of a reset after that, back to Imaizumi Zone. This one was the best kind of "from nowhere to nowhere" movie, a cold but not biting shower of dead end, fundamentally misaligned relationships. Sairi Ito shows up midway through to add another piece to the love triangle; Quruli references 👍 000
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I need to revisit Peppermint Candy, because I think I wasn't quite ready for it the first time I saw it, but I definitely did not forget about it, which speaks to how affecting it was. Burning I did love right away, and yeah, that really bleak view of society is just going to be a throughline huh 110
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Lee ties up those ideas on broader social/systemic level so well too. The little intrusions of religion into the story make me so curious about Secret Sunshine now, given all I know about it is from the synopsis describing it as a "woman waging war against god" lol 010
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You start desperately wishing for the fabric of the film to break again and to somehow, bleed out into the material reality it depicts, and it's so poignant that it only gives you that redemptive release on symbolic level, in that framework. Disability rarely feels this violent in film. Flesh/prison 210
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The way Lee gradually builds up Gong-ju's internal world and her as an individual is fantastic, to the point where Moon So-ri's able-bodied transformations start feeling like actual magic - which makes everything crashing down all the more devastating 110
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Remembering anxious articles about GTA IV possibly nuking Iron Man's box office back in the day, if only that had been the case 0180
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 04/10/2026As far as "late festival season darlings about workers and class" go, I sure hope Possible Love will go better than No Other Choice last year, though that was more a result of my exhaustion with Park than anything else. This is bound to be a whole different beast. 010
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I should probably start catching up on Lee Chang-dong while there's still time, for whatever reason I've only seen Peppermint Candy and Burning years ago and never followed up on them. 120
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 04/10/2026youtu.be/NgYnkXINalsyoutu.beaiming for the sunYouTube video by Kaneko Ayano - Topic 000
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'd say it's closer to Beau than anything else, but it sheds much of the grotesque neurotic solipsism, which was also the Achilles' heel of that movie for me. It's just way more angry and focused rather than stuck in tiresome repetitive loops of self-pity. 021
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I was also 50/50 on Aster going into Eddington, but it really broke through for me. Though it did so by turning his spite outward, so make of that what you will lol 110
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026*called Superman hopecore as a point of praise, to clarify lol 020
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026People calling it a "film for Europeans", "doomer manifesto" that "hates people who called Superman hopecore" and "2026's Eddington" (which I loved tbh) did pique my interest, but I'm not doing that coin toss to be annoyed in the theater, especially with how disenchanted I've grown with Cruise 210
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's in context of the sex in movies discourse too, I feel like so many people just want to see hot actors bone and to have "sex good" affirmed and when there's a movie that superficially ticks those boxes but then moves somewhere uncomfortable or has different ideas, it's a problem (Camp Miasma) 010
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Jokes aside, revisiting Tsai I was reminded of how I appreciate how frank, open and non-judgmental he is in depicting sex on screen, showing how horrible repression is, while also being deeply sceptical of how much sex can contribute to a fulfilling life. Can you call him "sex positive" per se? 120
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Millennial sex-haver who wants steamy movies for people who fuck good when real Hisayasu Sato appreciator comes at them 120
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026youtu.be/fMgFU5b0w6Qyoutu.beI have friendsYouTube video by Kaneko Ayano - Topic 000
Reposted by SpocBaxter @cosmicspooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New post! Join me as I gush about the iconic shmup Gradius, psychedelic sci-fi, and the importance of never listening to the internet (except for me, listen to me). Oh and moai. Lots and lots of moai. 🗿🗿🗿 Give it a read, punk!!tsundokudiving.comTalking games | GradiusI got Gradius Syndrome (can't stop thinking about Gradius) 26426
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Seems like the Czech distributor of Primetime is trying to offset the typical absurdly late release of an A24 movie by allowing random one-off preview screenings at select theaters midway through October before the wide release in December and everything about this is just so stupid 020
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026By the way, doing a short standalone prologue on top of a show, just much better than the current trend of reediting the first three episodes of a show for a theatrical release and then killing the momentum when the actual show starts airing 001
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Confirmed to be 58 minutes long, this became all the more likely 100
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What the blurp omits that said journey involves stealing his late sister's body with his friends and hauling her along in a passerger's seat of a beaten up old car. A worthy addition to venerable genre of "dumb shit happening, everyone is mentally ill and incredibly stylish", I had a blast 000
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A pinku director making taboo art films 🤝 girl band transmedia franchise 000
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A cold, sharp, sad examination of broken vulnerable people slipping, exactly what you come to Hiroki for. A second work recently about grooming, grief, confronting adulthood, individuality, yearning and collaborative creative process, funny how they came from such drastically different places 100
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 01/10/2026youtu.be/VIGrKMpz-4kyoutu.beカネコアヤノ - ラッキー / Kaneko Ayano - LuckyYouTube video by カネコアヤノ / kanekoayano 000
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's honestly pretty impressive to make pretty much an abstract video art mv and still have all the visual motifs directly correspond to specific ideas from the story, they knew exactly what they were doing I really appreciate how aesthetically tight millsage has been so far 110
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Coming back to the beginning and seeing the echo of Miao Tian (truly all time great movie dad) picking up the beaten up kids in the transcendental motion years later at the end of What Time Is It There made it hit all the harder. Tsai is simply such a blisteringly empathetic filmmaker. 020
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I can't go see The Time to Live and the Time to Die on Saturday because I'm working, abolish capitalism 020
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's up there with Unbreakable and The Village for me, absolute top form 010
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Speaking of Shyamalan, I'm hopeful for Remains being geared more towards a character drama with a cool gimmick than a wild ride where the gimmick is the driving force, because those are the Shyamalans that hit for me Still not over everyone collectively memoryholing Knock at the Cabin 120
Spoc @spoctavius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hard not to fetishize the 00s when it's guaranteed a cute Japanese tv DID romance about a chuuni alter will look cooler than 99% of what you pay to see in theaters nowadays, we have to go back 030
