Porcile (1969) // dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Himiko (1974) // dir. Masahiro Shinoda
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"Himiko" (directed and written by Masahiro Shinoda / script by Taeko Tomioka / Hyogen-sha, ATG / 1974), poster design by Kiyoshi Awazu.
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Masahiro Shinoda, Double Suicide, 1969
based on the 1721 bunraku (traditional puppet theatre) play The Love Suicides at Amijima by Monzaemon Chikamatsu.
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Yashagaike (1979)
AKA Demon Pond; The Yasha Pond
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Demon Pond (夜叉ヶ池), directed by Masahiro Shinoda (1979)
Kabuki camp! Yokai cosplay! Somehow this film struck a satisfying balance between riotous fun and lovelorn melancholy. I knew I was in for a wild ride when, in the beginning of the film, a village woman tries to cleanse the dust lodged in the traveler’s eye with breast milk squirted straight from her teat.
There were scenes that seemed directly culled from my dreams… the wall of water, the threatened village, the tinkle becoming glissandi in the Harp Playing Valley. It must be a primordial structure of the human psyche—that uncanny feeling you get looking at a body of water, when it appears somehow volitional, perhaps ominously so. It is dreaming. It is sentient. It is a prison… Who is held captive to these waters? A princess in love, ready to unleash her fury.
File under oneiric cinema.
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Pale Flower, Masahiro Shinoda, 1964
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Himiko (1974) // dir. Masahiro Shinoda
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DEMON POND | Masahiro Shinoda (1979)
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