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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301651714 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6301651715 Label: Kino International Languages: Manufacturer: Kino International Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kino International Release Date: October 15, 1986 Running Time: 120 minutes Studio: Kino International Theatrical Release Date: October 06, 1985 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - One Man's Descent Into Brutal Madness!"Himatsuri," is not a film for everyone. If anything the film can be very slow and confusing at times. However, for those who have seen a number of Japanese films: I recommend this particular film with caution. The film was directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi, and is accompanied with the haunting and primal musical score of Toru Takemitsu. The film takes place at an isolated fishing village which is trying to modernize. But modernization comes with a price. At the center of this modernization we are introduced ... Read More Rating: - About man's destructivenessStrange and at times confusing, it's about man's destruction particularly of nature, but also of himself. A self-centered lumberman (played by Kinya Kitaoji) owns property in the heart of an area developers want to convert into a marine park; he refuses to sell out. Money and sex are used to try to "convince" him to sell, to no avail. But relatives decide to make the sale, and Kitaoji can't stop it. He has a religious "revelation" with the goddess of the mountains (these are simple country folk and ... Read More Rating:  - Fire FestivalThroughout Japan, Fire Festivals are spectacles of ritual cleansing, a burning away of evil spirits and accumulated karma, leaving a purified land and spirit. Usually ancient rites of the native Shinto religion, almost every village has its moment of blazing torches, cascading embers and primal stirrings. They are also very masculine occasions, with the male citizenry displaying muscle and bravado. Mitsuo Yanagimachi uses these primitive rites as a metaphor for his macho lumberjack Tatsuo, in ... Read More Rating: - absolutionOne of cinema history's most tragic examples of a filmmaker who never lived up to his promise, Yanagimachi's "Himatsuri" is a burning, haunting experience. Combining obscure imagery and Shinto references along with odd, bold leaps in tone the director crafts a singular and astounding work illuminating the disasterous results of man's severing his ties with nature. Taking a true life inexplicable murder/suicide in a remote Japanese fishing community as its platform, Yanamiguchi creates a fusion of image, sound ... Read More |
