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Yo-Kai Watch: Volume 6

Noriyuki Konishi

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Nate Adams is just an average kid until the mysterious Whisper gives him a device that allows him to...

Make: Super Cheap Computers: Volume 49

Rafe Needleman

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Whether you know them as single-board computers, microcontroller boards, SoC boards, or credit...

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

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It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting...

The Great Yokai War (2005)

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A young boy with a troubled home life becomes “chosen,” and he stumbles into the middle of a...

Daniel Lopatin recommended Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) in Movies (curated)

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

1985 | International, Drama

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"A great film by Paul Schrader, best known for having penned a bunch of legendary screenplays for Martin Scorsese. The film revolves around Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, and jumps between the story of his life and dreamlike depictions of scenes from his books. It’s got a particularly good score by Philip Glass, who I usually find to be tedious, but this one is nice. Schrader’s use of color and set design during the book segments of the film are quite theatrical and feel closely related to Robert Wilson’s on Einstein on the Beach—although I don’t have any evidence to back that connection up. Great flick, though."

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Come See the Paradise (1990)

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On-the-lam Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid) flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a...

Patton Oswalt recommended After Life (Wandafaru Raifu) (1998) in Movies (curated)

After Life (Wandafaru Raifu) (1998)

1998 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

7.5

(4 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"…and then a Japanese film called After Life. I mean, they’re just movies that I watch when I’m feeling kind of blue and just wanna take more emotional leave of my brain — so it would just be all about creating a head space where I’m really happy, and enjoying myself. And being really happy that people can put together movies that good. It’s all the same thing. It’s the idea that mankind can get together and make something that good — I know how hard it is, how collaborative it is to make a movie, so the idea that all those movies exist is what makes me happy."

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David Byrne recommended Pangaea by Miles Davis in Music (curated)

Pangaea by Miles Davis

1976 | Rock

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"I was immersed in jazz for a while. I had certainly been aware of it for years, particularly the electric Miles Davis stuff, but this was a period where I went back into it and listened to a lot of Thelonious Monk records. I really love those; they’re so spiky-sounding. There was a whole bunch of Miles Davis electric records that were just never released in this country. I think Columbia or CBS or whoever it was just decided, “We don't like this stuff. We’re not gonna release it.” So you’d have to get the Japanese version CD. But it’s just amazing stuff."

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Guillermo Del Toro recommended 鬼婆 [Onibaba] (1964) in Movies (curated)

鬼婆 [Onibaba] (1964)

1964 | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

7.4

(5 Ratings)

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"Horrors and desire, death and lust go hand in hand in Onibaba and Kuroneko, a perverse, sweaty double bill from Kaneto Shindo. I saw these two films at age ten, and they did some serious damage to my psyche. Both are perfect fables rooted in Japanese folklore but distinctly modern in their approach to violence and sexuality. As exuberant and exquisite as a netsuke carving, these atmospheric jewels show mankind trapped in a cosmically evil world. The tales seem to fit together so perfectly that they fuse into one as time goes by. Onibaba and Kuroneko make a perfect double bill for the second circle of hell."

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