A thread for discussion and recommendation of Japanese TV and movies.FAQ: https://pastebin.com/BARFCHgF Previous Thread: >>50396970
>>50493156Merry Christmashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tql2Dxc33GE
>>50493169i open this video every christmas morning
>>50493156>>50493169Merry Christmashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpNhj7tYT0k
>>50493156Blessed OP.>>50493169Merry Christmas, Takeshi bro.
Merry Christmashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83BksuI9g3c
>>50493156You like this man? In my country, he is nothing
>>50493156What Year End & New Year specials are we watching?
>>50495016>December 30クイズ正解は一年後>January 1芸能人格付けチェック>January 12炎のチャレンジャー (solely because Sakurazaka46 are participating in the SP)
>>50495016sasuke when it's uploaded on nyaa
>>50495016Beat Takeshi's annual New Year's SP 「古代文明ミステリー たけしの新・世界七不思議大百科」Too bad there's no Beat Takeshi TV Tackle SP in 2026.
>>50495016Kouhaku
>>50495016Maybe watching downtown+ or 座王.
>>50496126Why is Mrs. Green Apple the finale?
>>50496255I think they fit NHK's clean image perfectly and they're super popular. MISIA doesn't deserve to be the finale though, that should've been Aimyon. What has me scratching my head is M!LK performing the song they plagiarized from aespa, and then aespa performing the song that got plagiarized.
>>50496126>パプリカ>上を向いて歩こう>ポリリズム>天城越え>EverythingFinally some new songs I've never heard.
>>50496286The milk song does give you real whiplash when you listen to it lol
>>50495016Futehodo's new year's special drama.
Do people have actual interest in this? On New Year's Eve?
>>50495016hamabe SEXO
>>50496772>Hiromi"I will now watch your show" said many housewives.
does korea/china have their equivalent of asadoras?
>>50495016RIZIN, like every year since they stopped doing Downtown's Gaki no Tsukai Batsu Game.
>>50496518I still have not watched this drama despite the great reviews
>>50498278To me, It looks like it lowballs its plot just like any reiwa drama.
>>50498278kawai yuumi is fantastic in this showmesmerizing screen presence
>>50497946Long-running short dramas? SOL or biographic type dramas are universal.
>>50496126Why people bother watch something they can listen everyday on youtube.
I'm gonna watch Johnny's new year countdown
>>50498796based
>>50496126What a gay ass lineup. Should have begged a real rock band to perform like last year with B'z.
>>50498685>what are live performancesthere's a bunch of shit going on in between songs
>>50499234I understand. Basically superbowl but japanese.
>>50499083B'z's Inaba is performing a duet with Fukuyama Masaharu at the Kouhaku.
>>50499234like...kendama for whatever reason
>>50499317>Fukuyama MasaharuI thought this guy had a scandal
>>50499418I feel sorry for the Enka singers who keep getting dragged into the kendama bullshit every year.
I love AI
>>50501159Delete this.
How's this movie? Has anyone read the book? The trailer and promos make it look like they changed the plot, focusing more on his ex (Aoi Miyazaki) but idk.
>>50501405>Has anyone read the book?I have, I've never seen any adaptations though.>focusing more on his exThey love romantic shit don't they...
Any suggestions for tonight's movie night? I'm going to randomize from this and pick one.
>>50502873Kurosawa Kiyoshi's film is the only right choice.
well this did not age well
>>50502873Toni Takitani for the /fa/
>>50502969I read the original when this drama was announced and it was comfy. Despite it being exactly what you'd expect (pic related), I'd still recommend it.Hitomi's acting was so shitty in the drama version that I dropped it after a few episodes though, even as someone that enjoyed IZONE.
>>50502873you're forever younger than them is good the lesbian sex scene came out of nowhere tho
>>50501159Kek.At least post the official AI Beat Takeshi.
>>50501159who's that girl? she's making me feel things
Interesting. So you can sue bunshun for using your scandal to boost sales.
>>50503374here's your korean tiktok whorehttps://www.tiktok.com/@namdareun_
i want kanna hashimoto to do GL
I love 90s v-cinema
I'm going to watch First Kiss next.
>>50507068Another Sakamoto Yuji cryslop it was a good movie
>>50507561reminds me of curry police
>>50496255>>50496286Plans changed, now Seiko-chan is the final act.
>>50499440holy shit, so he did. wow, he was scandal-free and lived so privately for so longwhat broke the camel's back?
https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/30290995/I totally believe that the one with the "cute mushroom cloud" lamp just got infected with influenza completely naturally.
>>50505612alongside anyone in particular?
>>50508759ano?
>year end shows are still loooooong as fuck>a day is still only 24 hoursevery year...
Crazy movie. I liked the twists.
>>50509018
>>50508926Nothing worth watching for 6 hours straight these days
>>50509018What ever happened to this director? He vanished
>>50507099I loved it. Sakamoto Yuji's version of Girl who leapt through Time. It would be a nice double feature with Rewrite (2025). The same theme of true love.
>>50510862https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1767060776059677.webm
>>50503807Even if you sue them and win, they already made banks with the issues they sold and the clicks they got online. Paying a million or ten wouldn't be an issue.
>>50508317>Removing the cutest memberWhat's the point now?
Top 10 Dramas Based on Viewer Ratings: TBS's "Sunday Theater" Dominates Top 4 Spots https://www.dailyshincho.jp/article/2025/12300701/
>streamripping eps 1-4 of a drama from a streaming site>ep 5 and onwards is broken because in 2025 jdrama is heckin ded so people don't maintain it>look at the jimaku.cc filename and put it in the search engine for ep 5>i cannot believe it. someone's put 5, 6, 7 on their google drive in public mode>grab it there>missing ep 8>slowly get it off nyaa from 1 seedersweet mercy, it used to be so simple
>last year it was Matsumoto and Fuwa-chan>this year it's Fuji TV/Nakai and Mei NaganoPredictions for next year's scandals of the year?
you could have asked here first
>>50511490you could have asked here first
>>50511641Yuriyan looking cuter than ever
>>50511632More Johnnys
>>50511643yada :3
>>50511632Best scandal this year is the gay black johnnys
>>50510944Yes but you still have decent income while they cancel you. At least that's what bukuro said about artist who get royalties from their scandals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpWcskCTjrw
>>50511856Nice. Nagoshi Toshihiro praised this in his Year End 4Gamer greetings and I've been dying to watch it.
>>50511687I'm still waiting for them to be bought by Saudi Arabia PIF.
>>50511759they are all gay it's part of the contract
>>50513383mmm...spicy, but i've seen subs for english movies and i hope he actually understands english because subs never translate fully
Kek.
>>50514280i saw people complaining about this on twitter
>>50514289aren't they always
>>50514280Ariyoshi is a smug, sharp bully here, but 17 hours later on the Kouhaku he'll be nervous and sloppy like an amateur
>here's that cute school aged teenager I was talking about
>>50515030Is the guy meant to be the cute one?
We are all watching ザワつく！大晦日 today
>>50515274https://aqstream.com/jp/tva/TV-Asahiit's just a talk show for boomers, why is it the most watched new year's eve show after the kouhaku?
>>50515296Precisely because of that. Young people don't watch tv, and old people want to watch shows featuring old people they know, this show appeals to them 100%. 8 consecutive hours of boomer talk.
>>50515274I'm watching jackshit, gaming instead. Reiwa era tv sucks.
where is johnny's year end countdown airing
>>50515416live stream on their website -> archive available on netflix laterhttps://online.familyclub.jp/s/jno/page/fco_STARTO_to_MOVEhttps://www.netflix.com/title/82659571
>>50515424i will wait in netflix thenthanks
>watching live tv in 2025.99 in the year of our lordlmfao>not watching the vod in 2x speed while skipping 5s at a time during the boring partsget with the program ojiisantachis
Is there a Year End special from Downtown+?
Why aren't you watching Ashida Mana on NTV's Year End's SP?
>>50515591That's not their year end's SP, that's just the gay janiizu show
Come watch quality Osakan owarai on BS Yoshimoto. They're broadcasting Yoshimoto Shinkigeki New Year's Special right now (no need for VPN)https://video.bsy.co.jp/>>50515577There was a New Year's Eve DT+ SP on the link above, but it ended.
>>50515660>There was a New Year's Eve DT+ SP on the link above, but it ended.Shit. Hopefully someone uploads it.
Any NHK streams?
>>50515769It was just a content promotion, nothing new, they should upload it to youtube.Like they are doing with these half episodeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba1gyN8hc7g
>>50496286>M!LK performing the song they plagiarized from aespathis was exactly as cringe as I imaged it
This must be his biggest break.
>kendama>dominothey should put in those JAV announcers reading news and getting facials, everything for the ratings to improve
RIP
Fucking nothing to watch so might as well just put on Kouhaku.
is aimyon coming out as a tranny
https://www.youtube.com/live/la61i37Jr0k
any working stream for nhk? my mom has nostalgia for kouhaku
>>50516620 https://www.twitch.tv/akb48_taiwan_clubs?sr=a
>>50516635got nuked again
>>50516635yeah got nukedtried mov3, it works and she's so happy, even though the stream stops every now and then
https://www.twitch.tv/swj48wks
あけおめ/jp/
>>50517292Happy New Year
Happy new year
>>50516456He will announce his retirement again, comes out of retirement again, and gets destroyed again. Gotta give new material for Miike Takashi to make BLUE FIGHT 2.
>>50516590>those costumesClown Man
Were any of the new year's shows worth watching?
>>50516620Torrent is up.
>>50519309See >>50514280 and >>50516456
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_FukunagaHow are his films?
Nagasawa Masami (38) got married to filmmaker Fukunaga Takeshi (43)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoxlS9J657Y
>>50521773How many of the 2000s top actresses are still unmarried?
>>50521773
>>50521773Happy for her, she should've settled down a while ago.>>50521776Ayase Haruka, strange that she's been 独身 this whole time.
>>50521773Was surprised when checking every now and then that she was still unmarried, but now that she is, 2026 is already ruined.
>>50521773Fukunaga is a lucky guy
The other top actresses will probably marry a JohnnysAyase Haruka and Arimura Katsumi for example
>>50514508The Kouhaku was historically sloppy this time, from the MCs to the staff. Ariyoshi especially was sloppier than in his last two years, probably to match the sloppiness of everyone else.
>>50522207>Ariyoshi especially was sloppierkonpuraiansu
>>50521773oh wow just go and ruin my heckin' year, buddy
>>50521773>38She wants to be a mother in this advanced age?
I'm having a blast watching Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi, it's supposed to be a bunch of scary investigation stories with supernatural yokai stuff similar to those american ghost hunting shows but in the end it's more fun than anything
>>50525539it's like campy xfiles
>>50525539Peak 2010s cheap J-Horror slop, I could binge watch it for hours
>>50525494Yarase?
Nagano Mei Apologized and Appealed to her Fans on her personal Blog: "I Have So Much I Want to Say". Updated her blog for the first time in two and a half years>“Good evening, everyone. How are you? My project was officially announced the other day. I'm currently filming the Netflix movie ‘My Crazy Feminist Girlfriend.’>“This past year, 2025, I caused Mates (the official name of her fans/fanbase) a lot of worry. I'm truly sorry. And I'm sorry I couldn't communicate this to you in a tangible way until today. There are so many things I want to say and share... but it's still difficult right now. Someday, when the time comes, I believe I'll be able to tell you in some form. Right now, the only information you can get is what's being released without my consent, so I understand you might want to believe that. But please, don't just believe the information you see. There's just too much to explain right now... but someday, absolutely, to all Mates. Happy New Year.”https://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2025/12/31/articles/20251231s00041000239000c.html
>>50526320>Mates (the official name of her fans/fanbase)CRINGECRINGECRINGECRINGECRINGECRINGE
>>50526334how ya doin, mate?
>>50526320>blah blah blahLet's see her tits in a sleezy ahem I mean artsy role.
>>50526677Would've paid the same amount just to lick her face ten years ago
>>50526320>But please, don't just believe the information you see.So many footage, including LINE exchanges, are already everywhere, there's no point trying to trick people.
>>50525929maybe the last question isnt
>>50526703this is the tatemae response. what she's really saying that true fans of hers who don't care about what she did wrong will wait for her revised version of the events and then continue to support her after they've read her sanitized recountfor people like you and me who don't care about any of this shit it's obvious she, just like a huge number of celebrities are cheaters and it takes extra skill to not get caught
>>50526320Queenshe did nothing wrong
>>50526420tsmt
>>50522207Apologize to Hashimoto Kanna. She was a better MC than Ayase and Ariyoshi combined.
>>50504732Is that the porn actress?
>>50528655>>50529805
>>50529805i'm trying to think the last time an av actress got a major role in a drama other than kiss or die a few months ago, and it feels like once you do jav your mainstream dreams are oversora aoi played a corpse in galileothen you had asami sugiwara who did a bunch of pink filmsnana natsume was a smalltime tv announcer after leaving the av industry
>>50528655Ayase Haruka is a known ponkotsu, an absolute airhead since her times as a gravure tarento on variety shows back in the early 2000s. Her clearly reading from the cue cards and not looking straight ahead on top of all the awkward pauses aren't her fault, it's the fault of the people who hired her for this, she's blameless.Ariyoshi on the other hand had no excuse. He's been the Kouhaku MC for three years straight. He's a host for many shows, so him not being able to keep conversations going or draw laughs and still looking nervous throughout should tell NHK that the Kouhaku isn't for him.
Not a fan of the ending to be honest.
>>50531261Replace those two armpit sluts with fujimon and zakiyama to enhance his confidence. Also kouhaku suck, last year FNS oni renchan is way more fun to watch.
>>50513382Nagano's directorial debut is up.
>>50528655i want to marry this woman
I finally understand where all the craze for Nana Komatsu came from.
>>50534984One of the greats.
>>50534984The Southeast Asian's favorite Japanese actress in the 2010s
japanese comedy is goodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1UAcYa3Cakhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yOPNfVj0AAas are chinese costume dramas, given the influence of ancient china (Tang in particular), there are appreciable thematic/philosophical parallels ^^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxCAxkci2bQ
today's silent library is on tverhttps://tver.jp/episodes/ep9xwqftr7
>>50537548good show
>>50528655why are her eyes light if shes japanese? is she hafu?
>>50493156What are some good violent Japanese movies? My friend and I stumbled upon this movie today on Netflix and enjoyed it.
>>50538687https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-djvN7i5us
>>50538687I was going to ask about Takashi Ishii and Alone in the Night in particular but I forgot>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-ErDc1tw1g
>>50538687>Kitano TakeshiViolent Cop (1989), Boiling Point (1990), Outrage (2010)>Sono SionCold Fish (2010), Tag (2015), The Forest of Love (2019)>Miike Takashi Audition (1999), Ichi The Killer (2001), Visitor Q (2001)>Tsukamoto ShinyaTetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Tokyo Fist (1995), Killing (2018)>Kurosawa KiyoshiEyes of the Spider (1998), Chime (2024), Cold (2024)>Nishimura YoshihiroAnatomia Extinction (1995), Tokyo Gore Police (2008), Meatball Machine Kodoku (2017)>Toyoda ToshiakiPornostar (1998)
>>50538687Battle Royale
>>50536134poor hamada
>>50528655cute
>>50538696>>50538707>>50538784>>50538867Thanks for the recommendations!
>>50538687>>50541718Hell Dogs, The Fable, Lumberjack the Monster
Beat Takeshi-sama's grand opening segment on Marumie's New Year's SP.
>>50541897*bow down*
>>50541897we love this idol here
https://mydramalist.com/search?adv=titles&ty=68&co=1&st=2&so=date
>watch show>actress is really cute>look into it and find that she did gravure around the time of filmingWho is it for you?
i just found out avistaz has bonus point bounties for subswhat's stopping a somewhat competent jp speaker from chatgpting the subs and then editing them for naturalness
>>50544233Nothings stopping them, but Avistaz points stop mattering once you reach a certain amount. I think I have ~200,000 which is more than I'll ever need.
>>50544233Subtitle requests auto fulfill after 2 weeks if the requester does not do anything. The problem with doing a sloppy job is they may reject your submission, meaning you'd lose time and risk getting banned if you do it repeatedly.At any rate, do you have any idea how long it takes to review a subtitle file with an average of 600-700 lines? Most of the time, the AI will do a shitty job because it's not aware of the visual context (genre, implicit genres, slang and homonyms). Any printed text will not get translated or subtitled.Just going over OCR'd subs can take between 1 to 3 hs, reviewing, retranslating and rewriting text may take like 5 or 10 hs minimum if you want to do a bare minimum job.
>>50545015>implicit genresimplicit subject*And btw, unless you're splitting the file in multiple times and paying for Premium, I don't think the free token window is big enough to do a full movie subtitle without getting dumber around the half mark just due to the sheer amount of text. And once it gets dumb, it will no longer know about previous context and produce a shittier TL.
>>50528655why is she doing 2 doctor roles in a row?
>>50493156i am watching takeshis castle, akbingo, i finished mischevious kiss love in tokyo recently. i tried watching guinea pig as a test of my resiliance but turned it off because it was pointless for me.
>>50545297>takeshis castle, akbingo,Back when variety shows used to be fun
>>50545586https://note.com/kosawaryotaThe comic gives me the impression of ~vibes~ nostalgia bait with only superficial references to 80s stuff like Jump Comics, Gundam, Dragon Quest, etc. that add basically nothing other than "only 80s kids will remember..." whereas the actual plot is very thin.I assume the drama version will fix this, but the synopsis reads like a rip off of Stand by Me (another 80s reference!?).
Sawajiri Erika's new moviehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_184S5P01ug
>>50545819there are some manga/anime out there that are completely made of tropes and have no uniqueness. so in the end it all depends on the execution and people often don't care
When is part 2?
>>50546510i was just thinking about 1 litre of tears the other daypassage of time, eh? the time between that series and now, is almost longer than the life lived by girl with the disease
>>50541777The Fable 3 when?
>ikusagamiis that how they do jdrama nowadays? like half of a season 1, gauge audience response and viewership before doing the other half?
>>50547755It's Netflix so a different strategy but it looks like it has S2 greenlit ahead because Yokohama Ryusei appears at the end.
>>50548266I need thishttps://x.com/wed_downtown/status/2008900428076052754
>>50547005Only if Gakkii returns
>>50549471She talked in the phone in part 1. Maybe in part 2 the past students will have bigger roles.
>>50546510This drughead BBA is still hot despite it all ngl
https://drama-otaku.com/registration-status/the fuck, it's a shaming wallholy shit
>>50550568ah, and you need a bunch of active social media accounts so they can vet youi dunno guys, jdrama communities used to be so uncomplicated
>>50550568What does that website have exactly?
>>50550667She's so pretty I wanna punch my fucking wall
>>50550662it's like a private community where they share subs i think? i'm not sure i'm not a member
>>50550694>subsI thought they had exclusive HQ raws or something. Who watches with fansubs nowadays lmfao
>>50550704so from looking around, i believe not every series on amazon/hulu/whatever actually gets official subs. not even like passed through AI like what crunchyroll doesrespectable, but i look at every single piece of korean content nowadays and they instantly have subs
Which late-night edgy 30-minute show should I watch this season? Is Ryakudatsu Datsukon good?
>>50550662Earlier raws than Nyaa
>>>/wsg/6067810
>>50550733This show is too yarase for me. Doesn't give me a reason to suspend my disbelief when there's cameramen or staff members following both the hunters and the fugitives. How could hide-and-seek even be possible like that?
>>50550713>Ryakudatsu DatsukonIt's ranked high on TVerhttps://tver.jp/rankings/episode/drama
>>50551952it's more fun when you don't think about itthe moment you think about how they set it up, like 95% of these shows stop being fun
>>50546510>COVID-19 themed movies
im excited https://mydramalist.com/804290-yandoku
>>50554992is this BL?
>>50554671>Another Hashimoto cosplaying as something drama
>>50550568>>50550574is it that hard to get approved? I remember I only needed to put some stuff on my avistaz profile's bio. The hard stuff was to catch the day they opened registrations lol.
>>50555182https://mydramalist.com/781802-junai-joto
>>50555202good
>>50555184kino
>>50555199have to write an essay or an interview on top of it as a form of purity testi'm not joking. i get private trackers and vetting in a community but this is too much
GACKT's friends are like THIS?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RK7uWr7W3U
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EcWjaTsTu2cI knew they'll post this eventually.
>>50555511the only surprising part about this is that he was selling the videos online
>>50555862Why's no one leaking this shit? I don't wanna pay to watch variety
>>50556804paying to watch celebrity tarento react to clips and do games while there's a bunch of products getting shilled is a tried and true japanese tradition!
>can sub a SP movie for 260k bonus points or an 8 ep show about gourmet for 100k>1700 lines (SP) vs 2600 lines (gourmet drama)>i'll need to watch the entirety of the 10 ep show + 2 SP to understand the context before working on this 2024 SP>or i can just watch the gourmet show i enjoy and sub it from there>i'll also need to learn how to use aegissub>and somehow get 5gb of uploads to be able to download the series/SP in the first placei don't know what i was thinking signing up to a private tracker when i don't have the means to actually seed anything
>>50557201Don't waste your time on that shit, just leave the file "seeding" for long enough and it gets written off. Or stick mostly to freeleech shit.
>>50557223yeah i grabbed a bunch of freeleech files just now but at 0.30 points an hour it'll take half a year of 24/7 seeding to get to 1000 pointsyikes. i don't have a desktop computer so i don't have an external hdd to keep plugged in and seed. i usually just watch my stuff streaming and then delete itstill kind of interested in the subbing to see hard translation is, but during my research i've realized you don't actually just sit down and 'translate' - there's like a bunch of planning and research, and translation is actually like a complete skill in itselfmy hat is off to the fansubbers tbqh. wow.
>>50557263if official jp subs don't exist the easiest thing to do is generate jp subs with whisper (warning, it misses stuff and gets things wrong) and then edit that with aegis
>>50557279got the magicstar subs, i think all i need to so is just replace the lines at the allotted timestamps BUT i'll also need to do a lot of editing for readabilitythe guy who tried to sub it (he got denied) just passed it through some sort of google translate and i assume he did something similar
mmm i will do the gourmet one afterall: Banshaku no Ryuugi s1the SP is for "Gibo to Musume no Blues" with ayase haruka. i watched s1 years ago and thought it was a little too sappy back then. the 2nd SP has the dead husband come back as a lookalike for a CEO of a company or something just so the actor can come back every time they do this haha
>>50557263AFAIK you cannot upload a subtitle to a torrent you didn't fully download, meaning you may not be able to fulfill a request.>>50557279I wasted 4 hs making Subtitle Edit work with Whisper and some Kotoba model or whatever and the results were utter dogshit.It even broke my Mokuro setup, meaning I had to waste another hour fixing that.At least I learned about Python's virtual envs.
>>50557623yes, the initial speedbump will be getting 1000BP or 5gb upload before i can do anythingit was much easier to get 10 years ago iirc
Are there any appreciators of Kurosawa's films here? I have watched all but four of them from this list I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Akira_KurosawaI have tried watching the works of more than ten other Japanese directors, but... most of them seem stale to me. I have watched the Janki and Shin Janki movies, two manga and anime adaptation movies, Sonatine and Kids Return by Takeshi Kitano, To Sleep So as to Dream by Kaizou Hayashi, and that is about it. For clarity, I have tried watching many more movies, but... as I said, they feel stale to me. Does anyone else experience this? Are Kurosawa's works that special to me?
>>50558145>Is Kurosawa the greatest Japanese director of all times?Maybe.>Is he truly that different and atemporal compared to other great directors?Probably not.Try watching Samurai Rebellion or Harakiri.Do not google who directed them and assume it was Kurosawa. Report back or fuck off to the /tv/ generals. People on this thread unironically watch reality TV and game shows.
>>50558175Okay, will report back. Thank you for the reply.
>>50557201or you know just spend $20 on the site and be done with it forever
>>50558380>spend $20that's like 400 GB upload credit, no?His method could net him 5 times that.
>>50493156This might be a longshot but does anyone know a way to watch or download The Wakey Show from NHK E besides recording the episodes live? thank you
>>50558992NHK's shows are hard to find. Even some dramas are impossible to find online.
>>50559063man that really sucks makes me glad I record them live sometimes some examples I did here https://archive.org/details/vlc-record-2024-05-31-08h-34m-11s-nhk-e
>>50555511>Shady person's friends are shady?
>>50556804You can watch variety free on tver then.
>>50558145Kurosawa's films are great, but you're telling me you've watched Kitano and Hayashi and wasn't blown away like with Kurosawa? It's a you problem.
>>50559840>>50558145kitano makes films which he would enjoy watching while kurosawa is very technical. it's very hard to compare them when they work using different methods.one of my criticisms of kitano is that no matter what kind of film he makes, he often falls back on things he likes doing so it feels kind of samey. his zatoichi film in 2003 felt like all the other gangster movies but set in edo period. no real comments on his outrage trilogy. the first one was fun.
wheres the starto countdown rip
>>50558175I watched them! Both seemed sad.
>>50559963Isn't having a distinctive style a trait many great filmmakers have? That doesn't constitute as being samey, especially Kitano who has three distinctive styles; stark depictions of violence, absurd humor, and a bleak worldview, and those create a unique tonal balance rarely seen in crime films.
