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You may remember I got 10 Kitano Takeshi movies in the mail last week. They were a Korean set, that strangely doesn't include his first movie Violent Cop. It also doesn't have Takeshis' either, but that seems less odd. If the set came out before that movie, then it makes some sense. Actually, it's not totally bizarre, since as far as I know neither of those movies were released in Korea. It still feels wrong since the DVD of Hana-Bi has a big number 6 on it, while the movie clearly states that it's Kitanto Takeshi Vol. 7, meaning his seventh movie.

Not the point though.

The point is that now I've watched about half of them.
3-4 x Jûgatsu (or ３－４Ｘ１０月 or Boiling point… depending on who you ask) is about as bad as advertised. It’s a mess of a film, though you can see moments of brilliance in there. Not totally without merit, but not great by any standard.

A Scene at the Sea was too slow for me when I tried to watch it. I’ll go back to it later. Shouldn't have tried it right after 3-4x10

I’ve seen Sonatine before, so no comment necessary.

Hana-Bi would be like a slap in the face if I didn’t see it coming. Having seen most his other films I kind of knew what I was in for. I think that the talk about this movie is right though, probably his best movie.

I’ve seen Kikujiro, Brother and Zatoichi already. Brother bugged me though because the Korean version is an uncut version, but it has no English subtitles. I think someone decides that since three quarters of the movie is in English they didn’t need the subs. That last quarter though, that’s were a lot of the stuff that got cut is. Grumble.

The quality of these DVDs isn’t quite as good as the Region 1 stuff, but considering how hard it would be to try and find all of them and for a similar price so I'm not complaining.
What am I listening to?: Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep - Disc 6
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