Crazed Fruit (Kurutta Kajitsu) (1956)

So what might be the best way to attract your attention to a New Wave classic that is both worth-watching and worth 86 minutes of the time of your life? Well, listing is always more attractive to the eye. So, this film is many things: - Kô Nakahira's debut, who is one of…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

Telling your kid to not hang with his older brother’s cool friends is a long shot. Liked the cinematography and openness, but also yelled at the screen about being subjected to more water skiing. Laughed when the kids scoffed at the idea at Japan being a future titan of…

Pottlekid

Fifth Review for The Collab Weekly Movie Watch Am I the only one who noticed the Spongebob Squarepants riffs in the main theme song? Apart from being a bit distracting, the song also caught the fancy tropical (?) setting and the whole "Summer Love" concept that really…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Viewed with the Amazing Edith's *Collab Film Group*. In my high school years I was head over heels for this one girl. Even now I do not know if I could explain the “why”. My freshman schedule was loaded. I was in honors classes across the board, was one of only two…

Ziglet_mir

"bros before hoes !" - said no bros in this film ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜᴇᴅ ᴡ/ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʟʟᴀʙ 👫🧍

freazypeach

COLLAB FILM CLUB Hadn’t seen this in years so was pleased it was my first watch for a film club I joined. Some reviewers described this as channeling the French New Wave or as a Japanese “Rebel Without a Cause”. I don’t know about that but there are elements of both. …

Stephen M

1st Kō Nakahira Japan after WW2 was a devastated country, economically and spiritually. To help them recover, the US-led Allied Powers imposed a period of assisted government and the 1947 Constitution, which prohibits the Japanese from the ability to wage war. This…

𝔻𝕠𝕔 𝕃𝕪𝕠𝕟

Do you know that feeling? When you’re lying next to someone and you feel them brush against you, and you wonder if it meant something but you don’t dare open your eyes to check? When you become conscious of your own breathing, then their breathing, then all the sounds…

michelle

To be young, disaffected and whiling to just push it beyond the break point. At same time melodramatic and chilling. Nakahira acceptance of his characters and their world at face value and desire to just go along with them remains very impressive.

Filipe Furtado