Jasper Sharp

Kurosawa's farewell, uh, celebrates aging friendships and sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.

Um, uh tannity p presentation new interview with film historian jasper sharp making of matadeo feature-length documentary akira kurosawa the essence of filmmaking featurette uh as well um and that is it oh not yet film nope that's that's it

okay

now uh another one we have here is called eureka Eureka is from 2000.

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while serial killer is on the loose.

The winner of two prestigious awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, the FIP Reski Prize and the Prize of Eucamenical Jury, this is an extraordinary opus from director Shinji Oyayama, described as unique and harrowing by the Chicago Tribune.

um tennedy p new uh fantastic idea jasper sharp and jim o'rourke discuss eureka new a trauma bond yale japanese film scholar and aaron jiro on eureka um two three nine to one and then lastly this one looks pretty nuts i gotta say face to face from 2002 Uh, this is a worldwide first on Blu-ray.

Stephen Fung stars in Face to Face, a disturbing horror thriller from director Casey Chan, adapted from a novel by famous writer Edagawa Rampo.

You've also got the dream team back for this release, I realize, before we move on.

You've got, um, Jasper Sharp and Tom Mes doing their audio commentaries.

[laughs] How did that one come as well? They would seem like a perfect fit for these films, right? Especially with the, the Roman porno kind of link.

I mean, to be honest, I wouldn't mind trying expanding a little bit, you know? Because I think may- some people might be...

Yes, it does.

Brand new audio commentary by Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp recorded exclusively for this release.

hopeful hopeful future guest on the hopeful future guest on this podcast yeah we'll talk a little bit about guests and at the end of the episode but i i do want to i

do want to mention the guy's name his name is chito katawako and uh katawaka sorry and you know he to me he sort of is like a proto mold for a lot of what we see with uh um one wolf and cub or zatoichi that's oh

This is limited to 1,500 copies only.

The special features and technical specs include a 1080p high-definition presentation on Blu-ray, a new audio commentary by film critic Violet Burns and Japanese film specialist Jasper Sharp, a new interview entitled A Mummy's Curse, Japanese cinema expert Tom Mez on Cursed Village in Yudono Mountains, audio Japanese LPCM 2.0 mono, aspect ratio of 1.85 to 1, and optional English subtitles.

This movie had me sold already from, from the reading the synopsis.

I had never seen this and it sounds freaky as hell.

Katsumi Musashiro's Wet Desire stars famous stripper Seijuro Ichiyo as herself alongside Kazuko Shirakawa, Afterlife, and Hiroko Isayama that was in Martin Scorsese's Silence.

Ichiro Sayaru um once the legendary queen of osaka strippers has retired to run a sushi shop she is awaiting her day in court for after being arrested for indecency after her farewell performance special features and technical specs 10 ap high division presentation on blu-ray new audio commentary by japanese film scholar jasper sharp new that's reality film critic and author midori shooting on wet desire Aspect ratio 2.451.

Audio is Japanese LPCM 2.0 stereo.

Optional English subtitles.

A young man named Katsu comes to a rural town by the sea, and he begins working in a movie theater.

The wife of the cinema owner becomes interested in his past.

So we have a 1080p high definition presentation on Blu-ray, new audio commentary by Japanese film specialist Jasper Sharp.

New unconventional film scholar Mio Takari on Lovers Are Wet.

So the episode after this when we're talking about violent pink films, there's a little bit of that where I'm kind of going through the history of pink films and kind of describing how it's interrelated slightly.

So sometimes it is more reading tea leaves than having a good source that says oh look wakamatsu influenced this person through xyz and they cite these films as their influences like that's not necessarily common the hope is that now that pink film is especially pink film is more common in boutiques with the sato sets coming out from vinegar syndromes pink line and the pink line is going to be doing other directors as well you've got 88 films and i don't know this terror vision and third window films and the partner labels of vs have all touched pink films in some way that you might get more interviews with people and more write-ups so probably a lot of your but again like with the boutique write-ups and interviews although the interviews will be with people who are involved in the productions etc a lot of the write-ups will probably be by people like jasper sharp he'll be familiar faces a lot of the time so it is you have to be a little bit innovative with your research a little bit of tea leaves try and find academic resources when you can sometimes think about things critically sometimes things won't be clear and you just gotta live with that

and if you're looking at a japanese web page i'd recommend completely avoiding google's auto translate tool that appears on the

top

I mean, I would like to write some stuff about pink film, probably, but it's also just having a good idea.

And doing a comprehensive history is a way deeper topic than probably most people would want to spend years of their life writing.

I don't know how long Jasper Sharpe took to write Behind the Pink Curtain.

probably quite a while that book's massive

On 19th October, we see the release of Manhunt, directed by Japan's top action director, Junya Sato, and starring the great Ken Takakura, amongst a star-studded cast in a film which inspired a 2017 remake by no less than John Woo.

The disc includes a new audio commentary by Jasper Sharp and Amber T, a new introduction with Japanese film specialist Mark Schilling, a new discussion of the film and its production by Junior Sato, biographers Masaki Nomura and Tatsuya Masuto, a new text essay by James Marsh and another new text essay by Earl Jackson.

The extras I have to say for Toy Robot Release is also really interesting.

Next in our deep dive, we've got Radiance Films.