January 26, 2005

L'Amant and Sodom No Ichi Trailers Online

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Here's a little something good courtesy of Stauffen's Japanese Film blog ... we linked to the website for Ryuichi Hiroki's L'Amant a little while back and Stauffen is now pointing the way to a fantastic trailer for the film. Hiroki rose to international prominence with the release of Vibrator, a film that could easily have slid into crass exploitation territory but instead elevated itself into a pretty compelling character study. If the trailer for L'Amant is any indication it looks as though Hiroki is looking to build on the ideas he introduced in Vibrator and I'm very much looking forward to seeing it ... the trailer is here, the website here.

A film that very definitely DOES move into exploitation territory - and I mean that in the best possible way - is Sodom No Ichi. I knew nothing of it until I came across the link on Stauffen, but check this out. Seriously. Check it out. Evil nuns! Satanists! Necromancy! All kinds of good stuff! If not for all the Japanese people I'd think this was made in Italy back in the seventies!

» Posted by Todd at January 26, 2005 01:12 PM
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no ichi would be "belonging to one" so is it "sodom is mine"?! low budget obviously but looks kinda cool...

» Posted by logboy at January 26, 2005 03:02 PM

".. Vibrator, a film that could easily have slid into crass exploitation territory..."

Really? I hadn't noticed any exploitative elements or traits during its entirety. The sex scene was kinda frank and messy, but I wouldn't call it exploitative.

» Posted by Isao K at January 27, 2005 02:17 AM

Isao ... my point was exactly that it didn't go into exploitation territory despite being about a woman picked up by a trucker for sex. Judging by the plot line it should've been a pretty exploitative film but Hiroki's too good a film maker for that ...

» Posted by Todd at January 27, 2005 06:53 AM

Hi Todd,

could you please change the URL you posted on the Sodom article to http://stauffen.de.vu .
Otherwise it doesnt seem to count the visitors.
And I'm having some troubles with my webspace, so some posters are down at the moment.

Cheers,
Max

» Posted by stauffen at January 27, 2005 07:26 AM

"... my point was exactly that it didn't go into exploitation territory despite being about a woman picked up by a trucker for sex."

I guess that's certainly one way to describe the movie. It's been a while since I watched it, but wasn't it the other way around, with the emotionally closed-off woman instigating the relationship (the physical part, at least)? The trucker played by Nao Omori was actually a pretty well-adjusted and well-meaning chap, IIRC.

» Posted by Isao K at January 28, 2005 01:07 AM

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