It's like a wonderful nightmare

Yoshio Harada × Seijun Suzuki × Shuji Terayama

悲愁物語 (1977) dir. Seijun Suzuki

ツィゴイネルワイゼン (1980) dir. Seijun Suzuki

陽炎座 (1981) dir. Seijun Suzuki

夢二 (1991) dir. Seijun Suzuki

田園に死す (1974) dir. Shuji Terayama

tiring.

I love him as an actor and partly as an artist, and I really recognized all the good things he did for people he'd helped and art, despite how he got there. the joy & the emotions he had brought me thru the years were unmatched. I've been a fan since '07, no shit. and tbh I don't really watch US movies now bc he's the only interesting actor I'd like to see on screen.

but I'm just tired. I'm not gonna speak on his personal life bc it's none of my biz, let law decide that. but since the Angel of Death got botched I started to lose hope. I think that (I say this bc I more or less lean that way too) he just can't stand the idea of him deserving good things. and yeah, I don't buy that shit he said on JBerns podcast that he made up the things in Honey Boy. no he didn't. only kids who grew up like that break every good thing they have in life. and now he's cancelled and his confidence on artistry went fucking kaput, which is sad. I understand it's hard when he's trying and still can't fucking get out of that feces pool of addiction and violence, but that's his choice, he could've tried harder.

I did, and it blew me away.

Cinematically the film is so beautifully & seamlessly adapted into another culture, I don't know how they did it, it's mind-blowing.

And Matsuda-san's performance in it reminded me of Marlon Brando in Julius Caesar, you know what I mean? Like I wouldn't dream of him being in something that's supposed to be academic like Wuthering Heights, but he did it like he was perfectly weaved in.