Shimoda's Illusion: aesthetic essence

Sonatine (1993)

yakuza eiga manifest

death by boredom & an Okinawa gang war

When you’re scared all the time, you reach a point when you wish you were dead

Millennium Mambo (2001)

she broke up with Hao-hao,

but he always tracked her down,

called her,

begged her to come back

2046 (2004)

everyone who goes to 2046 has the same intention:

they want to recapture lost memories.

because in 2046, nothing ever changes.

but nobody really knows if that’s true or not because nobody has ever come back

Hana-Bi (1997)

maybe the secret of life is in the silence,

in stillness,

so in the beauty of death

In The Mood For Love (2000)

he remembers those vanished years 

as though looking through a dusty window pane, 

the past is something he could see, but not touch

and everything he sees is blurred and indistinct

Rashomon (1950)

if men lie in this world, what makes you so sure they’ll be honest in the next?

Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990)

If they attempt to remove their collars or fail to meet the time limit of their mission, the collars will self-destruct

Akira (1988)

Neo-Tokyo is a booming industrial city with the atmosphere of a collapsing one

Neo-Tokyo is violence, corruption, rottenness, deterioration

Wild At Heart (1990)

but i’m wild at heart

if you are truly wild at heart

don’t turn away from love, sailor

Blue Velvet (1986)

in dreams, I walk with you

in dreams, I talk to you

In dreams, you're mine 

all the time, forever, in dreams 

Accattone (1961)

MO’ STO BENE

The Holy Mountain (1973) 

we are images, dreams, photographs

your sacrifice completes my sanctuary of one thousand testicles

you are excrement, 

you can change yourself into gold

Repulsion (1965)

the nightmare world of a virgin’s dreams becomes the screen’s shocking reality

androphobia

Suspiria (1977)

do you know anything about…witches?

magic is ‘quoddam ubique, quoddam semper, quoddam ab omnibus creditum est’

Videodrome (1983)

first control your mind

then it destroys your body

don’t be afraid to let your body die

David and Lisa (1962)

david is affected by haphephobia, the fear of being touched

lisa is affected by duplication of personality

the cure is called ‘David and Lisa’

angry, wangry, angry, wangry!

The Invisible Man (1933)

the power to make huge crowds of people moan, touching them with invisible fingers

monocaine is a substance that injected into human body make the people invisible, and crazy