Based on what I have seen from Seijun Suzuki, he is less a New Wave radical and more a heavily stylized action director. He has surely taken influence from the New Wave(s), but I don't think he belongs to it. I don't think I have ever seen him directly named as a New Wave director, but as a contemporary who made his own sort of films. He worked under Nikkatsu, after all, so he wasn't an independent director like the other ones.
As for Imamura, there are still a few "classics" I need to see from him. From what I have seen, Vengeance is Mine is the most unforgettable one: a graphic portrait of a real-life serial killer and rapist. The Ballad of Narayama, about a village that ditches its old people in the mountains, grabbed the Palme d'Or and it is a pretty damn good film although quite crazy and provocative in comparison to the original. Eijanaika and History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostress were rather tame experimentations that are not deemed among his best, for a good reason. I have Pigs and Battleships and A Man Vanishes ready for watching so I'll be posting about them in the film thread before the year changes. Xard has seen The Eel and he said it was unintentionally hilarious and disappointing. As for the rest of his filmography, The Insect Woman seems to be his most defining film. Black Rain and The Profound Desires of the Gods are also rather famous.
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"Often I get the feeling that deep down, your little girl is struggling with your embrace of filmfaggotry and your loldeep fixations, and the conflict that arises from such a contradiction is embodied pretty well in Kureha's character. But obviously it's not any sort of internal conflict that makes the analogy work. It's the pigtails." - Merridian
"Oh, Oz, I fear I'm losing my filmfag to the depths of Japanese pop. If only there were more films with Japanese girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes you'd be the David Bordwell of that genre." - Jimbo
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I like lists. I made a list.
1. The End of Evangelion (1997/Hideaki Anno)
2. Back to the Future (1985/Robert Zemeckis)
3. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980/Irvin Kershner)
4. The Godfather (1972/Francis Ford Coppola)
5. Groundhog Day (1993/Harold Ramis)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968/Stanley Kubrick)
7. Kill Bill (2003-04/Quentin Tarantino)
8. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003/Peter Jackson)
9. Blade Runner (1982/Ridley Scott)
10. The Big Lebowski (1998/the Coen brothers)
1. The End of Evangelion (1997/Hideaki Anno)
2. Back to the Future (1985/Robert Zemeckis)
3. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980/Irvin Kershner)
4. The Godfather (1972/Francis Ford Coppola)
5. Groundhog Day (1993/Harold Ramis)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968/Stanley Kubrick)
7. Kill Bill (2003-04/Quentin Tarantino)
8. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003/Peter Jackson)
9. Blade Runner (1982/Ridley Scott)
10. The Big Lebowski (1998/the Coen brothers)
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No order and no anime.
- American Psycho
- The Godfather Part 1
- The Prestige
- Shawshank Redemption
- Interstellar
- 8½
- A Place in the Sun
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Catch me if you can
- For a Few Dollars More
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I could write more but this is enough.
- American Psycho
- The Godfather Part 1
- The Prestige
- Shawshank Redemption
- Interstellar
- 8½
- A Place in the Sun
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Catch me if you can
- For a Few Dollars More
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I could write more but this is enough.
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