/tv/ - Movies and Television

Saw this Japanese movie called Kokuho. A 3 hr long drama about Kabuki which released in June 2025 and went on to become the highest grossing live action japanese film ever.

Everything from story, acting, cinematography etc was perfection.

It's about a boy and his journey to become a great kabuki artist that specializes in "onnagata" (female roles played by men inb4 >trainime). I didn't know much about kabuki but I still immensely enjoyed it. The kabuki scenes themselves were a highlight of the film.

>>368693
shameless rip off of The Jazz Singer

>>368717
Not really. Kabuki with men dressing up as women has existed for over 400 years, long before blackface. Also in the movie no one is against the characters from being kabuki artists.

>>368693
Kabuki was the original tranime.

City on Fire is a good movie, but not a great one. It's most well known in the west for being the "inspiration" for Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino just took the last 15 minutes and stretched it out into a full movie. And it's easy to see why he only used that one part as "inspiration," it's the only part that stands out. Everything leading up to it is kind of generic as far as 80s action crime movies go, even it is well done. I would take almost any John Woo movie over City on Fire.

>>362959
Her last main channel video was like two years ago IT'S OVER.

>>340227
Another year in the books, I hope Jenny got everything she wanted and then some this year!

>>363442
>34
holy walled

>>363449
Still cute as HECK!

>1.35M Subscribers
Imagine what that number would be if she still uploaded videos.

>>368520
>>368529
Is that why they go out of their way to say that its racist and dehumanizing for a white man to date asian women?

The current NHK morning drama "The Ghost Writer's Wife" is a big hit in Japan based on the true relationship of European writer Lafcadio Hearn and his japanese wife.

>>368099
Yellow women acknowledges the superiority of the White Race.

>>368692
To be fair, Hearn took a Japanese name, he was more interested in Japanese culture than most Japanese. His wife was of an old Samurai family. He changed his name to a Japanese one, Yakumo Koizumi. Guy was the ultimate LARPer.

>>368707
is this actually good?
the trailer looks just like a 90s action movie set in the modern age.

>>368761
yeah
its low budget but good
it doesnt have a cyberpunk cityscape but i still think it qualifies

>>368761
>Albert Pyun
All you need to know, it's shit. People just enjoy it ironically.

>>368777
You can unironically enjoy low-budget schlock. I sure do. I still didn't like either of the movies of his I've seen. I'd be willing to give Radioactive Dreams another chance if it got restored properly, but Dollman went down the crapper as soon as the setting moved to Earth.

I might just have to give Nemesis a try. It has Tim Thomerson in it, so at least it should have that going for it.

>>368777
I enjoy it unironically, with full genuine intent.
It's good despite the low budged

Take that cock out of your ass

>>366099
Star Trek does far worse - it's massively overrated crap and lazily makes almost all the aliens look human, to the point where they eventually had to invent some lame excuse to justify it.
Farscape, with far less money and hype, did a much better job.

>>364963
>>364975
>Gaycel, as always, shows up in every thread just to seethe… and act like as a teen-whore.

>>347996
I've been watching Babylon 5 on and off over the past year or so since making this post (the episode in season 1 where Garibaldi helps his friend enter the alien fight club was so bad it made me drop the show for several months), and I wanted to share my thoughts. I was going to wait until I had finished the series before commenting on it, but, I'm in the mood to write about it now.

Overall, I like it a lot. It can be hokey at times, but that doesn't detract from everything else the show has going for it (most of the time). If anything, the goofiness makes the serious moments hit harder. The show does political drama as well as any I've ever seen, in part because it does such a good job of fleshing out the various alien cultures and making them so distinct from one another. There are only 3 or 4 episodes that I would consider bad, which is amazing for a network tv show from the 90s.

I don't know if this is a common opinion, but I like the alien characters a lot more than the human ones. They have that classical dramatic quality that you usually only find in old books. Londo is by far my favorite character. The human characters, by comparison, feel dull. Sheridan is the only one that can compare to the aliens. I don't dislike the others (except the bong), but I don't care about them very much either. It feels like the writers couldn't really let loose with the human characters because they were concerned with making them seem relatable, so they put all of that energy into the aliens instead.

I'm watching the beginning of season 4 right now; just finished the episode where the main characters kill the Vorlon ambassador who replaced Kosh, and Delenn finds out that Sheridan only has 20 more years to live. Supposedly, the writers didn't know if they were going to get a 5th season or not, so they decided to cram all of the ideas they had for seasons 4 and 5 into 4, and it seems like that's already starting to mess with the pacing. For example, the Vorlons suddenly deciding to destroy a bunch of planets came out of nowhere, and it feels out of character compared to what's been shown of them so far. That's not to say the twist is totally unbelievable, but it needed more build up. We needed to learn a little more about them first. The way they did it makes it feel like a contrived way foPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>368671
>The way they did it makes it feel like a contrived way for them to later say "The Shadows and the Vorlons are both bad! We must be enlightened centrists!"
LOL I was right. It turns the only reason the Shadows and Vorlons were fighting is because both sides were trying to convince the other races that they were right and the other was wrong. The main characters defeat them by saying "We choose neither side!" and they both races leave the galaxy.

>>368671
>Speaking of the end, is it true what I read that season 4 is where the original story ends? And if so, is season 5 worth watching? What about the movies or that Crusader spinoff?
You do get an ending to the story of the human race with the last episode of season 4, while the last episodes of season 5 are the ending to the crew of Babylon 5. As for Season 5 itself, it's not complete dog-shit, but they had to invent a new crisis for this season, so it was the mind reader refugees, who don't like "normies" as they call them. I won't blame the writers too much for this, as they had to rush and make a story for a new season, with barely any setup from the previous seasons. Personally I think you should watch it, if you came this far.

Looks like her personal life section needs updating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ad%C3%A8le_Exarchopoulos&action=edit

>>368729
That white bitch got 100% black owned. The niglet is as coal black as his daddy.
bbcamenko

>>368721
Yeah clearly
Shame she wasn't killed, and her ugly baby too.

Patiently I await the elusive menko W

>>368695
I don't know which one has more money, but one might have wanted to get back with the other, and didn't get what they wanted, so the primate went beast mode on her.

By the way, search up public access TV that was recorded back in the day and posted on the interwebz.
It's fucking glorious.

>>368617
>24:50
>25:10
Some of you niggers are alright, don't do fentanyl tomorrow

>>368617
this fruity nigger is hilarious

It was called the Flacid Ego Show and was apparently a staple of New York City public TV. This gay nigger has some funny moments

>>368228
I liked the movie but I think being able to recognize every face hurts it. It started feeling like an SNL skit when even the random private slightly out of focus in the background is an A-lister.
Mogs Saving Private Ryan but I understand why audiences latched onto that one instead.

>>368268
You say that like it's bad thing anon. Like star power isn't really a thing. Like Big Harv wasn't a real thing…

>>368268
> I liked the movie but I think being able to recognize every face hurts it
This is so anti-sapien I can't help but think reptilians are real

>>368268
>I liked the movie but I think being able to recognize every face hurts it.
I haven't watched the movie, but I think I get what you mean. One of the things I like about low-budget horror flicks is the lack of recognizable actors. All the no-name cast members make everything feel more grounded.

i like this film, the best vietnam war film.
yes, the best vietnam war film.

It's 2026 and white leftoids are still seeking pop culture validation for their worldview? Not even the niggers themselves are that retarded.

Honestly when the fuck will western pop culture go back to normal? If it ever will lol

>>368679
The whole thing just needs to collapse.

>>368679
When liberal democracy collapses, which you're now seeing it happen in real time.