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Tonight's Movies!

Parts 3 and 4 of the "Battles without Honor and Humanity" series tonight: Proxy War (1973) and Police Tactics (1974). There's a lot of yakuza dudes fighting each other in the Hiroshima metro area. Wikipedia plot summaries will be in a comment below. There's so much plot happening, it's hard to keep track. The first two were fun, let's see how these are!

Proxy War (1973)

Stolen from Letterboxd:

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/battles-without-honor-and-humanity-proxy-war/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070244/

Police Tactics (1974)

Stolen from Letterboxd:

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/battles-without-honor-and-humanity-police-tactics/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071696/

CWs

Proxy War (1973)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070244/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/105897
• UnconsentingMedia: (not listed)

List

Nothing on doesthedogdie.com or IMDB so some general ones:

• Death
• Dismemberment (various kinds)
• Blood/gore
• Onscreen sexual violence - brief but intense, towards the beginning. I'll give a notice in the chat for anyone who prefers to skip it.
• Profanity
• Tobacco/alcohol/substance use
• Sad ending

IMDB Parental Guide:

Nothing, unfortunately. We're going in blind.

Police Tactics (1974)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071696/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/105898
• UnconsentingMedia: (unlisted)

List

Nothing on doesthedogdie.com or IMDB so some general ones:

• Death
• Dismemberment (various kinds)
• Blood/gore
• Onscreen sexual violence - brief but intense, towards the beginning. I'll give a notice in the chat for anyone who prefers to skip it.
• Profanity
• Tobacco/alcohol/substance use
• Sad ending

IMDB Parental Guide:

Nothing, unfortunately. We're going in blind.

tankie.tube links:

• Proxy War (1973): https://tankie.tube/w/qqsq1xLxgGUYEKA8dJTT5q
• Police Tactics (1974): https://tankie.tube/w/74xixGsMngdqKjrscYcPW4

We measured the distance/ Of the space between islands/ Gazing out into the River Styx, she said/ "It's no river at all, it's a tidal estuary"/ Was her only line, she delivered it well/

Oh, you're just a caster of worthless spells/ Oh, you're just a caster of worthless spells

They called it the pyrex age/ The glass dawn of our thought process/ Later to be chronicled in violent history books/ "You Suffer" on karaoke/ 'Cause there was no English translation for hell

Oh, you're just a caster of worthless spells/ Oh, you're just a caster of worthless spells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msu8oUIibG4

I'm having a baby and I'm naming it Greg and no one can stop me.

Gregnant is pronounced in the French fashion, "gre-NYON"

"Renis", if you will

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It's a pause

They hadn't figured out beans yet but the spirit is there.

Empty jam jars can help brighten up a dreary Sunday afternoon: peel off the label, punch a hole in the lid, thread a piece of string through it and attach it to the ends of sawed-off scrubbing brush handles – and your mobile is ready! It makes a real eye-catcher in the living room and a welcome change above the marital bed. Use elderberry juice or mysteriously iridescent engine oil as ballast. A particularly clever idea (just in case): fill a jar with stain remover!

I've got half an hour of beats about pissing but I need something that will really gas up the rave. Where are the 140 bpm dance tracks about beans?

GOOD edit:

"Bean Song" by aweminus

"Flooded" by von Südenfed

"piss" by David Shrigley on repeat for 20 minutes

"the whore of babylon" by pan sonic to end it

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Tonight's Movies!

Tonight's movies are Burden of Dreams (1982) and Bob le Flambeur (1956). Burden of Dreams (1982) isLes Blank's documentary about the making of Fitzcarraldo (1979). Werner Herzog ate his shoe after he lost a bet to Les Blank when the latter made a movie and got it released in Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), which we've watched before. Everything goes wrong that could go wrong in the Peruvian rainforest during the production. There's colonial exploitation, lots of fighting amongst the cast and crew, at one point Mick Jagger gets malaria, Klaus Kinski is Klaus Kinski. Bob le Flambeur (1956) is a great little heist movie by Jean-Pierre Melville. His characteristic style isn't quite as pronounced in this as it would be in his later films, but despite that (or because of that?) it is one of my favorite flicks that he directed. It was minorly scandalous at the time for its portrayal of the Montmartre underground.

Burden of Dreams (1982)

Stolen from Letterboxd:

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/burden-of-dreams/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083702/

Bob le Flambeur (1956)

Stolen from Letterboxd:

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling – and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob’s luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.

• Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/bob-le-flambeur/
• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047892/

CWs

Burden of Dreams (1982)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083702/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/93294
• UnconsentingMedia: (not listed)

List

• Dead animals (a parrot gets butchered)
• Blood/Gore
• Colonialism/exploitation of indigenous communities
• Cultural insensitivity
• Labor exploitation/unsafe working conditions
• A parrot gets butchered
• Substance use (tobacco and alcohol)
• Lots of fighting/verbal abuse (Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski are not having a good time)
• Environmental damage
• Brief nudity
• Strong language

IMDB Parental Guide:

Bob le Flambeur (1956)

Links

• IMDB parental guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047892/parentalguide/
• doesthedogdie.com: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/26731
• UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/4687

List

• Domestic violence
• 1950s French misogyny
• underage girlfriend
• death by gunshot
• discussion of pimping
• gambling

IMDB Parental Guide:

tankie.tube links:

• Burden of Dreams (1982): https://tankie.tube/w/mWdvRDB9ScWtSt6W5PtLVG
• Bob le Flambeur (1956): https://tankie.tube/w/tj9ejsTAmjUUuZ3ek65LW9