Hello, my name is Justin McLuhan. I'm here to hear you with.

Will Sloan. And it's Shocktober at the Important Cinema Club.

Hello.

I want to suck your blood. I'm a mummy. That's a classic mummy tagline. It's alive. Yeah, there you go. Good stuff.

And this week, we're talking about Kyoshu Kurosawa. And it's one of those episodes where I know

that Will had never seen one of this person's movies before I picked the topic for it.

That's really embarrassing because Kiyoshi Kurosawa, he's a major international filmmaker,

film festival darling, critical darling. But yeah, I'd never seen a single one of his movies.

Let's get down to the brass tacks. Why had you never gone out to see any of these films?

Even something like Tokyo Sonata, which I believe was Oscar nominated the year that it came out,

right? Yeah, no idea why I never saw that.

Is it because you're like, ugh, boring? Yeah, maybe. I don't know. It seemed kind of middlebrow, right?

It feels like work. So slow. Give me my Hong Kong movies. Also, like, J. Horror as a phenomenon,

like pretty much passed me by. I didn't see, at the time when they were really big, I didn't see a lot of them.

And he was heavily associated with that, although it's crazy that I didn't see like cure, at least.

But also his movies took a long time to actually come out in North America. And we should point out that when his movies came out, it followed a wave of Japanese horror being dropped to DVD. And if you were a movie fan at that time, you got burned. And, you know, one, two, three burns. And you're like, all right, that's enough for me. If I'm not obsessed with this, I'm not going to follow down this track anymore. That's true because I saw a lot of tartan Asia extreme movies. Oh, God. I saw abnormal beauty and a tale of two sisters and lots of other stuff.

Abnormal beauty. lot of tartan Asia extreme movies. I saw abnormal beauty and a tale of two sisters and lots of

other stuff. Abnormal beauty is Hong Kong and tale of two sisters. It sounds Korean. Yeah, I mean,

I can't remember. I saw them 15 years ago. But they all fell within that template. And I can understand

you being like, no, thank you. This is not for me. So it is not an avenue that I shall pursue.

I'm going to say something shocking that people may not know is that I think my two extremes

of my filmmaking style that I would like to adapt in my own movies, Troy Hark and Kyosha Kurosawa.

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