{"id":5992,"date":"2009-07-06T16:32:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T23:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2009-07-06T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T23:32:52","slug":"robogeisha-and-other-japanese-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5992","title":{"rendered":"RoboGeisha and other Japanese movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RoboGeisha sorta looks like Machine Girl (after seeing the trailer I now realize there&#8217;s a reason for this; it&#8217;s the same director and visual effects team), but also like CASSHERN, which was awesome&#8211; that was a virtual set movie (like Sky Captain) but it was about fighting robots in a post-apocalyptic world. It&#8217;s based on a 1980s cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been watching a lot of retro Japanese and modern Japanese film recently (leaving what, exactly?  &#8220;Classic&#8221; film I guess?  Contemporary horror?).<\/p>\n<p>So far I recommend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sex and Fury &#8211; a &#8220;pinky violence&#8221; samurai movie, like Lady Snowblood. In an extra &#8220;oh this is what Tarantino was talking about&#8221; reference, it also has the actress from &#8220;They Call Me One Eye.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ecstasy of the Angels &#8211; a gritty 1960s piece about a revolutionary cell betraying each other<\/li>\n<li>Detective Story &#8211; a recent Miike movie. It combines a&#8230; Detective Story&#8230; (duh)&#8230; with his usual wackiness. There&#8217;s a super scary half second in it about 20 minutes in which ends up having nothing to do with anything<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RoboGeisha sorta looks like Machine Girl (after seeing the trailer I now realize there&#8217;s a reason for this; it&#8217;s the same director and visual effects team), but also like CASSHERN, which was awesome&#8211; that was a virtual set movie (like Sky Captain) but it was about fighting robots in a post-apocalyptic world. It&#8217;s based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5993,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}