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Post by zombi1978 on May 23, 2010 19:02:42 GMT
Yesterday I bought another manga, this time via an underground shop, made by Suehiro Marou and Kazuichi Hanawa, which is called "BLOODY UKIYO-E in 1866 & 1988". It´s a very gory manga based on true stories - both in English and Japanese. The artwork is amazing as always.
(Can´t really show the cover here ´cause there a some really over-the-top, and naked*, things to see.)
*rule 2 of this site
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Post by Vendaval Este on May 23, 2010 20:30:35 GMT
Oh, post it anyway, I'll let you off.
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Post by zombi1978 on May 23, 2010 20:45:46 GMT
Okay, just uploaded the scanned front page. You can enhance everything by clicking at the 27% in the upper right. Not everybody needs to take a look on the whole book.  |
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Post by Vendaval Este on May 23, 2010 20:49:53 GMT
Haha, I just put that for moral's sake, don't want outright porn being posted.
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Post by zombi1978 on May 23, 2010 21:00:24 GMT
What makes the book even more disturbing, or "fascinating", if it´s the term you would use, is that all pictures in it are based on true stories - true murders. Like a siege of the Japanese Red Army Fraction in 1972, a dark and sad version of the end of "Little Red Riding Hood"; or a picture about Fritz Hahlman, a famous German cannibal who murdered in the 1920s.
(By the way I live in the city, where Hahlman commited every murder.)
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Post by Vendaval Este on May 23, 2010 21:17:27 GMT
That is pretty disturbing, yet fascinating, it's a shame material like this doesn't seem to be made anymore, but that just makes it all the more unique.
Of similar merit is the highly-controversial Chinese film "Men Behind the Sun", about Japan's WW2 atrocities inside a camp. I'll see it one day, just hope I can stomach the real cat scenes.
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Post by zombi1978 on May 24, 2010 11:56:06 GMT
Well spoken! I totally think the same! Here are some of the more harmless pictures, plus their explanations, I think I can show you. Right?     I know "Men Behind the Sun" very good and you really should feel yourself prepared in case you are up to do it. The F/X are perfectly made and realized - just keep it in your mind everything´s fake. There are also some sequels of less quality, but the second part of the series is even more harder to watch. I hope you already know a bit about the story of the "Unit 731". By the way I wouldn´t say it´s a movie you should review at once. It may lower the good aesthetics of this site. |
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Post by Vendaval Este on May 24, 2010 13:37:48 GMT
By the way I wouldn´t say it´s a movie you should review at once. It may lower the good aesthetics of this site. What makes you think that? |
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Post by zombi1978 on May 24, 2010 13:41:19 GMT
You would? Okay, then I take my comment back.  |
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Post by Vendaval Este on May 24, 2010 13:50:57 GMT
Haha, I would like to do it someday maybe, it's not really "forgotten" or "junk" from the sounds of things, but it might still be decent material.
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Post by zombi1978 on May 24, 2010 18:09:32 GMT
I would rather call it a "dead" movie. It´s was damn controversial when it came out, but during the last decade it lost some of it´s publicity.
Another dead movie example is "Hokuto no Ken - The Movie", which is sadly not well-known in the anime community anymore, altough it was a huge success back in the 80s like you know.
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Post by Vendaval Este on May 25, 2010 0:11:13 GMT
Dude, Hokuto no Ken is universally known! Especially the movie, a lot of people still know of it.
I thought you meant the live-action movie, there's a good reason that one's not too well known.
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Post by zombi1978 on May 25, 2010 8:11:57 GMT
But I had several conversations with a lot of people, who even have never heard of Hokuto no Ken either.
And when I explained the story, some thought Hokuto no Ken "was only a small OVA series".
As for the live-action movie - it´s true. It´s a dead movie.
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Post by Vendaval Este on May 25, 2010 13:29:47 GMT
Fuck those guys, they don't know anime or manga.
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Post by zombi1978 on May 25, 2010 16:56:10 GMT
True, so true. Can´t deny that.
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