Reviewing the 1969 French film Slogan -- a movie without which the French pop power couple of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin might never have existed -- seemed like a great change of pace after most of what I've been covering for Teleport City lately. But was my verbal facility up to the task of describing a film whose climax involved no blowing up of any gigantic underground compounds... or whose cast included no masked luchadores? Read my full review and find out.
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)
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Original title: Teito monogatari
Yasunori Kato (Kyusaku Shimada), a horrifyingly powerful, deathless onmyoji
who looks as if he stepped right out of a Su...
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Wait, there are films without explosions?
I know, right?
It's terribly disconcerting. Like the time someone told me there are no flying giant turtles living in Japan.
Wh... what?
I guess that would explain the folks at my local video store being so annoyed by my constantly moving those movies into the documentary section.
Heh.
But just think how The Kenny must feel...
At least we still have Godzilla and the certain knowledge that all will be put right by masked Mexicans.
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