Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Thursday, August 21, 2008

The world needs more images and more and more of Jo Shishido in furious and blazing Nikkatsu Action!

Youth of the Beast (Yaju no seishun) will be screening as part of the Japan in Black program at this years San Sebastian International Film Festival (more info).

Japanese Cinema:
::: Jason Gray
::: Mark Schilling’s Tokyo Ramen
::: Midnight Eye
::: Nippon Cinema
::: Outcast Cinema
::: Ryuganji
::: Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow

Amazon.com Link:
::: Buy the No Borders, No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema (Cinema Classics) Book
::: Buy the Youth of the Beast – Criterion Collection DVD

Image Source:
Official issued still that was used in its original Japanese release.

Related Links:
::: IMDb Profile

Eiga Chirashi artwork for the Seijun Suzuki’s Kageroza! This marks the second film in his Taisho Trilogy. For some strange reason I’ve yet to pick up the Kino boxset and images like this certainly make me want to run out and buy it.

Thanks to Don Brown at Ryuganji (www.ryuganji.net) for helping me ID this film.

Eiga Chirashi = mini poster/flyer’s from Japan

Japanese Cinema:
::: Jason Gray
::: Mark Schilling’s Tokyo Ramen
::: Midnight Eye
::: Ryuganji

Image Source:
Official still used in the original Japanese poster artwork for this retrospective.

Related Links:
::: Seijun Suzuki Wiki
::: IMDb Profile

Eiga Chirashi artwork for the Seijun Suzuki – Style to Kill Retrospective! This 2001 retrospective was done by Nikkatsu and featured over twenty of his films.

Eiga Chirashi = mini poster/flyer’s from Japan

Japanese Cinema:
::: Jason Gray
::: Mark Schilling’s Tokyo Ramen
::: Midnight Eye
::: Ryuganji

Image Source:
Official still used in the original Japanese poster artwork for this retrospective.

Related Links:
::: Seijun Suzuki Wiki
::: IMDb Profile