Recently Watched Films

His filmography is really diverse. I've only seen a small fraction of it, but he's tackled a lot of styles. 

He made a strange 'western' some years ago, Sukiyaki Western Django, oddly for a Japanese movie made directly into English, played like a traditional US western but seemingly set in some sort of hybrid US-Japan with weird storyteller scenes starring Quentin Tarantino. 

He was also responsible for 13 Assassins which may just be the best traditional Samurai film post-Akira Kurosawa. 

It's really surprising how little known some of his movies are considering how massive one likes Audition became. 

This is an unusual western. Lots of tense build-up, changing allegiances and lots of blurred lines on hero and villain all leading up to a final shootout, which then never happens. I'm genuinely not sure if its anticlimactic or the best Randolph Scott western I've yet seen. 

I'm not averse to a bit of nudity and violence, which this movie has in spades. However don't go watching it expecting a J.Law wankfest, because it's not. The nudity is well within the context of the story, and far from arousing. The graphic violence could be a bit offputting to some people too. In between all that though is a pretty good spy thriller, with twists aplenty.

Another decent Shudder find. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112722/

Picked this up based on a rec from Reddit. It didn't disappoint. Quite a gem. 

And here we have a much better known movie than the previous, which wasn't as good as its reputation. Maybe I'd have been more into it if I didn't already know the ending. That's the trouble with seeing movies that are too well known. 

Part 4 of 6. Still excellent. Not as serious as some samurai movies. 

IO I can't remember shit about other than Anthony Mackie was in it. Kept wondering why the guy who could land blockbuster roles like Marvel's Falcon was in such tripe.