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For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with Samurai Rebellion (1967), one of the best-regarded jidaigeki films of all time and one of the foremost works of renowned Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi (who is best-known for Harakiri [1962]). A feudal lord grows tired of his mistress and demands she wed the son of one of his samurai retainers (played by Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mifune.) The son and the mistress fall in love, but then, the lord decides he wants her back, and takes her. The samurai then decides to rebel against his master and rescue her. Dudes are gonna have to rock. Currently ranked #215 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time.

After that is All of Us Strangers (1983), a gay romance-fantasy about a pair of London dudes who start woogin’, only for one of them to discover, upon returning to their childhood home, that his dead parents have come back to life and have not aged a day in decades. What’s going on here? I guess we’ll just have to watch and find out. This one has received rave reviews, and it is, so far, it is the most popular work of director Andrew Haigh, who is otherwise best-known for Weekend (2011).

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Samurai Rebellion: https://letterboxd.com/film/samurai-rebellion/
• All of Us Strangers: https://letterboxd.com/film/all-of-us-strangers/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Samurai Rebellion: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061847/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• All of Us Strangers: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1048937

CWs for Samurai Rebellion:

• Brief nudity.
• Blood.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Stabbing.
• Gun violence.

CWs for All of Us Strangers:

• Nudity.
• Sex.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Drug use.
• Drug addiction.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Unconsciousness.
• Drug overdose.
• Death of parent.
• Jump scares.
• Ghosts.
• Bath scene.
• PTSD.
• Mental illness.
• Hallucinations.
• Suicide.
• Unstable reality.
• Someone has a meltdown.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Claustrophobia.
• Jump scares.
• Shaky cam.
• Screaming.
• Obscene language.
• Flashing lights.
• Homophobic slurs.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Age-gap romance.
• Discussion of religion.
• Car crash.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Samurai Rebellion: https://tankie.tube/w/qoTBTRrEq45o6YZXpYTt9q
• All of Us Strangers: https://tankie.tube/w/5r78nPUiwshL28NoFFnr3u