Sogo Ishii Puns

Hello lads and lassies. I am a fan of the Arrow release of Sogo Ishii's Burst City. I noticed recently that region B is getting a release for Ishii's Crazy Thunder Road on blu-ray remastered (link: https://www.diabolikdvd.com/product/crazy-thunder-road-third-window-uk-blu-ray-region-b/). I live in the USA and am hoping to god to get more region A releases of Ishii movies, because he's become one of my absolute favorite directors. I am guessing this is probably not going to go on Arrow Video since Third Window has it in the UK.

That being said, I'd love to see an Ishii boxset from Arrow of his early years similar to what they have in Japan (https://youtu.be/SX8HOtohHsQ?t=300). Really would like a region A variant on blu-ray (though I know remastering all of those films does take a lot of time). Anyone else feel the same way? Could just be that Burst City came out about a year ago (last November) and Arrow has a lot of films on their plate. Not sure how successful Burst City was either :(

I'm a big fan of Japanese cyberpunk cinema (Sogo Ishii, Tsukamoto, Fukui, etc.) but it seems to have completely dropped off in the past decade or so. Seems like the last films were Fukui's S-94 and Tetsuo the Bullet Man in 2009 but nothing ever since. Are there some underground films that are continuing the movement or is it just dead now?

This article includes a lot of film stills. If you would like to see the illustrated version click here.

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As a film, Electric Dragon 80.000 V is a bizarre onslaught of sound and fury. As a Japanese film, it’s not that out of the ordinary. With the precedent’s set by films like Tetsuo, Akira, and Wild Zero the frantic antics of Electric Dragon 80.000 V don’t seem quite as insane.

Sogo Ishii’s film is more like a poem than prose. It grabs on to a few themes and shakes them furiously in your face. Electric Dragon 80.000 V is 90% style and 10% content, but the style is intense enough and creative enough to keep you engaged.

The plot centers around two young men who have strange electrical superpowers. Neither of them seems to fully understand their abilities or themselves. Both of them suffer from intense inner conflicts. The movie sort of adds up to four characters ie. two men both of whom have two different personalities. These two men then find themselves not only in conflict within themselves but with each other. Its conflict and opposites compounded. The film is torn in two and propelled forward by the oppositional polarities of electricity.

The pacing and force of the film are relentless. There is maybe a total of 50 words in the entire film and half of them are just screamed announcements by an offscreen narrator. The narrator sounds like a wrestling mc, and when he speaks, hand-drawn text blasts across the screen.

The first of the two men is Morrison, a tormented soul who tries to soothe his anger by wrestling with his electric guitar. The chaotic sounds he strangles out of it may be turbulent and distorted but they are compelling. The whole roaring, thumping soundtrack is not unlike an album by Guitar Wolf. If there was a soundtrack available I would buy it.

The other character is Thunderbolt Buddha who is half-man and half golden buddha statue. The costume is impressive. Thunderbolt Buddha uses his electrical powers to fight organized crime. Morrison uses his to save lost reptiles. He’s like a private detective for lizards. The town proves too small for these two tortured superheroes and so they duke it out on the rooftops of Tokyo. Their physical conflict mimics their internal conflicts. For Thunder Buddha, his buddha half is trying to electrocute and possibly kill his human hal

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Link: http://junkerhq.net/favoritefilms.html

It is worth reading the article to hear his reasoning and commentary but here is a list of all the films:

• The Great Escape, Dir. John Sturges - US (1963)

• The Guns of Navarone, Dir. J. Lee Thompson - UK/US (1961)

• Escape from New York, Dir. John Carpenter - US (1981)

• North by Northwest, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock - US (1959)

• Planet of the Apes, Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner - US (1968)

• Dawn of the Dead, Dir. George A. Romero - US (1978)

• The James Bond Series - various

• Citizen Kane, Dir. Orson Welles - US (1941)

• Tokyo Story, Dir. Yasujiro Ozu - Japan (1953)

• La strada (The Road), Dir. Federico Fellini - Italy (1954)

• Lawrence of Arabia, Dir. David Lean - UK (1962)

• The Godfather, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola - US (1972)

• City Lights, Dir. Charlie Chaplin - US (1931)

• La belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast), Dir. Jean Cocteau - France (1946)

• The Third Man, Dir. Carol Reed - UK (1949)

• Singin' in the Rain, Dirs. Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen - US (1952)

• Le salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear), Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot - France/Italy (1953)

• 12 Angry Men, Dir. Sidney Lumet - US (1957)

• Kanal (Sewer), Dir. Andrzej Wajda - Poland (1957)

• The Pink Panther Series, Dir. Blake Edwards - US

• Les parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), Dir. Jacques Demy - France (1964)

• Django, Dir. Sergio Corbucci - Italy (1966)

• Fantastic Voyage, Dir. Richard Fleischer - US (1966)

• 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dir. Stanley Kubrick - UK/US (1968)

• Profondo rosso (Deep Red), Dir. Dario Argento - Italy (1975)

• Taxi Driver, Dir. Martin Scorsese - US (1976)

• Somewhere in Time, Dir. Jeannot Szwarc - US (1980)

• Das Boot (The Boat), Dir. Wolfgang Petersen - Germany (1981)

• Mad Max 2, Dir. George Miller - Australia (1981)

• Blade Runner, Dir. Ridley Scott - US (1982)

• Streets of Fire, Dir. Walter Hill - US (1984)

• Mauvais sang (Bad Blood), Dir. Leos Carax - France (1986)

• Ying hung boon sik II (A Better Tomorrow II), Dir. John Woo - Hong Kong (1987)

• Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso), Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore - Italy (1988)

• Fantastic Planet, Dir. René Laloux - France/Czechoslovakia (1973)

• Yoju toshi (Wicked City), Dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri - Japan (1987)

• Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back, Dir. Keiichi Hara - Japa

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

I'm a big fan of Japanese cyberpunk cinema (Sogo Ishii, Tsukamoto, Fukui, etc.) but it seems to have completely dropped off in the past decade or so. Seems like the last film was Fukui's S-94 and Tetsuo the Bullet Man in 2009 but nothing ever since. Are there some underground films that are continuing the movement or is it just dead now?