Original Sin (1992), Takashi Ishii

A Night in Nude (1993), Takashi Ishii

Pretty properly befuddled by Takashi Ishii’s Original Sin (1992), a romantic psychosis miles away from his pinku revenges and nightmarish neo neon noirs (while spiked with the same dread and malice), but I’m ENRAPTURED with how it looks. His textures just straight up do not exist anywhere else.

Double Medicine Sellers, Rider Kick… the vision is too good

He’s giving gay. Happy pride

From: The Book of the Dead (2005), dir. Kihachiro Kawamoto, Sakura Motion Pictures

Here's a thread of my Keyframe Animation work on Mononoke Chapter 3 Thank you SO MUCH to @luvletterstudios.bsky.social and EOTA for the opportunity to work on such a project! I hope everyone enjoys the movie. #Mononoke (Posted with Permission from the rights holders)

「香、満ちたようでございます。」 #art #mononoke #kusuriuri #モノノ怪 #薬売り

✨🌈💕 HAPPY PRIDE MONTH 💕🌈✨ To celebrate, Glitterjaw is launching a new variety podcast from the entire collective! I'm super pumped about this, because Glitterjaw Presents will give all of us (and plenty of guest cohosts!) a space to tangent, detour, and get weird[er!] to our hearts' content 🥰

Karen Mok in a poster for Wong Kar Wai's FALLEN ANGELS (1995) Mok was BOTD in 1970

YELLING, SHOUTING

Illustration by Bruce Pennington for August Derleth, ed., TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS: VOLUME 2 (Panther, 1975).

Coming up on Skreeonk! Find the podcast at glitterjaw.com/skreeonk

Happy Pride!

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and of course, the drummer 🐲🥁

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Loving a little too hard

easy money! 📽️

hell yeah i can post one of the best fights in any movie ever (i want to say this is vengeance by johnnie to, but it might be exiled)

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ARE YOU KIDDING MEEEEEEEEEEEE

#dmc #dante

#dmc #vergil

Scorsese's storyboards for Taxi Driver were a big inspiration for me, a poor artist, to feel confident drawing ideas to share with our illustrators for DI. I can't understand why so much of the older generation of artists are swayed by this crap when they already had it all figured out.

oh fuck you, bitch

Looking forward to Francesca’s damage control TikToks.

Martin Scorsese is now a partner & advisor for a generative AI startup He says he's using AI during preproduction to storyboard projects “I’m interested in the intersection of technology and storytelling ... cinema is a young medium ... we have to be open to how it can evolve" (via NY Times)

Apparently, in 70 years, no one had told him about storyboard artists. For real, though? This - like so many bad things - is about private equity. His manager is a co-owner of a private equity firm that invested in this LLM company.

Happy pride, come out or be doomed to be a Takashi Ishii protagonist

Takashi Ishii’s A Night in Nude (1993) moves like a De Palma Blue Velvet, the harsh beauty of Ishii’s characteristic blur of pink rape revenge and yakuza thriller in searing neon and storm cloud, but something far bleaker is left behind by the truth of our hapless pitiful protagonist being queer.

In this underworld nightmare of vengeance gone horribly awry, a victim of happenstance reveals his sudden dedication to a woman in trouble as an atonement for the loves and lives he stepped on to reign as a king long before he was left as a closeted wreck in Tokyo’s bubble-burst ruins.

A test run of thorniness that works better in Gonin and Black Angel, but Naoto Takenaka’s scenes in the gay bar casts the whole fluorescent noir so intentionally and stickily. Fascinating and brunt experimentation of the victimized being victimizers shot unfuckingbelivably by Yasushi Sasakibara.

Watching Johnnie To’s Exiled this morning and are you KIDDING me

Happy Pride! And to celebrate I will be highlighting some of my fave queer graphic novels starting with the hilarious Dogs on Dates by Luke Healy Every page of this book his hysterical and heartfelt! Brad and Bernie deserve to go down as queer icons and rom com legends.

🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Suzie Templeton’s Peter & the Wolf (2006) is spellbinding. The fluid-as-water stop motion on the living and breathing armatures is sorcery, and the ensouled character design for Peter is a triumph. The most cutting, raw glare I’ve ever seen in animation. That is a MISERABLE little boy.

This could have gone on for hours. I wanted it to go on for hours so badly. Amazing how much emotion and life they sculpted and manipulated in a half-hour fairy tale of tetanus fortresses, nature vs. nature, animal sidekicks, and unhappy childhood.

If there is one flaw with Phil Tippett’s Prehistoric Beast (1984), it is that it’s not a feature film. Unbelievable stop motion (GO motion!!), but also incredible lighting, framing, and ambience. Excellent art and creativity that echoes the same “wish we had more” as Ray Harryhausen’s Evolution.

It's one of my least favourite of the Showa era, but that's not because it's a bad suit, just because it was so clearly design locked to Rider 1/2. This version rules, though.

SUCH a good design

Favorite first watches of May 2026: Sound of Falling (2025) The Wolves (1971) Manta Ray (2018) A New Life (2002)

Sansho the Bailiff (1954) Throw Down (2004) The Blue Hour (2015) Legend of the Sacred Stone (2000)

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970) Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970) Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman (1971) Zatoichi at Large (1972) The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter (1984)

Fear Coded is dropping a lovely episode on Monday where I get to talk about Dead End more frankly than ever!

🦇✨️ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride!!! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦇✨️ This year we have an incredible line up focusing on media made by independent artists with textually queer characters... but this is a job that's too big for us alone! Which is why we've ONCE AGAIN recruited our Glitterjaw colleagues to join in on the fun!