not sure what this guy in the pink panther costume is doing during this thanksgiving day parade but I feel like I need an adult

Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s The Rocking Horsemen (1992), all-timer coming of age/let’s form a band film.

He was THE best to ever do it. The color and trickery of this one’s opening alone is fucking crazy.

Hard recommend School in the Crosshairs

Three Obayashi movies on Tubi currently, in case you hit the pen w your cousins later

Terra Formars (2016) Miike’s Starship Troopers for the age of billionaire assholes and their delusions of colonizing space. Alternate title: Takashi Miike’s Cockroaches of Mars.

Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s The Rocking Horsemen (1992), all-timer coming of age/let’s form a band film.

Sammo Hung's Blade of Fury is my favorite kind of historical drama about national mythmaking: the kind where every position on the ideological spectrum is represented by a different martial arts fighter and there’s a quintuple decap in the first fifteen minutes

Taiwan made a STREETS OF FIRE rip-off!? By the director of Jackie Chan's FANTASY MISSION FORCE!

I forgot that I nudged Miles Teves (a fucking legend) into posting the artwork he did for Nemesis. www.instagram.com/p/DKZjEt0xg5c/

You only see these shots in Nemesis for about 5 frames each, not enough time to register them as obvious effects, they look incredible and truly jarring in the moment. Movie Magic

Sometimes you’ve just gotta flip through a big book of Super Sentai creature designs.

They used to make fuckin MOVIES

“The blood of these whores is killing me!” is also an acceptable tribute.

RIP Udo Kier, star of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

"To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life... in the gallbladder!" RIP Udo

Help, I think I’m having a stroke

The most powerful 90 seconds ever committed to film, courtesy of A Savage Beast Goes Mad (dir. Sadao Nakajima)

Crazed Beast/A Savage Beast Goes Mad (1976) The 70s disaster film on nitrous, or Sadao Nakajima’s Dog Day Afternoon at 150 MPH. Enough colorful characters and melodramatic hysterics to sustain the entire Airport series, packed into 76 minutes of vehicular mayhem. A classic.

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten 8 A spectacle of flesh and blood. Every 3 minutes something insane, perverted, or profane occurs. More often than not, all of the above. The only film, that I’m aware of, that ends with a Bond actor engaging in an opium withdrawal fueled massacre in the snow.

Soaking in the tub like

Tonight’s double-feature is Bohachi Bushido & Crazed Beast, which I last watched 20 years ago via a pair of DVD-Rs @patrickmacias.bsky.social slipped me in a McDonald’s parking lot at 1am.

Captain EO is a Keita Amemiya film

Putting this theory to the test with a double-feature of Amemiya’s Hakaider and Francis Ford Coppola’s American tokusatsu masterpiece Captain EO.

one of my earliest childhood memories is being absolutely fucking terrified of Talos

Captain EO is a Keita Amemiya film

Episode 155 of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast is live! It’s an otaku double whammy as Matt Alt (mattalt.bsky.social) and I bring you reports on Godzilla Fest 2025 and the Tamashii Nation Expo! Expect kaiju, robots, and Labubus?! Listen to the full episode at: www.tokyoscope.blog/p/pure-tokyo...

Emphasis on the “AND Cuckoo.” Best horror movie of 2024.

Miike, M3gan, M3gan, Miike

Stan Hansen in a Parco ad looking like he just stepped out of a Crying Freeman tankobon.

The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2013) Chuck Jones aside, you’d be hard-pressed to find a director being this madcap and formally free spirited 90+ films deep into their filmography. Bless you, Miike.

I need everyone to see this section of a fight from Ultraman Taro

When the stunt goes wrong but they keep it in the movie anyway. Tiger on the Beat 2 (1990) dir. Chia-Liang Liu

Hey, I did that Mamoru Hosoda interview! His first in english, and I sent a room full of Madhouse execs into a state of panic when I asked him about Ghibli.

Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain (1983) Directed by Tsui Hark / Special effects by Robert Blalack

Some incredible production design going on in this episode of Furuhata Ninzaburo.

Grey from Chojin Sentai: Jetman

Phantom Of The Paradise on the cover of Pia No. 33, May 1975. Founded in 1972, Pia covered film and entertainment events throughout Tokyo and has since expanded greatly.

Bronson Lee, Champion rocks! Very excited to finally see the original Za Karate films, but I can’t tell you how many times I rented the clamshell VHS of Bronson Lee as a kid.

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

It’s nothing short of sorcery, this stuff. Clockwork harmony between stuntmen, choreographers, and special effects artists. The mind races as to how you even come up with some of this, much less shoot and edit any of it? Fucking bananas and shenanigans.

Clive Barker's "In the Hills, the Cities" is an all-timer, and John Bolton's art is equally awesome/nightmarish.

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