The Greatest Horror Director Made Only One Horror Film (Masaki Kobayashi)

A video essay in which I talk about Masaki Kobayashi, his movie Kwaidan / Kaidan, Harakiri, The Human Condition trilogy, and also there's a shot of Paul Feig in there somewhere. They're all in the Criterion Collection. patreon:   / lowercasejai   bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/lowercasejai... lboxd: https://letterboxd.com/lowercasejai/ labyrinth of cinema: https://open.spotify.com/show/503MtDW... Rich's Bushido takedown article: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/bushido/ Kazuma Hashimoto's Political Myth of the Samurai article: https://www.polygon.com/2020/7/23/213... Some other things you might be interested in: Three Criterion essays on Masaki Kobayashi https://www.criterion.com/current/pos... https://www.criterion.com/current/pos... https://www.criterion.com/current/pos... Tatsuya Nakadai talking about the blades on Harakiri https://www.christies.com/en/stories/... 35mm photo: By Rotareneg - en:Image:35mm_film_audio_macro.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...