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Kinji Fukasaku title cards

Meiko Kaji is transcendent in what I think was her third collaboration with Fukasaku.

Unbelievable swag

Issue #387: Breaking News on Graveyard of Honor 2002's Wardrobe The first, best, and most in-depth coverage of tracksuits in yakuza movies.

www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-387-... I may be the first person on the internet to write about the tracksuits in Graveyard of Honor (2002)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa on cinematic violence and Kinji Fukasaku

Goro Fujita, a novelist and former yakuza himself, is responsible for the availability of yakuza stories to be adapted by Fukasaku and Miike. David E. Kaplan demystifies Fujita in his 2012 yakuza tome: content.ucpress.edu/chapters/827...

Hope to see people in that Discord voice chat tonight.

NYE 24-25 I did a movie marathon for the newsletter. Now we’re at it again through the newsletter discord, watching Yakuza Graveyard (1976), Graveyard of Honor (1975), and Graveyard of Honor (2002).

Do you like Takashi Miike? How about Kinji Fukasaku? We are streaming movies Saturday. www.paradoxnewsletter.com

Watch yakuza movies on July 5th. Yakuza Graveyard and Graveyard of Honor, Kinji Fukasaku and Takashi Miike.

Was thrilled to be able to see Caged two weekends ago with an introduction by Foster Hirsch from @noirfoundation.bsky.social

Also wrote an overview of their programming for Noir City Boston last week: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-384-...

Issue #385: Orthodox Mysteries, Unorthodox Subjects George Jackson meets film noir; Japanese 'orthodox' mystery novels use unconventional form to create texts for both solving and interpreting.

Caged (1950) and George Jackson are a productive combination: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-385-...

Lot of hits today at Noir City Boston. The Sleeping City was a revelation. Mary Ryan, Detective, for its breeziness, has some recesses to explore like its turkey macguffin.

Issue #377: Nathan Fielder is the Most Sincere Man in Comedy Sinners, The Rehearsal, and more notes on competition in the context of this NBA Playoffs.

I am terrible about remembering to post here, but the newsletter continues its weekly sojourn writing about The Rehearsal, NBA Playoffs, and Sinners www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-377-...

Issue #369: The Oscar Goes to GQuuuuuuX The Oscars are my Super Bowl.

Do you like Mobile Suit Gundam? Do you like Severance? Essays about both in the newsletter this week: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-369-...

Issue #367: Severance, The Trojan Horse, and Three Children in a Trench Coat This is the fifth consecutive week of me writing about Severance (2022).

We are still at the Severance commentary this week: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-367-...

Issue #366: Severance Rewrites Freud's Totem and Taboo Using a Da Vinci Code Plot Device You deserve a different order of Severance recap. And you'll get it from Paradox Newsletter.

Religiously reading Entertainment Weekly in 2005 to reading Paradox Newsletter in 2025 is my intellectual glow-up.

This week’s Severance analysis hits:
www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-366-...

Issue #365: Severance Dives into Race, Face First Severance's second season is firing on all cylinders and so am I.

Severance "recap" with DuBois and Fanon citations: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-365-...

Issue #364: Narrative Traps and the Unconscious in Severance This week, writing about Severance and Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story

The world is enjoying Severance. You can read about it, the Freudian unconscious, and shounen manga in this week's issue of the newsletter: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-364-...