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Beavis and Butthead, Blade Runner, Eihi Shiina, Escape from New York, Ichi the Killer, John Carpenter's The Thing, Oscar Wilde, Robocop, Russ Meyer, Scanners, Shakespearean Comedy, Streets of Fire, The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Tokyo Gore Police, Yoshihiro Nishimura
Episode 496 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).
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On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the sensitive contribution to cinema that is Tokyo Gore Police.
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Episode 496 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).
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I’m actually tempted to watch this one, but my Japanese isn’t good enough to understand it, and my eyesight is too poor to read the subtitles.
Still, it seems like fun from your review. The thing about Japanese movies is they try to write a story, and for some reason can’t seem to write one, so then they take themes from the West and exaggerate things to insane levels. But usually they exaggerate the wrong things, and end up with these insne mixes of gore and nods to important or significant aspects fo Western culture – for example, privatising public services.
Maybe I’m reading too much into it – but what is the writing life all about if it’s not that?
I suspect a dubbed version of TGP is available, though the voice work in dubbing is usually lame.
Outsider art often makes one wonder if the creators know what they are doing or if they are posing successfully or unsuccessfully as professional creators. I think of the subject of Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Tokyo Gore Police seems to know what it is doing, both as gonzo schlock gold and as satire, though the weirdness of the whole thing perhaps undercuts the power of the satire. But this movie was never boring, and that is difficult for most movies to accomplish.
Thanks for listening, DJ!