Of course, sexy racialised Heathcliff is a whole other problem as hinted at earlier in the thread. The exoticised and fetishised racialised man as the object of the white female gaze is the other side of this. There's no way to win... if you foreground the white female gaze. 107/

Hideko Takamine is also one of my favourite actresses ever, so it’s always a treat to see her opposite Nakadai.

also salt on the wound that European and American left liberals jerk off about this as evidence of the entirely hypothetical benevolent humanitarian-interventionist internationale while actually existing US and Europe co-signed a dozen Srebrenicas a week for two years in the Levant

happening during the Bosnian genocide, except it was Bosnian Serbs doing it to women and children. Salo shit all the way down. Absolutely sickening.

The most horrific sense of Deja Vu I’ve experienced is when there was a report that emerged this year (or last year?) of the IOF stripping children in Gaza naked and forcing them to dance for their sadistic amusement, because I remember reading the exact same instance of something like that

game and she can’t resist his charms. Wild finale. Looks stunning.

First up was Hideo Gosha’s Heat Wave, a Yakuza period piece set in the 1920s. Feels like a 70s film suspended out of time, given it’s actually a 90s film. About a woman who follows in her late father’s footsteps in becoming a gambler, only to come across her father’s murderer (Nakadai) at a gambling