Tempy wrote:

The following Godzilla films were campy and ridiculous but it didn't mean they weren't political or addressing themes such as outsiders, racism, pollution,  war and all sorts of other things. They just weren't as portentous as Godzilla. Godzila himself tends to represent different things, and then you've got stuff like Mechagodzilla representing Japanese re-armament.  SCAP really put a dampener on anti-american/anti-nuke attitudes in cinema, 'Zilla avoided that by being in 54, after the taboo was lifted, but even Rashomon has a nod towards the bombing - the gate at the start and the rain are directly referencing the state of Hiroshima after the attack. There's the argument that all Japanese cinema after the bombing is utterly in thrall of it, and even if it seems largely academic and sometimes spurious, it's hard to avoid. Very few things really match it in terms of an event. You see it kicking off the Yakuza - men needing familial and patriarchal bonds in a time when there was no military, spawning around Hiroshima markets in general, represented through some of the most popular films of the time. It also follows through in plenty of Horror films. Sadako in the ring is an obvious name call to a famous child who was 2 when the bombs hit, the way her eye is framed is reminiscent of the pika of the bomb (see how eerily similar it is to the blast in Akira) and Pulse as an off the cuff example (and Kiyoshi's films in general) pore over the dilapidated ruins of suburban Japan, with Pulse specifically having ashen shadows of humans as an effect of the films techno-horror plot. Random fact about Otomo's illustration of the explosion that engulfs Tokyo that doesn't really translate well to animated version: The actual black of the explosion isn't as simple as him colouring it in, he took days drawing it as it's made of thousands of tiny little lines all layered on top of each other, as a way of trying to conceptualise the horror and the lives lost in the bombing. It's sort of clear in any decent high rez version of the image

jdanielp wrote:

How many dogs did she have?

Spoiler:

It seemed like there were just two, then one was shot, but then there were two fighting...

jdanielp wrote:

MattyJ wrote:

You see

Spoiler:

Her pull the bullet out.

Oh. Neither I nor my friends remembered that.