Third Window Films Discussion Thread - Page 268 - Blu-ray Forum

Cinematt · 03-10-2025, 10:30 AM

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Mermaid Legend is next up for me, it does have the best reputation of the new crop so I'm looking forward to it and wondering if it can knock Luminous Woman off the top spot of the Directors Company series so far for me.

Happy to report Mermaid Legend is really good. I might prefer Luminous Woman overall but the last act of Mermaid Legend is particularly fantastic.

wabrit · 03-10-2025, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Cinematt

Happy to report Mermaid Legend is really good. I might prefer Luminous Woman overall but the last act of Mermaid Legend is particularly fantastic.

I think this and Typhoon Club are the standout entries in the series.

BackwoodsAltar · 03-10-2025, 06:43 PM

Just dropping in to say that Scent of a Spell is fantastic, can't recommend it enough to anyone who enjoyed Love Hotel. It's from the same screenwriter, Takashi Ishii, and you can absolutely tell it's from the director of Mermaid Legend, Toshiharu Ikeda. It's sort of like a pinku neo-noir that builds to its inevitable conclusion so steadily, with these beautiful crossfades and flashes of ethereal violence. A real rain-soaked gem.

Zodiac · 03-10-2025, 09:00 PM

Mermaid Legend also has this haunting theme. Simple and beautiful

Yurakucho · 03-23-2025, 12:24 AM

Box Man coming.

White Dang · 04-05-2025, 12:15 AM

Angel Guts title incoming. No clear indication which one besides Ishii involvement...

logboy · 04-05-2025, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by White Dang

Angel Guts title incoming. No clear indication which one besides Ishii involvement...

https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/angel...pwwc0xmdi1mzqy

thenexus6 · 04-05-2025, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Yurakucho

Box Man coming.

I tried reading the book after the film announcement but couldn't get into it. Excited to see the film though.

White Dang · 04-05-2025, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by logboy

https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/angel...pwwc0xmdi1mzqy

Very cool, thanks. The initial entry continues to be holy grail material, but I'm happy for anything I can get.

logboy · 04-05-2025, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by White Dang

Very cool, thanks. The initial entry continues to be holy grail material, but I'm happy for anything I can get.

you don't have the DVD set from artsmagic? i tried rewatching them recently, and ... they'd at least need a BD to look remotely viewable. i stopped before i got to 'red classroom', which was my favourite back when they came out. i don't think they'll ever reappear though.

Cinematt · 04-05-2025, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by White Dang

Angel Guts title incoming. No clear indication which one besides Ishii involvement...

Two, as far as we know.

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Originally Posted by logboy

known takashi ishii boxset will apparently be :

alone in the night (1994)
angel guts : red flash (1994)
a night in nude (1993)
original sin (1992)

... first two are already certified by the BBFC. the other two are confirmed via TWF on bluesky.

all of these interest me, and it would be the one set known of this year to match my tastes very well. i am sure there are other films from takashi ishii that i and others would like too.

White Dang · 04-05-2025, 01:23 PM

Ah yes. A boxset... The theme being Takashi Ishii.

We have one Angel Guts, but no others, Night in Nude, but not the sequel.

I shouldn't act spoiled, but it would be nice honor the basic existing threads between the films.

I do have the DVD set. I tried to be Blu-ray only, but there are still quite a few titles that continue to be overlooked.

logboy · 04-05-2025, 01:32 PM

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I shouldn't act spoiled, but it would be nice honor the basic existing threads between the films.

i'm waiting to see what form the set takes. thinking of the toyoda sets, with early and late editions. maybe we get another ishii set that has the later things.

that said, holding onto ideas of japanese films you happen to have learnt about finally making a western release at some point, and buying what matches up closer to those areas at very least, is far wiser than imagining anything and everything is great and it will somehow do in the meantime. there's so much, it's never meant to be kept on top of, just selected from as and when required or possible.

Yurakucho · 04-05-2025, 03:43 PM

My local HMV has a sale, of sorts, on TWF titles, with some older ones being reduced to 15 or 17 quid, and Taste of Tea to £13.99.

thirdwindowfilms · 04-06-2025, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by White Dang

Ah yes. A boxset... The theme being Takashi Ishii.

We have one Angel Guts, but no others, Night in Nude, but not the sequel.

I shouldn't act spoiled, but it would be nice honor the basic existing threads between the films.

I do have the DVD set. I tried to be Blu-ray only, but there are still quite a few titles that continue to be overlooked.

there will be a Nikkatsu Roman Porno Angel Guts box coming next year from us.

This set is sort of a spin-off from our Directors Company series as it starts with Original Sin, which started filming as a Directors Company film and focuses on 4 films Ishii made within a 2 year period from that

So it's a set focusing on a specific time period.

White Dang · 04-06-2025, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by thirdwindowfilms

there will be a Nikkatsu Roman Porno Angel Guts box coming next year from us.

This set is sort of a spin-off from our Directors Company series as it starts with Original Sin, which started filming as a Directors Company film and focuses on 4 films Ishii made within a 2 year period from that

So it's a set focusing on a specific time period.

No freaking way!! Possibly the best post I'll read all year.

I'm super excited, and thanks for the reply!

MifuneFan · 04-08-2025, 11:04 PM

The Box Man (2024) coming June 30th

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Box-Man-Lim.../dp/B0F33QDF91

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Gakuryu Ishii, director of such cult classics as Electric Dragon 80000v and The Crazy Family takes on the 1973 novel “The Box Man” by Kōbō Abe, an adaptation 40 years in the making!A man with a cardboard box over his head wanders the streets of Tokyo. Peering at the world through a peephole, he incessantly writes down in a notebook what he can see. The photographer Myself spots the man and is fascinated. He decides to do the same thing and become a box man himself. But his path to get there is not easy; countless challenges and dangers lie in wait. They include a fake doctor who wants to rob him of his box-man identity; a military man who seeks to use him for the perfect crime; and a mysterious woman who does everything she can to seduce him. Can Myself achieve his dream of becoming a box man?

EXTRAS:

• Feature length audio commentary by Tom Mes
• Cast and Crew talk event
• Cast comments from inside the Box
• Director Q&A at the Japan Society
• Trailers
• Slipcase Edition (Limited to 2000 copies)

theosh · 04-08-2025, 11:23 PM

That looks incredible!! Definitely pre-ordering that!

TotoroDragon · 04-09-2025, 07:53 AM

Great to see Box Man getting released. I hope TWF release Desert of Namibia next.

thenexus6 · 04-17-2025, 12:48 PM

Might give NEW RELIGION a rental soon. What do people think about the film?

03-10-2025, 06:43 PM	#5343
BackwoodsAltar Junior Member Member since:Feb 2022 4K collection:7 Blu-ray collection:40	Just dropping in to say that Scent of a Spell is fantastic, can't recommend it enough to anyone who enjoyed Love Hotel. It's from the same screenwriter, Takashi Ishii, and you can absolutely tell it's from the director of Mermaid Legend, Toshiharu Ikeda. It's sort of like a pinku neo-noir that builds to its inevitable conclusion so steadily, with these beautiful crossfades and flashes of ethereal violence. A real rain-soaked gem.

03-23-2025, 12:24 AM	#5345
Yurakucho Senior Member Member since:Dec 2015	Box Man coming.

04-05-2025, 12:15 AM	#5346
White Dang Expert Member Member since:Aug 2010 4K collection:24 Blu-ray collection:261 Trading Score:35	Angel Guts title incoming. No clear indication which one besides Ishii involvement...

04-05-2025, 01:23 PM	#5352
White Dang Expert Member Member since:Aug 2010 4K collection:24 Blu-ray collection:261 Trading Score:35	Ah yes. A boxset... The theme being Takashi Ishii. We have one Angel Guts, but no others, Night in Nude, but not the sequel. I shouldn't act spoiled, but it would be nice honor the basic existing threads between the films. I do have the DVD set. I tried to be Blu-ray only, but there are still quite a few titles that continue to be overlooked.

04-05-2025, 03:43 PM	#5354
Yurakucho Senior Member Member since:Dec 2015	My local HMV has a sale, of sorts, on TWF titles, with some older ones being reduced to 15 or 17 quid, and Taste of Tea to £13.99.

04-08-2025, 11:23 PM	#5358
theosh Active Member Member since:Jul 2011 4K collection:178 Blu-ray collection:5869	That looks incredible!! Definitely pre-ordering that!

04-09-2025, 07:53 AM	#5359
TotoroDragon Senior Member Member since:Nov 2009 4K collection:151 Blu-ray collection:2162	Great to see Box Man getting released. I hope TWF release Desert of Namibia next.

04-17-2025, 12:48 PM	#5360
thenexus6 Blu-ray Guru Member since:Dec 2012 Location:UK	Might give NEW RELIGION a rental soon. What do people think about the film?

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