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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986), a WW2 melodrama-comedy-coming-of-age story from renowned Japanese auteur Nobuhiko Obayashi, the guy best-known for House (1977); we have also previously watched Miss Lonely (1985), His Motorbike Her Island (1986), and The Rocking Horsemen (1992). All were good, so we’re returning to the well once again. This one is about a schoolboy growing up in Japan in the late 1930s as the country falls further and further into a nationalistic frenzy. He learns that a girl he knows is abot to be sold into sex work to pay heer dad’s debts, and so, he teams up with some other kids to help her out. A whole lot of over-the-top antics follow, with Obayashi’s usual comic-bookish aesthetic. “Live-action anime” is a common refrain in reviews which are excellent across the board.

Next is Night and the City (1950), a British film-noir about a destitute petty thief who can’t do anything right, and has been reduced to mooching off his girlfriend. Suddenly, he discovers an opportunity to hit the big money as a wrestling promoter, and goes all-in attempting to restore his dignity. I’m sure this will end happily. Director is Jules Dassin, who is otherwise best-known for the French heist thriller Rififi (1955), which we previously watched. This is considered one of the best noirs of the 1950s, so let’s give it a whirl.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast: https://letterboxd.com/film/bound-for-the-fields-the-mountains-and-the-seacoast/
• Night and the City: https://letterboxd.com/film/night-and-the-city/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
• Night and the City: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042788/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ov_at_stry_4

CWs for Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast:

• Implied sex work.
• Fistfighting.
• Slapstick violence.
• Misogyny.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Fascism.
• Indoctrination of children.
• Bullying.

CWs for Night and the City:

• Wrestling.
• Slapping.
• Misogyny.
• Fistfighting.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.
• Suicide.
• Strangulation.

Links to movies:

• Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast: https://tankie.tube/w/5NqiKzAKMon1T4KYUD6kc6
• Night and the City: https://tankie.tube/w/cZ3ejEHm277bCVnnxpehR1