[kino] FW: Sabu-Miike does Truffaut!?

[Dmitry Karpeev]

Sorry if this gets posted twice ...


-----Original Message-----
From: Dmitry Karpeev [mailto:karpeev at mcs.anl.gov] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 5:16 PM
To: 'kino at caida.org'
Subject: FW: Sabu-Miike does Truffaut!?

I thought this was quite suitable for the kino-list.
I hope Craig won't mind my forwarding it ... :-)

Dima

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Singer [mailto:craigsin at worldnet.att.net] 
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 1998 11:10 PM
To: myself
Subject: Sabu-Miike does Truffaut!?

All right now, as those of you who have had the pleasure (misfortune?) of
seeing "Ichi the Killer" are likely quite poignantly aware director Takashi
Miike has a deserved reputation as a purveyor of gore.  That said, as a
director Miike's depth continues to amaze me.  Now, before you guffaw, let
me state, for the record, that I was ready to walk-out on the aforementioned
"Ichi" within the first fifteen minutes of the film.  In a totally different
vein, Sabu may well cut it as an homage to Truffaut.  All that said, in an
American remake, I'd cast "Ice T" in the role of "Roku the Pimp".
I do not want to give anything away, but Sabu was really a quite touching
film, and is certainly not something that resonated with Miike's image of
bringing manga to the big screen.

Okay, you may now fire at will.

-Craig