tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post4949819162293948033..comments2024-01-09T04:01:00.672+00:00Comments on Breakfast In The Ruins: Nippon Horrors: The Lady Vampire (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1959)Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14951955227326548340noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-91258206158612446142016-03-19T21:10:08.149+00:002016-03-19T21:10:08.149+00:00Shigeru Amachi did a good job in a film that tried...Shigeru Amachi did a good job in a film that tried to tap into the success of the first Lee Hammer Dracula. His swag to savage style predated Barry Atwater in the Night Stalker and Shin Kishida in the two Toho Dracula films. An interesting visual moment was when he painted his lady love. The climactic fight was filmed in a very static manner so it loses points for that weakness and more points got lost for the the scene of Amachi biting women while witnesses watched and did nothing. The music soundtrack was excellent. The Christian-vampirism link as a form of contamination in Japan crops up again in the Toho films, as you wrote in your essay. (This actual history of Christian persecution in Japan during the 17th century by the Shoguns is gruesome.)Elliot Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964519903027517480noreply@blogger.com