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The Butterfly

The Butterfly


WELCOME TO MY PAGE!
❤The Butterfly is celebrating Valentine's Day and Directors whose films I love.  And like most love, it can be complex.  I may love their storytelling and visuals and also eyeroll their view of women or when propaganda creeps in.

You can click the pic for movies to be taken to their MDL page and other pics have a surprise attached to them.  


ZHANG YI MOU
Curse of the Golden Flower traumatized me for years.  I stopped watching Chinese films after it for a long time.  Hero brought me back.
Raise the Red Lantern wasn't an easy watch but it was well made and of course had the beautiful Gong Li in it.
Flowers of War wasn't a great movie.  It was, however, Ni Ni's first film and she was mesmerizing in it.
House of Flying Daggers was style over substance, and baby it had style
OZU YASUJIRO
I have a love/not so much love relationship with Ozu.  I love his aesthetics and some of his movies.  While I know he was a product of his times, the view towards women in some of his films could be hard to come to terms with. And the childless bachelor's view on children was that they were all troublesome.  lol

Tokyo Story-his most famous film
A couple comes to terms with their marriage
Green Tea Over Rice
A rigid father is saved from himself by the women in the family
Equinox Flower
(Ozu's ubiquitous teapot is in this shot!)
KUROSAWA AKIRA
My relationship with Kurosawa can be truly love/hate.  I prefer when he doesn't have women in his movies, because he had a rather dim view of them.  At the same time I loved his creative storytelling and visuals.

Ikiru
A dying man fights city hall to give meaning to his life in his final days.
Stray Dog
A noir film confronting social dilemmas and existential questions
(A young Mifune Toshiro was gorgeous in this)
Red Beard
Mifune's last film with Kurosawa and the director's last hero movie
Honda Ishiro
Honda occasionally worked with Kurosawa as an assistant director, but I'm dedicating this space to his work with Godzilla

The original Gojira that started it all
Rodan
Like OG Godzilla, Rodan was a thoughtful film and not a comic kid's movie.  As thoughtful as a Kaiju film can be.
Mothra Vs Godzilla
Definitive proof this my girl can kick Godzilla's butt!
Bonus Director:  NARUSE MIKIO
I love how some of his heroines will tell families, husbands, and/or anyone to step off when they've had enough

Lightning
Street Without End
A Woman Ascends the Stairs
And a little love for the lovers on Valentine's



                                                                                         
                                   BIO                                                        

I started watching Asian dramas around February 2019.  Eternal Love was my first and my first love.  I started searching voraciously for another Cdrama that would make me feel that way again.  Several months later I found Goblin and fell in love, this time with Kdramas.  Now I’m searching for another drama that will make me fall in love all over again.

I love romance, character development, strong women, and good relationships whatever form they may take. I also enjoy martial arts, fantasy, historicals, Kaiju, and action dramas and movies.  In addition to Cdramas and Kdramas I also watch dramas/movies from  Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines.   Lately, I've been exploring older movies going back to the silent films in the 1920's and 1930's.

Mostly I just want to watch a romance with all the goofy tropes including the Subway product placement.  I don’t care if it’s boy-girl, boy-boy, or girl-girl I want everyone to live happily every after.♡♡♡

 

My rating system explained, tongue in cheek.  

An addendum to understanding my ratings:  I rate pre-1990's kung fu and kaiju movies on a curve.  They were usually cheaply made for a niche audience.  I also give silent films from the 20's and 30's some leeway as they were breaking new ground in film storytelling and acting.  The dramas and movies that I've rated as 10's were the first in a particular genre that made me fall in love with it.  They were also from early in my drama watching life and would  be rated lower now.  They may not be perfect, but they hooked me into the drama and Asian movie life, so I left them at the 10's they are.

Eternal Love: https://mydramalist.com/profile/Schmetterling/reviews/54085
Goblin:  https://mydramalist.com/profile/Schmetterling/reviews/55235
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:  https://mydramalist.com/profile/Schmetterling/review/267935
Godzilla (1954):  https://mydramalist.com/profile/Schmetterling/review/145411


                                                                      

WATCHLIST EXPLAINED


CW: It stresses me out to try and keep track so I rarely use it.  

PTW:  So many dramas, so little time

 On Hold: It's not you, it's me     

Dropped:  Oh, yeah, it's you, not me 


         
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