Everything.
Nothing.
Life.
Death.
The human experience has never been more thoroughly captured in narrative form than SABU's Blessing Bell. A complete departure from his earlier yakuza films where everything that can go wrong will go wrong (and we all laugh and have a good time), Blessing Bell instead goes down the arthouse road. It's poetic, it's ambient, it's aimless, it's almost designed entirely for scholarly analysis. And it's also really good! Who knew SABU had this in him? Oh and we finally get Susumu Terajima in a leading role (EVEN THOUGH HE BARELY SPEAKS).
One of the most peaceful and meditative films I've ever seen.
Everything.
Nothing.
Life.
Death.
The human experience has never been more thoroughly captured in narrative form than SABU's Blessing Bell. A complete departure from his earlier yakuza films where everything that can go wrong will go wrong (and we all laugh and have a good time), Blessing Bell instead goes down the arthouse road. It's poetic, it's ambient, it's aimless, it's almost designed entirely for scholarly analysis. And it's also really good! Who knew SABU had this in him? Oh and we finally get Susumu Terajima in a leading role (EVEN THOUGH HE BARELY SPEAKS).
One of the most peaceful and meditative films I've ever seen.
