Let's have a little thread to talk about what we're watching or have watched recently.
Pieces (1982) aka Mil gritos tiene la noche (Night of a Thousand Screams). This is a Spanish movie pretending to be an Italian giallo pretending to be filmed in America, Boston specifically just ignore the sunny weather and palm trees. The premise is fairly simple: a masked chainsaw wielding killer stalks a college campus sawing women into pieces for his human jigsaw puzzle. "It's exactly what you think it is!" on the box art. For some reason the incompetent authorities just decide to keep the college open despite girls being chopped to bits every other day. The killer walks around in the appropriate giallo killer uniform: black fedora, black over coat, black gloves all in the middle of summer without breaking a sweat. It'd be pretty good camo at night if it wasn't for the big yellow chainsaw. Oh yeah, and this University employs a tenured professor of kung fu, a Bruce Lee clone in a tracksuit who shows up randomly to stalk the MC and do wushu moves before fainting and blaming it all on bad chop suey.
Magic Knight Rayearth (2026) probably the only good thing airing this season. Its a fairly good remake of the 90s anime and is more faithful to the manga. The environments and outfits look beautiful and we get some stunning shots. I'm enjoying it so far.
I'm not currently watching any anime right now, but I watched Aso Jinja the other day, an NHK documentary about restoring a the Aso shrine in Kumamoto as it was devastated by an earthquake in 2016. It's neat to see the effort they put into trying to reuse all the original wood instead of building a shrine replica on top of it, I'm glad they've restored it as the shrine's about 2200~ years old.
>>2
I wonder how they did that. Surely the existing wood would have been badly damaged or just old? Its good they managed to restore it.
>>3
It's pretty fascinating, you can watch it here if you'd like:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/3016171/