『バイオレンスシティ山谷』("Violence City Yamaya",lost japanese film...?)
Oct 24, 2017 22:57:57 GMT
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Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Oct 24, 2017 22:57:57 GMT
I'm very sorry for using the japanese title, but this one's pretty... particular, I don't even know where to begin with
Ever heard of Hong Kong 97? No, I'm not talking about the 1994 Robert Patrick movie, I'm talking about the 1995 Japan-exclusive game, developed by HappySoft and designed by the japanese journalist クーロン黒沢 (Kūron Kurosawa, also refered as Kowloon Kurosawa). The game is infamous for being extremely bad, and for using a picture of a real dead body as its game over screen. If you wanna know a bit more about this game, I recomend you to check out this video:
Anyway, back to the topic: I was watching the Angry Video Game Nerd episode about Hong Kong 97 (the video I just inserted), and started reading comments, and I felt a bit of curiosity about this game and its creator, since its release state is a mistery, and overall the game has an eerie aura surrounding it, so, after reading a tiny little bit about its creator on reddit (where people claims he has a pretty... specific style, which is evident by the contents of the aforementioned "game") I checked the game's Wikipedia page and there I found the name of the creator. Unfortunately, this is where things start getting difficult and confusing, since his Wikipedia page is only available in japanese and I know little to no japanese, so I had to depend on the questionable Google translator
I was quickly checking the section where it talks about his works (again, Google translations aren't that good so I'm not interested on reading mostly gibberish) when I found something interesting, something which apparently is called 『バイオレンスシティ山谷』(which Google translates as "Violence City Yamaya"), and, right next to the title, it says "VHS・30分", which apparently translates to "VHS 30 Minutes". On its description (which, once again, it's a poor translation courtesy of our best friend the Google translator) it says:
Tokyo Minami-Senju in the Doya the city , Sanya video work that the (Mr. Ya) on the stage.
Taking pictures with hidden shots by household video cameras (which were large at the time) with their peers at the time. As a behind-the-scenes story, he said he was in danger by the raids of the inhabitants there
Since it is on the "My own work" section of the article (right below Hong Kong 97), and because of the "VHS 30 Minutes" thing, it makes me believe that this is, in fact, a movie (in case you're wondering, the rest of stuff listed on the "My own work" section are a bunch of Music CDs and something translated as "Torture Master", so... yeah, again, this guy is truly something), but the thing is, I can't seem to find it
How much info do I have? Sadly not much, and since everything I find is in japanese is hard to say what do I actually have, but I did my best to piece everything together and this is what I have in store:
Firts of all, some reddit user claimed to have found Kurosawa's Facebook page, in an attempt to ask him about the dead body featured in Hong Kong 97 (which apparently is an autopsy photo of some Polish boxer who killed himself), but when he was asked about the dead body, he didn't respond, so he doesn't seem to be very cooperative
With that said, back to the movie: First of all, Kurosawa actually has a IMDB page, but he's only credited for Hong Kong 97. I also found a tweet from a user which Google translates as "Eh", it has a URL to Tumblr, as well as a japanese text that says ""Violence City Yamaya" (VHS · 30 minutes) A video work set in the Doya area, Sanya, in the Minami-Senju, Tokyo area, with home video cameras (which were large at the time) Shooting by secret shooting by " (almost the exact same thing as the Wikipedia page), the Tumblr URL has an almost identical text as well
Finally, I found some kind of old short japanese film on YouTube called "japan sanya, tokyo" which is split into 4 parts, I didn't bother to watch it, but the full thing lasts around 25 minutes, which almost fits with the duration of this "Violence City Yamaya" thing, but those missing 5 minutes kinda bother me, also, this seems more like a documentary rather than a film, it doesn't seem to feature anything related to violence, and the last part cuts to a black screen halfway through, which means that this actually lasts like 23 minutes, which is farther of those 30 minutes, and, most importantly, there are no credits
So I think that's everything I have right now, so... yeah, like I said this Kurosawa guy seems to be quite the character, so I'm kinda doubtful if I actually want to know what this Violence City Yamaya thing is
Kurosawa's Wikipedia article: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E9%BB%92%E6%B2%A2
Kurosawa's IMDB page: www.imdb.com/name/nm7432339/
Mysterious tweet:
Part 1 of japan sanya,tokyo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoyymz8ymw
Ever heard of Hong Kong 97? No, I'm not talking about the 1994 Robert Patrick movie, I'm talking about the 1995 Japan-exclusive game, developed by HappySoft and designed by the japanese journalist クーロン黒沢 (Kūron Kurosawa, also refered as Kowloon Kurosawa). The game is infamous for being extremely bad, and for using a picture of a real dead body as its game over screen. If you wanna know a bit more about this game, I recomend you to check out this video:
Anyway, back to the topic: I was watching the Angry Video Game Nerd episode about Hong Kong 97 (the video I just inserted), and started reading comments, and I felt a bit of curiosity about this game and its creator, since its release state is a mistery, and overall the game has an eerie aura surrounding it, so, after reading a tiny little bit about its creator on reddit (where people claims he has a pretty... specific style, which is evident by the contents of the aforementioned "game") I checked the game's Wikipedia page and there I found the name of the creator. Unfortunately, this is where things start getting difficult and confusing, since his Wikipedia page is only available in japanese and I know little to no japanese, so I had to depend on the questionable Google translator
I was quickly checking the section where it talks about his works (again, Google translations aren't that good so I'm not interested on reading mostly gibberish) when I found something interesting, something which apparently is called 『バイオレンスシティ山谷』(which Google translates as "Violence City Yamaya"), and, right next to the title, it says "VHS・30分", which apparently translates to "VHS 30 Minutes". On its description (which, once again, it's a poor translation courtesy of our best friend the Google translator) it says:
Tokyo Minami-Senju in the Doya the city , Sanya video work that the (Mr. Ya) on the stage.
Taking pictures with hidden shots by household video cameras (which were large at the time) with their peers at the time. As a behind-the-scenes story, he said he was in danger by the raids of the inhabitants there
Since it is on the "My own work" section of the article (right below Hong Kong 97), and because of the "VHS 30 Minutes" thing, it makes me believe that this is, in fact, a movie (in case you're wondering, the rest of stuff listed on the "My own work" section are a bunch of Music CDs and something translated as "Torture Master", so... yeah, again, this guy is truly something), but the thing is, I can't seem to find it
How much info do I have? Sadly not much, and since everything I find is in japanese is hard to say what do I actually have, but I did my best to piece everything together and this is what I have in store:
Firts of all, some reddit user claimed to have found Kurosawa's Facebook page, in an attempt to ask him about the dead body featured in Hong Kong 97 (which apparently is an autopsy photo of some Polish boxer who killed himself), but when he was asked about the dead body, he didn't respond, so he doesn't seem to be very cooperative
With that said, back to the movie: First of all, Kurosawa actually has a IMDB page, but he's only credited for Hong Kong 97. I also found a tweet from a user which Google translates as "Eh", it has a URL to Tumblr, as well as a japanese text that says ""Violence City Yamaya" (VHS · 30 minutes) A video work set in the Doya area, Sanya, in the Minami-Senju, Tokyo area, with home video cameras (which were large at the time) Shooting by secret shooting by " (almost the exact same thing as the Wikipedia page), the Tumblr URL has an almost identical text as well
Finally, I found some kind of old short japanese film on YouTube called "japan sanya, tokyo" which is split into 4 parts, I didn't bother to watch it, but the full thing lasts around 25 minutes, which almost fits with the duration of this "Violence City Yamaya" thing, but those missing 5 minutes kinda bother me, also, this seems more like a documentary rather than a film, it doesn't seem to feature anything related to violence, and the last part cuts to a black screen halfway through, which means that this actually lasts like 23 minutes, which is farther of those 30 minutes, and, most importantly, there are no credits
So I think that's everything I have right now, so... yeah, like I said this Kurosawa guy seems to be quite the character, so I'm kinda doubtful if I actually want to know what this Violence City Yamaya thing is
Kurosawa's Wikipedia article: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E9%BB%92%E6%B2%A2
Kurosawa's IMDB page: www.imdb.com/name/nm7432339/
Mysterious tweet:
Part 1 of japan sanya,tokyo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoyymz8ymw
