foreign language entertainment

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hamilton-in-the-interest-of-the-nation-2012-poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856014/
https://reinvent.dk/catalogue/agent-hamilton-in-the-interest-of-the-nation/

A Swedish intelligence agent tracks a missing shipment of arms, uncovering a link to a mercenary organization.

Exceptional. This is not James Bond-style, but is a proper adult movie.

  • Properly titled: Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation
  • The Swedish title is: Hamilton: I nationens intresse
  • Trailer



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Mushoku Tensei - (2021 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13293588/
https://mushokutensei.jp/

A NEET dies but finds himself reincarnated in a fantasy world, where he grows into with the competence and usefulness that he ought to have been working for in his previous life.

Starts strongly, but really spirals down into pulp crap. Still perfectly watchable overall. Recommended even for people who don’t like this sort of entertainment but like the sword-and-sorcery topic in general.

Watched at the end of 2022; no notes were taken.

Princess Mononoke - (1997 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119698/
https://www.ghibli.jp/works/mononoke/
was movies.disney.com/princess-mononoke (purged)

Servants of the emperor wage war with ancient gods to dominate the land for iron, forcing innocents into the crossfire, but a prince of a lost tribe adventures to save himself and the land from the resulting curse.

Throughout the movie, there are men used as comedic relief and women as brave and smart.



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Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091341/

Two strangers press a button and are whisked away to a capitalist dystopia.

It’s alternately boring and stupid.



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District 13꞉ Ultimatum image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1247640/

Bad Guys want to blow up a shithole to make money in rebuilding.

It’s okay I guess, but the writing is off and it’s frequently a tired revisitation of the earlier movie.

  • Trailer
  • Properly titled District 13꞉ Ultimatum
  • Original title: Banlieue 13: Ultimatum



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Encounter - (2014 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4047752/
was encounters.dk

Although they lampshade The Blair Witch Project – (1999 movie), this is just The Blair Witch Project with an accent.

Boring.



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Avalon - (2001 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267287/
https://www.miramax.com/movie/avalon/

A player advances through an illegal hyper-real virtual reality combat game.

Artistic, slow and bad.

  • Trailer
  • This is more sepia than black-and-white.



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Sexmission - (1984 movie) image 2

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/

A hibernation experiment becomes a disaster that two men must both escape by taking advantage of it.

A fantastic movie that’s engaging all the way through.



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I Am a Hero - (2015 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3775202/
https://avex.jp/iamahero/
was toho.co.jp/movie/lineup/iamahero-movie.html/

A zombie apocalypse fells Japan and it’s up to an almost-NEET everyman to mostly save a couple of people.

A straightforward and largely unsurprising movie; fine for wasting some time.



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Solaris - (1972 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/

People mysteriously go mad on a space station, and a guy is sent to investigate.

Long and boring.