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HOUSE: AS DONCELAS CHUCK STEPHENS 02 Follas Do Cineclube | 11/09/2019 02 Follas do Cineclube | 11/08/2019 pois da guerra), pero na altura de 1976, o filme máis innovador Follas do Cineclube | 11/08/2019 de Xapón era o que ninguén tiña permitido ver: o tratado de HOUSE Oshima da paixón sexual como política radical O imperio dos (ハウス [Hausu], 大林 宣彦 [Nobuhiko Obayashi], 02 sentidos, cuxos desvergoñados matos de pelo pubiano correron Xapón, 1977, 88’, VOSG) directos contra o tabú visual definitivo da nación e que a día de hoxe segue prohibido no seu país de orixe. (Entrementres, a fantasía ultrasádica de violación Assault! Jack the Ripper!, do [Publicado como House: The Housemaidens en The Criterion antigo director de acción da Nikkatsu Yasuharu Hasebe - que Collection o 26 de outubro de 2010. Dispoñible en: https:// se adhería estritamente a aquel singular tecnicismo capilar - www.criterion.com/current/posts/1634-house-the-house- acabou converténdose nun gran éxito de público do cinema maidens] rosa aquel ano). Unha historia de paso á madurez sobre un grupo de colexialas O ano 1977 chegou e marchou sen longas de Oshima ou Shohei adolescentes que nunca se farán maiores e un espírito demonía- Imamura. Unha voz do pasado fixo un retorno non especialmente co na forma dunha solteirona que nunca foi nova, ou House de triunfal á pantalla: Seijun Suzuki, con Story of Sorrow and Sad- Nobuhiko Obayashi, demente ata facer saltar os ollos e inventivo ness, unha década despois do seu famoso despido da Nikkatsu; ata facer caer as mandíbulas, é cultura pop xaponesa dos 70 no outro, Akira Kurosawa, continuaba no seu retiro forzoso, etique- seu extremo máis deliciosamente chalado: un filme para sesión tado como inútil para o traballo. No mainstream, chegaron dúas golfa sobre nubilidade e desmembramentos distribuído para entregas máis na sucesión aparentemente infinita de filmes de un público matinal de adolescentes e “secretarias”, un remuíño Tora-san do director Yoji Yamada, que acabaran por representar predixital de enxeño visual producido durante unha das épocas o cinema xaponés típico da época: homilías sinxelas sobre as máis tibias do cinema xaponés do século XX, unha obra mestra verdades do campo, contadas en viñetas reconfortantes sobre moderna do cinema do WTF, comercializada inicialmente na a resiliente alegría do vendedor ambulante que lles da título, segunda metade dun programa dobre cun romance azucrado de o infatigable Tora, sempre vestido co seu poliéster pasado de ídolos adolescentes chamado Corazóns puros na lama e cunha moda e o seu sombreiro de ala curta marca da casa, coa súa geta frase promocional que animaba á audiencia a ver “como sete (sandalia) de madeira tocando un alegre trantracatrán mentres belezas eran devoradas!”. volve coller unha estrada rústica calquera camiño a lugares ben coñecidos. E, para acabar de arranxalo, Yamada amañouse para Disney tiña os seus sete ananos, Kurosawa os seus sete samurais. fortificar a súa cota de Tora-san aquel ano co dramón gañador Para Obayashi (coa axuda da súa filla de once anos, Chigumi, que do Premio da Academia Xaponesa (e triunfo de público en toda aportou moitas das ideas da trama) foron sete doncelas adoles- Asia) O pano amarelo da felicidade, un filme tan lonxe da defini- centes en apuros - Carrie elevada á sétima potencia, Suspiria en ción que calquera rebelde xuvenil tería do que é guai como No espiral aínda máis alto cara algún sétimo ceo psicodélico. House estanque dourado o está de Easy Rider. é un filme que hai que ver para poder crelo, e logo velo outra vez para confirmar que realmente viches o que pensas que viches. Pero, descoñecido para a maioría do público que enchía as Un piano encantado e aparentemente famento devora unha salas a comezos de 1977 para os dramas de Yamada - ou para rapaza chamada Melody, primeiro dedo a dedo, logo cacho a os únicos éxitos comerciais fixos no horizonte local, unha serie cacho a dentadas do seu torso adolescente espido. Un retrato de romances adolescentes protagonizados polos ídolos do mo- ao estilo de Louis Wain dun bakeneko (gato pantasma) suave mento Momoe Yamaguchi e Tomokazu Miura (tan identificados redefine o poder da cona cando empeza a lanzar máis sangue co seu estatus como parella na gran pantalla que eran coñecidos nunha pequena habitación que o ascensor de O resplandor simplemente como Momo-Tomo) - Nobuhiko Obayashi era xa no Hotel Overlook enteiro. Unha rapaza gorda alcumada Mac todo un cineasta da época, mesmo aínda que a súa primeira (abreviatura para “estomacal”) seduce unha sandía para que longa non se estrease ata máis tarde aquel ano. escape dun vendedor de sandías con forma de sandía (que é en realidade o compositor da banda sonora, e a voz detrás da Unha figura pioneira na escena do cinema experimental xaponés pronuncia máis grave que Largo da Familia Addams do título do que xurdiu a finais dos 50, Obayashi (nado en 1938) comezara a filme, dito en alto sobre os créditos animados de apertura como facer curtas en Super 8 en 1956, e pronto se asociou cos com- se se anunciase, a través dun altofalante escarallado, o inicio pañeiros cineastas Donald Richie e Takahiko Iimura, cos que dunha viaxe no tren da bruxa nunha festa). E antes de que poidas fundaría o colectivo de cinema experimental Film Indépendant dicir “Sigmund Freud”, o profesor macizo favorito das rapazas en 1964. As curtas de Obayashi en 8 e 16 milímetros centráronse transfórmase nunha pila de plátanos do seu tamaño. E iso só para case sempre en mulleres novas atrapadas emocionalmente entre comezar: na Casa de Obayashi hai moitas, moitas habitacións… saltar a corda e os saltos do corazón no primeiro amor: vivaces e esforzadas visións pícaras do anhelo feminino, de adolescentes O que a compañía Toho esperaba cando contratou a Obayashi ignorando a súa inminente madurez xogando ás agachadas ou á era un Tiburón de colleita propia: un filme de verán producido mariola de forma case despreocupada (e, baixo as estratexias de localmente e suficientemente cebado de excitación como para montaxe percusivamente pianísticas de Obayashi, graficamen- para evitar parcialmente a arremetida naquel momento dos te impresionante), á vez embruxadas e confusas polos homes éxitos do Novo Hollywood en Tokio dos señores Spielberg e normalmente periféricos (aínda que, como na súa obra mestra Lucas: algo rápido e ruidoso, con toneladas de diversión empa- de 1966 Emotion, dalgún xeito cómicos e sinistramente vampí- quetadas entre berros. No cinema xaponés de mediados dos 70, ricos) que rondan o seu entorno. Hoxe, Obayashi lembra princi- “rápido”, “divertido” e “éxito de colleita propia” non eran cousas palmente o impacto que tivo nas sensibilidades del e dos seus moi comúns. O pinku eiga (cinema rosa) para adultos tomara o compatriotas ver os primeiros filmes da Nouvelle vague, espe- poder, e mesmo os mestres do cinema de xénero como Kinki cialmente Ao final da escapada de Godard. Con todo, tomando Fukasaku se atoparon pelexando para manter o éxito dos filmes como evidencia un filme tan temperá como Dandanko, de 1960, de yakuza e outros tipos de acción que tan lucrativos foran a parece que o cineasta canadense Norman McLaren, que estivera comezos da década. As glorias radicais da Nova Vaga dos anos experimentando de xeito similar mesturando animación manual sesenta no país amañáranse para perdurar ben nos primeiros 70 ou de collage con metraxe de acción real, a miúdo estrafalario e (gracias principalmente á iniciativa de financiamento indepen- tolo, dende os anos 40, puido ser igualmente unha influencia (se dente e exhibición coñecida como a Academia de Cinema de cadra indirecta). Fosen cales fosen as súas inspiracións, o uso Arte, onde Nagisa Oshima produciría traballos tan destrutores de Obayashi dunha variedade de enfoques cinematográficos da forma como Diario dun ladrón de Shinjuku ou Morreu des- “caseiros” (non moi diferentes dos deseños pop art de Richard HOUSE: AS DONCELAS CHUCK STEPHENS 02 Follas do cineclube | 11/09/2019 Lester en Que noite a daquel día!) parecía deseñada a medida ridiculamente lisérxicos que calquera dos outros vinte filmes para certa cepa de cultura xuvenil non demasiado radical dos xaponeses estreados ese ano… ou calquera outro. 60: a súa era unha sensibilidade cargada dun romanticismo moito máis Truffaut que Godard, e tan política e esteticamente A narración, na súa esencia, é de feito unha bastante ben coñe- neutra comparada con contemporáneos como Oshima como cida no folclore xaponés e na cultura do cine de terror, familiar podería parecelo Peter Max en comparación con Robert Raus- por filmes como O gato negro de Kaneto Shindo ou a desacou- chenberg ou Jasper Johns. gante A mansión do gato pantasma de Nobuo Nakagawa. A tía de Preciosa (interpretada pola veterana actriz Yoko Minamida, Non é raro, xa que logo, que Obayashi acabase traballando en que aparecera en A emperatriz Yang Kwei-fei de Mizoguchi e Por- publicidade, contratado por un produtor da axencia Dentsu, cos e acoirazados de Imamura) resulta ser un cruce entre unha logo dunha proxección dos traballos experimentais do cineasta, Miss Havisham da chaira de Kanto, abandonada para murchar para levar algo da súa vertixinosa inventiva visual ao mundo dos no altar cando o seu prometido (interpretado en flashback polo anuncios televisivos. O que seguiu foi un dos exemplos máis propio Tomo) marcha á guerra, e un monstro xaponés clásico impresionantes de surrealismo con celebridades na historia da metade felino metade meiga (un kaibyo), unha alma vingativa publicidade xaponesa: unha sucesión de spots con estrelas tan capaz da transmigración constante entre os útiles
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