As for The Green Knight, it's a mixed bag. GREAT atmosphere, a deep sense of magic and mystery, a gritty aesthetic more common to European and Japanese fantasy than to American or Chinese fantasy media, strong performances, and an uncommon understanding of mysticism and avant garde art.
Some of the atmosphere reminded me of Daimajin where the kami's statue is in a lonely mountain valley. It's a great samurai fantasy of betrayal and avenging the dead with Majin showing up at the end in full implacable offended god wrecking everyone's shit.
It's basic story fit Sonja 2025, family killed, hidden life in the mountains, return to fight the villains, fail, god comes. Instead with a warrior goddess to baptize Sonja, given the bikini which is how the goddess could be dressed, Sonja returns her implacable paladin avenger.
Thank you! I'll need to check that one out. Sounds cool!
There's a decent copy on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsrk...
Oh, neat! I recall seeing Gamera vs. Barugon on public access in 1977, though I recall very little about it, as that was almost 50 years ago.
It's also a bleak, slow, grimy and grim-spirited exploration of a man who receives magnificent gifts and yet fucks up almost everything he touches because he's a pretty, vain, selfish coward. That's all absolutely intentional, and it's artistically valid, but kind of a slog to watch.
