Bu Su (1987), Jun Ichikawa

Jennie: What are your future plans?

Rosé: Lunch.

Jennie: ...I meant like long term plans?

Rosé: Dinner?

suzaku (1997)

If only you knew how it hurts

“You always smell so good, how do you do it?”

“That’s what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emotion during an act of violence and the face becomes a blank, unreadable mask.”

“The young people nowadays – men and women, amateurs and pros – generally fall into one of two categories: either they don’t know what it is that’s most important to them, or they know but don’t have the power to go after it. But this girl’s different. She knows what’s most important to her and she knows how to get it, but she doesn’t let on what it is. I’m pretty sure it’s not money, or success, or a normal happy life, or a strong man, or some weird religion, but that’s about all I can tell you. She’s like smoke: you think you’re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her there’s nothing there. That’s a sort of strength, I suppose. But it makes her hard to figure out.”

― Ryū Murakami, Audition

Audition (1999), dir. Takashi Miike

Yagate umi e to todoku AKA One Day, You Will Reach The Sea (2022), dir.  Ryûtarô Nakagawa  

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) | dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

hailee steinfeld owns my body.