Bleach 1.08

June 17, Memories in the Rain

The Kurosaki family goes to visit the grave of Ichigo's mother on the anniversary of her death. Ichigo blames himself for her death. He was only 9 years old at the time.

Rukia tries asking him about what happened but he doesn't want to talk about it and walks off.

Rukia is approached by  Eikichirō Saidō, a soul reaper, who was sent to bring her back to the soul society. She doesn't recognize him. He tries to jog her memory without success.

Kon goes and gets Ichigo. Saidō is amused when Ichigo claims to be a substitute Shinigami. Ichigo takes the pill that is in Kon's mouth and swallows it. His Shinigami form separates from his body. Ichigo and Saidō fight. Ichigo finds that he is no match for Saidō.

Doctor Who (1963) 8.02.04

The Mind of Evil - Part Four

The Master is forced to turn off the machine because it is affecting him and the men under his command. The Doctor recovers long enough to reveal that he knows that there is an alien inside the machine.

The Doctor passes out again and is taken to the cell where Jo is being kept. Jo talks one of the prisoners guarding them into getting Doctor Summers to take a look at the Doctor. Doctor Summers isn't able to do anything for him.

The Master has a talk with the creature in the machine. The creature attempts to harm him with a giant image of the Doctor. The Master is forced to leave the room or suffer a similar fate as those whom the machine has killed.

3-Iron (2004)

3-Iron (2004)

starring Lee Seung-yun, Jae Hee

written and directed by Kim Ki-Duk

Tae-suk (Jae Hee) lives a solo existence. He breaks into homes when people are not there, fixes things, washes their laundry, and then disappears before they return.

Everything changes when he meets Sun-hwa (Lee Seung-yun) a physically abused wife who is still in one of the houses which Tae-suk visits. She leaves with him when her husband returns unexpectedly early from a business trip.

They travel around together for a while. They are eventually caught in one home when the owners return from vacation in the middle of the night. They flee but not long after that they find the dead body of a elderly man in one of the homes which they visit. Tae-suk gets accused of murder but is later exonerated of that crime when an autopsy reveals that the old man died of lung cancer. Sun-hwa is sent back to her husband.

Tae-suk and Sun-hwa are separated for a while but eventually they are reunited but in an unexpected way.

Thoughts

I don't know how to explain what Tae-suk goes through in the second half of the movie. He gets locked up. That part is fairly straight forward. What isn't is that he seems to teach himself how to be invisible.

The first half seemed a little different but really intrigued me. There are long periods in which there is no talking. There doesn't seem to be a romantic spark between Sun-hwa and Tae-suk at first. It is only towards the middle of the film that this changes.

I don't fully understand this movie but it was magical. The way it was shot, the music, and the pacing all contributed in positive ways to the experience.

Violent Cop (1989)

Violent Cop (1989)

starring Takeshi Kitano, Hakuryu

direced by Takeshi Kitano

Azuma (Takeshi Kitano) and Kikuchi, two police detectives, search for the killer of a drug dealer. Azuma has a violent streak. Kikuchi is a rookie and considerably meeker than Azuma.

Kiyohiro (Hakuryu), the killer, takes pleasure in his job. Azuma and Kikuchi arrest Kiyohiro at one point but he is released from police custody after Azuma beats him and almost shoots him during an interrogation. Azuma is forced to resign.

Kiyohiro is told by his boss to stay away from Azuma. Kiyohiro ignores this order.

The Phil Silvers Show 4.02

Bilko's Vampire

Bilko finds out that the reason Ritzik has been leaving poker games early is so that he can get home in time to watch Shock Theater on the television. Bilko tries to scare Ritzik into returning by convincing him that he (Ritzik) will turn into a vampire if he doesn't stop watching horror movies.

Thoughts

This episode was on the weak side. It felt like they wanted to work vampires into the episode and found a way to make it work except that it didn't really work very well. Is this the jump the shark moment for this show?

Star Trek 1.01

The Man Trap

The Enterprise visits a Planet M-113. The planet is abandoned with the exception of Dr. Robert Crater and his wife Nancy. Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy, and Crewman Darnell beam down. Doctor McCoy is there to conduct a medical examination of the Craters. Darnell turns up dead before McCoy can complete his examination of Robert Crater or begin his examination of Nancy Crater.

Nancy thinks that Darnell died from ingesting a local plant but McCoy's autopsy says otherwise. Two more crewmen beam down to investigate and turn up dead. Nancy, or something disguised as Nancy is the culprit. The creature changes its appearance and gets aboard the Enterprise disguised as one of the dead crewmen whose body has yet to be found.

Justice League Action 1.34

The Cube Root

Dr. Stein teams up with Mr. Terrific, his old college roommate, after he is split from Ronnie Raymond by the Calculator, who also stole Mr. Terrific's T Spheres. They use Stein's invention, S Cubes, to locate and get close enough to the Calculator (who has weaponized the T Spheres) and stop the supervillain.

Thoughts

I like this one a lot. I love how personal it gets between Stein and Terrific. It is also the first time that Ronnie Raymond and Professor Stein have appeared in their human forms in this show.