Showing posts with label Buck-Tick The Movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buck-Tick The Movie. Show all posts

7.4.17

Buck-Tick: The Climax... or... Milking the Money Man

Some people claim that men can't lactate - that is to say, male Homo sapiens can't make milk like female mammals of every species. In fact, it's possible that the number of people who believe men can't lactate is even higher than the number of people who believe that climate change is real, and that human beings actually landed on the moon. But Victor Entertainment doesn't listen to science! Victor Entertainment knows that if you squeeze men's tits hard enough, milk comes streaming out... and that milk has a very distinct color. Oh, wow, funny coincidence: it's the same color as money.

General admission standing tour to support Atom Miraiha? You've got to be out of your minds. Why get Buck-Tick to actually stand onstage and do something real for their 30th anniversary, when instead you can make a cheesy retrospective rockumentary about them climaxing together for 30 years, then release it to movie theaters and charge fans 2500 yen for the privilege of reliving a pale shadow of something they already saw live in the sweaty flesh back in the early 90's when they were still young, beautiful, and carefree?

That is to say, Attention Blog-Tickers! Not to be outdone by X Japan's masturbatory cheesefest We Are X, the Victor Overlords of the Buck-Tick Industrial Complex are just about to jizz their pants with excitement at the following news: a second Buck-Tick: The Movie will be released in June! Entitled BUCK-TICK ~CLIMAX TOGETHER~ ON SCREEN 1992-2016, it will feature, in the words of the promotional site

"Retrospective interviews connected by the thread of three concerts in 1992, 2004, and 2016, showing the growth of the band members and their relationship with their fans, and highlighting Buck-Tick's one-of-a-kind stage presence in bold ink."

If you fell asleep in boredom before you reached the end of that sentence, you're not alone. We just woke up to find we'd nodded off in our chairs while attempting to translate it.

Oh, and just as The Buck-Tick Phenomenon: The Theatrical Release was a ridiculously long and clunky title for a movie which was much better shortened to Buck-Tick: The Movie (a title which you may have noticed the band themselves actually slapped onto the movie after the fact when they released it to DVD!), 

Buck-Tick ~*~*~*~ClImAx tOgEtHer -GJTHBKHTD -19870921x30- ~*~*~*~

(that's the official title right? I'm too lazy to scroll back up and check) is also a ridiculously long and clunky movie title, and therefore we are going to go ahead and shorten it to Buck-Tick: The Climax.

But seriously, kids, how much of an anti-climax is this, anyway? Dedicated fans have already seen all three Climax Together concerts on video if not in person, "Buck-Tick's relationship with their fans" could be summed up by blowing a raspberry while sitting on a whoopee cushion, and unless they decided to interview the whole band while skinny-dipping in one of Gunma Prefecture's famous hot springs, we can be pretty sure there will be no surprise clips of backstage Nude Goth Pilates. In short, there is almost certainly going to be no point to this movie, other than an excuse for day drinking in a movie theater. Which is actually not a bad idea. Anyone who wants to join Cayce for a spot of that, email us. Honestly we're not even picky about the film. It doesn't have to be Buck-Tick. It could be a porno flick instead...that would be sure to contain more climaxes, anyhow. You have until June to come up with recipes for tasty absinthe cocktails that can fit in a hip flask.

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In other news, fans will soon be able to vote on tracks to be included in Buck-Tick's 30th anniversary best-of album, which will be titled The BesT of the BesT of the BesT of Buck-Tick (Better than the Best of the Best!). Voting will take place on this site, and be open between May 1st at noon and June 30th at one minute to midnight. If I find out that any single one of you has voted for "Muma -The Nightmare-," I will personally hunt you down and kill you. Muma made it onto the last two unnecessary anniversary best albums, people. Unless this is some divine Wiccan punishment coming back full circle (in which case we're doomed to suffer three Mumas), let's not make the same mistake three times.

Instead, here are MY suggestions for songs to vote for, in no particular order:

No-No Boy
Hearts
Capsule Tears - Plastic Syndrome III-
Embryo
Pleasure Land
Under the Moonlight
Loop -Mark II-
Kimi e
Sexy Streamliner
Living on the Net
Brilliant
Nakayubi
That song about Acchan losing his bikini (I forget the title)

Details of the release have not yet been announced, but rumor has it that it will be released only to cassette tape, mini disc, floppy disc, Nintendo 64 and Betamax, so have those vintage technology players ready and waiting!

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Real talk: Buck-Tick have a lot of great songs that time and fans forgot. In the next week or so, we'll write a post on some songs we genuinely believe you should vote for for the best album, but in the meantime, go back and listen to their whole discography again, and kindly skip "Muma," "Aku no Hana" and "Tenshi wa Dare da" while thinking fondly of how much you love Cayce.

Oh, and for some reason I feel like sharing this song. It seems relevant, somehow.


24.1.14

Buck-Tick: The Movie DVD

When we opened our copy of the limited edition DVD for Buck-Tick: The Movie, we found this inside:



Yes, it's legitimately autographed by all the band members.  Not a print-out, a real autograph.  According to the Buck-Tick website, there were only 100 of them, randomly inserted into people's orders.  Lucky us.  Unfortunately this photograph continues to make it look like Mr. Sakurai is lovingly caressing Mr. Higuchi's hand.

22.1.14

Love & Steppers

New single display in Tower Records Shibuya.  The display was really big this time (that's what she said.)


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6.7.13

Buck-Tick on Buck-Tick: The Movie

In the pamphlet for Buck-Tick: The Two Movies, the Buck-Tick members were asked to answer a short set of questions.  Here are their responses.

What was your first reaction to appearing in a movie?
Yutaka: Pleased
Toll: Overjoyed
Sakurai: Happy, very happy
Hide: I selfishly inflicted my presence on you all...
Imai: I didn't actually do anything myself, but I'm embarrassed anyway.

When you watched the movie in full, is there anything that particularly stood out to you about Buck-Tick's 25th anniversary year?
Imai: Thank you all so much!
Toll: We were busy.
Yutaka: We got to celebrate with the fans and play a lot of great shows.
Hide: One hell of a year.
Sakurai: Dense with activity.  I never stopped singing!

How well do you think the movies represented your daily activities as a band?  What impression does the film give of the other band members?
Hide: It's like that.
Toll: This is how we are.
Yutaka: You got to see all sorts of parts of us.
Imai: Like, "uhhh" or like "yeah..." or like "say wut"
Sakurai: Aren't we all sexy??

What was your favorite scene in the movie?
Sakurai: The scenes were the staff are being so helpful.
Toll: The scenes comparing us 25 years ago to how we are now.
Hide: The scene of us recording 25 years ago.
Imai: The part where our bassist is backstage doing OOOO and then XXXX and then YYYY.
Yutaka: All of them!

Was there any incident on your 25th anniversary tour that particularly stood out?
Yutaka: Again, all of them!
Toll: We played showed in places we've never performed before (Shiga, Tokushima.)
Hide: Rain, rain, rain!
Imai: Our serious faces while we were having so much fun. And I ate nothing but salad.
Sakurai: Drink or sing.

If a band were a marriage, the five of you would be celebrating your silver wedding. That's a big deal! Why do you think you decided to keep running around with these guys for 25 years?
Imai: It's like, of course.
Hide: Because how we are in the movie is how we've always been.
Toll: It's fate. (I know it's long but it feels short.)
Sakurai: Cuz it's Anii, and Yuta, and Hide, and Imai! [aw, shucks]
Yutaka: RESPECT.

While you watched the movies, did you have any thoughts on Buck-Tick's future?
Yutaka: We'll keep running!
Hide: We'll keep rolling
Toll: We'll do as much as we can do
Sakurai: We'll go as far as we can go
Imai: Now that you mentioned it, I had no thoughts.

What new challenge would you like to take on in the future?
Hide: Mm not really?
Sakurai: Touring Asia.
Toll: I want to run a rock bar.
Yutaka: Every day is a challenge!
Imai: No challenges for me.

If you got the chance, would you make another movie?
Sakurai: Sure
Toll: Maybe for our 30th anniversary?
Yutaka: If it would make the fans happy.
Hide: If there were a chance.
Imai: What about a film soundtrack?

How would you like the fans to view the movie?
Yutaka: This is a documentary of the fans, and the staff, and the artists we performed with, and we wouldn't have been able to do it without your love, so enjoy watching it!
Toll: This is how we are.  This is Buck-Tick.
Hide: Just chill and watch it.
Imai: While you're drinking beer.  You should be drinking beer.
Sakurai: With popcorn and cola, and beer (ouch your butts are going to hurt before the end.)

Please tell us your message to the fans.
Hide: Thanks for coming to the show. See you again at the next show.
Toll: We'll just keep working, so lend us your support.
Yutaka: We'll just keep on running, so lend us your support everybody.
Imai: Wait for the new Buck-Tick.
Sakurai: Enjoy your music, and your life. Till you meet B-T again in the flesh. Thank you with love.

26.6.13

Buck-Tick 2: the review

A review of Buck-Tick 2 : Can't Stop the Phenomenon is now up at NGS!  Please comment or I'll regret having spent so much time writing the damn thing.  Oh yeah and for the record, it's not perfect, but I'll be going to see this one again, too, before it leaves the theater. Not perfect doesn't mean, not a lot of fun.

Review here.

17.6.13

Buck-Tick: The First Movie

We are pleased to announce that our review of Buck-Tick: The First Movie is now up over on Not Greatest Site!  We hope you'll applaud our industriousness at making it happen so fast!  Please leave your comments here.

For those of you who are in Japan, a few notes on the logistics of the movie-going:

1) Not to encourage the consumption of alcohol by fans or anything, but there's a bar at the movie theater.

2) The movie times are displayed on the web pages of the individual movie theaters.  Each movie is only running for two weeks, so take care you don't miss them!  The second movie opens this coming Saturday.

3) If you bought advance tickets, either through Pia or Fish Tank, you need to physically go to the movie theater in advance of the movie and exchange them for a same-day ticket with a seat reservation for a specific time.  I have a feeling the theaters won't be so full during the weekdays, in the mornings, especially, but for weekend showings, if you don't go at least a day in advance, I think you're going to run the risk of either having to sit way down front or not getting a seat at all.

4) The schedule for Buck-Tick 2: Can't Stop the Phenomenon has not been announced yet. Buck-Tick: The First Movie is showing in theater 9 at Shinjuku Wald9 all week at 11AM and 6:30PM. We saw it in theater 6.  Get it guys?

5) Not to encourage the fans to consume alcohol, but there's a bar at the theater that serves green cream soda chu-hi.  (Actually not really.  But they do have all kinds of other boozes.  In their pain boozy style.  Not to encourage fans to go to pot boozy night.  But, y'know.)

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8.6.13

Tickets to Buck-Tick: The Movie

Tickets to Buck-Tick: The Movie were delivered to our door yesterday...and look what a surprise they came with!  A free pair of stickers modeled after the ones that Buck-Tick's management used to deface all of Harajuku during the promotional campaign for the original BUCK-TICK PHENOMENON concerts, back before BT had ever made their major debut!  (This story is featured in Love Me, if you're curious, read it here.)


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Incidentally, these are the same stickers on which we modeled the banner for Blog-Tick.

Shucks, guys.  What a nice present.




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4.6.13

The Buck-Tick Phenomenon: Now a Major Motion Picture!

For those of you who didn't know, the premiers for BUCK-TICK: THE MOVIE and BUCK-TICK: THE OTHER MOVIE were held back-to-back in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture on June 1st, that is to say, last Saturday.  For those of you who didn't know, Fujioka is Buck-Tick's home town.  The director of the movie showed up to make a speech, as did the Mayor of Fujioka.  I hope this gives you some idea about how much goes on in Fujioka on a daily basis.  According to a friend of Blog-Tick who attended the screening, both the mayor's speech and the director's speech were boring and went on too long.


From left to right: Imai "WTFOMG" Hisashi, Toll "Swank" Yagami, Higuchi "Sweet Valley Junior High" Higuchi, The Mayor of Fujioka, The Director of BUCK-TICK: THE MOVIE, Sakurai "Glazed as a Donut" Atsushi, and Hidehiko "Buttoned Up" Hoshino.

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But see, at the end of the movie, when the credits were all done with, the Buck-Tick members themselves came out for an interview.  Apparently, Mr. Sakurai reached sketchily inside his jacket and pretended to pull a Revolver (get it??) on the audience, just like James Bond or something, but maybe that was just the picture.  Disney afficiandoes note that Imai's t-shirt appears to picture Mickey Mouse.  Extra ten points for those fantastic furry leopard print boots.  Hidehiko, please unbutton that shirt and show us some curly black chest hair already.


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In the words of our on-the-ground-correspondent: "Buck-Tick were supposedly having a small party after that, but I had so much beer I thought I might pass out, so I went home."

Well then.

Why wasn't Cayce at this screening, you ask?  Because, just between you and me, we had a tip-off that the mayor's speech was going to be hella boring and we decided to skip it.  That, and it's a three hour train ride from Tokyo to Fujioka, folks.  It is with extreme excitement that we prepare to give you a review of the movie, once we actually view it with our own eyes, so stay tuned.  Next time you want to send us to a faraway place, send us donations first.  Coming soon.  

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PS. Do any of you think Yutaka is way too close to that Mayor?

18.5.13

"Fly Highfall," or, "My Tick Will Go On"

Stepping into the realm of famous movie theme-song hits, BUCK-TICK: THE MOVIE, which has actually turned out to be BUCK-TICK: THE TWO MOVIES, will have a commercially released theme song.  Oh wait, make that two commercially released theme songs!  The details of the songs are as follows:

BUCK-TICK: THE MOVIE
Theme song "Love Parade"
Lyrics: Sakurai Atsushi
Music: Hoshino Hidehiko
Recording by Adele at Climax Studios, London.

BUCK-TICK 2: CAN'T STOP THE PHENOMENON
Theme song "Steppers -Parade-"
Lyrics: Sakurai Atsushi & Imai Hisashi
Music: Imai Hisashi
Recording by Nicki Minaj feat. Tilda Swinton on spoken word chorus at Jupiter Studios, Berlin, and Just One More Studio, New York.

Considering the time frame, I have a strong suspicion that these two songs are not the songs Imai has recently mentioned recording on his blog.  But, if they are...congrats on the procrastination  guys.  Recording the theme song for your movie two weeks before the movie's release is like turning in your term paper at midnight on the day it's due.

26.4.13

BUCK-TICK: THE MOVIE

Buck-Tick have posted a new trailer for their movie, including some of the first-ever public shots of Tilda Swinton as Imai (at 0:47)!  Viewable here.

The captions for the trailer read:

"A rock band who just keep going deeper"

"BUCK-TICK"

Sakurai: "Thank you so much, for creating this wonderful stage for our 25th anniversary."

"The essence of the magnetic attraction of these five men"

"Has finally been captured on film"

"Since the release of Buck-Tick At The Live Inn on September 21st, 1987"

"The band members have stayed the same"

"Now they celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut"

"This documentary speaks from the hearts of the band members"

"With a secret look inside this one memorable year"

"More than 1500 hours of shooting"

"Here, we see their private faces, which they usually keep hidden"

Sakurai: "Ghaaaagh!  Whooo HOOOoooo!"

(shot of Peter Dinklage as Higuchi Yutaka)

Sakurai: "WAAAuuhhh whooohoooo!"

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And yes, Cayce will be attending the film and reviewing it.  So stay tuned.