If you follow the “MUBI India” SNS accounts or newsletter, you’ll find out what kind of release the movie is getting there and when a date is announced.
Though, excuse me if this is obvious, but no one in the movie died because they were never alive; it’s fiction. The writer and director know what they were trying to do, but what they made now exists independently of them, so other people’s interpretations about anything that’s not on screen explicitly aren’t invalid.
I’m not replying to everyone who’s ever asked it, but in case anyone sees it here, the film can be seen legally, in a way that supports the industry, and with the official English subtitles: On the English-subbed 35 mm print made for festivals (how I saw it in Queer East) On the Japanese DVD (available from Amazon.co.jp, CDJapan, YesAsia etc.), which has English subtitles, but check you can play region 2 discs On Dekkoo at http://dekkoo.com/hush or its Prime Video channel on Amazon in some countries On GagaOOLala in some countries (according to a review).
Where can I watch/stream this in the US region? Links are helpful so please do provide links.
It’s played in festivals in Northern America (Matsunaga and Suzuki presented it at New York Asian Film Festival, the year that the latter was presented with the Rising Star Asia Award), and it’s getting a national release from Strand: http://strandreleasing.com/films/egoist
It’s played with English subtitles in many festivals (including in Cannes, where it premiered) and is either…
I read in earlier comments that, to my surprise (as Japan normally doesn’t let anywhere else get their movies at home before them), it’s been on the legal service MUBI in some countries, at http://mubi.com/films/monster-2023
am i the only one who is lowkey irked by BL accounts making edits about this?
There are BL edits of “The Power of the Dog”, which I can only LOL at.
If it makes such great movies more recognised and play in more cinemas and be seen by more people, I can live with that. I’ve even seen Hashiguchi Ryosuke’s films, which predate at least BL being applied to live-action movies (which we can pinpoint to the release of “BOYS LOVE” in 2006), thought of as it. But that’s at least understandable if one didn’t know the context (as the result can be at least visually similar, even if they came from different origins), and his films are so neglected that I should welcome them getting what attention they can.
I’ve yet to see BL edits of “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”, “Funeral Parade of Roses” or Adachi Masao’s “Galaxy”, but I’m waiting to see if they ever go that far back and into films that experimental.
I like to imagine the people who came to all these by perceiving them as BL and making edits grow up still liking them but understanding them differently, like I fetishised anime and manga as a teen but came to appreciate them as part of the wider context of animation and comics. Though I don’t know of many other people having followed that journey, or what age the people making those edits are…
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Apparently, it was already on MUBI in some countries for a short time, but MUBI has different selections in different countries, and going on https://whatsonmubi.com/film/monster-2023 “Monster” isn’t on it at all any more.
If you follow the “MUBI India” SNS accounts or newsletter, you’ll find out what kind of release the movie is getting there and when a date is announced.
Though, excuse me if this is obvious, but no one in the movie died because they were never alive; it’s fiction. The writer and director know what they were trying to do, but what they made now exists independently of them, so other people’s interpretations about anything that’s not on screen explicitly aren’t invalid.
On the English-subbed 35 mm print made for festivals (how I saw it in Queer East)
On the Japanese DVD (available from Amazon.co.jp, CDJapan, YesAsia etc.), which has English subtitles, but check you can play region 2 discs
On Dekkoo at http://dekkoo.com/hush or its Prime Video channel on Amazon in some countries
On GagaOOLala in some countries (according to a review).
Strand are releasing it in Northern America: http://strandreleasing.com/films/egoist
And my own comment reminded me that the most comprehensive list of distributors out there is at the end of http://blogs.sydneysbuzz.com/my-15-minutes-with-hirokazu-kore-eda-monster-cannes-2023-and-tiff-2023-688fc35683b7
If it makes such great movies more recognised and play in more cinemas and be seen by more people, I can live with that. I’ve even seen Hashiguchi Ryosuke’s films, which predate at least BL being applied to live-action movies (which we can pinpoint to the release of “BOYS LOVE” in 2006), thought of as it. But that’s at least understandable if one didn’t know the context (as the result can be at least visually similar, even if they came from different origins), and his films are so neglected that I should welcome them getting what attention they can.
I’ve yet to see BL edits of “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”, “Funeral Parade of Roses” or Adachi Masao’s “Galaxy”, but I’m waiting to see if they ever go that far back and into films that experimental.
I like to imagine the people who came to all these by perceiving them as BL and making edits grow up still liking them but understanding them differently, like I fetishised anime and manga as a teen but came to appreciate them as part of the wider context of animation and comics. Though I don’t know of many other people having followed that journey, or what age the people making those edits are…
MUBI has/had it in some countries, so http://mubi.com/films/monster-2023 could be worth checking.