SATAN'S BLOOD (1978)

[Update 07/19/2022: Need rewatch this film and redo this review completely. Fix the screenshots also.]

The World's Most Gullible Couple are driving home from the park when a car (holding another couple) pulls along side of them at the red light. The driver says hey I used to go to college with you...follow me to my house! So, being idiots too stupid to live, they follow this other couple for the better part of an hour(!) to a secluded, walled-in estate way out in the middle of nowhere. Once inside, they start talking about random bullshit and take part in a seance.  Afterwards they go to bed.

In the middle of the night, strange Satanic shenanigans start to happen, but no matter how weird or dangerous it gets the main couple never leave. They talk about it plenty, but never do. Finally after people start to drop dead they decide to leave, but never actually make it past the driveway. It's totally stupid.

Plenty of nudity by the two non-attractive female leads, high school level blood effects, irritating story that leads to a twist ending that even M. Night Shyamalan would role his eyes at, zero scares, skip it and never look back.

THE PASSION OF ANNA (1969)

[Update 03/15/2022: Deleting review. Need rewatch this film and redo this review completely. Fix the screenshots also.]

RED BEARD (1965)

[Update 05/30/16: this review sucks.  I will try to redo it soon.]

Set in the 1800's, Yuzo Kayama is a young doctor fresh out of school.  He plans on making a ton of duckets being a doctor to the shogunate, but is sorely disappointed when he's assigned to a public clinic. He immediately butts head with the head doctor, Dr. Kyojo Niide (Toshiro Mifune), also known as Red Beard. At first the new doctor just sits in his room drinking and pouting, but then he starts to loosen up as he hears the heartbreaking stories of the poor and observes their sad lives up close.

Over time, his heart thaws and after six months of guidance by Red Beard, the young doctor becomes not only a great doctor, but a great man, who is more interested in helping people who truly need help than making money by catering to the rich.

Simplistic view, yes, but still a beautiful movie.  It's also the last film of Kurosawa's great period and his final film with Mifune.