“Every title in the set includes some kind of extra content, and they are all very good. I found them fascinating; I particularly adored the video essay by Jonathan Clements for Carlos, especially his breakdown of the film’s title.”

Robert Ewing at The People’s Movies pokes around the extras on Arrow’s V-Cinema Essentials box set, which is loaded with heavy-hitters in the world of Japanese pop culture, including Samm Deighan, Patrick Macias, Tom Mes, Mark Schilling and a dozen others. And me. I haven’t actually got to my copy yet myself, but it looks to me like the video essays and creator interviews are easily the length of one or two whole extra movies.

As for what I said: “There are plenty of Portuguese names that are easily pronounced by a native Japanese speaker. Carlos isn’t one of them. Japanese has trouble differentiating the letters R and L, and doesn’t end naturally on a sibilant. The title KARUROSU is hence a deliberate, rather malicious tongue twister for the Japanese, accentuating its alien nature.”