#Hiroshi Nakagawa

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Celebrating episode 300, your deadicated hosts travel to Japan for Nobuo Nakagawa's masterpiece JIGOKU (1960)! The film stars Shigeru Amachi, Yoichi Numata and Utako Mitsuya.

Your hosts discuss nihilism, Buddhism, gore and more in this landmark episode.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 36:08; Discussion 49:48; Ranking 1:22:57

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Jigoku (1960, Nobuo Nakagawa)

Also known as: The Sinners of Hell

地獄　（中川信夫）

10/2/22

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Films I’ve watched recently.

Woman in the Dunes ~ 1964

The Face of Another ~ 1966

Kwaidan ~ 1964

Jigoku ~ 1960

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Jujutsu Kaisen S02E20 - "Right & Wrong, Part 3" Screenplay: Hiroshi Seko (瀬古 浩司) Episode Director & Storyboard: Yuji Tokuno (徳野 雄士) Assistant Episode Director: Atsushi Nakagawa (なかがわ あつし) Key Animator(s): Kohei Hirota (廣田 光平) & Sota Yamazaki (山崎 爽太)

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Golden Kamuy live action will be released in January 2024, with Yamazaki Kento as Sugimoto Saichi and Yamada Anna as Asirpa.

Ogata: Maeda Gordon Shiraishi: Yamoto Yuma Tsukishima: Kudo Asuka Nikaidou twins: Yanagi Shuntaro Tanigaki: Otani Ryohei Ushiyama: Katsuya Nagakura: Kiba Katsumi Huci: Ookata Hisako Tsurumi: Tamaki Hiroshi Hijikata: Tachi Hiroshi Gotou: Makita Sports

The role of Asirpa's great uncle is given to Akibe Debo, an Ainu artisan born in Lake Akan.  Akibe is also supervising the Ainu culture in the film along with Nakagawa Hiroshi, Golden Kamuy supervisor.

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Golden Kamuy is the single most respectful anime wrt indigenous peoples that I have ever seen. I am not of these cultures so I might be wrong, and I’m sure it could still use work maybe, but it just seems to have a sort of joy in the way it represents native cultures, without glossing over hardships. Like there’s tragedy and grimness and horror, but at the end of the day I always feel like it is celebrating these people and places; their food and language and customs.

Again, and I want to make this clear, I am an outsider and I don’t know what the team behind the show looks like, so if I’m way off and it’s problematic I would want to learn about it

Oh, it is 100% a celebration of indigenous Ainu culture! Noda is not himself Ainu, he is Japanese, but he worked with Nakagawa Hiroshi a professor of Ainu culture and language. Noda's core message in the manga isn't about assimilation, but rather is about celebration. He treats the Ainu with respect, and has a very delightful way of crossing the Ainu/Japanese cultural divide between the characters. With any story, its not perfect. The ending, with out specific spoilers, is a touch... overly optimistic. However, the culture and language of the Ainu people are very much admired and explained in a way that highlights how important they are to the island of Hokkaido and the northern peninsula.

I also would highly suggest doing a little research yourself- I am just one simple cat on the internet who is blinded by their love of Noda's art and comedy. There are multiple showings of Ainu textiles that Noda has helped sponsor, and a noted uptick in positive interest in Ainu language and culture.

I also highly highly recommend reading the manga, as the anime (while improved from past seasons) misses out on entire arcs. I have so many feelings about Golden Kamuy as a series, and I love the characters and the journeys they all go through.

Also man ass. Lotta man ass. This is a good thing. You see balls, too.

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Director | MESS

Director of photography | Kohta Kimura

1st AC | Kaito Furuyoshi

Lighting Director | Shohei Nakagawa

1st LA | Airi Hamaguchi

2nd LA | Takamaro Murahara, Taisei Ishibumi

Colorist | Yuma Izuka

Hair & Make | Kei Koda

Casting | Mona Nakahara(SKALY)

Production Manager | Mitsunori Nakata, Yusuke Sato, Hiroshi Sugita

Producer | Satoru Mizuno (FLARE TOKYO)

A&R | Akira Fukuoka

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Shigeru Amachi in Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)

Cast: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yoichi Numata, Hiroshi Hayashi, Jun Otomo, Akiko Yamashita, Kiyoko Tsuji, Fumiko Miyata, Akira Nakamura, Kimie Tokudaiji, Akiko Ono, Hiroshi Izumida. Screenplay: Nobuo Nakagawa, Ichiro Miyagawa. Cinematography: Mamoru Morita. Production design: Shosuke Sasane, Haruyasu Kurosawa. Film editing: Toshio Goto. Music: Michiaki Watanabe.

I know what hell is: listening to elevator music interrupted by assurances that "your call is important to us" while on infinite hold. Which is not the idea that director Nobuo Nakagawa and co-screenwriter Ichiro Miyagawa present. It's pretty much the traditional one of fire and torture. Jigoku is a cult film, as many of the better (or at least more arty) horror films become, and while I'm not a member of the cult I can appreciate the skill with which Nakagawa presents his vision. It's a movie that ranges from deeply somber to extraordinarily lurid. The protagonist, Shiro (Shigeru Amachi), is a student who, after celebrating his engagement to Yukiko (Utako Mitsuya), gets into a car driven by his sardonic friend Tamura (Yoichi Numata). On a dark road, Tamura runs down and kills a gangster, Kyoichi (Hiroshi Izumida), whose mother (Kiyoko Tsuji) witnesses the accident. Shiro wants to stop, but Tamura keeps driving. Since her son was a gangster, she doesn't report the hit-and-run to the police but, along with Kyoichi's girlfriend, Yoko (Akiko Ono), vows to hunt down Tamura and Shiro and kill them. After pleading with Tamura, Shiro decides to go to the police himself, but on the way the taxi driver -- whom Shiro briefly hallucinates as Tamura -- runs into a tree and Yukiko, who has reluctantly accompanied Shiro, is killed. Shiro's road to hell is certainly paved with good intentions, and after his death he winds up there. He has received a telegram that his mother is critically ill, so he goes to see her at the home for the elderly that his father runs in the country. She's not as ill as he feared -- the telegram was actually sent by Kyoichi's mother and girlfriend to lure him into their trap. He discovers that the old folks' home his father owns is actually run on the cheap, with a doctor who skimps on medicine and food. He also encounters Sachiko, a young woman who looks exactly like his fiancée, Yukiko, down to the pink parasol she carries. She turns out to be the sister Shiro didn't know he had, but by this time revelations are coming hard and fast: Tamura -- who appears more and more demonic -- turns up too, as do the potential assassins, and in an elaborate concoction of circumstances, everybody dies, including Shiro. And everybody goes to hell, which is a fantasia crafted out of depictions from old Buddhist paintings and traditional cinematic imaginings of the underworld. Shiro learns there that the taxi accident killed not only Yukiko but also their unborn child, and he spends much of his time trying to rescue the infant from the torments of the afterlife. The film ends, after much exploration of the more gruesome torments of hell, with Shiro's vision of the twinned Yukiko and Sachiko, both with pink parasols, but although it suggests Faust being redeemed by Gretchen, there's nothing to indicate that this is any kind of redemption for Shiro. In short, Jigoku is complicated, contrived, confusing, sometimes a little cheesy and more than a little morally questionable -- does Shiro really deserve to go through all this? -- but also thoroughly fascinating.

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TSUKIPRO Franchise's New Project VAZZROCK THE ANIMATION Confirms Its Premiere Date of Fall 2022

    18 months after the initial announcement back in November 2020, VAZZROCK THE ANIMATION, a new TV anime series featuring the Tsukino Talent Production's (TSUKIPRO for short) another two male idol units - VAZZY and ROCK DOWN -, is confirmed to set to premiere on TOKYO MX and BS Nittele in Japan in the fall of 2022. The "VAZZROCK" series was launched in 2018 and has released more than 30 character song CDs in Japan. 

  The 13-episode anime follows the daily lives of the 12 members of the two units as they prepare for the upcoming "VAZZROCK LIVE FLAWLESS" in three months. Each episode focuses on a different duo, with each relationship explored in depth.

    Episode 1-2: Takaaki Mamiya (CV: Tarusuke Shingaki) & Ouka Kira (CV: Yusuke Kobayashi) from VAZZY

Episode 3-4: Shou Onoda (CV: Yukitoshi Kikuchi) & Haruto Kujikawa (CV: Yoshiaki Hasegawa) from ROCK DOWN

Episode 5-6: Issa Kiduku (CV: Masahiro Yamanaka) & Futaba Kiduku (CV: Yusuke Shirai) from VAZZY

Episode 7-8: Reiji Amaha (CV: Takuya Sato) & Ayumu Tachibana (CV: Taito Ban) from ROCK DOWN

Episode 9-10: Naosuke Oyama (CV: Tsubasa Sasa) & Yuma Shirase (CV: Shun Horie) from VAZZY

Episode 11-12: Gaku Oguro (CV: Takuya Masumoto) & Ruka Nadumi (CV: Keisuke Komoto) from ROCK DOWN

Episode 13: "VAZZROCK LIVE FLAWLESS"(live concert episode)

            Main staff:

  Director: Yoshihiro Takamoto

Series Composition: Eriko Matsuda

Character Planning/Animation Character Design: Natsuo

Official Chibi Character Illustration: Koyori Tsuda

Chief Animation Director: Minefumi Harada, Yuzuko Hanai

Costume Design: Ayako Ohki

Prop Design: Hiroshi Ogawa

Art Setup Designer: Tsukasa Ohira

Art Director: Scott MacDonald

Color Design: Yukiko Yamaguchi

Director of Photography: Atsushi Kano

Editing: Hitomi Sudo

Sound Director: Takatoshi Hamano

In-show Music: Shuntaro Inami

Music Production: Precious tone

Animation Production Supervisor: Shinobu Nakagawa

Animation Production: PRA

Animation Producer: Yoshiki Sakamoto (AZ Creative)

Original Story and Story Design: Fujiwara

Production: VAZZANI Production Committee

    RELATED: TV Anime VAZZROCK THE ANIMATION from TSUKIPRO Franchise Slated for 2022  

    Source: press release

  ©VAZZANI

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

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Hiroshi: oh hey Gloria! Devon’s at work right now.

Gloria: oh, no big! we just came to drop by and formally invite y’all to Harlowe’s birthday tomorrow! it’s gonna be quite the bash

Riley: ...really? that’s uh. news to me.

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Golden Kamuy's Second Season Added to Crunchyroll Fall Catalogue

Crunchyroll has recently announced that the second season of the Golden Kamuy anime will be added to their Fall 2018 Catalogue. The series will available for Crunchyroll members worldwide except for Asia starting on Monday, October 8. 

The first season of the anime premiered on the service on Monday, April 9 and the English dub for the series premiered on FunimationNow on April 30. The first…

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Films watched in 2020.

353: Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

“This vortex of torment will whirl for all eternity.“

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Happy pride month! 🌈 I've made some BR lgbt icons just because why not!

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The Woman Vampire | Nobuo Nakagawa | 1959

Yôko Mihara, Hiroshi Sugi, Akira Nakamura