#Kazuo Kubo

[badgaymovies]

Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990)

Tales of a Golden Geisha by #JuzoItami starring #NobukoMiyamoto, "sharply criticizes patriarchal culture in a series of amusing, perceptive sequences"

JUZO ITAMI Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB Original Title: Ageman Japan, 1990. Itami Productions. Screenplay by Jûzô Itami. Cinematography by Zenko Yamazaki. Produced by Seigo Hosogoe, Jûzô Itami. Music by Toshiyuki Honda. Production Design by Shûshi Nakamura. Film Editing by Akira Suzuki. Nayoko is found abandoned as a baby and raised by foster parents who love her well, then in her adolescence…

[littleeyesofpallas]

Since i sort of brought them up while talking about soul society stuff, let's take a look at this weird thing going on with two chinese(?) looking dudes...

The first time this trope pops up in Bleach is when we meet Kukaku and she has these two goofy, buff manservants, Koganehiko[金彦] and Shiroganehiko[銀彦], "Gold Boy" and "Silver Boy."

They are clearly based on the characters, Jīn jiǎo dàwáng[金角大王] and Yín Jiǎo Dàwáng[銀角大王], the "Gold & Silver Horn Great Kings" from the Journey West. (in Japanese Ginkaku and Kinkaku Dai-Ou)

But when we see Kirinji's mansion in the Royal Realm he has a similarly weird duo of vaguely stereotypically chinese looking buff dudes, Kazuo[数男] and Kazuhiro[数比呂], differentiated only by their differing glasses shapes(one round, one square) and reading as "Numbers Man" and "Numbers Equal(to) Spine."

I'll be honest I have no idea what to make of these names, in particular because I don't think either of those are common ways to write them, so they must have been deliberately chosen as also indicated by the shared character ka[数]: "number(s)"... But I can't tell what Kubo was getting at. They look vaguely bookish with the glasses? Almost like cliche Japanese salarymen? Are they accountants, hence "numbers"?? No clue.

Honestly... I went into this with just the toe hold of a few small factoids, expecting to be able to find my way along to something more substantial as i went... but now that I take a closer look at Kazuo and Kazuhiko's names, they don't quite fit the Gold & Silver theme in any obvious way, yet they do still feel a little too reminiscent of Kukaku's duo to just ignore...

Possible hint in The Journey West, is that the Silver and Gold kings are in charge of a divine furnace belonging to a higher celestial authority, and similarly both pairs of men in Bleach seem to be the laborers of a heaven associated boss(Kuukaku via her name, and Kirinji via the Royal Realm) who implicitly uses a furnace.(Kuukaku for her canon, and Kirinji for his hotbaths.)

And although it's a dead end, of Kirinji's two named hotsprings, Chinoike Jigoku[血の池地獄]: "Blood Pond Hell" is named after a real hotsprings in Beppu where the water is a natural red color. It is a popular tourist attraction and all the associated facilities like spa and restaurant and various merchandise are distinctly oni themed. Which you might think would suggest Kazuo and Kazuhiro should have something like an oni theme, maybe red and blue onis... yet that doesnt seem to be the case...

I'm less certain about the origin of Hakkotsu Jigoku[白骨地獄]: "White Bone Hell" because of how generic the name is, but it could be a reference to the "White Bone Spirit," Báigǔjīng[白骨精] which is also from the Journey to the West. But I don't know that that character really relates at all to Kirinji's healing hotsprings, or even back to the Gold and Silver duo even within the context of the Jounrye West, so it may just be a total coincidence...

sorry this rant is much shorter and less conclusive than most...

[byneddiedingo]

Ryunosuke Tsukigata and Susumu Fujita in Sanshiro Sugata (Akira Kurosawa, 1943) Cast: Susumu Fujita, Denjiro Okochi, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryunosuke Tsukigata, Takashi Shimura, Ranko Hanai, Sugisaki Aoyama, Ichiro Sugai, Yoshio Kusugi, Kokuten Kodo. Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, based on a novel by Tsuneo Tomita. Cinematography: Akira Mimura. Art direction: Masao Tozuka. Film editing: Toshio Goto, Akira Kurosawa. Music: Seiichi Suzuki. You know the plot: A talented, cocky young newcomer takes on the old pros and gets his ass kicked, but he learns self-discipline and becomes a winner. You've seen it played out with young doctors, lawyers, musicians -- it's even the plot of Wagner's Die Meistersinger -- and others challenging the established traditions. But mostly it's the plot for what seems to be about half of the sports movies ever made, including Akira Kurosawa's first feature, Sanshiro Sugata. It's also a film about the conflict between rival martial arts disciplines, jujitsu and judo, but fortunately you don't need to know much about the nature of the conflict to follow the film. From what I gather from reading the Wikipedia entry on judo, the founder of that discipline, Jigoro Kano, wanted to give jujitsu a philosophical underpinning that would put an emphasis on self-improvement for the betterment of society, and he called it judo because "do," like the Chinese "tao," means road or path. Kano's renaming was meant to shift the emphasis from physical skill to spiritual purpose. In Kurosawa's film, young Sanshiro (Susumu Fujita) comes to town wanting to find someone to teach him jujitsu, and signs up with a teacher who accepts a challenge from the judo master Shogoro Yano (Denjiro Okochi) -- the name is an obvious twist on "Jigoro Kano." Sanshiro watches as not only the teacher but all of the other members of his dojo are defeated -- in fact, tossed into the river -- by Yano. Whereupon Sanshiro becomes a follower of Yano's, but has to undergo some defeats and a cold night spent in a muddy pond before he gets the idea of what judo is all about. The film was not a big hit with the wartime Japanese censors, who wanted more aggression and less philosophy in their movies, so 17 minutes were cut from it, never to be seen again. In the currently available print, the missing material is summarized on title cards, but what's left is more than enough to show that Kurosawa arrived on the scene as a full-blown master director. His camera direction is superb, and he knows how to tell a story visually. For example, when Sanshiro joins up with Yano, he kicks off his geta, his wooden clogs, so he can pull Yano's rickshaw more efficiently. Kurosawa cuts to a passage-of-time montage in which we see one of the abandoned geta lying in the road, then in a mud puddle, covered with snow, then tossed aside as spring comes. The film's crucial scene is a showdown between Sanshiro and his jujitsu rival, Higaki (Ryunosuke Tsukigata),  in a field of tall grasses, swept by wind with rushing clouds overhead; it's a spectacular effect, even if the battle turns out to be a bit anticlimactic. However much the censors may have disliked it, audiences were enthusiastic enough that Kurosawa was persuaded to make a sequel.

Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (Akira Kurosawa, 1945) 

Cast:  Susumu Fujita, Denjiro Okochi, Ryunosuke Tsukigata, Akitake Kono, Yukiko Todoroki, Soji Kiyokawa, Masayuki Mori, Kokuten Kodo, Osman Yusuf, Roy James. Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, based on a novel by Tsuneo Tomita. Cinematography: Takeo Ito. Production design: Kazuo Kubo. Film editing: Akira Kurosawa. Music: Seiichi Suzuki. 

Patched together from what aging film stock could be gathered during the end-of-war shortages in Japan, and interrupted during its filming by bombing raids, Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two was a labor imposed on the writer-director by the studio, Toho, and Kurosawa's lack of enthusiasm for the project shows. The story is routine: Sanshiro has helped judo triumph over jujitsu as the primary Japanese martial art, but he has gone into retreat for several years, honing his spirituality. But one day he comes across an American sailor (Osman Yusuf) beating up a rickshaw driver -- a job he once took on himself -- and thrashes the bully. This brings him to the attention of a promoter who wants to stage a fight between the judo master and an American boxer named William Lister (Roy James). Eventually, after another fighter is beaten to a pulp by Lister, Sanshiro gives in and thrashes Lister, giving the prize money to the fighter who had been beaten. Meanwhile, his old opponent, Gennosuke Higaki (Ryunosuke Tsukigata), whom he defeated at the end of the first film, warns him that his brothers, Tesshin (also Tsukigata) and Genzaburo Higaki (Akitake Kono), are out to revenge themselves for Gennosuke's defeat. They are masters of karate, which originated on Okinawa and was just making its way into mainland Japan at the time when the film is set, the late 19th century. Gennosuke gives Sanshiro a scroll depicting the basics of karate to help him in the eventual fight with the brothers. Naturally, the film concludes with a fight between Sanshiro and Tesshin -- the other brother is recovering from an epileptic seizure -- that takes place in the snow, an echo of the fight in the original film with Gennosuke in a windswept field of tall grasses. This battle is the only part of the film that shows much commitment on the part of Kurosawa, who insisted that the principals fight barefoot in the snow, not without many complaints from the actors. Unfortunately, the poor film stock, unable to provide shades of gray, turns much of this fight into a battle of silhouetted figures. Much has been made of the propaganda in the film, particularly the portrayal of the hapless American sailor and boxer, but Kurosawa, no lover of the imperial regime, manages to shift the film's emphasis to the fearsomely wild Higaki brothers. 

[fantomcomics]

What’s Out This Week? 10/19

With this little cobweb potion You'll fall into dark devotion If you ever lose affection I can change your whole direction

PTSD Radio Vol 1 -  Masaaki Nakayama

An unseen hand tugs at your braid. You find an old box with only a tangled mess of dark hair inside. You open a door in your home only to witness a river of curls slinking away, an ominous lump at its heart. Ogushi preys on the unprepared. Before it's too late, tune into PTSD Radio. These episodes and more await in this acclaimed horror series, coming to print after a successful digital run in double-length omnibus editions featuring sickeningly-textured covers. From the gleefully-twisted mind that created Fuan no Tane, PTSD Radio is a necessity for fans of the masters of manga scares such as Junji Ito, Kazuo Umezz, Shintaro Kago, and Suehiro Maruo.

Where Black Stars Rise GN -  Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger

Dr. Amal Robardin, a newly-licensed therapist who recently immigrated to Brooklyn from Beirut, is treating her first patient: Yasmin, who is schizophrenic. The two get off to a rocky start, and as Yasmin's night terrors increase and the looming figure at the foot of her bed creeps closer every night, Amal begins to worry that she's out of her depth. Convinced that what she is experiencing is not a delusion, Yasmin becomes obsessed with Robert Chambers' The King in Yellow. Messages she finds in the book lead Yasmin to flee her home, seeking answers she can't find in therapy. Distraught over Yasmim's sudden disappearance, Amal attempts to retrace her patient's last steps-and accidentally slips through dimensions, ending up in Carcosa, the King in Yellow's realm. Trapped and determined to find her way out, Amal enlists the help of a mysterious guide, but is he a friend ... or her tormentor?

Mission: Yozakura Family GN Vol 1 -  Hitsuji Gondaira

Taiyo Asano has been on his own ever since his aiyo Asano has been on his own ever since his parents died and the only one who seems to parents died and the only one who seems to care for him is his childhood friend and classmate, care for him is his childhood friend and classmate, Mutsumi Yozakura. But Mutsumi has a secret-she is Mutsumi Yozakura. But Mutsumi has a secret-she is the head of a family of spies! And on top of that, her the head of a family of spies! And on top of that, her brother Kyoichiro is dangerously protective of her! To brother Kyoichiro is dangerously protective of her! To stop Kyoichiro from killing him, Taiyo and Mutsumi stop Kyoichiro from killing him, Taiyo and Mutsumi must take the ultimate leap-marriage! Because in the must take the ultimate leap-marriage! Because in the Yozakura family, family cannot kill family. Yozakura family, family cannot kill family.

The Shonen Jump Guide to Making Manga -  Various

Whether you're getting started on your artistic path or a veteran looking for new tips, The Shonen Jump Guide to Making Manga is the perfect book to sharpen your skills. The creators and editors behind several of the world's most popular manga sit down to share their tricks, advice, and secrets! Featuring commentary and advice from Eiichiro Oda (One Piece), Tite Kubo (Bleach), Shun Saeki (Food Wars), Kaiu Shirai & Posuka Demizu (The Promised Neverland), Yusei Matsui (Assassination Classroom), Kohei Horikoshi (My Hero Academia), and more!

Hellboy In Love #1 (of 5) -  Mike Mignola, Christie Golden & Matt Smith

Hellboy has been assigned to patrol a train route where goblins have been stealing from passengers. Their latest victim, Anastacia, is a researcher and archaeologist transporting valuable artifacts to a museum, and she's not going to let them go without a fight! Rather than stay behind, she teams up with Hellboy to chase the light-fingered fey through the British countryside and into . . . a local punk show?

I’m Still Alive OGN HC -  Roberto Saviano & Asaf Hanuka

When world-renowned Italian journalist Roberto Saviano put pen to paper at age 26, he'd change laws, expose widespread corruption, put his own life at risk, and save countless others... Gomorrah, his groundbreaking international bestseller and NYT Notable Book of the Year, exposed the inner workings of the Italian mafia and placed Saviano under direct threat which has necessitated 24-hour police protection to this day. Joined by award-winning cartoonist Asaf Hanuka (The Realist, The Divine), Saviano shares his deepest thoughts and experience of life in Naples, where he witnessed the power and violence of the mafia firsthand.

Hardears GN -  Nigel Lynch, Matthew Clarke & Cathy Thomas

Hardears is an Afro-Caribbean fantasy-adventure graphic novel. A superstorm of unprecedented strength obliterates the Jouvert Island, leaving it totally defenseless. As the island reels from the devastation, Mr. Harding, the head of the Merchant Guild, charges in and promises to rebuild the economy of the island by creating jobs in his giant corporation. However, Harding is a parasite and is capturing people from the island and using their life essence or vibes to feed his factories. Bolo, a local hero, saves his love Zahrah from Hardin and cronies but the lovers are then framed as rebels against the state. If Bolo, Zahrah, and their allies don't take down Harding and the corrupt government, all will be lost!

Frizzy GN -  Claribel A Ortega & Rose Bousamra

Marlene loves three things: books, her cool Tía Ruby, and hanging out with her best friend Camila. But according to her mother, Paola, the only thing she needs to focus on is school and "growing up." That means straightening her hair every weekend so she can have "presentable," "good hair." But Marlene hates being in the salon and doesn't understand why her curls are not considered pretty by those around her. With a few hiccups, a dash of embarrassment, and the much-needed help of Camila and Tia Ruby, she slowly starts a journey to learn to appreciate and proudly wear her curly hair.

Chilling Adventures: Fear The Funhouse #1 -  Micol Ostow, Lisette Carrera & Various 

A night camping at their treehouse in the woods leads the pre-teen Archie and his friends to do what any kid their age would do in that scenario: tell scary stories! But each story grows creepier and creepier as the kids realize that maybe, just maybe, there is some truth to these tall tales in an anthology that's equal parts Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Goosebumps. 

Eve: Children Of The Moon #1 -  Victor Lavalle, Jo Migyeong & Ario Anindito

The long-awaited return of the best-selling sci-fi adventure is finally here! Eve seemingly saved the world once already, embarking on a perilous quest to protect what remained of humanity after a deadly virus outbreak... but the story doesn't end there!

Eve, Eve's sister, and Wexler face new challenges, and a darkness from the past, in this exciting sequel series from award-winning author and lauded professor Victor LaValle (Sabretooth, Destroyer) and returning Eve artist Jo Mi-Gyeong (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance).

Drip Drip GN  -  Paru Itagaki

Whenever Mako Higari sees something dirty, whether real or symbolic, she gets a massive nosebleed. How can she find a loving partner and commit to a meaningful intimate relationship if just touching another person makes her bleed out? Her first challenge might be learning to love herself...

Career Shoplifter -  Gabrielle Bell

Gabrielle concludes that she is a failure in life, so she might as well do what she likes for the rest of it. She spends hours at cafes covertly drawing and eavesdropping on her fellow layabouts and shirkers every day. Occasionally she gets caught, and sometimes, she makes friends. Being a failure can be a lot of fun. Gabrielle Bell is comics' most infamous diarist and the creator of The Voyeurs and Everything is Flammable.

Candy & Cigarettes GN Vol 1 -  Tomonori Inoue

An action-packed, neo-noir revenge thriller from the creator of Coppelion! When retired cop Hiraga Raizou gets a lucrative gig working for a shadowy government organization, he is in for a rude awakening. The first day on his new job, he comes across a grisly murder and a lone little girl who's far from innocent. She's Suzukaze Miharu, an 11-year-old master assassin-and his new partner! The arrangement is simple: she kills, he cleans up and hides any evidence. Sure, the pay is great, but how much blood is Raizou willing to get on his hands?

The Brothers Flick: The Impossible Doors GN - Ryan Haddock & Nick Wyche

At Strander House, things are...weird. There's an ogre wedged in the closet, and you have to be careful not to slip on the leak coming from the ocean in the attic. What's possibly weirder than the fact that you can walk into the bathroom and end up in next Tuesday are the four brothers who investigate these strange occurrences...the Brothers Flick! Leo, Desmond, Remy, and Cub seek to get to the bottom of  every shadow you swear you saw move. If they happen to stumble upon answers to the mysterious disappearance of their own family along the way, all the better. Sherlock Holmes meets Wayside School in this Edwardian-era supernatural sleuthing graphic novel.

Bipolar Bear & The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Band Health Insurance GN -  Kathleen Founds

Theodore is a bear with wild mood swings. When he is up, he carves epic poetry into tree trunks. When he is down, he paints sad faces on rocks and turtle shells. In search of prescription medications that will bring stability to his life, Theodore finds a job with health insurance benefits. He gets the meds, but when he can't pay the psychiatrist's bill, he becomes lost in the Labyrinth of Health Insurance Claims. Entertaining, whimsical, and bitingly satirical, Bipolar Bear is a fable for grownups that manages the delicate balance of addressing society's ills while simultaneously presenting a hopeful vision for the world.

The Abolition Of Man #1 (of 5) - Carson Grubaugh

What do you get when you take a groundbreaking philosophical essay by C.S. Lewis and feed it into an AI image generator, one line at a time? The world's first (and only) entirely-computer generated comic book, The Abolition of Man issue #1, by oil painter turned Eisner-nominated cartoonist Carson Grubaugh (Strange Death of Alex Raymond). Alternately hilarious and terrifying, Abolition gives a chilling peek into the world of the future, where humans and their most treasured passions have lost all purpose.

When Everything Turned Blue GN -  Alessandro Baronciani

Chiara lives her life afraid of many things, but most of all the fear of an undiagnosed illness. As she delves further and further down a rabbit hole of denial and disassociation, she will be forced to make a decision that will alter her life forever. Presented in English for the first time, Alessandro Baroncianis' When Everything Turned Blue is the intimate story of one woman's journey toward acceptance and healing.

Usotoki Rhetoric GN Vol 1 -  Ritsu Miyako

It is 1926, the first year of the Showa era. Urabe Kanoko has left her hometown after it turns against her for having the ability to hear lies when spoken. She collapses from hunger after arriving in a town called Tsukumoya, where she meets a poverty-stricken detective named Iwai Souma. Is this fate? Or something more?

Whatcha snagging this week, Fantomites? 

[may8chan]

Zatoichi's Flashing Sword - Kazuo Ikehiro 1964

[ozu-teapot]

Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword | Kazuo Ikehiro | 1964

Naoko Kubo, Shintarô Katsu

[a-slut-for-smut]

R u an ichiruki? I’m still salty about the ending lmao I can’t believe it. Do you know any IR blogs and any archive/library (fics) blog?

Also, recommendations of IR for horny jail pls

Hello fellow ichiruki anon!

Yup, big sloppy slut for ichiruki indeed, ill honestly go down with this ship despite that shipwreck of an ending. I'll admit i didnt follow the anime/manga entire as it dragged on with filler arcs and life got busy etc, but when i heard about the ending i thought i was having a fucking stroke, i still cannot make sense of it to this day (nor do i want to because my brain actively works to delete this kind of dumbfuckery from my memory). While its such a shame how it ended and spiritually i wanna be outside kubo's house like

...but then I take a deep breath and just tell myself titty kubo had a brain aneurysm and just leave it at that.

ANYWAY to your ask- full disclaimer when i was primetime ichiruki slut i was just a lurker, and this was YEARS ago but ill do my best to help ya out. I do follow some ichiruki peeps from back then but they more or less have moved to other ships/interests, but the ones below seem more active IR blogs from what i can tell:

@dangerousbride IR fanart/comics. Love her artstyle and always will @jellyribbons IR artist, gorgeous gorgeous art @hashtagartistlife IR artist/writer. Big slut for her work

@ichiruki good IR treats, very active @ichirukilover good IR treats, very active

Now im actually not aware of any IR archive library blog, but if there is one i would also be curious to know! @ ichiruki fandom, can anyone help us out???

And to the last part of your ask re: IR horny jail fic recs, there are 2 things you should know:

1. I am so out of date when it comes to the latest fics, and i mean by YEARS. So any i recommend will be old but obviously TASTY AF

2. At the time a lot of smut fics were "post-686" "fix-it" naturally, but a lot dealt with blatant adultery/infidelity. Now anyone who knows me i have a mutual respect kink. Not just to how my OTPs have towards each other, but for ppl they care about. While the smut was amazingly written/angst-ridden and im a total angst slut too, part of me had a hard time really investing myself in those fics as I personally cant condone cheating ever, because i know from experience how utterly it can destroy a person. So in general, my fic recs will be AU/canon divergent. AUGH i lament how kubo didnt make the ending open-ended, it would have been so much better :( Also in my headcanon i like to think despite IR being soulmates, they have utmost integrity to not hurt ppl they care about despite their immense love for each other, and that folks is some sweet sweet angst/doomed romance. Actually if anyone knows any fics like that pls share!!!

OKAY HERES THE IR SMUT FEST, ENJOY!!!

Unveiled by@hashtagartistlife God tier IR smut. Like seriously, this one is BEAN-FLICKIN good yaknowwhatimsayin Winter Warmth by@gunnerpalace Starts fluffy but then HOTHOTHOT The Two-Body Problem also by@gunnerpalace I remember how well-written the sexual tension building between IR was, i FELT their anticipation and anxiousness around each other. I think the smut chapter is actually on their blog and not on Ao3 for some reason! Nurse Rukia by Aquari Lynnel (MazokuSempai) Premise is a little silly/kinky but has all the good stuff :D The Red String That Binds by DeathMeetsLife Actually this one isnt really smutty but i HAVE to rec due to the sweet sweet angst scenario i just went on about because this is an angst FIESTA. BUT no cheating as Kazuo and Ichika are actually IR baby twins but are separated from birth...i wont spoil just READ its so good The Parting Glass by Darksknight LOL ok this isnt even primarily IR more Orihime x Ulquiorra, and actually is post 686/fix it BUT i had to rec because a) Orihime is given some fuckin agency her character deserved and i really like the authors take on her/POV b) the author is fuckin hilarious and on point with all the characterizations c) this fic is a fuckin gem, seriously just read it you wont have any regrets trust me

fuck me this post was long and i am sooooo behind on shit i needa do gotta end it here, hopefully this helps anon!!! xoxo

[jailhouse41]

Lobby card for Young Boss: A Leader’s Flesh (Waka Oyabun: Sen Ryo Hada, 若親分千両肌), 1967, directed by Kazuo Ikehiro (池広一夫) and starring Raizo Ichikawa (市川雷蔵) and Naoko Kubo (久保菜穂子).

[ballerinadellamusica]

Nagoya 2015 brochure part 1

Phantoms:

芝清道 (Kiyomichi Shiba), 佐野正幸 (Masayuki Sano), 高井治 (Osamu Takai), 村俊英 (Toshihide Mura) & 橋元聖地 (Seiji Hashimoto)

Christines:

苫田亜沙子 (Asako Tomada), 土居愛実 (Megumi Doi), 山本紗衣 (Sae Yamamoto) & 久保佳那子 (Kanako Kubo)

Raoul:

鈴木涼太 (Ryota Suzuki), 北澤裕輔 (Yusuke Kitazawa), 岸佳宏 (Yoshihiro Kishi), 飯田達郎 (Tatsuro Iida), 中井智彦 (Tomohiko Nakai), 光田健一 (Kenichi Mitsuda) & 神永東吾 (Togo Kaminaga)

Carlotta:

河村彩 (Aya Kawamura), 吉田絢香 (Ayaka Yoshida) & 辻奈々 (Nana Tsuji)

Meg:

小川美緒 (Mio Ogawa), 中里未喜 (Miki Nakazato), 黒柳安奈 (Anna Kuroyanagi), 西田ゆりあ (Yuria Nishida), 小林由希子 (Yukiko Kobayashi) & 石田真子(Mako Ishida)

Madame Giry:

早水小夜子 (Sayoko Hayami), 佐和由梨 (Yuri Sawa), 秋山知子 (Tomoko Akiyama) & 原田真理 (Mari Harada)

Andre:

賀山祐介 (Yusuke Kayama), 増田守人 (Morito Masuda), 北澤裕輔 (Yusuke Kitazawa), 林和男 (Hayashi Kazuo) & 飯村和也 (Kazuya Iimura)

Firmin:

平良交一 (Koichi Taira), 佐藤圭一 (Keiichi Sato), 増田守人 (Morito Masuda) & 青木朗 (Akira Aoki)

Piangi:

永井崇多宏 (Takahiro Nagai), 山口泰伸 (Hironobu Yamaguchi) & 橋元聖地 (Seiji Hashimoto)

Pictures: pictures of souvenir brochure taken by me (credit if reposting), credit to original photographer

[printdesignclub]

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro - Book Cover by Masako Kubo - Print Design

[podzilla2000]

After a LONG sabbatical, your hosts return with an episode covering THREE movies! The long-term plan to finish the series before the new movie came out fell through about as hard as anything has ever fallen through... but Godzilla is timeless and eternal, and so are we!!! (we are not)

Movie info beneath the cut!

EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP aka GODZILLA vs THE SEA MONSTER (1966)

Directed by Jun Fukuda Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Screenplay by Shinichi Sekizawa Music by Masaru Sato Cinematography Kazuo Yamada

Starring Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno, Chotaro Togin, and Hideo Sunazuka

SON OF GODZILLA (1967)

Directed by Jun Fukuda Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Screenplay by Shinichi Sekizawa and Kazue Shiba Music by Masaru Sato Cinematography Kazuo Yamada

Starring Akira Kubo, Tadao Takashima, Bibari Maeda, and Akihiko Hirata

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS! (1968)

Directed by Ishiro Honda Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Screenplay by Takeshi Kimura and Ishiro Honda Music by Akira Ifukube Cinematography by Taiichi Kankura

Starring Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, and Yoshio Tsuchiya

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Isao Numasaki and Chieko Nakakita in One Wonderful Sunday (Akira Kurosawa, 1947) Cast: Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe, Zeko Nakamura, Ichiro Sugai, Masao Shimizu, Shiro Mizutani, Midori Ariyama, Toshi Mori. Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Keinosuke Uekusa. Cinematography: Asakazu Nakai. Production design: Kazuo Kubo. Music: Tadashi Hattori. Akira Kurosawa's One Wonderful Sunday brings to mind two near-contemporary films: Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948). In its own odd way, Kurosawa's film blends a bit of the fantasy of the Capra film with the neorealism of the De Sica, though it doesn't quite succeed in the attempt. All three are products of the postwar world. The Americans, having won the war, naturally put the stress on optimism; the Italians and the Japanese, having lost, and having been sunk in the economic crisis caused by losing, naturally put the stress on endurance, on clinging to shreds of hope. Kurosawa's protagonists are a young couple, Yuzo (Isao Numasaki) and Masako (Chieko Nakakita), who can't afford to get married, but pool their resources, a meager 35 yen, to try to enjoy a Sunday together. Yuzo's depression shadows the outing, but Masako is determined to cheer him up. She's a little bit bossy, however -- when they first get together at the train station, he has just picked up a half-smoked cigarette from the pavement, hoping to smoke it later, but she strikes it out of his hand. Then she drags him into a model home in a new housing development, even though it's well beyond their means and is, he notes, shoddily built. Their housing plight -- he lives with a friend, she with her sister's family -- is emphasized when they visit a place that has a room to rent, only to discover that it's only minimally livable and that they can't afford even that. But Yuzo manages to climb out of his depression when he finds a bunch of kids playing baseball in the street and joins their game. And so it goes through the day as they oscillate between depression and hope. A visit to what remains of the city's zoo confronts them with some sad-looking animals. A large, fat pig slumbers in a cage that used to belong to a lion, causing Yuzo to remark, "The world is run by pigs." And then it starts to rain. Yuzo suggests that they go to his place -- his roommate will be out until late, he says -- but Masako resists, angering him. Then she notices a poster for a concert featuring Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. They can afford the 10-yen tickets, so they run through the rain to the concert hall. But scalpers have bought up all the 10-yen tickets and are selling them for 15 yen, and when Yuzo protests, they beat him up. When they go to Yuzo's room after all, where Masako treats his wounds, he tries to persuade her to sleep with him and she leaves. More depressed than ever -- even the roof is leaking -- Yuzo broods until Masako returns, contrite, but her sobs make any further sexual moves impossible, so they decide to spend the last of their money in a coffee shop. Even there, they are stymied: The coffee shop bills them for café au lait, instead of the regular coffee they thought they ordered, so Yuzo leaves his overcoat, saying he'll return the next day to make good on the bill. Now penniless, they begin to live in their dreams. They pretend that the ruins of a house are the coffee shop they want to open some day and, discovering an old band shell, try to pretend that Yuzo is conducting the performance of Schubert's Unfinished that they missed. At this point, Kurosawa departs from neorealism and has Masako address the movie audience directly: If they'll applaud for all the sad, impoverished lovers in the world, then she and Yuzo will be able to hear the music he's pretending to conduct. It works, and they hear the music. They part as the film ends, promising each other to meet again next Sunday. In fact, Kurosawa's borrowing from Peter Pan and asking for the audience's applause didn't work in Japan, where audiences were simply puzzled, though when the film was shown in France years later, French audiences responded enthusiastically. The sentimentality of One Wonderful Sunday is hardly characteristic of Kurosawa, but it's tempered by some masterly use of locations -- blended with more stylized studio sets -- and good performances by the leads: Isao Numasaki, in fact, does manage to evoke both James Stewart in Capra's film and Lamberto Maggiorani in De Sica's, even though he couldn't have seen the latter and probably didn't see the former. There are moments when Kurosawa prolongs the depression of Yuzo and Masako a bit too much, and the film seems a little overextended for the slightness of its narrative, but it's clearly a formative work for a master director, as well as a heartfelt depiction of the plight of his country.

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Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, One Wonderful Sunday by #AkiraKurosawa, "pitched at a perfectly delicate tone" AKIRA KUROSAWA Bil's rating (out of 5): BBBB.  Japan, 1947. Toho Company.  …

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