#Kazuo Suzuki

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Films Watched in 2024: 25. ゴジラ・ミニラ・ガバラ オール怪獣大進撃/Gojira Minira Gabara Ōru Kaijū Dai-shingeki/All Monsters Attack/Godzilla's Revenge (1969) - Dir.  Ishirō Honda

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ALL MONSTERS ATTACK:

Misfit little boy

Dreams friendship with Minilla

Takes on some burglars

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Good Evening Dear Husband: A Duel (Seijun Suzuki, 1968)

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The Beauty Of The Tottori Spider Mansion Demon (#166, #167 & #168)

Storyboard : 山本 泰一郎 Yasuichiro Yamamoto (#166) & 松園 公 Matsuzono Hiroshi (#167 & #168)

Episode Direction : 野上 和男 Kazuo Nogami (#166), 鈴木 吉男 Yoshio Suzuki (167) & 戸澤 稔 Minoru Tozawa (#168)

Art Direction : 渋谷 幸弘 Shibutani Yukihiro

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Japanese Contemporary Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, April 18-19, 1975 [LELLI]

Feat.: Shiro Hayami, Masakazu Horiuschi, Yoshikuni Inoue, Tasuo Kawaguchi, Toshiyuki Mogami, Mitsuo Shiemura, Morio Shinoda, Yu Shinoda, Susumu Singu, Kishiro Suga, Minoru Suzuki, Kakuzo Takehata, Takeshi Tsuchitani, Haruhiko Yasuda, Kazuo Yuhara

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Gokū no Daibōken (1967) 悟空の大冒険

Director: Osamu Tezuka / Gisaburo Sugii / Yu Dezaki / Ryosuke Takahashi / Masami Hata / Toshio Hirata / Sadao Tsukioka / Hideo Nishimaki Screenwriter: Osamu Tezuka / Ryotake Suzuki / Toshio Hirata / Hideo Nishimaki Starring: Kazuko Masuyama / Eiko Masuyama / Nachi Nozawa / Junpei Takiguchi / Kinya Aikawa / Shinsuke Chikaishi / Ichiro Nagai / Joji Yanami / Shūo Otsuka / Setsao Wakui / Mariko Mukai / Hiroshi Masuoka / Masashi Amamori / Toshiji Omiya / Kazuo Kumakura / Nori Kohara / Katsue Miwa / Hiroshi Otake / Kyoshi Kobayashi / Isamu Tanaka / Kenji Utsumi / Takuzo Kamiyama /Komiyama Kiyoshi / Ryusuke Shiomi Genre: Animation Country/Region of Production: Japan Language: Japanese Date: 1967-01-07 (Japan) Number of episodes: 39 Single episode length: 23 minutes Also known as: Goku no Daiboken / 孙悟空の大冒険 / 孙悟空的大冒险 IMDb: tt0997021 Type: Reimanging

Summary:

Journey to the West, one of the four great Chinese classical novels, has taken on a completely different look in the hands of the Japanese manga master Osamu Tezuka. Sun Wukong, who was born from a stone, once dominated the world and made a living by cutting people on the streets. Later, he was imprisoned by the evil king and met Little Draong Girl. After that, he became a disciple of Draong Immortal, and not only learned 72 transformations, but also got the precious Ruyi Jingu Bang. Sun Wukong, who had greatly increased his abilities, gathered in the mountains and forests, robbed the rich and helped the poor, and even alarmed the heavens, causing a series of good dramas in the heavens. In the end, he was suppressed under the Five Fingers Mountain by the Buddha because he overestimated his own abilities. With the help of the timid Tang Monk, Sun Wukong regained his freedom. Later, they met Zhu Bajie, who was wearing a suit and a bow tie, and Sha Wujing, who loved money and dug for treasures everywhere. The master and his disciples thus embarked on a dangerous and fun adventure to the West...

Source: https://movie.douban.com/subject/2154391/

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ_Sk4feb9M

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I have some little tidbits to share about Cutie Honey episode 20: “The Forgotten Legendary City." Check it out below!

Screenwriter: Susumu Takaku

Art Director: Eiji Ito

Animation Director: Kazuo Komatsubara

Director: Hiroshi Shidara

This episode is centered around Honey and the Hayami family locating the lost continent of Mu. Augustus Le Plongeon introduced his idea of Mu after investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán. You can read more about it here.

This episode also mentions a place called New Dolema Island (ニュードレマ島) which I'm assuming is a play on New Caledonia (ニューカレドニア).

According to the 1974 January issue of TV Magazine, Honey really loves anmitsu and chocolate.

Anmitsu is a traditional Japanese cold jelly dessert, topped with fruits, dango, bean paste, ice cream and a dark colored syrup. Considering how much Honey enjoys chocolate, it’s not surprising she would be carrying around a bar of it during her travels. That being said, she shouldn’t have given chocolate to those baby monkeys. It’s not good for them!

The design for Crocodile Claw appears to be inspired by Ogon Bat. Ogon Bat was a superhero created by Suzuki Ichiro and Takeo Nagamatsu back in the 1930’s. This Japanese superhero made his debut in kamishibai, a type of street storytelling, in which a narrator tells a story with occupying images. Despite being a superhero, Ogon Bat evokes a very ghoulish appearance with his skull-like face and a Dracula-like cloak.

Honey transforms herself into a female version of Tarzan, known as Onna Tarzan or “Lady Tarzan.” Eiko Masuyama even does her own imitation of Johnny Weissmuller’s famous “Tarzan yell.”

Go Nagai has included female versions of Tarzan in a few of his works, including his extremely raunchy manga, Kekko Kamen.

There are at least two different versions of this episode: one where the Cutie Honey logo appears during a scene transition (after the Hayami guys ogle Honey in her Tarzan outfit) and one where it doesn't. The logo-less version has appeared on early home video releases and even the French dub. The version with the logo appears on the 2004 DVD remaster.

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Silence Has No Wings (1966)

とべない沈黙 Silence Has No Wings (1966) directed by Kazuo Kuroki cinematography by Tatsuo Suzuki

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can you recommend any good novels/short story collections that don’t have MFA writers workshop syndrome if that makes any sense

Sure! These are going to lean to horror because that's what I read usually if I'm reading fiction.

Things We Lost In The Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed are two horror short story collections by Mariana Enriquez. She released a novel recently as well which I haven't read yet.

Things We Say In The Dark by Kirsty Logan (I can't remember perfectly but this one might have been a little MFA-y)

Mapping The Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (found this one stronger than his longer stuff)

Dark Water by Koji Suzuki--I also read Ring and am hoping to read the next 2 books in that series

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue, but you do have to kind of click into the tone of the stories

The Bloody Chamber and Sinners and Saints by Angela Carter--both short story collections, I find her much easier to read in short formats. She probably had her own time's version of MFA syndrome lol

I read two books by Ramsey Campbell recently, Ancient Images and Fellstones, that were authentically pleasurable to read. The latter a little less so bc of the male protagonist LOL.

I've been reading Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill lately and it's been a ton of fun

If I see the following names on a shelf I'll usually pick them up at least to look at, if not to read:

Gillian Flynn

Margaret Atwood

Toni Morrison

Laura Esquivel

Isabel Allende

Sarah Waters

Shirley Jackson

Virginia Woolf

Elizabeth Kostova

Jeanette Winterson (I do find she has a degree of professorial silliness but I love her anyway unfortunately)

Octavia Butler

Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm sure I'm forgetting some but

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Machiko Kyo and Ganjiro Nakamura in Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)

Cast: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyo, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Haruko Sugimura, Hitomi Nozoe, Chishu Ryu, Koji Mitsue, Haruo Tanaka. Screenplay: Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda, based on a screenplay by Tadao Ikeda. Cinematography: Kazuo Miyagawa. Production design: Hideo Matsuyama. Film editing: Toyo Suzuki. Music: Takanobu Saito. The remake of his 1934 silent, A Story of Floating Weeds, Yasujiro Ozu's Floating Weeds adds not only the technological advances of sound and color, but also shows the maturing of Ozu's sensibility. It's clear that the director feels a deep identification with Komajuro (Ganjiro Nakamura), the "master" of the group of traveling players, who finds himself worried not only about his responsibility to the actors but also about his responsibility to his unacknowledged son, Kiyoshi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), now that the young man is of an age to make the kind of mistakes Komajuro has made. The wonderful Machiko Kyo also brings great depth to the role of Sumiko, an actress in the troupe and Komajuro's current mistress. When she susses out the fact that Komajuro has a former mistress, Oyoshi (Haruko Sugimura), in the town where they're currently performing, and that Kiyoshi is his son by Oyoshi, she takes revenge by having the pretty young actress Kayo (Ayako Wakao) seduce the young man. It's a fairly conventional plot, to be sure, devised for the earlier film by Ozu and Tadao Ikeda, but it reverberates beautifully with the film's theme: a celebration of acting and all that it involves. Komajuro, after all, has been playing the role of Kiyoshi's "uncle," with Oyoshi's aid. And Kayo's acting as the seductress turns into a real love affair. Above all, though, it's the quiet mastery of film that shines through every frame of Ozu's work, made magical by Kazuo Miyagawa's cinematography and Hideo Matsuyama's production design. One of the great works by one of film's great humanists.

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Ebisawa Kazuo (45)

Touto Bank Beika Park Branch Manager

He's talking to Sonoko, in recognition of her being part of the Suzuki family and zaibatsu, in this scene. He also gets his age listed.

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Maison Ikkoku Season 1 Episode 11: Kentaro's First Love! What's Age Got to Do with It?

Written by Michiru Shimada

Storyboard by Kazuo Yamazaki

Directed by Iku Suzuki

Animation directed by Tsukasa Dokite

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Japan's Finance Minister: Hopefully the BOJ will pursue inflation targeting with appropriate policy

Reuters, TOKYO, September 12 – Taking into account “the economy, prices, and financial conditions,” Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki stated on Tuesday that he anticipates the Bank of Japan will implement monetary policy effectively and collaborate with the government to reach the inflation objective. Suzuki chose not to respond to statements made by BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda in a media…

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China's rising power in spotlight at meetings of financial leaders ahead of G7 summit By Reuters

©Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki, center, speaks, with Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda, right, during the presidency’s press conference at the G7 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors, at Toki Messe in Niiga By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – The weekend meeting of financial leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies did not name…

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- Los candidatos al Banco de Japón, con la vista puesta en el objetivo de precios y los salarios - Compartir: El gobierno de Japón eligió al académico Kazuo Ueda como nuevo jefe del banco central con la expectativa de mantener de forma estable el objetivo de inflación junto con subidas salariales estructurales, dijo el...

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Sources suggest that the Bank of Japan is inclined to proceed cautiously with rate hikes, even in the event of terminating its negative-rate policy.

Ah, picture this: the Bank of Japan's dance with interest rates is like watching a turtle run a marathon. Sources whisper that even if they bid adieu to negative rates, they'll tiptoe like ballerinas before considering positive territory. Why rush when the nation's inflation game is still playing hide and seek after decades of tag with deflation?

Sure, inflation's been poking its head above the 2% target for a while now, but BOJ bigwigs aren't exactly doing cartwheels about it. They're wary of pulling a 'Fed move' and kicking off a rate hike spree like it's going out of style. One insider even quipped, "Speeding up the rate hike train might just derail the economy!"

And let's not forget the market rollercoaster! The Nikkei took a dive like it was auditioning for the Olympics of plunges just on the rumors of BOJ antics. Talk about being sensitive!

Now, BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda and the gang have been singing the '2% inflation' anthem, but investors seem to be humming a different tune, barely nudging inflation expectations past the 1% mark. It's like they're saying, "We'll believe it when we see it, fellas!"

Meanwhile, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki crashed the party, reminding everyone that Japan's still got some deflation hangover to shake off. Talk about throwing shade on the inflation parade!