I can't wait to finish all my coursework so I can watch Kimi to Yukite. Enigmatic Kenchan with his face card and elegant, delicate(?) Mokudai with his Buffa colour clothing - probably a bunch of other toku actors too. It's ikemen central over there, on the level of that one Hana Kimi drama adaptation haha
And if we lived in an ideal world then 👉👈 Tatsuya Kishida gracing the small screen in traditional wear...a dream for the eyes and heart lol
Hideyoshi fits in the category of toku alumni whose performances I enjoyed to the extent where I can't envision them in other roles, but it'd be a treat to see him and his sweet smile ^^
kaguragi is insanely handsome but his actor out of makeup is a more normal handsome guy. I can't help contrasting him to kishida tatsuya who is sexy as hell no matter what
Oh Banba!!! WOW! I knew he was hot, but I didn't know he was THAT hot. also... do you have shirtless pics of Banba?
i don't remember him actually taking it off in the show no matter how much we all wanted him to but there were multiple times when his clothes got like sexily ripped up without this happening to anyone else which was so funny. mr toei knew who the moms liked
as for kishida tatsuya in general i'm not sure... would be a waste if he'd never taken some photobook type pics like that... oh wait a second i'm encountering some images in my google search
mr kishida if you're reading this i'm free on saturday night feel free to call me on saturday night when i'm free
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyo, Mikijiro Hira, Kyoko Kishida, Miki Irie, Eiji Okada, Minoru Chiaki, Hideo Kanzi, Kunie Tanaka. Screenplay: Kobo Abe, based on his novel. Cinematography: Hiroshi Segawa. Production design: Masao Yamazaki. Film editing: Yoshi Sugihara. Music: Toro Takemitsu.
Kobo Abe based the screenplay for The Face of Another on his own novel, and I suspect that adherence to the source weakens the film, which dwells heavily on ideas about identity and morality that are more efficiently explored in literature than in cinema. The central narrative deals with Okuyama (Tatsuya Nakadai) who, having been disfigured in an industrial accident, sees a psychiatrist (Mikijiro Hira) who devises an experimental mask that gives Okuyama an entirely new identity. Wearing the mask, Okuyama seduces his own wife (Machiko Kyo), who tells him that she knew who he was all along and assumed that he was trying to revive their marriage, which had been troubled since his accident. She is enraged when she learns that he was in fact testing her fidelity. But there is a secondary narrative about a beautiful young woman (Miki Irie) who bears scars along one side of her face that, it is suggested, are the result of exposure to radiation from the Nagasaki atomic bomb. In the novel, this story comes from a film that was seen by Okuyama, but Hiroshi Teshigahara withholds this explanation for including it without apparent connection to Okuyama's story. I'm not troubled by the disjunction this creates in the film, because Teshigahara and production designer Masao Yamazaki have developed a coherent symbolic style that creates an appropriate air of mystery throughout The Face of Another. The weakness lies, I think, in the dialogue, especially in the too didactic exchanges between Okuyama and the psychiatrist about the limits and potential of a mutating identity. Nevertheless, it's a fascinating, flawed film, more disturbing than most outright "horror" movies.
Japan PM Kishida to sack scandal-hit reconstruction minister: source
Japan PM Kishida to sack scandal-hit reconstruction minister: source
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has decided to sack the reconstruction minister Kenya Akiba from becoming embroiled in political funds scandals, a source close to the matter said Monday.
Akiba would be the fourth member of Kishida’s Cabinet to resign in two months. Kishida is expected to replace Akiba with former financial affairs minister Tatsuya Ito on Tuesday, the source said.
Prime…