#Kiyoko Tsuji

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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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Hello, welcome to my blog! You can call me Kiyoko, This blog centers around true crime! I want to make friends and talk about my tcc favs! I'm also radqueer and proship (∩^o^)⊃━☆

My favs are: Natsumi Tsuji (Nevada Tan), Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Alyssa Bustamante, Adam Lanza, Yuka Takaoka, Brenda Spencer, Jung Yoo-Jung, Jeffery Dahmer, Richard Ramirez, Aileen Wuornos, Aiden (Audery) Hale, John Wayne Gacy, Jack the Ripper, James Holmes

Fandoms I'm in: True Crime, Zero Day, Lucky Star, K-On!, Invader Zim, South Park, Super Mario Bros (Movie), Sanrio, My Little Pony, Serial Experiments Lain, Vocaloid, Danganronpa, Heaters, Thirteen, Menhera Chan (Wrist Cut Warrior manga)

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Kinuyo Tanaka in The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichiro Sugai, Toshiro Mifune, Toshiaki Konoe, Kiyoko Tsuji, Hisako Yamane, Jukichi Uno, Eitaro Shindo, Akira Oizumi, Kyoko Kusajima, Masao Shimizu, Daisuke Kato. Screenplay: Kenji Mizoguchi, Yoshikata Yoda, based on a novel by Saikaku Ihara. Cinematography: Yoshimi Hirano. Production design: Hiroshi Mizutani. Film editing: Toshio Goto. Music: Ichiro Saito. 

Oharu (Kinuyo Tanaka) is by turns a lover, a concubine, a courtesan, a servant, a wife, a prostitute, and a nun, which in the 17th-century Japan of Kenji Mizoguchi's film is almost everything a woman could possibly be. But Tanaka's great performance individualizes Ohara, keeping her from just being a representative figure, a stand-in for Woman. Over the course of the film, Oharu suffers almost every indignity that could be inflicted on her: At the court in Kyoto where she is a lady in waiting, she falls in love with a page, Katsunosuke (Toshiro Mifune), but when their affair is discovered, she and her parents are expelled and he is beheaded. One day a courtier for a powerful feudal lord comes to the village where they are exiled: The lord is in need of an heir, and his wife is barren. Oharu fits his rather exacting specifications to the letter, so she is brought to his palace where she bears him a son, but she's not allowed to nurse the child and is expelled from the household by his jealous wife. She goes to work as a courtesan to pay off the debts incurred by her greedy father (Ichiro Sugai), takes a job as maid to a woman who suspects her of sleeping with her husband, marries a man who is killed by robbers, and becomes a Buddhist nun but is expelled from the temple for supposedly seducing a man who was actually trying to rape her. Years pass and she loses her beauty and now walks the streets to earn money to survive, but she is subjected to scorn and mockery as a "goblin cat" by a man leading a group of young pilgrims. Hope dawns when she is summoned to meet her son, who has succeeded his father as lord, but it turns out that the officials in the court really want to cover up the fact that their lord's mother has been a prostitute, so she runs away after only a brief and distant glimpse of him. At the end she wanders the streets as an itinerant nun receiving alms in exchange for prayers -- her prostitution is now spiritual rather than physical. It's easy to take a synopsis like this and dismiss the story as "lachrymose as a soap opera," and "a reverse Horatio Alger adventure," as a particularly obtuse New York Times review did when The Life of Oharu was first released in the United States in 1964. It is neither of those things, of course. Even the Times reviewer was struck by Tanaka's performance, Mizoguchi's direction, and Yoshimi Hirano's cinematography, without understanding how or why these elevate the story into art. The story comes from a 17th-century novel by Saikaku Ihara, The Life of an Amorous Woman, a work far more erotic and picaresque than the melancholy screenplay Mizoguchi and co-screenwriter Yoshikata Yoda derived from it. The Life of Oharu is unremittingly grim -- it put me in mind of the novels of Thomas Hardy, whose characters suffer more than seems absolutely necessary for the author to make his point about the workings of fate. But the film is not about suffering; it's about strength, and women's strength in particular.  

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Bad movie I have The Life of Oharu 1952

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New Japan Road Night 5 - 9/9/2020: Junior Tag Final Set; G1 Climax 30 Entrants Revealed: Jay, KENTA, Juice, Cobb, Ospreay Return to Japan, Yujiro, YOSHI-HASHI, Suzuki Back In

The tour continued today, although it seems like the focus of the show was superfluous to why everyone was looking forward to it. That said, you can see it now on NJPWWorld, and the Finals to crown the next IWGP Juniorheayweight Tag Team champions are now set.

- 9/9/2020, Miyagi Sendai Sun Plaza Hall (NJPWWorld)

Satoshi Kojima d. Yota Tsuji (Lariat, 7:34)

Kazuchika Okada [CHAOS], Toru Yano [CHAOS], SHO [CHAOS] & Gabriel Kidd  d. Hirooki Goto [CHAOS], Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS] & Yuya Uemura (SHO > Uemura, Udehishigi, 14:16)

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi, Yuji Nagata & Tomoaki Honma d. Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr. & DOUKI [SZKG] (Ibushi > DOUKI, Kamigoye, 13:33)

Tetsuya Naito, Shingo Takagi & SANADA [Los Ingobernables] d. EVIL, Dick Togo & Yujiro Takahashi [Bullet Club] (Naito > Togo, Destino, 9:50)

62nd IWGP Juniorheavyweight Tag Team Championship Tournament: Taiji Ishimori & Gedo [Bullet Club] d. Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato (Ishimori > Wato, Bone Lock, 14:34)

62nd IWGP Juniorheavyweight Tag Team Championship Tournament: El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [SZKG] d. Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables] (Desperado > BUSHI, El Es Claro, 17:15)

With this, Despy/Kanemaru win the group stage phase of this tournament on head-to-head, and advance to the Final on Friday v. Los Dos Peligrosos. I guess NJPW are officially calling it the Bone Lock instead of Yes Lock now. Kawato taking two straight losses in this tournament seems like they are definitely doing a “slow burn” with him on this Master Wato gimmick after all, after having a great showing out at Dominion. SHO & Ishii continue to feud. Final tourney standings:

Despy/Kanemaru - 4pts (2W 0D 1L) Los Dos Peligrosos - 4pts (2W 0D 1L) Ishimori/Gedo - 2pts (1W 0D 2L) Taguchi/Wato - 2pts (1W 0D 2L)  

And now, the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the reveal of the participants in this year’s G1 Climax, the 30th such tournament under this name.

The question of how NJPW were going to fill twenty roster spots ended up having a simple answer: they are just bringing in guys early and are seemingly having them self-quarantine for 14 days before the tournament starts. That’d be the easiest explanation, although I would have thought travel restrictions might come into play here. Nevertheless, Jay White, KENTA, Jeff Cobb, and Juice Robinson (who was also out for an injury, which is why he’d not featured on NJPW Strong as yet) are all making their way from the LA Dojo back over to Japan to feature in G1 Climax.

The elephant in the room here is Will Ospreay being back, in these post #SpeakingOut times. For those not in the know, Ospreay featured prominently during that movement, as he and his partner Bea Priestley were involved in blackballing British womens wrestler Pollyanna for the crime of reporting one of Will’s mates as sexually assaulting her. Indeed, during #SpeakingOut, it transpired most of BritWres were either perpetrators, or complicit in, sexual abuse, assault (sexual or otherwise), grooming, abuse of power... the works. It was pretty grim. Probably not coincidentally, Priestley and Jimmy Havoc (someone else who was prominently named) have since lost their jobs with All Elite Wrestling, whilst Marty Scurll has been demoted from his job as Ring of Honor head booker “pending investigation” after it was long rumored but finally revealed, his relationship with a minor.

Therefore, there are quite a number of people who aren’t thrilled to see Ospreay come back to NJPW, myself and my co-host among them. And his proclivity for being a total shithead on Twitter doesn’t help matters. Unfortunately, these sorts of cries tend to fall on deaf ears at NJPW and Bushiroad. If it doesn’t directly affect them, they tend to do nothing about it. Witness the inaction they took regarding the allegations of domestic abuse by Kiyoko Ichiki against Tomoaki Honma, a wrestler the company had fired in the past (pre-Bushiroad). Michael Elgin continued to have a job with NJPW for over a year after allegations he’d covered up a sex assault by a student of his wrestling school had been made, and his duplicity about the matter on Twitter; despite this, NJPW definitely knew about the controversy, and kept him off their USA cards because of it. 

(And for the record, once more  -- the accuser did settle out of court, withdrew their original accusation, and indeed was named as an abuser/groomer themself. Regardless of all that, Elgin outed himself as a sex creep in numerous other ways, even if this particular case was not one of them. As well as a two-faced shit, to boot.)

Indeed, it seems as if Ospreay cheating on his partner would bring about more action from Bushiroad, as Taichi and TAKA Michinoku would tell you. Although, that seems to have its limits as well, since Tetsuya Naito had been accused of it in the past. Katsuyori Shibata was in the midst of his own cheating scandal when, well, Sakura Genesis 2017 happened and made it all a moot point.

Be all this it may, Ospreay is back in NJPW for G1 Climax, for ill or for good.  I daresay we will have more involvement from all 5 men now going forward, as the roster begins to regain its former shape pre-pandemic.

Also back this year in G1 Climax, for the first time since 2015, is Yujiro Takahashi. Let’s face it, he’s been a lower card wrestler pretty much ever since then, if not before, and it was only through his being there when they needed a warm body to feud with Kazuchika Okada on returning to active shows that’s earned him this spot. YOSHI-HASHI and Minoru Suzuki are also back in, for the first time in two years. David Finlay is left out in the cold yet again, whilst Satoshi Kojima will seemingly never get his final G1 run that Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi and Hiroyoshi Tenzan were afforded. IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Jon Moxley, after ripping it up last year, also out of this year’s tournament. And of course, no shock outsiders this year either.

Block lineups:

A Block: Kota Ibushi, Jeff Cobb [FREE], Kazuchika Okada [CHAOS], Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], Will Ospreay [CHAOS], Shingo Takagi [Los Ingobernables], Minoru Suzuki [SZKG], Taichi [SZKG], Jay White [Bullet Club], Yujiro Takahashi [Bullet Club]

B Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson, Hirooki Goto [CHAOS], Toru Yano [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS], Tetsuya Naito [Los Ingobernables], SANADA [Los Ingobernables], Zack Sabre Jr. [SZKG], EVIL [Bullet Club], KENTA [Bullet Club]

As of this writing, the full schedules have not yet been released. We do know that the Block matches will be the only matches on these shows, so we will not have the endless prelude tag matches this year. We will keep you posted on this.

The next show is on Friday, and the full card has not been released yet. However, there will be the junior tag finals, as well as a NEVER Comedy titles match on the show, for your entertainment.

- 9/11/2020, Tokyo Korakuen Hall (NJPWWorld)

62nd IWGP Juniorheavyweight Tag Team Championship Tournament Final: Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables] v. El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [SZKG]

NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship: Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS] © v. Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano & SHO [CHAOS]

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Hyper Projection Play Haikyuu!! The Strongest Team Actors

Hinata Shouyou: Suga Kenta

Kageyama Tobio: Kageyama Tatsuya

Tsukishima Kei: Kosaka Ryoutarou

Yamaguchi Tadashi: Miura Kairi

Tanaka Ryuunosuke: Shiota Kouhei

Nishinoya Yuu: Fuchino Yuuto

Ennoshita Chikara: Kawahara Kazuma

Sawamura Daichi: Tanaka Keita

Sugawara Koushi: Tanaka Naoki

Azumane Asahi: Tomimori Justin

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Ukai Keishin: Hayashi Tsuyoshi

Takeda Ittetsu: Uchida Shige

Shimizu Kiyoko: Nagao Shizune

Yachi Hitoka: Saitou Ami

Shimada Makoto: Yamaguchi Kento

Tanaka Saeko: Sadachi Momoko

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Ushijima Wakatoshi: Arita Kenji

Tendou Satori: Katou Ken

Semi Eita: Sera Yuusuke

Oohira Reon: Yokoyama Masafumi

Goshiki Tsutomu: Kikuchi Shuuji

Shirabu Kenjirou: Satou Nobunaga

Yamagata Hayato: Takahashi Shun’ichi

Kawanishi Taichi: Tsuji Ryoushirou

Coach Washijou Tanji: Kawashita Taiyou

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Oikawa Touru: Asuma Kousuke

Iwaizumi Hajime: Kohatsu Allen

Hanamaki Takahiro: Kanai Sonde

Matsukawa Issei: Shirakashi Judai

Kindaichi Yuutarou: Sakamoto Kouta

Kunimi Akira: Kanda Masakazu

Yahaba Shigeru: Yamagiwa Kaito

Watari Shinji: Saitou Kenshin

Kyoutani Kentarou: Kitamura Kento

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1-5 for the song asks!!! 😊

1. your favorite song: ok i know i said i wanted to do this but idk if i even have one favorite song dhsjfhdj i usually just go to cry for judas by tmg

2. the first song you remember loving: idk about loving but the first one i remember HEARING is san andreas fault by natalie merchant

3. a song that reminds you of summer: wooden walls of this forest church by lost in the trees, also kaze ni naru by ayano tsuji

4. a song you haven't heard in years: i was fr just thinking today abt hayley kiyoko's old music and how i havent heard it in a while, like better than love from 2013 which still gets stuck in my head sometimes

5. a song you can relate to: nooobody noobody nobody noobody nobodyy oooh noobody noboody noobody nooobody nooobody nooobody nobody

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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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Kizuna Road 2018 Night 7 - 6/23/2018: Tomoaki Honma Returns; Great Pirate Festival Day 1 - 6/23/2018

The tour had it’s penultimate day today. The show began with a 10-bell salute ceremony in honor of Big Van Vader, Leon White, who of course passed this past Monday at age 63. This show was also the return of Tomoaki Honma, after being out 477 days from an injury which lead to spinal paralysis.

- 6/23/2018, Yamagata Big Wing

Shota Umino d. Yota Tsuji (Boston Crab, 8:33)

Yujiro Takahashi & Taiji Ishimori [Bullet Club] d. KUSHIDA & Ren Narita (Yujiro > Narita, Pimp Juice, 9:32)

Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi d. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Tomoyuki Oka (Nagata > Oka, Backdrop Hold,  9:19)

Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & TAKA Michinoku [SZKG] d. Rocky Romero, SHO & YOH [CHAOS] (Desperado > Romero, Pinche Loco, 10:48)

Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS] d. Takashi Iizuka & Taichi [SZKG] (YOSHI-HASHI > Iizuka, DQ, 11:26)

Michael Elgin, Juice Robinson, Jeff Cobb [FREE] & David Finlay Jr. d. Hirooki Goto, Jay White, Toru Yano & Gedo [CHAOS] (Finlay > Gedo, Prima Nocta, 12:41)

Tomoaki Honma Return Match: Tomoaki Honma, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe, Toa Henare & Ryusuke Taguchi d. Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi [Los Ingobernables] (Makabe > BUSHI, King Kong Knee Drop, 18:30)

After the match, Tomoaki gave his “Kokeshi is Happy!” speech, and was also hugged by a woman wearing a Honmania shirt. I don’t know who this woman is; Google Translate tells me “Mrs. Chiee” but that doesn’t tell me anything. It didn’t appear to be Kiyoko Ichiki whomever it was but I could be wrong on that. Honma called her “his wife” although that may not be the case, and Honma was known for womanizing a bit. I don’t know. In any event, he’s back, and it is what it is. Taichi also attacked YOSHI-HASHI with his mic stand.

Meanwhile, in Yokohama, Minoru Suzuki celebrated his 30th anniversary as a wrestler today (as well as his 50th birthday this week). His debut was exactly 30 years ago, against Takayuki (Takashi) Iizuka. Today he held an outdoor festival called the Great Pirate Festival, in Yokohama, where visitors were greeted by the above drawing by One Piece’s Eiichiro Oda.

In the pouring rain, three matches were held, including the 30th anniversary match, Suzuki v.  Kazuchika Okada, who wrestled to a 30-minute draw. The sight of the two of them being introduced in the rain, Okada with his money, Suzuki with Ayumi Nakamura singing a new version of “Kaze ni Nare,” and the match itself were all said to be stunning, especially in a torrential downpour. I really hope the video of these matches comes soon. Some of the pictures I’ve seen were downright incredible.

Great Pirate Festival - 6/23/2018, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse

Marines Mask [K-DOJO] d. Mitsuhisa Sunabe [Pancrase] (6:39)

Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. [SZKG] d. Rocky Kawamura [Pancrase] & Hikaru Sato [FREE] (11:39)

Minoru Suzuki 30th Anniversary Match: Minoru Suzuki [SZKG] TLD Kazuchika Okada [CHAOS] (30:00)

There is another day of this festival to come tomorrow as well.

Tomorrow is also the final day of the tour.

- 6/24/2018, Iwate Prefectural Gymnasium

Yota Tsuji v. Yuya Uemura

Yuji Nagata & Tomoyuki Oka v. Manabu Nakanishi & Shota Umino

Ryusuke Taguchi & Ren Narita v. Yujiro Takahashi & Taiji Ishimori [Bullet Club]

Rocky Romero, SHO & YOH [CHAOS] v. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & TAKA Michinoku [SZKG]

Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano [CHAOS] v. Takashi Iizuka & Taichi [SZKG]

Michael Elgin, Juice Robinson, Jeff Cobb [FREE] & Toa Henare v. Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto, Jay White & YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, David Finlay Jr. & KUISHIDA v. Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi [Los Ingobernables]