#Mayumi Ogawa

[byneddiedingo]

Mayumi Ogawa and Ken Ogata in Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979)

Cast: Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho, Mayumi Ogawa, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Chocho Miyako, Taiji Tonoyama, Goro Tarumi, Yoshi Kato, Toshie Negishi. Screenplay: Masaru Baba, based on a novel by Ryuzo Saki. Cinematography: Shinsaku Himeda. Production design: Akiyoshi Satani. Film editing: Keiichi Uraoka. Music: Shinichiro Ikebe.

It might have been called Vengeance Without a Cause for all Shohei Imamura's film tells us about what drove Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata), a character based on the real-life con man and serial killer Akira Nishiguchi, to his criminal excesses. We are left to see them as the product of societal decay in postwar Japan, or perhaps as something in the air -- as the strikingly fantastic end of the film seems to suggest. It's a film with all the repellent fascination of a rattlesnake, and Imamura is intent on holding the viewer's gaze on the crimes. Nothing escapes Imamura's scathing treatment: not motherhood, not the police, not religion, and certainly not Japan's prewar history, which is touched on in a scene that a lesser filmmaker might have used as a source for Enokizu's disorder: His father is forced to submit to an imperial soldier as the boy Iwao looks on in disgust. Ogata is attractively repellent as the adult Enokizu, and Rentaro Mikuni portrays the father as a man who hides his moral cowardice behind a façade of devout Catholicism. There are daring performances by Mitsuko Baisho as Iwao's wife, erotically fascinated by her husband's father, by Mayumi Ogawa as the manager of a sleazy inn who gets fatally ensnared by Enokizu, and by Nijiko Kiyokawa as her grasping, voyeuristic mother. It's part crime film and part horror movie.

[hedgehog-moss]

"rn I feel like reading about someone's quiet daily life, maybe a diary or letters, set in a place or context I don't know much about, without turmoil or tragedy" oh! do you have any recommendations for books like this?

This is one of my favourite types of books! Here are 30(ish) recs...

May Sarton's The House by the Sea or Plant Dreaming Deep

Gyrðir Elíasson's Suðurglugginn / La fenêtre au sud (not translated into English unfortunately!), also Bergsveinn Birgisson's Landslag er aldrei asnalegt / Du temps qu'il fait (exists in German too)

Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, which iirc was originally written as journal entries and letters before being adapted into a book

Kenneth White's House of Tides: Letters from Brittany and Other Lands of the West

Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book

The Diary of a Provincial Lady, E. M. Delafield

Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet

Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim (do not read if you don't like flowers)

The Road Through Miyama by Leila Philip (I've mentioned it before, it feels like this gif)

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, I keep recommending this one but it's so nice and I love snails

Epicurean Simplicity, Stephanie Mills

The Light in the Dark: A winter journal by Horatio Clare

The Letters of Rachel Henning

The letters of Tove Jansson, also The Summer Book and Fair Play

The diary of Sylvia Townsend Warner—here's an entry where she describes some big cats at the zoo. "Frank and forthcoming, flirtatious carnivores, [...] guttersnipishly loveable"

The Letters of Rachel Carson & Dorothy Freeman were very sweet and a little bit gay. I mostly remember from this long book I read years ago that Rachel Carson once described herself as "retiring into her shell like a periwinkle at low tide" and once apologised to Dorothy because she had run out of apple-themed stationery.

Jane Austen's letters (quoting the synopsis, "Wiser than her critics, who were disappointed that her correspondence dwelt on gossip and the minutiae of everyday living, Austen understood the importance of "Little Matters," of the emotional and material details of individual lives shared with friends and family")

Madame de Sévigné's letters because obviously, and from the same time period, the letters of the Princess Palatine, Louis XIV's sister-in-law. I read them a long time ago and mostly I remember that I enjoyed her priorities. There's a letter where she complains that she hasn't received the sausages she was promised, and then in the next paragraph, mentions the plot to assassinate the King of England and also, the Tartars are walking on Vienna currently.

Wait I found it:

R.C. Sherriff's The Fortnight in September (quoting the author, "I wanted to write about simple, uncomplicated people doing normal things")

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

Pond, Claire-Louise Bennett

Rules for Visiting, Jessica Francis Kane

The following aren't or aren't yet available in English, though some have already been translated in 5-6 languages:

ツバキ文具店 / La papeterie Tsubaki by ito Ogawa

半島へ / La péninsule aux 24 saisons by Mayumi Inaba

Giù la piazza non c'è nessuno, Dolores Prato (for a slightly more conceptual take on the "someone's everyday life" theme—I remember it as quite Proustian in its meticulousness, a bit like Nous les filles by Marie Rouanet which is much shorter and more lighthearted but shows the same extreme attention to childhood details)

Journal d'un homme heureux, Philippe Delerm, my favourite thing about this book is that the goodreads commenter who gave it the lowest rating complained that Delerm misidentified a wine as a grenache when actually it's a cabernet sauvignon. Important review!

Un automne à Kyôto, Corinne Atlan (I find her writing style so lovely)

oh and 西の魔女が死んだ / L’été de la sorcière by Kaho Nashiki —such a little Ghibli film of a book. There's a goodreads review that points out that Japanese slice-of-life films and books have "a certain way of describing small, everyday actions in a soothing, flawless manner that can either wear you out, or make you look at the world with a temporary glaze of calm contentment and introspective understanding [...]"

I'd be happy to get recommendations in this 'genre' as well :)

[demifiendrsa]

Vinland Saga season 2 - Opening theme PV (with English captions)

Anonymouz will perform the opening theme song "River."

Season 2 of Vinland Saga will premiere on January 9, 2023. Netflix will be streaming the season worldwide except in China and Crunchyroll as streaming the season worldwide except in Asia.

Cast

Yuto Uemura as Thorfinn

Shunsuke Takeuchi as Einar

Kensho Ono as Canute

Mayumi Sako as Arnheid

Fuminori Komatsu as Snake

Yu Hayashi as Olmar

Taiten Kusunoki as Thorgil

Akio Ōtsuka as Thorkell

Staff

Director: Shūhei Yabuta

Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko

Character Design / Animation Director: Takahiko Abiru

Art Director: Yūsuke Takeda, Kentaro Ohnuki, Izumi Hirabayashi

Color Design: Satoshi Hashimoto, Minori Nishita

Filming Director: Yūki Kawashita, Hisashi Matsumukō

Editor: Kashiko Kimura

3DCGI Director: Kōhei Ogawa

Sound Effect Director: Shōji Hata

Sound Effect: Takuya Hasegawa

Sound Production: Sound Team Don Juan

Music: Yutaka Yamada

Animation Production: MAPPA

[tierradenod]

WOO HYUN.

KLAUS GRENDAHL.

YUIN EUNSEO.

OGAWA MAYUMI 'MAI'.

[maigawa]

ogawa mayumi MAI . killed at 23. gen 11 - clan ASSAMITA | secta independiente celeridad: 1 | auspex: 2 | ofuscación: 1

𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖒 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖊𝖘✍

[anamon-book]

八つ墓村 松竹株式会社事業部 原作＝横溝正史、監督＝野村芳太郎、出演＝萩原健一・小川真由美・渥美清・山崎努・山本陽子 ほか

[brody75]

The Hoodlum Priest (1967)

[cinemaronin]

The School of Spies (1966)

陸軍中野学校 The School of Spies (1966)  directed by Yasuzo Masumura cinematography by  Setsuo Kobayashi

[movierx]

Mayumi Ogawa in Farewell to the Ark (1984) dir. Shūji Terayama

Cinematography by Tatsuo Suzuki

[byneddiedingo]

Hiroki Iwase and Ken Ogata in The Demon (Yoshitaro Nomura, 1978) Cast: Ken Ogata, Shima Iwashita, Hiroki Iwase, Mayumi Ogawa, Miyuki Yoshizawa. Screenplay: Masato Ide, based on a novel by Seicho Matsumoto. Cinematography: Takashi Kawamata. Art direction: Kyohei Morita. Film editing: Kazuo Ota. Music: Yasushi Akutagawa. The title suggests a horror film, which in its profoundly disturbing way The Demon is. Except there are no supernatural demons to be exorcised in Yoshitaro Nomura's film. There are only horribly flawed human beings who do things that we encounter frequently in the news media: They abuse children. Nomura is so unsparing in his treatment of the subject that for many the film will be impossible to watch, and only the distancing inherent in the medium of film made it possible for me to work through its more disturbing moments. I had to remind myself of what a tremendous acting job Ken Ogata brings off as he plays Sokichi, whose mistress one day dumps their three small children -- an infant, a 4-year-old girl, and a 6-year old boy -- on him and his wife, Oume (Shima Iwashita), who until this point hasn't known of their existence. I steeled myself by admiring the camerawork and editing when Sokichi, pressured by Oume, sneaks away from the little girl and abandons her amid a throng of tourists, only to have their eyes meet as the elevator door taking him away closes. He has already allowed Oume to "accidentally" bring about the death of the infant, and there is worse to come when they plot to rid themselves of the boy. In the end, however, I'm not certain that The Demon entirely justifies telling us of the horrors inflicted on the children. There is an ironic ending that suggests justice will be done, although whether that justice is in measure to the pain that has been inflicted is doubtful. The result is a kind of nihilistic acceptance that things like this occur and will continue to occur, despite our disgust at them, and there's not much we can do about them.

[ozu-teapot]

The Shadow Within | Yoshitarô Nomura | 1970

Mayumi Ogawa, Gô Katô

[dare-g]

Farewell to the Ark (1984)

[demifiendrsa]

Vinland Saga season 2 - Ending Theme PV (with English captions)

LMYK will perform the ending theme song “Without Love.”

Season 2 of Vinland Saga will premiere on January 9, 2023. Netflix will be streaming the season worldwide except in China and Crunchyroll as streaming the season worldwide except in Asia.

Cast

Yuto Uemura as Thorfinn

Shunsuke Takeuchi as Einar

Kensho Ono as Canute

Mayumi Sako as Arnheid

Fuminori Komatsu as Snake

Yu Hayashi as Olmar

Taiten Kusunoki as Thorgil

Akio Ōtsuka as Thorkell

Staff

Director: Shūhei Yabuta

Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko

Character Design / Animation Director: Takahiko Abiru

Art Director: Yūsuke Takeda, Kentaro Ohnuki, Izumi Hirabayashi

Color Design: Satoshi Hashimoto, Minori Nishita

Filming Director: Yūki Kawashita, Hisashi Matsumukō

Editor: Kashiko Kimura

3DCGI Director: Kōhei Ogawa

Sound Effect Director: Shōji Hata

Sound Effect: Takuya Hasegawa

Sound Production: Sound Team Don Juan

Music: Yutaka Yamada

Animation Production: MAPPA

[tierradenod]

𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐎 — ; 10/08.

¡Muy buenas tardes a todos! Quizás suene demasiado repetitivo decir que estamos extremadamente agradecides de la recepción que hemos tenido en estos días, pero nos es difícil detenernos cuando nos han alegrado muchísimo la semana, así que una vez más: muchas gracias por el cariño y la paciencia de estos días. El día de mañana ( viernes 11/08 ) finaliza la espera por la apertura del rol, pero dentro de un rato publicaremos un anuncio más específico con todos los horarios y los detalles a tener en cuenta.

🗡 AUDICIONES:

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Nicki Nicole

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🗡 CUPOS LIBERADOS:

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🗡 FACECLAIMS LIBERADOS:

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🗡 CUENTAS QUE ESPERAMOS:

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Recordamos que los únicos cupos disponibles de momento son para el clan LASOMBRA y GANGREL, por lo que de estar interesados en alguno pueden acercarse fuera de anon a nuestro buzón. Cualquier error en el conteo de arriba o en caso de tener alguna duda al respecto de lo listado, favor de comunicarse con la administración. ¡Nos seguimos leyendo!

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Vengeance Is Mine. Dir.: Shohei Imamura. Per.: Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa. Based on the book of the same name by Ryuzo Saki. Shochiku, 1979.

"This man is former truck driver Enokizu Iwao, age 37. He is the subject of a nationwide manhunt on charges of robbery and murder...he may be posing as a lawyer or university professor."

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Poster for Night Ladies (Nihiki No Mesu Inu, 二匹の牝犬), 1964, directed by Yusuke Watanabe (渡辺祐介) and starring Mayumi Ogawa (小川真由美) and Mako Midori (緑魔子).