#Mitsuko Yoshikawa

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Mitsuko Yoshikawa as Kikue

君と別れて | APART FROM YOU (1933) dir. Mikio Naruse

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夜ごとの夢 (Every-Night Dreams)

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Apart From You (Mikio Naruse, 1933)

Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Akio Isono, Sumiko Mizukubo, Reikichi Kawamura, Ryuko Fuji, Yoko Fujita, Tomio Aoki. Screenplay: Mikio Naruse. Cinematography: Suketaro Inokai. Art direction: Tatsuo Hamada. 

One of Mikio Naruse's earliest surviving silent films, Apart From You is a fable in support of filial devotion. An aging geisha, Kikue (Mitsuko Yoshikawa), is trying to raise a teenage son, Yoshio (Akio Isono), but he has become ashamed of his mother's profession. When she discovers that Yoshio has been cutting school and has joined a gang, her friend and fellow geisha, the pretty young Terugiku (Sumiko Mizukubo), tries to help Kikue by showing Yoshio what her own dysfunctional family is like. The contrast with his own self-sacrificing parent inspires him to give up his adolescent rebellion. Though the film teeters on the edge of sentimentality, it's saved by the complexity of the characters, the performances of the actors, and the fluidity of the direction and camerawork.  

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Tatsuo Saito and Mitsuko Yoshikawa are Yoshi and Haha, husband and wife with two boys in I Was Born But...(1932). Mitsi had 215 acting credits from 1926 to 1984. Her only other film with any international acclaim was her final film, The Funeral.

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Maligned Yuri Bracket: Preliminary Round!

How is Aiho Yomikawa/Kikyou Yoshikawa (A Certain Magical Index) maligned?

"NO ONE appreciates them like I do. also what's a Yuri bracket without some MILFs."

How is Mitsuko Kongou/Mikoto Misaka (A Certain Scientific Railgun) maligned?

No explanation offered.

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Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujirō Ozu, 1947)

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I was Born, But

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'Evangelion 3.0+1.0,' 'BELLE,' 'JUJUTSU KAISEN 0,' Nominated for Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of the Year

  The 45th Annual Japan Academy Film Prize, Japan's top award show for domestic Japanese films, announced their nominees today for the award show's top categories, including Picture of the Year, Animation of the Year, Director of the Year, all the actor categories, and more, revealing that Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time is competing against JUJUTSU KAISEN 0 for Animation of the Year, which Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train won last year.

  Picture of the Year 


God of Kinema

Last of the Wolves

Under the Open Sky

Drive My Car

In the Wake

  Animation of the Year

Sing a Bit of Harmony

Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

JUJUTSU KAISEN 0

Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time

BELLE

  Director of the Year

Kazuya Shiraishi (Last of the Wolves)

Takahisa Zeze (In the Wake)

Miwa Nishikawa (Under the Open Sky)

Izuru Narushima (A Morning of Farewell)

Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)

  Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Takeru Satoh (In the Wake)

Masaki Suda (We Made a Beautiful Bouquet)

Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car)

Tori Matsuzaka (Last of the Wolves)

Koji Yakusho (Under the Open Sky)

  Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Yuki Amami (Rogo no Shikin ga Arimasen!)

Kasumi Arimura (We Made a Beautiful Bouquet)

Mei Nagano (And, the Baton Was Passed)

Mayu Matsuoka (Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction)

Sayuri Yoshinaga (A Morning of Farewell)

  Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Hiroshi Abe (In the Wake)

Ryohei Suzuki (Last of the Wolves)

Shinichi Tsutsumi (The Fable: A Hitman Who Doesn’t Kill)

Taiga Nakano (Under the Open Sky)

Nijiro Murakami (Last of the Wolves)

  Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Satomi Ishihara (And, the Baton Was Passed)

Kaya Kiyohara (In the Wake)

Mitsuko Kusabue (Rogo no Shikin ga Arimasen!)

Nanase Nishino (Last of the Wolves)

Suzu Hirose (A Morning of Farewell)

  Outstanding Foreign Language Film

Tailor (Greece)

Nomadland (United States)

Minari (United States)

No Time to Die (United Kingdom)

Dune (United States)

  Newcomer of the Year

Mio Imada (Tokyo Revengers) NOTE: Live-action film

Nanase Nishino (Last of the Wolves)

Touko Miura (Drive My Car)

Ai Yoshikawa (Honey Lemon Soda)

Hayato Isomura (A Family) / (What Did You Eat Yesterday? The Movie)

Ukon Onoe II (Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai)

Hio Miyazawa (Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction)

Fukase (Character)  

  While not every film or actor is a winner, everyone who is nominated will be given an Award for Excellence, which also includes a statue. The awards will be given out on March 11 in a ceremony at Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo.

  Source: Oricon

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram. 

By: Daryl Harding

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fcs alts for hayley kiyoko? found some of her old racist tweets saying the n word and other stuff that rubbed me off the wrong way

She’s half Japanese so here are some suggestions:

Devon Aoki (1982) Japanese / English, German. 

Sonoya Mizuno (1986) Japanese / English, Argentinian.

Naomi Watanabe (1987) Japanese / Taiwanese.

Joanna Sotomura (1987) Japanese / Polish, German, other.

Ōta Rina (1988) Japanese / Russian.

Meisa Kuroki (1988) ¾ Japanese and ¼ Brazilian.

Loveli (1989) Japanese / Filipino.

Akari Endo (1989) Japanese / Dominican Republic.

Kimiko Glenn (1989) Japanese / German, Scottish, Irish.

Bianca Mitsuko (1989) Mexican, Japanese, African-American.

Kai Morae / kaimorae on IG (1989) ¼ Japanese ¾ African-American.

Rola (1990) Bengali Indian / Japanese, Russian.

Mitski (1990) Japanese / Unspecified American.

Noémie Nakai (1990) Japanese / French. 

Mori Hikari (1992)  Japanese / Unspecified American.

Fairūzu Ai (1993) Japanese / Egyptian. 

Saila Kunikida (1994) Japanese / Italian, Russian.

Priyanka Yoshikawa (1994) Japanese / Bengali Indian

Britni Sumida (1994) Japanese / German.

Lyrica Okano (1994) Japanese.

Asami Zdrenka (1995) Japanese / English, Danish, Irish.

Yuki Kato (1995) Japanese / Indonesian.

Yagi Arisa (1995) Japanese / French.

Reina Hardesty (1996) Japanese / White. 

Natalie Nootenboom (1997) Japanese / Dutch.

Ayumi Roux (2001) Japanese / French. 

 Queer/gay suggestions since Hayley is a lesbian, normally I’d list only lesbian suggestions but I couldn’t find many there queer/gay suggestions in general!  

Higashi Koyuki (1985) Japanese - lesbian.

Makimura Asako / makimuuuuuu on IG (1987) Japanese - lesbian. 

Mogami Moga (1989) Japanese - bisexual.

Anna Akana (1989) Japanese, Native Hawaiian, possibly English, Irish, German, French, and Chinese / Filipino, possibly Spanish - bisexual. 

Rina Sawayama (1990) Japanese - pansexual. 

Jen Ruggirello (1993) Japanese - lesbian. 

Aqua Parios (1996) African-American / Japanese - sexually unlabelled but is dating a woman. 

PELI / peli4649 on IG (?) Japanese - lesbian. 

Non-binary suggestions!

Jes Tom (1990) Japanese / Chinese - trans non-binary - they/them

Emma Sulkowicz (1992) Chinese, Japanese, Ashkenazi Jewish - non-binary - they/them.

Nakayama Satsuki (1998) Japanese - non-binary - they/them.

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# 191 - Every-Night Dreams (Mikio Naruse, 1933)

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The Hero of Tokyo 1935 The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title.

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Mitsuko Yoshikawa in A Mother Should Be Loved (Yasujiro Ozu, 1934)

Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Den Ohinata, Koji Mitsui, Seiichi Kato, Shusei Nomura, Shinyo Nara, Chishu Ryu, Yumeko Aizome, Shinobu Aoki, Choko Iida. Screenplay: Kogo Noda, Tadao Ikeda, Masao Arata, Yasujiro Ozu. Cinematography: Isamu Aoki. 

Ordinarily, I would regard watching a silent movie about mother love as a chore, not a pleasure. Especially if the movie is missing its first and last reels and doesn't have a music soundtrack to sweeten it. But A Mother Should Be Loved is an exception, mostly because it's directed by Yasujiro Ozu, who can be trusted not to slip into mawkishness and also to provide visuals that compensate for what's lacking in audibles. The story is emotionally complex: After the death of their father -- a role, played by Yukichi Iwata, that was lost with the movie's first reel -- Sadao (Seiichi Kato) and Kosaku (Shusei Nomura) are raised by Chieko (Mitsuko Yoshikawa). But when Sadao comes of age (now played by Den Ohinata) and applies to the university, he sees his birth certificate and realizes that Chieko is not really his mother -- he's the son of his father's first wife. He's upset at the deception but is quickly assured by Chieko that she loves him equally with Kosaku (now played by Koji Mitsui) and has tried to raise him as her own son. Eventually, however, Sadao suspects Chieko of overcompensating: treating him more generously than Kosaku. They argue, and when Kosaku learns that Sadao has upset their mother, he strikes him. Unwilling to fight back, Sadao leaves home and takes up residence in a brothel. When Chieko comes to plead with him to return home, Sadao refuses at first, but a maid in the brothel overhears their conversation and tells him her own story, which moves him so much that he relents. The reconciliation scene has been lost with the last reel, but is narratively inessential -- if the loss of any of Ozu's work can be deemed inessential. The delicacy of the performances and the lovely framing of each scene in the film overcome sentimentality. Ozu also slips in one of his allusions to other movies by decorating the brothel with a poster of Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson in Rain (Lewis Milestone, 1932).  

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[Last Film I Watched] I Was Born, But... (1932)

[Last Film I Watched] I Was Born, But… (1932)

English Title: I Was Born, But… Original Title: Otona no miru ehon – Umarete wa mita keredo Year: 1932 Country: Japan Language: Japanese Genre: Comedy, Drama Director: Yasujirô Ozu Writers: Akira Fushimi Yasujirô Ozu Geibei Ibushiya Music: Donald Sosin Cinematography: Hideo Shigehara Cast: Tomio Aoki Hideo Sugawara Tatsuo Saitô Mitsuko Yoshikawa Zentaro Iijima Seiichi Katô Shôichi Kofujita Seiji…

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The Maligned Yuri Bracket's preliminary round is underway!

It will still take me a good deal more time to find or make images for all of these pairings and schedule the polls, so don't expect voting to start up right away. But let's take a look at our contestants anyway!

EDIT: The preliminary round has started! This post will be updated with links to polls as they are posted and results as they come out.

I've decided that all pairings that received more than one submission will automatically be included in the final bracket, since there were so few of them. The remaining pairings have been sorted into 55 matchups of 2-4 pairings each, the winners of which will be added to a final bracket of 64.

When posted, the polls will include excerpts of the reasoning submitters gave as to how the pairings are maligned, to help people decide who they'd like to vote for. For now, here's a look at all of the pairings listed alongside the media they're from:

Kay Faraday/Ema Skye (Ace Attorney) vs. Franziska von Karma/Ema Skye (Ace Attorney) vs. Adrian Andrews/Franziska von Karma (Ace Attorney)

Susato Mikotoba/Haori Murasame (The Great Ace Attorney) vs. Aura Blackquill/Metis Cykes (Ace Attorney) vs. Athena Cykes/Pearl Fey (Ace Attorney)

Aiho Yomikawa/Kikyou Yoshikawa (A Certain Magical Index) vs. Mitsuko Kongou/Mikoto Misaka (A Certain Scientific Railgun)

Ema Hinata/Emo Moegi (Aikatsu Friends! and Kiratto Prichan) vs. Ichigo Hoshimiya/Aoi Kiriya (Aikatsu!) vs. Ran Shibuki/Yurika Todo (Aikatsu!)

Barbie/Raquelle (Barbie) vs. Annaliese/Erika (Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper) vs. Kristyn Farraday/Hailey (Barbie in the Pink Shoes)

Talia Al Ghul/Selina Kyle (DC comics) vs. Lois Lane/Selina Kyle (DC comics) vs. Jean Grey/Wanda Maximoff (Marvel)

Barbara Gordon/Dinah Lance [DC comics (Birds of Prey)] vs. Kara Danvers/Lucy Lane (Supergirl) vs. Stephanie Brown/Cassandra Cain (DC comics)

Sera Masumi/Sonoko Suzuki (Detective Conan) vs. Hidemi Hondou/Jodie Starling (Detective Conan) vs. Ran Mouri/Kazuha Toyama (Detective Conan) vs. Ran Mouri/Sonoko Suzuki (Detective Conan) Kazuha Toyama/Ran Mouri/Sonoko Suzuki (Detective Conan)

Princess Alia/Akari Tsukimura (Kamen Rider Ghost) vs. Erika Satonaka/Chiyoko Shiraishi (Kamen Rider OOO)

Regina Mills/Emma Swan (Once Upon a Time) vs. Aurora/Mulan (Once Upon a Time)

Elesa/Skyla (Pokemon) vs. May/Serena (Pokemon) vs. Lana/Mallow (Pokemon)

Nemona/Penny (Pokemon) vs. Iono/Klara (Pokemon)

Cyllene/Zisu (Pokemon Legends Arceus) vs. Irida/Mai (Pokemon Legends Arceus)

Setsuna Higashi/Inori Yamabuki (Fresh Pretty Cure!) vs. Miki Aono/Inori Yamabuki (Fresh Pretty Cure!)

Kaoru Kiryuu/Mai Mishou (Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star) vs. Saki Hyuuga/Mai Mishou (Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star) vs. Saki Hyuuga/Michiru Kiryuu (Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star)

Yuko Omori/Hime Shirayuki (Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!) vs. Iona Hikawa/Hime Shirayuki (Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!)

Himari Arisugawa/Ichika Usami (KiraKira☆Pretty Cure A La Mode) vs. Bibury/Ciel Kirahoshi (KiraKira☆Pretty Cure A La Mode) vs. Himari Arisugawa/Aoi Tategami (KiraKira☆Pretty Cure A La Mode) vs. Ciel Kirahoshi/Ichika Usami (KiraKira☆Pretty Cure A La Mode)

Reika Aoki/Miyuki Hoshizora (Smile Pretty Cure!) vs. Akane Hino/Nao Midorikawa (Smile Pretty Cure!)

Hikari Kujou/Honoka Yukishiro (Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart) vs. Hosshiwa/Sasorina (Happiness Charge Pretty Cure! and Heartcatch Pretty Cure!) vs. Megumi Aino/Manatsu Natsuumi (Happiness Charge Pretty Cure! and Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure)

Sora Harewataru/Mashiro Nijigaoka (Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure) vs. Kokone Fuwa/Ran Hamamichi (Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure) vs. Hibiki Hojo/Ellen Kurokawa (Suite Pretty Cure♪)

Laura La Mer/Asuka Takizawa (Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure) vs. Nodoka Hanadera/Chiyu Sawaizumi (Healin' Good♥Pretty Cure) vs. Momoka Kurumi/Yuri Tsukikage (Heartcatch Pretty Cure!)

Elena Amamiya/Hikaru Hoshina (Star☆Twinkle Pretty Cure) vs. Lulu Amour/Hana Nono (HUGtto! Pretty Cure)

Mirai Momoyama/Daia Nijinosaki (Kiratto Prichan) vs. Amane Sumeragi/Hina Yayoi (Waccha Primagi)

Coco Adel/Velvet Scarlatina (RWBY) vs. Ilia Amitola/Blake Belladonna (RWBY) vs. Penny Polendina/Ruby Rose (RWBY)

Mizuno Ami's mother/Rei Hino's mother (Sailor Moon) vs. Ami Mizuno/Usagi Tsukino (Sailor Moon) vs. Hotaru Tomoe/Chibiusa Tsukino (Sailor Moon)

Sayaka Miki/Kyoko Sakura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica) vs. Sana Futaba/Iroha Tamaki (Magia Record)

Nao Egokoro/Reko Yabusame (Your Turn to Die) vs. Touko Fukawa/Komaru Naegi (Dangan Ronpa)

Tomoyo Daidouji/Meiling Li (Cardcaptor Sakura) vs. Togo Mimori/Yuna Yuki (Yuki Yuna is a Hero)

Haruka Hani/Tamaki Teijo (Six Hearts Princess) vs. Minto Aizawa/Ichigo Momomiya (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Howan/Himeko Mashima (Show by Rock!) vs. Hitori Gotoh/Kita Ikuyo (Bocchi the Rock!)

Goombella/Vivian (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door) vs. Sally Acorn/Amy Rose (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb) vs. Theodora/Eleanor Vance [The Haunting of Hill House (novel)]

Katya/Sofia (Goncharov) vs. The Yuri Bracket submission form/The current submission (yuribracket)

Jenny Dolittle/Lynn Lambretta (Mouretsu Pirates) vs. Amami/Kokoro Komadori (Yuri Espoir) vs. Kei Sugiura/Rei Yokoe (School Zone)

Haru Edamoto/Sayaka Saeki (Bloom into You) vs. Sophia Ascart/Katarina Claes (My Next Life as a Villainess) vs. Natsumi Ichikawa/Akari Seto (Otherside Picnic)

Chloe Bourgeois/Marinette Dupain-Chang (Miraculous Ladybug) vs. Valerie Amaranth/Sophia Anderson (Magical Warrior Diamond Heart) vs. Bloom/Stella (Winx Club)

Olivier Mira Armstrong/Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs. Misa Amane/Rem (Death Note) vs. Nami/Vivi Nefertari (One Piece)

Chika Amatori/Izuho Natsume (World Trigger) vs. Izumo Kamiki/Shiemi Moriyama (Blue Exorcist) vs. Nobara Kugisaki/Maki Zenin (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Aya Hoshino/Miyu Yamazaki (Gals!) vs. An Lili/Yona (Yona of the Dawn) vs. Akari Mizunashi/Aria S. Granzchesta (Aria)

Nao Ishiwatari/Makoto Kowata (Flying Witch) vs. Konatsu Amano/Koyuki Honami (A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow) vs. Mayura Ransaika/Urara Ransaika (Akane-banashi)

Irisviel von Einzbern/Artoria Pendragon (Fate/Zero) vs. Sion Eltnam Atlasia/Riesbyfe Stridberg (Melty Blood)

Peridot/Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe) vs. Kyoshi/Rangi (Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Rise of Kyoshi) vs. Aqua/Cinderella (Kingdom Hearts)

Lain Iwakura/Alice Mizuki (Serial Experiments Lain) vs. The Agent/Arakawa (Elfen Lied)

Rey/Rose Tico (Star Wars) vs. Anne Bonny/Max (Black Sails) vs. Svetlana Sergievsky/Florence Vassy (Chess)

Rin Hoshizora/Nozomi Tojo (Love Live!) vs. Naru Ayase/Rinne (Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live)

Ranma Saotome/Akane Tendo (Ranma 1/2) vs. Kurako (Kuranosuke) Koibuchi/Tsukimi Kurashita (Princess Jellyfish)

Morena Prudo/Theta (Hunter X Hunter) vs. Botan/Keiko Yukimura (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Chika Fujiwara/Miko Iino (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War) vs. Marcille Donato/Falin Touden (Dungeon Meshi) vs. Makoto Kurume/Yuzuki Murashigei (Skip and Loafer)

Kozue Kaoru/Nanami Kiryuu (Revolutionary Girl Utena) vs. Rei Ayanami/Asuka Langley Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Akako Koizumi/Aoko Nakamori (Magic Kaito) vs. Shirayuki/Kiharu Toghril (Akagami no Shirayuki-hime)

Dehya/Dunyazard (Genshin Impact) vs. Luluca/Roana (Epic Seven) vs. Karen Aijo/Mahiru Tsuyuzaki (Revue Starlight)

Foo Fighters/Jolyne (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) vs. Bayonetta/Jeanne (Bayonetta)

Shanoa/Laura (Castlevania) vs. Alisha Diphda/Rose (Tales of Zestiria)

Kurumu Kurono/Mizore Shirayuki (Rosario + Vampire) vs. Kaede Shiranui/Shinobu (Ninja Nonsense) vs. Sagir/Yuzuriha (Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku)

Miku Kohinata/Hibiki Tachibana (Symphogear) vs. Sun Jing/Qiu Tong (Tamen de Gushi)

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Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujirō Ozu, 1947)

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Mitsuko Yoshikawa (1901-1991)