#Shinpei Takagi

[ishimondoiftheywerelesbians]

literally going INSANE over the fact Kiyotaka's first play actor (Manpei Takagi) has an IDENTICAL TWIN BROTHER (Shinpei Takagi) who was also AN ACTOR and they both played together the TWINS OF OURAN HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!!!!

GIRL......

[screamscenepodcast]

A monster by any other name would spook as sweet... it's THE MANSTER (1959) aka SŌTŌ NO SATSUJINKI aka THE SPLIT from directors George Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane!

An American/Japanese co-production, this schlocky-titled film is anything but as it tackles themes of masculinity and alcoholism.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 10:15; Discussion 29:07; Ranking 45:17

[ecargmura]

Delicious Party Precure Episode 16 Review - It's Okay To Be Weird

I think all teenagers go through the worries of being seen as weird at least a few times in their lives. I’ve went through it many times in my life when I was around Ran’s age. I was a bit different from most girls in my age group. While girls liked to talk about boys, fashion, and television shows, I was into games and anime, which was seen as weird to most people at the time. Fortunately, I did have friends who did have the same hobbies as me, so I wasn’t too lonely, but I understand what it feels to be called weird or be perceived as such.

It seems that despite being bubbly and passionate about food, Ran keeps her love for food to herself at school because she used to be called weird in the past. Because she didn’t want to be seen as weird but still wanted to express her love for food, she turned to Curesta, but her social media life is an online persona and not. Hence when Takagi called her weird for talking to her sandwich, she got all depressed and started behaving weirdly. Ran who speaks politely is definitely an unusual sight and it doesn’t really fit her. 

I do like how her friends cheered her up by making ramen and telling her that it’s okay to be weird. Man, that’s so sweet. I do love that this does get Ran to have the courage to finally accept herself for who she is and even forgive Takagi for teasing her. Heck, I even liked how Yui  went up to Takagi and told him to not be mean to Ran. I did mention in a previous review that Yui is a ride or die friend and she shows it again here.

Though, my biggest concern is the fact that Mem-Mem was on her shoulder, yet Takagi never questioned it. It’s like back in Episode 3 where Takumi found Kome-Kome and then Rosemary and Yui started talking about important stuff right in front of Takumi yet Takumi never questioned any of it or even mentioned it. Sometimes, the writing of this show is weird.

Ran episodes are cute. I hope there are more later on. The nikujaga they ate in this episode looks really good. Sometimes, this show makes me hungry, even when I am eating. What are your thoughts on this episode?

[byneddiedingo]

Takashi Shimura in Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa,1954)

Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Kato, Seigi Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Isao Kimura, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Bokuzen Hidari, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Keiko Tsushima, Kokuten Kodo, Yoshio Kosugi. Shinpei Takagi, Eijiro Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai. Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni. Cinematography: Asakazu Nakai. Production design: Takashi Matsuyama. Film editing: Akira Kurosawa. Music: Fumio Hayasaka. 

It's a truism that silent movies and talkies constitute two distinct artistic media, and to judge the one by the standards of the other is an error. But it's almost impossible to watch films made by older directors, especially those who came of age when silent films were being made, without noticing the efforts they make to tell their stories without speech. It's true of John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, and Howard Hawks, even though they, especially Hawks, became masters of dialogue in their films. And it's true of Kurosawa, who although he didn't begin his career in films until 1936 and directed his first one in 1943, was born in 1910 and grew up with silent movies. I think it helped him learn the universals of storytelling that are independent of language, so that he became the most popular of all Japanese filmmakers. Others rank the work of Ozu or Mizoguchi more highly, but Kurosawa's films manage to transcend the limitations of subtitles more easily. Of none of his films is this more true than Seven Samurai, which is also generally regarded, even by those with reservations about Kurosawa's work, as his masterpiece. That's not a word I use lightly, but having sat enthralled through the uncut version, three hours and 27 minutes long, last night, I'm willing to endorse it. It's an exhilarating film, with none of the longueurs that epics -- I'm thinking of Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) and Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) -- so easily fall into. I don't know of any action film with as many vividly drawn characters, and that's largely because Kurosawa takes the time to delineate each one. It's also a film about its milieu, 16th-century Japan, although as its American imitation, The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960), shows, there's a universality about the antagonism between fighters and farmers. Kurosawa captures this particularly well in the character of Kikuchiyo (Toshiro Mifune), the would-be samurai who reveals in mid-film that he was raised as a farmer and carried both a kind of self-hate for his class along with a hatred for the arrogant treatment of farmers by samurai. Mifune's show-off performance is terrific, but the film really belongs to Takashi Shimura, who radiates stillness and wisdom as Kambei Shimada, the leader of the seven. There are clichés to be found, such as the fated romance of the young samurai trainee Katsushiro (Isao Kimura) and the farmer's daughter Shino (Keiko Tsushima), but like the best clichés, they ring true. Seven Samurai earned two Oscar nominations, for Takashi Matsuyama's art direction and Kohei Ezaki's costumes, but won neither. Overlooking Kurosawa's direction, Shimura's performance, and Asakazu Nakai's cinematography is unforgivable, if exactly what one expects from the Academy.

[docrotten]

THE MANSTER (1959) – Episode 159 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“Hey, Doc. Tell her it’s an old American custom called smooch. And tell her she smooches good, huh? And tell her I’d like to give her some advanced lessons, huh?” Don’t you just love those old American customs? Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they travel to a mountaintop in Japan; a mountaintop that provides the inconvenient lab location for the creation of . . . The Manster (1959)!

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 159 – The Manster (1959)

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ANNOUNCEMENT Decades of Horror The Classic Era is partnering with THE CLASSIC SCI-FI MOVIE CHANNEL, THE CLASSIC HORROR MOVIE CHANNEL, and WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL Which all now include video episodes of The Classic Era! Available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, Online Website. Across All OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop. https://classicscifichannel.com/; https://classichorrorchannel.com/; https://wickedhorrortv.com/

An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster.

  Directors: George P. Breakston (as George Breakston); Kenneth G. Crane 

Writers: William J. Sheldon (screenplay by) (as Walt Sheldon); George P. Breakston (from an original story by) (as George Breakston)

Music by: Hirooki Ogawa

Cinematography by: David Mason (director of photography)

Makeup Department: Fumiko Yamamoto (makeup artist)

Special Effects: Shinpei Takagi

Selected Cast:

Peter Dyneley as Larry Stanford

Jane Hylton as Linda Stanford

Tetsu Nakamura as Dr. Robert Suzuki (as Satoshi Nakamura)

Terri Zimmern as Tara

Norman Van Hawley as Ian Matthews (as Van Hawley)

Jerry Itô as Police Superintendent Aida (as Jerry Ito)

Toyoko Takechi as Emiko Suzuki

Kenzo Kuroki as Genji Suzuki

Alan Tarlton as Dr. H.B. Jennsen

Shinpei Takagi as Temple Priest

George Wyman as Monster

Fujie Satsuki as Cleaning Woman (uncredited)

“SEE THE TWO-HEADED KILLER CREATURE!” screams the tagline from The Manster, half man-half monster. The Grue-Crew follows the cast and crew to Japan for this delightfully silly, yet oddly effective, late 50’s creature feature. The results are part Jekyll and Hyde, part pre-Cronenberg body horror (RE: an eye growing out of the hero’s – or is it the villain’s – shoulder). Don’t let the title fool you, this one deserves a Saturday afternoon Monster-kid viewing. Check out what the Grue-Crew think with episode 159.

At the time of this writing, The Manster is available to stream from Amazon Prime in B&W and colorized versions, and from Tubi. 

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Daphne, is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) starring John Barrymore! This will be the Classic Era Grue Crew’s ninth journey to Silent Screamland. Yup, Chad’s going to have to read intertitles again. 

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Check out this episode!

[leechan1018]

Happy Birthday Kouki   お 誕生日 おめでとうございます 幸樹👹  あなたの誕生日のすべての願いと夢が叶いますように 素晴らしい誕生日と最高の幸せをお祈りします これからの人生。 . Hope all your birthday wishes and dreams come true Wishing you a great birthday and happiest life ahead. . Next is Takagi Brothers Shinpei & Manpei on October 22   Kenji Ebisawa/Gunpei Ishihara on October 22  ( Engine Sentai Go-Onger )   Aiko Ito/Ranru Itsuki on October 24  ( Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger )   BIGBOSS SHIMIZU on October 26  ( Dragon Gate )   . 2022年10月21日 10 / 21 / 2022 #ダウト #ダウト幸樹 #幸樹 #幸樹生誕祭 #誕生日 #おめでとう #ボーカル #v系 #ヴィジュアル系  #いいねした人全員フォローする #フォローバック率100 #フォローバ100 #d_out #dout #doutkouki #kouki #happybirthday #omedetou #buddhacomplex #Vocals #VisualKei #likeforlikes #likesforlike  @kouki_buddhacomplex https://www.instagram.com/p/CkAH2ziN2ba/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ozu-teapot]

Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 1954

Shin Ôtomo, Shinpei Takagi

[kaiowut99]

All your comments made me feel in my heart how beloved Yuto is.

I’m truly grateful you were able to meet Yuto, and that I could voice him. 

And for Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links. 

From my heart, I'm thankful for the many people that allowed me to take part in this wonderful project. -Manpei

[the-sayuri-rin]

I wish them the best of luck!

also

best response!

[artgurusauce]

This is glorious

[aud-himesama]

[hostagine]

Shinpei and Menpei Takagi (Hikaru and Kaoru)

So you're telling me, those weren't wigs? >:U

[psychoblue9]

Zodiac Knight Saint Seiya (Tokusatsu AU) Fancasting circa 2007: Supporting Cast

Yusuke Yamamoto (Kamen Rider Sasword in “Kamen Rider Kabuto”) as Unicorn Jabu

Keisuke Kato (Kamen Rider IXA 2008 in “Kamen Rider Kiva”) as Lionet Ban

Hirofumi Araki (Rio in “Jyuken Sentai Gekiranger”) as Wolf Nachi

Kohei Murakami (Kamen Rider Kaixa in “Kamen Rider 555”) as Hydra Ichi

Hiroshi Tanahashi (Robot Bugster in “Kamen Rider Heisei Generations”) as Bear Geki

Jason Faunt (Red Ranger in “Power Rangers Time Force”) as Leo Aiolia

Marco Ruas as Taurus Aldebaran

Roger Velasco (Black Ranger in “Power Rangers in Space”) as Capricorn Shura

Christopher Khayman Lee (Red Ranger in “Power Rangers in Space”) as Virgo Shaka

Dave Bautista (Drax in “Guardians of the Galaxy”) as Cassios

Alicya Purrott (Pink Ranger in “Power Rangers SPD”) as Chameleon June

Hiro Mizushima (Eponymous character of “Kamen Rider Kabuto”) as Pisces Aphrodite

Michael Chaturantabut as Libra Dohko (Libra House battle onwards)

Michael Copon (Blue Ranger in Power Rangers Time Force) as Scorpio Milo

Shinpei Takagi (New Akiba Red in “Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger”) as Siren Sorento

Richard Sjunnesson as God of Death Hades (Original Body)

Mikie Hara (Honey in “Cutie Honey the Live”) as Goddess of Sin Eris/Eiri Aizawa

Asami Kai as Serpens Geist

[suminomiyyas]

YU-GI-OH! ARC-V Finale, Interview of Ceremonial Duel with Ono Kensho and Hosoya Yoshimasa 

Bonus whole Crew of the cast

[adalhied-prime]

The AllSpark Changed My Life - Squad One

“Bee’s holoform ran into the courtyard, spotted us and ran over. “Guys! Guys!” He had the biggest grin on his face. “Mom’s coming!” The three of us blinked for a minute, then Mikaela asked, “What?” “Elita! We just got a call from her and her team. They heard Optimus’s signal and are on their way here.”  ... “Alright, don’t blow a fuse, Sunny.” Sideswipe went to his brother, while Ironhide, Optimus and Ratchet went to help the three femmes, I presumed Chromia, Elita and Arcee respectively.   -- Chapter 16, “Squad One” 

"Squad One was formed of Commander Elita One, Consort of Optimus Prime, her sisters Chromia and Arcee, and the twins Sideswipe and Sunstreakers. A frontline hit-and-run team, they caused considerable damage to the Decepticon ranks in every battle they fought.”  -- A Full History of the Autobot-Decepticon War, Vol 2: The War on Cybertron

Angelina Jolie as Elita One Erin Naas as Arcee Michelle Rodriguez as Chromia Manpei & Shinpei Takagi as Sideswipe & Sunstreaker