#akihiro miwa

[niuniente]

Princess Mononoke’s mother wolf Moro and Howl’s Moving Castle’s Witch of the Waste are both voiced by a famous singer and drag queen Akihiro Miwa.

Akihiro Miwa (born in 1935) is one of the most prominent queer icon in Japanese history, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki (his hometown) during WW2.

This clip is from a document How Princess Mononoke Was Born (1998)

Here’s a video clip of the finishes scene in the movie between Moro and Ashitaka.

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Akihiro Miwa, photographed by René Burri

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Takeshis’, 2005

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song from new thing, thinking of name change not sure yet. album title/new artist name inspired from your best is an idiot by father figure, sometimes like to listen while playing stalker

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毛皮のマリー | LA MARIE-VISON (1983) dir. Kenichiro Suzuki The perversely fascinating tale of Marie, a prostitute who lives in elegant squalor with her dedicated servant. Every day, for eighteen years, Marie releases an exotic butterfly into the open fields of the living room. Every day for eighteen years a beautiful boy, imprisoned in her den, catches and kills it. A play by Shūji Terayama. (link in title)

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Black Lizard (Kinji Fukasaku, 1968)

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Yukio Mishima and Akihiro Miwa🥀

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もののけ姫 1997

You cannot change fate. However, you can rise to meet it, if you so choose.

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1935 – Akihiro Miwa

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[niuniente]

Akihiro Miwa’s Moro’s scene on the final film from the How Princess Mononoke Was Born (1998) document clip I shared yesterday. I saw in tags many of you had not heard this.

Akihiro Miwa (1935) is a famous singer and a drag queen, who also voiced Witch of The Waste. He also survived Nagasaki’s atomic bombing, being 10 years old when the bomb dropped.

[yourdailyqueer]

Akihiro Miwa (Akihiro Maruyam)

Gender: Male (she/her in drag)

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 15 May 1935  

Ethnicity: Japanese

Occupation: Singer, actor, director, composer, writer, drag artist, activist

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Black Rose Mansion, 1969

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Aubrey Bearsley’s art was everywhere in the Black Lizard’s club (but then again there ARE resonances between the stories of desire/love/death of both Kurotage and Salomé, right?), and I suddenly remember I really really should lay a hand on a copy of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé with his illustrations… *sighs*

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Black Lizard (Kinji Fukasaku, 1968)