#kuni fukai

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Kuni Fukai: Dracula (1973)

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年 イラスト 深井国氏 (1973) ill. Kuni Fukai

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Belladonna of Sadness (哀しみのベラドンナ) Japanese Poster Illustrated By: Kuni Fukai & Directed By: Eiichi Yamamoto (1973)

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Belladonna of Sadness (Eiichi Yamamoto, illustrations Kuni Fukai, 1973) movie poster

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Taichi Yamada, Album on the Shore, illustrated by Kuni Fukai during the newspaper serialisation.

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I’ve recently been obsessed with Kuni Fukai (again) and discovered he had a stint as a mangaka before developing the fashion/Klimt influenced illustration style he’d be known for later in the 70’s. The work, Crazy Big City, is from around 1958, but just look at the line work in that top image. There’s a modern touch to this work that’s very exciting. Sadly there have been no reprints. All the copies I’ve found online have sold for 12-48k yen.

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#fukai kuni

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Kuni Fukai

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They say green is the color of power, the color of the devil.

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Fukai Kuni

[strathshepard]

Kuni Fukai

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Belladonna of Sadness (Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973) Cast: voices of Tatsuya Nakadai, Aiko Nagayama, Katsuyuki Ito, Shigako Shimegi, Masaya Takahashi, Natsuka Yashiro, Masakane Yonekura. Screenplay: Yoshiyuki Fukuda, Eiichi Yamamoto. Cinematography: Shigeru Yamazaki. Production design: Kuni Fukai. Animation: Gisburo Sugii. Music: Masahiko Sato. There are images of extraordinary beauty and sinister power in Belladonna of Sadness, but they are also mixed with Pop Art clichés; psychedelia borrowed from Peter Max and his acolytes, album covers, and the Beatles' film Yellow Submarine (George Dunning, 1968); and kitsch reminiscent of greeting cards and nudie illustrations from back issues of Playboy. That is to say, it's a mixed bag. There seems to have been at some point an attempt to turn the film's fable into a feminist statement, but the link of the story of a violated woman who turns into a witch with the role of women in the French Revolution is tacked on unconvincingly at the film's end. Nevertheless, it's like no other animated film I've seen, and not just because its images have a striking, violent erotic content. The story is about Jeanne, who on the night of her wedding to Jean is subjected to the ruler's droit de seigneur, but not just to him: She is raped by his courtiers as well. Trigger warnings are appropriate at this moment, because the rape is signified by images of Jeanne being torn apart with a torrent of blood that fills the screen. Eventually, Jeanne is tempted by the devil (a terrific voice performance by Tatsuya Nakadai), who appears to her in the form of a penis (no kidding). She allows him to possess her body but not her soul, and through various episodes, including a harrowing treatment of the Black Death, she prevails, striking out against nobility and the church. At one point she "liberates" the peasantry by means of an orgy, a sexual fantasy that is both astonishing and sometimes hilarious. Eventually, she is caught and burned at the stake, but the implication is that, like her namesake Jeanne D'Arc's, her cause will prevail. The film's vision is ultimately incoherent, but its audacity is worth experiencing.

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Kuni Fukai

深井国

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Lời bài hát 月のワルツ (Tsuki no Waltz)

Lời bài hát 月のワルツ (Tsuki no Waltz)

konnani tsuki ga aoi yoru wa fushigina koto ga okiruyo dokoka fukai mori no nakade samayou watashi tuxedo sugata no usagiga kite wain wa ikaga? to table e makkana kinoko no kasa no shita de odori ga hajimaru anata wa doko ni iruno jikan no kuni no maigo kaeri miti ga wakaranai no matte matte irunoni nemurenu kono tamashii wa anata wo sagashi mori no naka “Chandra Mahal” no ouji sama…

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Urami no Waltz -- Kikuo English Lyrics

Song by Kikuo

VO: Hatsune Miku

English Translation

In a fairytale land of dancing dreams

The graveyard's night begins

Lalalalala Lalalalala

It's so much fun, the waltz of resentment

The soot covered eyes of a doll

Tell of a feast glittering black

It's tragic, it's agony

We'll raise a racket 'til you show

At the ends of the night far far away, let continue the ill will, O loved ones

I'll guide you to the very summit of a deep deep hell, whilst laughing from a broken mouth

The day is for dazzling dreams

And the night is for making dark wishes

There's no difference in the fun

In the creaking and dry

Cemetery of ash and soot

Those who were once alive

Gather again today

Let's make wishes

And let's grant them

Welcome and listen well

To this strongest of prayers

From the very edge of this world, let the curses reign on, O loved ones

From the deepest part of the dark dark night, the burned body and broken heart as if dancing through thin air

In a fairytale land far far away, in day and in night, we manifest the dreams of our courageous comrades

Ahh

At the ends of the night far far away, let continue the ill will, O loved ones

Listen today too to this valiant sound, the resentful waltz of your own voice, mangled beyond recognition Lala

JP original under the cut (Kanji/Romaji)

夢踊るおとぎの国で 墓場の夜が始まるわ ラララララ　ラララララ 楽しいうらみのワルツ

Yume odoru otogi no kuni de Hakaba no yoru ga hajimaru wa Rarararara Rarararara Tanoshii urami no WALTZ

煤にまみれた人形の目が 黒く輝き宴を告げる 悲しいよ苦しいよ ぼくらは騒ぐ君が来るまで

Susu ni mamireta ningyou no me ga Kuroku kagayaki utage wo tsugeru Kanashii yo Kurushii yo Bokura wa sawagu kimi ga kuru made

遠い遠い夜の果てで　恨み続けよう　愛した人よ 深い深い地獄の底へ　導いてあげる　壊れた口で笑いながら

Tooi tooi yoru no hate de Urami tsudzukeyou Aishita hito yo Fukai fukai jigoku no soko e Michibiite ageru Kowareta kuchi de warainagara

昼は明るい夢 夜は暗い願いを

Hiru wa akarui yume Yoru wa kurai negai wo

どちらも楽しい

Dochira mo tanoshii

カラカラきしむ 灰と煤の墓場に 今日も集まる 生きた者達

Karakara kishimu Hai to susu no hakaba ni Kyou mo atsumaru Ikita mono tachi

願いましょう 叶えましょう ようこそ聴かせて 強い祈りを

Negaimashou Kanaemashou Youkoso kikasete Tsuyoi inori wo

この世の最果てから　呪い続けよう　愛した人よ 暗い暗い夜の底で　燃えた身体と　壊れた心　舞い散らせて

Kono yo no saihate kara Noroi tsudzukeyou Aishita hito yo Kurai kurai yoru no soko de Moeta karada to Kowareta kokoro Maichirasete

遠い遠いおとぎの国で　ゆかいな仲間が夢を叶える　昼も夜も

Tooi tooi otogi no kuni de Yukai na nakama ga yume wo kanaeru Hiru mo yoru mo

嗚呼 遠い遠い夜の果てで　恨み続けよう　愛した人よ 今日も聴かせてゆかいな音を　うらみのワルツは　傷にまみれたあなたの声　ララ

Aa Tooi tooi yoru no hate de Urami tsudzukeyou Aishita hito yo Kyou mo kikasete yukai na oto wo Urami no WALTZ wa Kizu ni mamireta anata no koe Rara