#noriko kitazawa

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Films Watched in 2023:

56.  東海道四谷怪談/The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959) - Dir. Nobuo Nakagawa

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It is yet another TOKAIDO YOTSUYA KAIDAN (1959), but this time from experienced horror director Nobuo Nakagawa!

Balancing a return to its kabuki roots with a forward-looking use of colour and surrealism, this horror takes your hosts by storm! The film stars Shigeru Amachi, Katsuko Wakasugi and Shuntaro Emi.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 28:53; Discussion 44:01; Ranking 1:00:54

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THE IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE! 10thLIVE TOUR

Further information regarding the MILLION LIVE! 10thLIVE TOUR live has been revealed! The YOKOHAMA stop occurring in K-ARENA YOKOHAMA on the 24th and 25th of February 2024 will be labelled Act-4 MILLION THE@TER!!!!

The voice actresses participating in this stop are as follows:

DAY 1

Haruka Yamazaki (Mirai Kasuga), Machico (Tsubasa Ibuki), Asuka Kakumoto (Elene Shimabara), Eri Ozeki (Minako Satake) Yukiyo Fujii (Megumi Tokoro), Momo Asakura (Serika Hakozaki), Saki Ogasawara (Akane Nonohara), Shiina Natsukawa (Anna Mochizuki), Atsuki Nakamura (Roco Handa), Miku Itou (Turiko Nanao), Yuri Komagata (Sayoko Takayam), Akari Harashima (Iku Nakatani), Kotori Koiwai (Tomoka Tenkubashi), Yuu Kahara (Emily Stewart), Sora Amamiya (Shiho Kitazawa), Nao Tamura (Hinata Kinoshita), Ibuki Kido (Kana Yabuki), Yui Watanabe (Nao Yokoyama), Kanako Nomura (Chizuru Nikaido), Rie Suegara (Fuka Toyokawa), Chouchou Kiritani (Miya Miyao), Nana Hamasaki (Noriko Fukuda), Rika Abe (Mizuki Makabe), Yui Kondo (Karen Shinomiya), Rikako Yamaguchi (Rio Momose), Yuka Saito (Subaru Nagayoshi), Emi Hirayama (Reika Kitakami), Keiko Watanabe (Momoko Suou), Aimi (Julia), Saki Minami (Tsumugi Shiraishi), Arisa Kori (Kaori Sakuramori) yes, I know it'd be easier to write down who's not coming but

DAY 2

MILLION STARS (all 39)

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Here is another one that I’ve been into for many years. It’s my Idol Games! Below you can see me and my sisters best girls and best boys from each game!

LOVE LIVE:

YOHANE/YOSHIKO TSUSHIMA

MAKI NISHIKINO

SHIZUKU OSAKA

SUMIRE HAENNA

NICO YAZAWA

KANAN MATSUURA

EMMA VERDE

SHIKI WAKANA

BANG DREAM: GIRLS BAND PARTY!

YUKINA MINATO

HIMARI UEHARA

KAORU SETA

LAYER/REI WAKANA

ARISA ICHIGAYA

RINKO SHIROKANE

RAN MITAKE

SAAYA YAMABUKI

EVE WAKAMIYA

HAGUMI KITAZAWA

CINDERELLA GIRLS: STARLIGHT STAGE

SYOKO HOSHI

RYO MATSUNAGA

ANZU FUTABA

SANAE KATAGIRI

YUI OHTSUKI

TOKIKO ZAIZEN

RIN SHIBUYA

TAKUMI MUKAI

RINA FUJIMOTO

ASUKA NINOMIYA

TOMOE MURAKAMI

MICHIRU OHARA

MILLION LIVE THEATRE DAYS:

EMILY STEWART

FUKA TOYOKAWA

IORI MINASE

UMI KOUSAKA

MIZUKI MAKABE

SHIZUKA MOGAMI

NORIKO FUKUDA

AYUMU MAIHAMA

ANNA MOCHIZUKI

MAKOTO KIKUCHI

ENSEMBLE STARS

WATARU HIBIKI

CHIAKI MORISAWA

NAZUTO NITO

ARASHI NARUKAMI

REI SAKUMA

TORI HIMEMIYA

SHINOBU SENGOKU

SOUMA KANZAKI

TSUKASA SUOU

HOKUTO HIDAKA

KOGA OOGAMI

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Faces

Fashion

Pets

Tattoos

Homes

Locations

Aiba Ren

Ashida Kiyoshi

Azuma Masao

Cheng Eric Wan

Cheng Li Wei

Dong Min Jae

Endou Nobuo

Han Shi Won

Hirano Masahiro

Huang Yao Zu

Ichihara Ryuuji

Ikeda Noriko

Kang DaeHyun

Kato Asuka

Kawano Yukari

Kitazawa Junpei

Kurosawa Hinata

Kurosawa Ryuunosuke

Kwon Chiko

Lee Sung Ho

Martell Jerome

Moon Soo Bin

Mukai Koan

Narita Hideki

Otsuka Yuri

Saejima Keitaro

Seok Ji Hoon

Shibaguchi Eishi

Suzuki Mamoru

Taguchi Satoshi

Tanaka Shoichi

Thakur Rihaan Avir

Tsukamoto Hotaka

Xuan Li Ling

Xuan Ming Li

Yoshida Takeo

Zhuo YuHan

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Katsuko Wakasugi in Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1959)

Cast: Shigeru Amachi, Katsuko Wakasugi, Shuntaro Emi, Ryuzaburo Nakamura, Noriko Kitazawa, Junko Ikeuchi, Kikuko Hanaoka, Hiroshi Hayashi, Jun Otomo, Shinjuro Asano. Screenplay: Masayoshi Onuki, Yoshihiro Ishikawa, based on a play by Nanboku Tsuruya. Cinematography: Tadashi Nishimoto. Production design: Harayasu Kurosawa. Film editing: Shin Nagata. Music: Michiaki Watanabe.

Keisuke Kinoshita's 1949 version of the much-adapted ghost story, Yotsuya Kaidan, jettisoned the supernatural in favor of the psychological, turning the protagonist, Iemon, into a somewhat more sympathetic, even tragic figure. But ten years later, Nobuo Nakagawa went straight for the horror: a bloodthirsty, ambitious Iemon (Shigeru Amachi), who doesn't even need Naosuke's (Shuntaro Emi) Iago-like promptings to descend straight into murder. In fact, if you try to apply psychology to Nakagawa's Iemon, you'll run up against some blank walls: It's hard to understand why Iemon in this version even bothers to settle down to a life of umbrella-making after his slaughter of Oiwa's father and his complicity in Naosuke's dispatch of Yomoshichi (Ryuzaburo Nakamura), his rival for Osode's (Noriko Kitazawa) hand. By this time, Iemon is steeped in blood so far that "returning were as tedious as go o'er," to put it in Macbeth's terms. In this version, the ghosts of Oiwa (Katsuko Wakasugi) and Takuetsu (Jun Otomo) are particularly real and vengeful, not just phantoms of Iemon's imagination, as in Kinoshita's version. They lead Iemon into slaughtering Ume (Junko Ikeuchi) and her father and finally to his own doom. Nakagawa's film lacks the subtlety of Kinoshita's, but in the end I think that's for the good: What you want from a ghost story is catharsis, not irony.

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Films watched in 2021.

275: The Ghost of Yotsuya (Nobuo Nakagawa, 1959)

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

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The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)

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The Ghost of Yotsuya | Nobuo Nakagawa | 1959

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Press photo for The Ghost Of Yotsuya (Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, 東海道四谷怪談), 1959, directed by Nobuo Nakagawa (中川 信夫) and starring Noriko Kitazawa (北沢典子), Shigeru Amachi (天知茂) and Ryuzaburo Nakamura (中村竜三郎).

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Idolm@ster Million Live!- Million Comic Theater Million Theater (85/102)- Octopus Control

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Here’s some fanart of the Gravitation girls from some of my favorite artists. Here’s the links to each one, please check out the artists and give them love:

http://animexx-en.onlinewelten.com/fanart/serie/1049/560981/

http://animexx-en.onlinewelten.com/fanart/serie/1049/1225998/

https://moemai.deviantart.com/art/SD-commish-Gravitation-girlz-163608871

https://moemai.deviantart.com/art/SD-commish-Gravitation-gurl-167138245

https://chawia.deviantart.com/art/Maiko-Shindo-87085132

https://chawia.deviantart.com/art/Yoshiki-Kitazawa-91760077

https://chawia.deviantart.com/art/Noriko-en-concert-369618403

https://sabaku-no-hana.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Chawia-154148691

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Kinbei, how could you do this to me?! Your deadicated hosts watch KAIDAN KAGAMI-GA-FUCHI (1959), the difficult-to-obtain horror from director Masaki Mori! The film stars Shôzaburô Date, Jôji Ôhara and Reiko Seto.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 8:58; Discussion 17:58; Ranking 26:47

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PST UPDATE

The Platinum Star Piece Exchange has been updated with various event cards and event outfits for you to obtain! The original ranking card requires 15 Platinum Star Pieces, secondary event cards require 10 Platinum Star Pieces, while outfits require 5 Platinum Star Pieces!

This month’s update includes the following event cards:

SR 【I.Dentify】Tsumugi Shiraishi

SR 【I.Dentify】Shiho Kitazawa

SR 【Our M@STERPIECE】Haruka Amami

SR 【Our M@STERPIECE】Kana Yabuki

This month’s update includes the following event outfits

【2nd Heartthrob】 Umi Kousaka, Rio Momose, Karen Shinomiya, Noriko Fukuda, Mizuki Makabe

【Reckless Player】Reika Kitakami, Roco Handa, Tsubasa Ibuki, Serika Hakozaki, Ayumu Maihama

【Tycoon Ruler】Serika Hakozaki

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VA - Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980​-​1988 - Light in the Attic always let you know exactly what’s on this compilation, right in the title (Cherry Red, too)

Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980–1988 hovers vibe–wise between two distinct poles within Light In The Attic’s acclaimed Japan Archival Series—Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980–1990 and Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976–1986. All three albums showcase recordings produced during Japan’s soaring bubble economy of the 1980s, an era in which aesthetic visions and consumerism merged. Music echoed the nation’s prosperity and with financial abundance came the luxury to dream. Sonically, Somewhere Between mines the midpoint between Kankyō Ongaku’s sparkling atmospherics and Pacific Breeze’s metropolitan boogie. The compilation encompasses ambient pop, underground electronics, liminal minimalism and shadow sounds—all descriptors emphasizing the hazy nature of the nebula. Out–of–focus rhythms wear ethereal accoutrements, ballads are shrouded in static, and angular drums snake skyward on transcendent tones. From the Avant–minimalism of Mkwaju Ensemble and Yoshio Ojima, to the leftfield techno-pop of Mishio Ogawa and Noriko Miyamoto (featuring members of YMO), and highlights from the groundbreaking Osaka underground label Vanity Records, these are blurry constellations defying collective categorization. These tracks also exist in a space of transition when the major label grip on the Japanese recording market began to give way to the escalation of independents. Thanks to the idyllic economic climate and innovations in domestically–manufactured music gear, creators on the edges were empowered to focus on satisfying their artistic visions in the open headspace of home studios. While labels like Warner Music and Nippon Columbia explored new sounds through traditional channels, it was possible for Vanity, Balcony and other indie labels, not to mention self–released artists like Ojima and Naoki Asai, to publish their work via affordable media such as cassettes, 7" vinyl, and flexi–discs. Expertly curated by Yosuke Kitazawa and Mark “Frosty” McNeill (dublab), Somewhere Between is a collection of music, much of it released for the first time outside Japan, that is bound more by energetic vibration than shared history, genre or scene. They are the sounds of transition and searching—a celebration of the freedom found in floating.

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday! (May 21st)

Judicial Commissioner (Gintama) 

Mei Terumii (Naruto)

Noriko Paku (Blue Exorcist) 

Emi Urabe (Corpse Party)

Marquis Messam Elmdore (Final Fantasy Tactics)

Soujun Kuchiki (Bleach)

Akira Kitazawa (Psycho-Pass)

Genichirou Sanada (Prince of Tennis)

Kouichi Aragaki (Prince of Tennis)

Layla (Cinderella Girls)

Hinami Fueguchi (Tokyo Ghoul)

Hanbee Abara (Tokyo Ghoul:re)