#yoriko doguchi

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Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)

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Tomie (1998) // dir. Ataru Oikawa

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Yoriko Doguchi

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Shōgun

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

Shōgun (2024, USA/Japan)

Creators: Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks (based on the novel by James Clavell)

Mini-review:

Damn, this is one masterful piece of television. It's outstanding in pretty much every regard (save for one, but I'll get to that later). From the very first episode, you can just tell the show's cast and crew poured all their passion into making this. The sets and costumes are amazingly detailed, and the writing is nothing short of spellbending; it's pretty much impossible to pry your eyes away from the screen. And the acting... just WOW. This is one superb ensemble. Everyone is so f**king good that I can't even pick an MVP. As for the one thing I didn't like, that would be the cinematography. This show falls prey to the Hollywood trend of making some scenes so dark that you can't see anything. But still, everything else is absolutely incredible, so I can forgive them for the darkness. Anyway, if you haven't started Shōgun already, you really should do it as soon as possible. It's a true must-watch.

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa

- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero

1996

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Tampopo (1985)

Director: Juzo Itami Cinematography: Masaki Tamura Production Design: Takeo Kimura

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Koji Yakusho in Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)

Cast: Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Misayo Haruki, Yoriko Doguchi,  Denden, Ren Osuji, Masahiro Toda, Toji Kawahigashi, Yukijiro Hotaru, Shun Nakayama. Screenplay: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Cinematography: Tokusho Kikumura. Production design: Tomoyuki Maruo. Film editing: Kan Suzuki. Music: Gary Ashiya. 

The endings of horror movies typically don't provide a definite resolution of the plot, completely eliminating the cause of the horror, if only to leave things open for a sequel. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure is no exception: The ending is a kind of blink-and-you'll-miss-it, except that even if you don't blink it's still enigmatic. That's not because Kurosawa has a sequel in mind, but that he wants you to stay as unsettled as you've been throughout the movie. The title is ironic: There's no cure for the "disease" the film has shown us because the dark drives that afflict the characters and the motiveless crimes they commit may be endemic, part of the nature of being human, submerged until something triggers them. Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho) is a police detective in charge of investigating a series of strange murders in which ordinary, even respected people -- a teacher, a doctor, a policeman -- kill people and leave an X slashed across their chests. In some cases, the victim is close to the killer and in others they're random. Eventually, Takabe discovers that the one link between the killers is that they all came in contact with a very eccentric young man who at first claims to be suffering from amnesia. Takabe discovers that his name is Kunio Mamiya (Masato Hagiwara), and that he's a former student of psychology with a special interest in the 18th century physician Franz Mesmer, a controversial figure in the use of hypnotism to treat patients. Is Mamiya, whose manner is infuriatingly passive-aggressive, responsible for the psychotic breaks of the unlikely killers? It's a conventional horror-movie plot treated in a brilliantly unconventional way by Kurosawa, who perhaps in his own way hypnotizes the viewer into a persistent sense of dread. The performances by Yakusho and Hagiwara are terrific.     

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Charisma / Karisuma (1999, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

カリスマ　（黒沢清）

10/8/20

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Tampopo (1985)

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Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1999)

Yoriko Doguchi

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Tampopo (1985)

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Yoriko Doguchi

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Mrs. Noisy ミセス・ノイズィ Dir: Chihiro Amano (2020)

Mrs. Noisy ミセス・ノイズィ Dir: Chihiro Amano (2020)

Mrs. Noisy    ミセス・ノイズィ　 「Misesu Noizi」 Release Date: December 04th, 2020 Duration: 98 mins. Director: Chihiro Amano Writer: Chihiro Amano (Screenplay),  Starring: Yukiko Shinohara, Yoko Ootaka, Takuma Nagao, Chise Niitsu, Masanari Wada, Yoriko Doguchi, Raiki Yanemoto, Website      IMDB  Words develop a life of their own. Once a person releases them into the world, they travel far and wide and can…

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"The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl" , first screened at the 1985 Pia Film Festival. From left to right: Yoriko Doguchi, Juzo Itami and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa.