ATG &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:ATG @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:17:16 +0200 憂國 [Yūkoku / Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death] (Yukio Mishima, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y9s1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 憂國 [Yūkoku / Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death] (Yukio Mishima, 1966)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="occasion" 1936/div div class="img" 憂國 (1966)/div div class="caption" Reiko (Yoshiko Tsuruoka) walking through her lover's blood, her kimono drenched. DP: Kimio Watanabe./div div class="txt" Covers February 26–28, 1936. "'I know how you feel,' Reiko says quietly. 'And I will follow you wherever you go.'" ### – intertitles /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #MasakiDōmoto #YukioMishima #YoshikoTsuruoka #KimioWatanabe #CoupDEtat #NohTheatre #JapanArtTheatreGuild #ATG #ShortFilm #patriotism #romance #suicide #Bushido #SilentFilm #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

憂國 [Yūkoku / Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death] (Yukio Mishima, 1966)

Feb

26

1936

憂國 (1966)

Reiko (Yoshiko Tsuruoka) walking through her lover's blood, her kimono drenched. DP: Kimio Watanabe.

Covers February 26–28, 1936.

”'I know how you feel,' Reiko says quietly. 'And I will follow you wherever you go.'”

– intertitles

#FilmDuJour #February #MasakiDōmoto #YukioMishima #YoshikoTsuruoka #KimioWatanabe #CoupDEtat #NohTheatre #JapanArtTheatreGuild #ATG #ShortFilm #patriotism #romance #suicide #Bushido #SilentFilm #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y9s1 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 燃えつきた地図 [Moetsukita chizu / The Man Without a Map / The Ruined Map] (Hiroshi... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ran-etsukitadi-tu-1968 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 燃えつきた地図 [Moetsukita chizu / The Man Without a Map / The Ruined Map] (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1968)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="X" /div div class="img" えつきた地図 (1968)/div div class="caption" Shintarō Katsu and Etsuko Ichihara as the detective and the missing man's wife, their faces and gestures warped by a paned window. DP: Akira Uehara./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #HiroshiTeshigahara #KōbōAbe #ShintarōKatsu #EtsukoIchihara #AkiraUehara #BookAdaptation #mystery #drama #ATG #Japan #1960s ★★★★★/div /section ]]>

燃えつきた地図 [Moetsukita chizu / The Man Without a Map / The Ruined Map] (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1968)

Feb

2

えつきた地図 (1968)

Shintarō Katsu and Etsuko Ichihara as the detective and the missing man's wife, their faces and gestures warped by a paned window. DP: Akira Uehara.

#FilmDuJour #February #HiroshiTeshigahara #KōbōAbe #ShintarōKatsu #EtsukoIchihara #AkiraUehara #BookAdaptation #mystery #drama #ATG #Japan #1960s ★★★★★

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ran-etsukitadi-tu-1968 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 儀式 [Gishiki / The Ceremony] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1971) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/yi-shi-1971 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 儀式 [Gishiki / The Ceremony] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1971)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 儀式 (1971)/div div class="caption" A boy in school uniform has his ear pressed against the ground. DP: Tōichirō Narushima./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #NagisaŌshima #TōruTakemitsu #NūberuBāgu #ATG #TōichirōNarushima #Shintō #drama #satire #history #Japan #1970s /div /section ]]>

儀式 [Gishiki / The Ceremony] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1971)

Jan

1

儀式 (1971)

A boy in school uniform has his ear pressed against the ground. DP: Tōichirō Narushima.

#FilmDuJour #January #NagisaŌshima #TōruTakemitsu #NūberuBāgu #ATG #TōichirōNarushima #Shintō #drama #satire #history #Japan #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/yi-shi-1971 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0100 鬼の詩 [Oni no uta / Song of the Devil] (Tetsutaro Murano, 1975) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8kbc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 鬼の詩 [Oni no uta / Song of the Devil] (Tetsutaro Murano, 1975)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="occasion" Jerry Seinfeld – 1954/div div class="img" 鬼の詩 (1975)/div div class="caption" Keima Kyo entertaining his audience by hanging numerous clay pipes from his face. DP: Yasuhiro Yoshioka./div div class="txt" A comedian, or set in Brooklyn or NYC, for Jerry Seinfeld's birthday (1954). &nbsp; Rakugo (落語, litt. "story with a fall"), is a style of Japanese comedy performed while seated. Armed with a few props, the rakugoka recites a comical monologue using pitch and gestures. &nbsp; A dramatic retelling of the life of rakugoka Katsura Beikyo II. Keima Kyo, a talented rakugoka, is offered apprenticeship from an older successful performer, but refuses. Young and arrogant, he decides to take over the other man's act instead./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #TetsutaroMurano #GiichiFujimoto #SaburōDate #GiichiFujimoto #JunHongō #YukitarōHotaru #HisashiIgawa #HikaruHayashi #YasuhiroYoshioka #drama #history #biography #BookAdaptation #ATG #Osaka #Japan #1970s/div /section ]]>

鬼の詩 [Oni no uta / Song of the Devil] (Tetsutaro Murano, 1975)

Apr

29

Jerry Seinfeld – 1954

鬼の詩 (1975)

Keima Kyo entertaining his audience by hanging numerous clay pipes from his face. DP: Yasuhiro Yoshioka.

A comedian, or set in Brooklyn or NYC, for Jerry Seinfeld's birthday (1954).

 

Rakugo (落語, litt. “story with a fall”), is a style of Japanese comedy performed while seated. Armed with a few props, the rakugoka recites a comical monologue using pitch and gestures.

 

A dramatic retelling of the life of rakugoka Katsura Beikyo II. Keima Kyo, a talented rakugoka, is offered apprenticeship from an older successful performer, but refuses. Young and arrogant, he decides to take over the other man's act instead.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #TetsutaroMurano #GiichiFujimoto #SaburōDate #GiichiFujimoto #JunHongō #YukitarōHotaru #HisashiIgawa #HikaruHayashi #YasuhiroYoshioka #drama #history #biography #BookAdaptation #ATG #Osaka #Japan #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8kbc Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0200 悲愁物語 [Hishu monogatari / A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness] (Seijun Suzuki, 1977) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-x8tj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 悲愁物語 [Hishu monogatari / A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness] (Seijun Suzuki, 1977)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" 1997 Masters Tournament/div div class="img" 悲愁物語 (1977)/div div class="caption" Reiko, looking fabulous, dropped down next to a sand-filled bunker. DP: Masaru Mori./div div class="txt" Golf (or a tiger) in honour of Tiger Woods' 1997 Masters Tournament victory. &nbsp; Reiko (Yoko Shiraki), a professional model - is groomed into playing the circuit by the editor of a golfing fashion magazine. The rookie's unexpected success draws in all sorts of fans, including the obsessive./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #golf #fashion #SeijunSuzuki #IkkiKajiwara #YokoShiraki #KunikoAshihara #KyōkoEnami #ChiekoHarada #YoshioHarada #AsaoKoike #ShūjiSano #JōShishido #KōjiWada #KeitaroMiho #MasaruMori #drama #sports #blackmail #BookAdaptation #ATG #Japan #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

悲愁物語 [Hishu monogatari / A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness] (Seijun Suzuki, 1977)

Apr

13

1997 Masters Tournament

悲愁物語 (1977)

Reiko, looking fabulous, dropped down next to a sand-filled bunker. DP: Masaru Mori.

Golf (or a tiger) in honour of Tiger Woods' 1997 Masters Tournament victory.

 

Reiko (Yoko Shiraki), a professional model – is groomed into playing the circuit by the editor of a golfing fashion magazine. The rookie's unexpected success draws in all sorts of fans, including the obsessive.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #golf #fashion #SeijunSuzuki #IkkiKajiwara #YokoShiraki #KunikoAshihara #KyōkoEnami #ChiekoHarada #YoshioHarada #AsaoKoike #ShūjiSano #JōShishido #KōjiWada #KeitaroMiho #MasaruMori #drama #sports #blackmail #BookAdaptation #ATG #Japan #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-x8tj Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0200 聖母観音大菩薩 [Seibo Kannon daibosatsu / Eros Eterna] (Kōji Wakamatsu, 1977) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pzg8 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 聖母観音大菩薩 [Seibo Kannon daibosatsu / Eros Eterna] (Kōji Wakamatsu, 1977)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="occasion" immortality/div div class="img" 聖母観音大菩薩 (1977)/div div class="caption" The yao bikuni (Eiko Matsuda) rises from the ocean. DP: Hideo Itō./div div class="txt" An immortal character on the date Highlander (1986) was released. – Dont raise your voice! I'll kill you if you make a sound. – Would you please? When a woman eats the flesh of a 人魚 (ningyo, litt. "human fish" but in Western context commenly translated as "mermaid"), she may become a 八百比丘尼 [yao bikuni], an 800 yearsup/sup old Buddhist nun granted youth and longevity. &nbsp; sup/supThe number 8 symbolises growth and prosperity. Larger numbers starting with 8 indicate that the amount is endless, comparable to saying "hundreds/thousands/millions of […]" in English. Therefore, 800 years can be understood as immortal. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #immortality #KōjiWakamatsu #EikoMatsuda #OsamuSakuta #AtsukoAsano #RenjiIshibashi #TaijiTonoyama #MinoruMiki #HideoItō #Shinto #Buddhism #folklore #PinkuEiga #ATG #drama #Japan #1970s/div /section ]]>

聖母観音大菩薩 [Seibo Kannon daibosatsu / Eros Eterna] (Kōji Wakamatsu, 1977)

Mar

7

immortality

聖母観音大菩薩 (1977)

The yao bikuni (Eiko Matsuda) rises from the ocean. DP: Hideo Itō.

An immortal character on the date Highlander (1986) was released.

– Dont raise your voice! I'll kill you if you make a sound.

– Would you please?

When a woman eats the flesh of a 人魚 (ningyo, litt. “human fish” but in Western context commenly translated as “mermaid”), she may become a 八百比丘尼 [yao bikuni], an 800 year* old Buddhist nun granted youth and longevity.

 

*The number 8 symbolises growth and prosperity. Larger numbers starting with 8 indicate that the amount is endless, comparable to saying “hundreds/thousands/millions of […]” in English. Therefore, 800 years can be understood as immortal.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #immortality #KōjiWakamatsu #EikoMatsuda #OsamuSakuta #AtsukoAsano #RenjiIshibashi #TaijiTonoyama #MinoruMiki #HideoItō #Shinto #Buddhism #folklore #PinkuEiga #ATG #drama #Japan #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pzg8 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100 鴎よ、きらめく海を見たか めぐり逢い [Kamome-yo, kirameku umi o mitaka/meguri ai / Oh Seagull,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 鴎よ、きらめく海を見たか めぐり逢い [Kamome-yo, kirameku umi o mitaka/meguri ai / Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter] (Kenji Yoshida, 1975)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" Pokkī/div div class="img" 鴎よ、きらめく海を見たか めぐり逢い (1975)/div div class="caption" A young woman in a red-and-white striped sweater (Yōko Takahashi) leafs through fashion magazines strewn out before her on a grass-green carpeted floor while chewing a Pokkī. On a small stove close to her a fire truck red coffee pot. DP: Kōshirō Ōtsu./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #Pocky #Pokkī #KenjiYoshida #KenTanaka #YōkoTakahashi #AkemiNegishi #RiichirōManabe #KōshirōŌtsu #ATG #drama #melodrama #romance #animals #Japan #1970s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

鴎よ、きらめく海を見たか めぐり逢い [Kamome-yo, kirameku umi o mitaka/meguri ai / Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter] (Kenji Yoshida, 1975)

May

30

Pokkī

鴎よ、きらめく海を見たか めぐり逢い (1975)

A young woman in a red-and-white striped sweater (Yōko Takahashi) leafs through fashion magazines strewn out before her on a grass-green carpeted floor while chewing a Pokkī. On a small stove close to her a fire truck red coffee pot. DP: Kōshirō Ōtsu.

#FilmDinner #Pocky #Pokkī #KenjiYoshida #KenTanaka #YōkoTakahashi #AkemiNegishi #RiichirōManabe #KōshirōŌtsu #ATG #drama #melodrama #romance #animals #Japan #1970s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1 Thu, 30 May 2024 22:52:15 +0200 少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-z1y7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 少年 (1969)/div div class="caption" The boy in his school uniform (Bin Amatsu) at a table in a traditional Japanese room with his meal untouched. A man eats next to the kid who glances at someone or something offscreen. The table is set for three. DPs: Seizō Sengen & Yasuhiro Yoshioka./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #NagisaŌshima #BinAmatsu #FumioWatanabe #AkikoKoyama #TetsuoAbe #TsuyoshiKinoshita #LoLoCannon #DoYunYu #HikaruHayashi #SeizōSengen #YasuhiroYoshioka #ATG #drama #crime #biography #CarCrash #Japan #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969)

May

6

少年 (1969)

The boy in his school uniform (Bin Amatsu) at a table in a traditional Japanese room with his meal untouched. A man eats next to the kid who glances at someone or something offscreen. The table is set for three. DPs: Seizō Sengen & Yasuhiro Yoshioka.

#FilmDinner #NagisaŌshima #BinAmatsu #FumioWatanabe #AkikoKoyama #TetsuoAbe #TsuyoshiKinoshita #LoLoCannon #DoYunYu #HikaruHayashi #SeizōSengen #YasuhiroYoshioka #ATG #drama #crime #biography #CarCrash #Japan #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-z1y7 Mon, 06 May 2024 13:43:57 +0200 少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/shao-nian-1969 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" Freebie: National Insurance Awareness Day/div div class="img" 少年 (1969)/div div class="caption" The boy waiting next to a buzy road. DPs: Seizō Sengen & Yasuhiro Yoshioka./div div class="txt" Freebie: National Insurance Awareness Day (USA) redux. &nbsp; A boy (Bin Amatsu), helps out his father and stepmother's insurance money scam by pretending to be injured in traffic. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalInsuranceAwarenessDay #NagisaŌshima #BinAmatsu #FumioWatanabe #AkikoKoyama #TetsuoAbe #TsuyoshiKinoshita #LoLoCannon #DoYunYu #HikaruHayashi #SeizōSengen #YasuhiroYoshioka #ATG #drama #crime #biography #CarCrash #Japan #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969)

Dec

17

Freebie: National Insurance Awareness Day

少年 (1969)

The boy waiting next to a buzy road. DPs: Seizō Sengen & Yasuhiro Yoshioka.

Freebie: National Insurance Awareness Day (USA) redux.

 

A boy (Bin Amatsu), helps out his father and stepmother's insurance money scam by pretending to be injured in traffic.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalInsuranceAwarenessDay #NagisaŌshima #BinAmatsu #FumioWatanabe #AkikoKoyama #TetsuoAbe #TsuyoshiKinoshita #LoLoCannon #DoYunYu #HikaruHayashi #SeizōSengen #YasuhiroYoshioka #ATG #drama #crime #biography #CarCrash #Japan #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/shao-nian-1969 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 16:06:21 +0100 儀式 [Gishiki / The Ceremony] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1971) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/yi-shi-1971-99n0 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 儀式 [Gishiki / The Ceremony] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1971)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 11/div div class="occasion" World Origami Day/div div class="img" 儀式 (1971)/div div class="caption" A man kneeled in front of a Shintō altar. Ceremonial origami, known as origata or girei origami can be seen hanging from the altar. This is 幣帛 [heihaku], an offering made of cloth or paper. DP: Tōichirō Narushima./div div class="txt" \ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #WorldOrigamiDay #NagisaŌshima #TōruTakemitsu #NūberuBāgu #ATG #TōichirōNarushima #Shintō #origami #drama #satire #history #Japan #1970s/div /section ]]>

儀式 [Gishiki / The Ceremony] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1971)

Nov

11

World Origami Day

儀式 (1971)

A man kneeled in front of a Shintō altar. Ceremonial origami, known as origata or girei origami can be seen hanging from the altar. This is 幣帛 [heihaku], an offering made of cloth or paper. DP: Tōichirō Narushima.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #WorldOrigamiDay #NagisaŌshima #TōruTakemitsu #NūberuBāgu #ATG #TōichirōNarushima #Shintō #origami #drama #satire #history #Japan #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/yi-shi-1971-99n0 Sat, 11 Nov 2023 18:13:29 +0100