HiroshiShimizu &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:HiroshiShimizu @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:18:23 +0200 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6tgz <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="occasion" melon/div div class="img" Kanzashi (1941).png)/div div class="caption" A traditional Japanese room with tatami mats. Boys at a table eat melon slices. A woman makes a phone call. The view through the window reveals a gnarly tree and a mountain in the background. DP: Suketarō Inokai./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #melons #fruit #HiroshiShimizu #MasujiIbuse #KinuyoTanaka #HirokoKawasaki #TatsuoSaitō #ChishūRyū #ShinIchiHimori #TakeshiSakamoto #TakaakiAsai #SuketarōInokai #comedy #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)

Mar

3

melon

Kanzashi (1941)

A traditional Japanese room with tatami mats. Boys at a table eat melon slices. A woman makes a phone call. The view through the window reveals a gnarly tree and a mountain in the background. DP: Suketarō Inokai.

 

#FilmDinner #melons #fruit #HiroshiShimizu #MasujiIbuse #KinuyoTanaka #HirokoKawasaki #TatsuoSaitō #ChishūRyū #ShinIchiHimori #TakeshiSakamoto #TakaakiAsai #SuketarōInokai #comedy #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6tgz Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:41:04 +0100 有りがたうさん [Arigatō-san / Mr. Thank You] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qcq1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 有りがたうさん [Arigatō-san / Mr. Thank You] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Arigatō-san (1936)/div div class="caption" Arigatō-san (Ken Uehara) courteously thanks someone who shares the road for giving way. DP: Isamu Aoki./div div class="txt" A movie that makes you want to travel "Arigatō! [Thank you!]" ### – Mr Thank You to everyone – poultry included – he passes on his bus Friendly and helpful, Arigatō-san (Ken Uehara) is there for his passengers and non-bus travellers alike. A sweet roadmovie from a Japan now lost to time. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #HiroshiShimizu #YasunariKawabata #KenUehara #RyujiIshiyama #EinosukeNaka #MichikoKuwano #MasaoHayama #MitsukoMito #KeizōHoriuchi #IsamuAoki #comedy #drama #Movember #RoadMovie #BookAdaptation #Japan #1930s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

有りがたうさん [Arigatō-san / Mr. Thank You] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)

Nov

6

Arigatō-san (1936)

Arigatō-san (Ken Uehara) courteously thanks someone who shares the road for giving way. DP: Isamu Aoki.

A movie that makes you want to travel*

“Arigatō! [Thank you!]”

– Mr Thank You to everyone – poultry included – he passes on his bus

Friendly and helpful, Arigatō-san (Ken Uehara) is there for his passengers and non-bus travellers alike. A sweet roadmovie from a Japan now lost to time.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #HiroshiShimizu #YasunariKawabata #KenUehara #RyujiIshiyama #EinosukeNaka #MichikoKuwano #MasaoHayama #MitsukoMito #KeizōHoriuchi #IsamuAoki #comedy #drama #Movember #RoadMovie #BookAdaptation #Japan #1930s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qcq1 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:30:00 +0100 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-09bb <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="occasion" relaxation/div div class="img" 簪 (1941)/div div class="caption" Men relaxing at a roten-buro, an outdoor onsen. DP: Suketarō Inokai./div div class="txt" Someone goes to a spa, beach, or retreat "There’s something almost poetic about finding a hairpin in the bath. It’s like the sole of my foot has been pierced by poetry." ### – Nanmura, via Relaxing at an onsen, a young man steps on the titular kanzashi. Now injured with too much time on his hands, he and his fellow nosy patrons start speculating about its owner. Then a telegram announces her arrival. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #relaxation #HiroshiShimizu #MasujiIbuse #KinuyoTanaka #HirokoKawasaki #TatsuoSaitō #ChishūRyū #ShinIchiHimori #TakeshiSakamoto #TakaakiAsai #SuketarōInokai #comedy #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)

Jul

24

relaxation

簪 (1941)

Men relaxing at a roten-buro, an outdoor onsen. DP: Suketarō Inokai.

Someone goes to a spa, beach, or retreat*

“There’s something almost poetic about finding a hairpin in the bath. It’s like the sole of my foot has been pierced by poetry.”

– Nanmura, via

Relaxing at an onsen, a young man steps on the titular kanzashi. Now injured with too much time on his hands, he and his fellow nosy patrons start speculating about its owner. Then a telegram announces her arrival.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #relaxation #HiroshiShimizu #MasujiIbuse #KinuyoTanaka #HirokoKawasaki #TatsuoSaitō #ChishūRyū #ShinIchiHimori #TakeshiSakamoto #TakaakiAsai #SuketarōInokai #comedy #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-09bb Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200