Japan &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:Japan @settima@zirk.us Wed, 06 May 2026 09:25:55 +0200 みな殺しの霊歌 [Minagoroshi no reika / I, the Executioner] (Tai Katō, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-7hcf <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" みな殺しの霊歌 [Minagoroshi no reika / I, the Executioner] (Tai Katō, 1968)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="occasion" 1968/div div class="img" しの霊歌 (1968)/div div class="caption" A newspaper headline for April 3, 1968: "COMPANY DIRECTOR'S WIFE NEWEST VICTIM". DP: Keiji Maruyama./div div class="txt" "With bar hostesses, there's a type who are likely to be murdered." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #TaiKatō #MakotoSatō #HajimeKaburagi #KeijiMaruyama #crime #thriller #rape #revenge #SerialKillers #Japan #1960s ★★★★★/div /section ]]>

みな殺しの霊歌 [Minagoroshi no reika / I, the Executioner] (Tai Katō, 1968)

Apr

3

1968

しの霊歌 (1968)

A newspaper headline for April 3, 1968: “COMPANY DIRECTOR'S WIFE NEWEST VICTIM”. DP: Keiji Maruyama.

“With bar hostesses, there's a type who are likely to be murdered.”

#FilmDuJour #April #TaiKatō #MakotoSatō #HajimeKaburagi #KeijiMaruyama #crime #thriller #rape #revenge #SerialKillers #Japan #1960s ★★★★★

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-7hcf Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-zpfs <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 7 p.m./div div class="img" 野獣死すべし (1959)/div div class="caption" Kunihiko Date (Tatsuya Nakadai) driving along at night. DP: Fukuzō Koizumi./div div class="txt" "He’s not a beast. No, he’s a robot. A machine created by a modern, twisted society." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #EizōSugawa #HaruhikoŌyabu #TatsuyaNakadai #HiroshiKoizumi #ReikoDan #YumiShirakawa #MakotoSatō #EikoMiyoshi #ToshirōMayuzumi #FukuzōKoizumi #crime #FilmNoir #Bookadaptation #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959)

Mar

30

7 p.m.

野獣死すべし (1959)

Kunihiko Date (Tatsuya Nakadai) driving along at night. DP: Fukuzō Koizumi.

“He’s not a beast. No, he’s a robot. A machine created by a modern, twisted society.”

#FilmDuJour #March #EizōSugawa #HaruhikoŌyabu #TatsuyaNakadai #HiroshiKoizumi #ReikoDan #YumiShirakawa #MakotoSatō #EikoMiyoshi #ToshirōMayuzumi #FukuzōKoizumi #crime #FilmNoir #Bookadaptation #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-zpfs Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +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 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 暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8d4m <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 暗黒街の美女 (1958)/divdiv class="caption" ###### A man, all in #bandages besides one half of his face, is interviewed by a policeman. Captions read: February 8supth/sup. DP: Wataro Nakao./div div class="txt" Policeman: What's today's date? Injured man: February 8supth/sup. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #SeijunSuzuki #MichitarōMizushima #MariShiraki #HideakiNitani #ShinsukeAshida #HiroshiKondō #KakuTakashina #TōruAbe #NaozumiYamamoto #WataroNakao #crime #FilmNoir #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958)

Feb

8

暗黒街の美女 (1958)

A man, all in #bandages besides one half of his face, is interviewed by a policeman. Captions read: February 8th. DP: Wataro Nakao.

Policeman: What's today's date?

Injured man: February 8th.

#FilmDuJour #February #SeijunSuzuki #MichitarōMizushima #MariShiraki #HideakiNitani #ShinsukeAshida #HiroshiKondō #KakuTakashina #TōruAbe #NaozumiYamamoto #WataroNakao #crime #FilmNoir #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8d4m Sun, 08 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 黒の試走車 [Kuro no tesuto kā / Black Test Car] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9twb <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 黒の試走車 [Kuro no tesuto kā / Black Test Car] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1962)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 18/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 黒の試走車 (1962).png)/div div class="caption" We watch over a man's shoulder. He's behind a table, wearing a pinstripe suit. In front of him drinks and chopsticks on a chopstick rest. He's signing the top leaf of a chequebook. DP: Yoshihisa Nakagawa./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #YasuzōMasumura #ToshiyukiKajiyama #JirōTamiya #JunkoKanō #EijiFunakoshi #HideoTakamatsu #YōsukeTakemura #SeiIkeno #YoshihisaNakagawa #capitalism #drama #thriller #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

黒の試走車 [Kuro no tesuto kā / Black Test Car] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1962)

Jan

18

黒の試走車 (1962)

We watch over a man's shoulder. He's behind a table, wearing a pinstripe suit. In front of him drinks and chopsticks on a chopstick rest. He's signing the top leaf of a chequebook. DP: Yoshihisa Nakagawa.

 

#FilmDinner #YasuzōMasumura #ToshiyukiKajiyama #JirōTamiya #JunkoKanō #EijiFunakoshi #HideoTakamatsu #YōsukeTakemura #SeiIkeno #YoshihisaNakagawa #capitalism #drama #thriller #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9twb Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:26:35 +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 姿三四郎 [Sugata Sanshirō / Judo Saga] (Akira Kurosawa, 1943) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bc6j <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 姿三四郎 [Sugata Sanshirō / Judo Saga] (Akira Kurosawa, 1943)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="occasion" 8 p.m./div div class="img" 姿三四郎 (1943)/div div class="caption" A letter beckoning to come to Ukyō-ku, on December 26, at 8 o'clock. DP: Akira Mimura./div div class="txt" "On the night of December 26, at 8:00 on Ukyō-ku." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #AkiraKurosawa #TsuneoTomita #DenjirōŌkōchi #SusumuFujita #YukikoTodoroki #SeiichiSuzuki #AkiraMimura #MartialArts #judo #sports #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

姿三四郎 [Sugata Sanshirō / Judo Saga] (Akira Kurosawa, 1943)

Dec

26

8 p.m.

姿三四郎 (1943)

A letter beckoning to come to Ukyō-ku, on December 26, at 8 o'clock. DP: Akira Mimura.

“On the night of December 26, at 8:00 on Ukyō-ku.”

#FilmDuJour #December #AkiraKurosawa #TsuneoTomita #DenjirōŌkōchi #SusumuFujita #YukikoTodoroki #SeiichiSuzuki #AkiraMimura #MartialArts #judo #sports #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bc6j Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 大佛廻國 [Daibutsu kaikoku / The Great Buddha Arrival] (Yoshirō Edamasa, 1934) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gnqh <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 大佛廻國 [Daibutsu kaikoku / The Great Buddha Arrival] (Yoshirō Edamasa, 1934)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 22/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Daibutsu kaikoku (1934).jpg)/div div class="caption" Buddha takes a holiday. A gigantic Buddha statue rests his hand on a multi-story building in possibly Kyoto. In front and sprawling out are multiple small wooden establishments with people in kimono and several bicycles in front of them. A tram, the only thing that suggests the 20supth/sup century, can be seen almost off-screen. (via). DPs: Haruzo Ando & Harumi Machii./div div class="txt" Something tall &nbsp; In this very early kaiju moving picture, Buddha returns and goes on a sightseeing trip through Japan. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #YoshirōEdamasa #HidemichiIshikawa #KazuyoKojima #TankaiSoganoya #HaruzoAndo #HarumiMachii #kaiju #tokusatsu #religion #Buddhism #Buddha #travelogue #Japan #1930s/div /section ]]>

大佛廻國 [Daibutsu kaikoku / The Great Buddha Arrival] (Yoshirō Edamasa, 1934)

Dec

22

Daibutsu kaikoku (1934)

Buddha takes a holiday. A gigantic Buddha statue rests his hand on a multi-story building in possibly Kyoto. In front and sprawling out are multiple small wooden establishments with people in kimono and several bicycles in front of them. A tram, the only thing that suggests the 20th century, can be seen almost off-screen. (via). DPs: Haruzo Ando & Harumi Machii.

Something tall*

 

In this very early kaiju moving picture, Buddha returns and goes on a sightseeing trip through Japan.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #YoshirōEdamasa #HidemichiIshikawa #KazuyoKojima #TankaiSoganoya #HaruzoAndo #HarumiMachii #kaiju #tokusatsu #religion #Buddhism #Buddha #travelogue #Japan #1930s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gnqh Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:15:00 +0100