JunHamamura &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:JunHamamura @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:38:23 +0200 妖怪百物語 [Yōkai hyakumonogatari / Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters] (Kimiyoshi Yasuda,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yh6p <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 妖怪百物語 [Yōkai hyakumonogatari / Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters] (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1968)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 4/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 妖怪百物語 (1968)/div div class="caption" One-hundred monsters! (via). DPs: Yasukazu Takemura & Shōzō Tanaka./div div class="txt" [A favourite] horror movie with more than one bad guy &nbsp; A shrine must give way to a brothel, and a game of supernatural storytelling follows. At the end of the spooky tales, the landowner neglects to complete the all-important purification ceremony resulting in one-hundred yōkai – one for each story – coming out to haunt the rich man and his cronies. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #KimiyoshiYasuda #JunFujimaki #JunHamamura #MiwaTakada #TakashiKanda #KeikoKoyanagi #TaketoshiNaitō #ChumeiWatanabe #YasukazuTakemura #ShōzōTanaka #samurai #ghosts #monsters #horror #kaiju #yōkai #tokusatsu #Japan #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

妖怪百物語 [Yōkai hyakumonogatari / Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters] (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1968)

Oct

4

妖怪百物語 (1968)

One-hundred monsters! (via). DPs: Yasukazu Takemura & Shōzō Tanaka.

[A favourite] horror movie with more than one bad guy*

 

A shrine must give way to a brothel, and a game of supernatural storytelling follows. At the end of the spooky tales, the landowner neglects to complete the all-important purification ceremony resulting in one-hundred yōkai – one for each story – coming out to haunt the rich man and his cronies.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #KimiyoshiYasuda #JunFujimaki #JunHamamura #MiwaTakada #TakashiKanda #KeikoKoyanagi #TaketoshiNaitō #ChumeiWatanabe #YasukazuTakemura #ShōzōTanaka #samurai #ghosts #monsters #horror #kaiju #yōkai #tokusatsu #Japan #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yh6p Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:42:14 +0200 ビルマの竪琴 [Biruma no tategoto / The Burmese Harp] (Kon Ichikawa, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-537l <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" ビルマの竪琴 [Biruma no tategoto / The Burmese Harp] (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" 花祭り/div div class="img" ビルマの竪琴 (1956)/div div class="caption" Mizushima (Shōji Yasui) holding his harp, looked over by the reclining Buddha. DP: Minoru Yokoyama./div div class="txt" A film about Buddhism, or set in Japan, in honour of the birth of Buddha, celebrated in Japan on April 8 as 花祭り (Hana Matsuri, aka Flower Festival) "Can't you see that whatever you do is futile? The armies of Britain and Japan can come and fight all they wish. Burma is still Burma. Burma is the Buddha's country." ### – old monk While stationed in Burma, Mizushima disguises himself as a dhutanga, a wandering Buddhist monk, burying the remains of his fellow Japanese soldiers./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #HanaMatsuri #KonIchikawa #MichioTakeyama #RentarōMikuni #ShōjiYasui #JunHamamura #TaketoshiNaitō #KōNishimura #TomioAoki #YōjiNagahama #AkiraIfukube #MinoruYokoyama #drama #BookAdaptation #drama #WW2 #war #religion #Buddhism #Japan #1950s/div /section ]]>

ビルマの竪琴 [Biruma no tategoto / The Burmese Harp] (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)

Apr

8

花祭り

ビルマの竪琴 (1956)

Mizushima (Shōji Yasui) holding his harp, looked over by the reclining Buddha. DP: Minoru Yokoyama.

A film about Buddhism, or set in Japan, in honour of the birth of Buddha, celebrated in Japan on April 8 as 花祭り (Hana Matsuri, aka Flower Festival)

“Can't you see that whatever you do is futile? The armies of Britain and Japan can come and fight all they wish. Burma is still Burma. Burma is the Buddha's country.”

– old monk

While stationed in Burma, Mizushima disguises himself as a dhutanga, a wandering Buddhist monk, burying the remains of his fellow Japanese soldiers.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #HanaMatsuri #KonIchikawa #MichioTakeyama #RentarōMikuni #ShōjiYasui #JunHamamura #TaketoshiNaitō #KōNishimura #TomioAoki #YōjiNagahama #AkiraIfukube #MinoruYokoyama #drama #BookAdaptation #drama #WW2 #war #religion #Buddhism #Japan #1950s

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