KonIchikawa &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:KonIchikawa @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:13:26 +0200 吾輩は猫である [Wagahai wa neko de aru / I Am a Cat] (Kon Ichikawa, 1975) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-601d <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 吾輩は猫である [Wagahai wa neko de aru / I Am a Cat] (Kon Ichikawa, 1975)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" Hug Your Cat Day/div div class="img" 吾輩は猫である (1975)/div div class="caption" The cat and his master, teacher Sneaze. DP: Kōzō Okazaki./div div class="txt" A pet for National Hug Your Cat Day (USA) "Had I the time to keep a diary, I’d use that time to better effect; sleeping on the veranda" ### – The cat A school teacher's house cat observes and comments his household's going-ons as a microcosm of Japan's paradoxical Meiji period. The second adaptation of Sōseki Natsume's 1900s satirical novel. &nbsp; The event falls on June 4/div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #HugYourCatDay #cats #pets #KonIchikawa #SōsekiNatsume #TatsuyaNakadai #KurikoHano #JūzōItami #NobutoOkamoto #KōzōOkazaki #drama #satire #comedy #animals #BookAdaptation #Japan #1970s/div /section ]]>

吾輩は猫である [Wagahai wa neko de aru / I Am a Cat] (Kon Ichikawa, 1975)

May

30

Hug Your Cat Day

吾輩は猫である (1975)

The cat and his master, teacher Sneaze. DP: Kōzō Okazaki.

A pet for National Hug Your Cat Day (USA) *

“Had I the time to keep a diary, I’d use that time to better effect; sleeping on the veranda”

– The cat

A school teacher's house cat observes and comments his household's going-ons as a microcosm of Japan's paradoxical Meiji period. The second adaptation of Sōseki Natsume's 1900s satirical novel.

 

* The event falls on June 4

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #HugYourCatDay #cats #pets #KonIchikawa #SōsekiNatsume #TatsuyaNakadai #KurikoHano #JūzōItami #NobutoOkamoto #KōzōOkazaki #drama #satire #comedy #animals #BookAdaptation #Japan #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-601d Fri, 30 May 2025 16:00:00 +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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