RentarōMikuni &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:RentarōMikuni @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:19:48 +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

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-537l Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0200 飼育 [Shiiku / The Catch] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1961) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/si-yu-1961-196t <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 飼育 [Shiiku / The Catch] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1961)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="occasion" offerings/div div class="img" 飼育 (1961)/div div class="caption" An altar with two rotund, smiling stone statues – possibly Jizō, a bowl of rice with chopsticks stuck into it, and a Japanese soldier's photograph. The position of the chopsticks tells us that the soldier has died. DP: Yoshitsugu Tonegawa./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #rice #offerings #NagisaŌshima #KenzaburōŌe #RentarōMikuni #HughHurd #RiichirōManabe #YoshitsuguTonegawa #war #WW2 #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

飼育 [Shiiku / The Catch] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1961)

Dec

26

offerings

飼育 (1961)

An altar with two rotund, smiling stone statues – possibly Jizō, a bowl of rice with chopsticks stuck into it, and a Japanese soldier's photograph. The position of the chopsticks tells us that the soldier has died. DP: Yoshitsugu Tonegawa.

#FilmDinner #rice #offerings #NagisaŌshima #KenzaburōŌe #RentarōMikuni #HughHurd #RiichirōManabe #YoshitsuguTonegawa #war #WW2 #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/si-yu-1961-196t Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:14:35 +0100 飼育 [Shiiku / The Catch] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1961) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/si-yu-1961 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 飼育 [Shiiku / The Catch] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1961)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="occasion" National Catchers Day/div div class="img" 飼育 (1961)/div div class="caption" The nameless soldier (Hugh Hurd) in the barn. Another person is with him. The soldier looks away, at something offscreen. DP: Yoshitsugu Tonegawa./div div class="txt" In the summer of 1945, the people of a small Japanese village find a Black American helicopter pilot in one of their traps and lock him in the communal storeroom. While the war continues and the villagers wait for orders from above, the man – for the townspeople, his presence, this allegory – becomes something else.\ "Your keeping this animal has meant all of us suffer!" ### \ 飼育 shares more than a few themes with Đorđe Kadijević's Празник from 1967. The war's the same, any war is, and the Chetniks too capture a Black American pilot. Again, the villagers seem to share a folie, a madness, rooted in an unshaken belief – call it tradition or shared illusions foolishness or hope./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalCatchersDay #NagisaŌshima #KenzaburōŌe #RentarōMikuni #HughHurd #RiichirōManabe #YoshitsuguTonegawa #war #WW2 #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

飼育 [Shiiku / The Catch] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1961)

Feb

2

National Catchers Day

飼育 (1961)

The nameless soldier (Hugh Hurd) in the barn. Another person is with him. The soldier looks away, at something offscreen. DP: Yoshitsugu Tonegawa.

In the summer of 1945, the people of a small Japanese village find a Black American helicopter pilot in one of their traps and lock him in the communal storeroom. While the war continues and the villagers wait for orders from above, the man – for the townspeople, his presence, this allegory – becomes something else.

“Your keeping this animal has meant all of us suffer!”

飼育 shares more than a few themes with Đorđe Kadijević's Празник from 1967. The war's the same, any war is, and the Chetniks too capture a Black American pilot. Again, the villagers seem to share a folie, a madness, rooted in an unshaken belief – call it tradition or shared illusions foolishness or hope.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalCatchersDay #NagisaŌshima #KenzaburōŌe #RentarōMikuni #HughHurd #RiichirōManabe #YoshitsuguTonegawa #war #WW2 #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★★½

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