SeiIkeno &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:SeiIkeno @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:27:03 +0200 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 剣 ​(小説) [Ken / The Sword] (Kenji Misumi, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/jian-1964 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 剣 ​(小説) [Ken / The Sword] (Kenji Misumi, 1964)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="occasion" Tick Tock Day /div div class="img" 剣 (1964)/div div class="caption" One of the kendōka kneeled on the floor in gruelling punishment faces a clock on the wall, while the other students continue their training. DP: Chikashi Makiura./div div class="txt" A clock face on Tick Tock Day (USA) &nbsp; ##### After World War II, the Japanese martial arts of #kendo was banished by the occupying forces in an attempt to “remove and exclude militaristic and ultra-nationalistic persons from life”. With that in mind, it makes complete sense that nationalist author and former kendo practitioner Yukio Mishima wrote a short story – Sword, originally published in literary magazine Shincho in 1963 – about the art. – So what is your goal in life then? – Satisfaction of the present. The sword, and nothing else. ### Both the story and Kenji Misumi's 1964 film adaptation follow arrogant kendo student Jiro, played by sublime kabuki actor Raizō Ichikawa who also appears in an earlier Mishima adaptation, 炎上 [Enjō / The Temple of the Golden Pavilion / Conflagration] (1958)./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #TickTockDay #KenjiMisumi #YukioMishima #RaizōIchikawa #ChikashiMakiura #SeiIkeno #ChikashiMakiura #drama #clocks #BookAdaptation #ComingOfAge #LGBT #sports #MartialArts #Japan #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

剣 ​(小説) [Ken / The Sword] (Kenji Misumi, 1964)

Dec

29

Tick Tock Day

剣 (1964)

One of the kendōka kneeled on the floor in gruelling punishment faces a clock on the wall, while the other students continue their training. DP: Chikashi Makiura.

A clock face on Tick Tock Day (USA)

 

After World War II, the Japanese martial arts of #kendo was banished by the occupying forces in an attempt to “remove and exclude militaristic and ultra-nationalistic persons from life”. With that in mind, it makes complete sense that nationalist author and former kendo practitioner Yukio Mishima wrote a short story – Sword, originally published in literary magazine Shincho in 1963 – about the art.

– So what is your goal in life then?

– Satisfaction of the present. The sword, and nothing else.

Both the story and Kenji Misumi's 1964 film adaptation follow arrogant kendo student Jiro, played by sublime kabuki actor Raizō Ichikawa who also appears in an earlier Mishima adaptation, 炎上 [Enjō / The Temple of the Golden Pavilion / Conflagration] (1958).

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #TickTockDay #KenjiMisumi #YukioMishima #RaizōIchikawa #ChikashiMakiura #SeiIkeno #ChikashiMakiura #drama #clocks #BookAdaptation #ComingOfAge #LGBT #sports #MartialArts #Japan #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/jian-1964 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:58:20 +0100 剣 ​(小説) [Ken / The Sword] (Kenji Misumi, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/jian-xiao-shuo-1964 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 剣 ​(小説) [Ken / The Sword] (Kenji Misumi, 1964)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="occasion" rice/div div class="img" 剣 (小説) (1964)/div div class="caption" Young people eating. An older woman in kimono scoops rice from an electric rice cooker. When read from right to left, this scene – as are numerous others in Chikashi Makiura's photographed 剣 (小説) – are split into tradition and modernity. DP: Chikashi Makiura./div div class="txt" "We come to life, we die… It's a perpetual renewal. How boring." ### – Mibu\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #rice #KenjiMisumi #YukioMishima #RaizōIchikawa #ChikashiMakiura #SeiIkeno #ChikashiMakiura #drama #BookAdaptation #ComingOfAge #LGBT #sports #MartialArts #Japan #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

剣 ​(小説) [Ken / The Sword] (Kenji Misumi, 1964)

Dec

6

rice

剣 (小説) (1964)

Young people eating. An older woman in kimono scoops rice from an electric rice cooker. When read from right to left, this scene – as are numerous others in Chikashi Makiura's photographed 剣 (小説) – are split into tradition and modernity. DP: Chikashi Makiura.

“We come to life, we die… It's a perpetual renewal. How boring.”

– Mibu

#FilmDinner #rice #KenjiMisumi #YukioMishima #RaizōIchikawa #ChikashiMakiura #SeiIkeno #ChikashiMakiura #drama #BookAdaptation #ComingOfAge #LGBT #sports #MartialArts #Japan #1960s ★★★★½

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