TeinosukeKinugasa &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:TeinosukeKinugasa @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:40:19 +0200 狂った一頁 [Kurutta ichipėji / A Page of Madness] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8gry <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 狂った一頁 [Kurutta ichipėji / A Page of Madness] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" silent cinema/div div class="img" Kurutta ichipėji (1926)/div div class="caption" A masked inmate (Eiko Minami) dances. The shot of the dancer is superimposed over a shot of her cel's bars, putting the viewer in the position of the husband witnessing – or is he hallucinating – an inescapable nightmare (via). DP: Kōhei Sugiyama./div div class="txt" A [favourite] silent horror film &nbsp; Incomplete and, despite the generally accepted popular Occidental opinion, not a horror film. Oh, to have seen this narrated by Musei Tokugawa… &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 #TeinosukeKinugasa #YasunariKawabata #MasuoInoue #AyakoIijima #YoshieNakagawa #HiroshiNemoto #EikoMinami #MisaoSeki #KōheiSugiyama #drama #fragment #AvantGarde #SilentFilm #ExperimentalFilm #BookAdaptation #Japan #1920s ★★★★★ ♥︎/div /section ]]>

狂った一頁 [Kurutta ichipėji / A Page of Madness] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)

Oct

14

silent cinema

Kurutta ichipėji (1926)

A masked inmate (Eiko Minami) dances. The shot of the dancer is superimposed over a shot of her cel's bars, putting the viewer in the position of the husband witnessing – or is he hallucinating – an inescapable nightmare (via). DP: Kōhei Sugiyama.

A [favourite] silent horror film*

 

 

* 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 #TeinosukeKinugasa #YasunariKawabata #MasuoInoue #AyakoIijima #YoshieNakagawa #HiroshiNemoto #EikoMinami #MisaoSeki #KōheiSugiyama #drama #fragment #AvantGarde #SilentFilm #ExperimentalFilm #BookAdaptation #Japan #1920s ★★★★★ ♥︎

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8gry Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0200 地獄門 [Jigokumon / Gate of Hell] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-3zdb <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 地獄門 [Jigokumon / Gate of Hell] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 4/div div class="occasion" orange/div div class="img" Jigokumon (1953)/div div class="caption" The shrine's torii as seen in the film. Vermilion contains mercury, which not only acts as a preservative but is also believed to ward off evil. DP: Kōhei Sugiyama./div div class="txt" Orange: a building or structure "Today is the first day of a life of sacrifice." ### – Moritoo Endō Partially filmed near the 厳島神社 (Itsukushima Shrine) with its striking vermilion torii. &nbsp; Shot on Eastmancolor, relatively cheap and globally available, and influenced by Hollywood colour melodramas of the time, in particularly Rudolph Maté's Mississippi Gambler (1953) (source), and in its turn greatly influenced the implementation of colour in global cinema to come. &nbsp; Jigokumon won two Academy Awards in 1955, for Best Costume Design and Best Foreign Language Film. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #colours #orange #vermilion #TeinosukeKinugasa #KanKikuchi #KazuoHasegawa #MachikoKyō #IsaoYamagata #YatarōKurokawa #YasushiAkutagawa #Eastmancolor #samurai #shinto #drama #history #romance #theatre #Japan #1950s/div /section ]]>

地獄門 [Jigokumon / Gate of Hell] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953)

Aug

4

orange

Jigokumon (1953)

The shrine's torii as seen in the film. Vermilion contains mercury, which not only acts as a preservative but is also believed to ward off evil. DP: Kōhei Sugiyama.

Orange: a building or structure*

“Today is the first day of a life of sacrifice.”

– Moritoo Endō

Partially filmed near the 厳島神社 (Itsukushima Shrine) with its striking vermilion torii.

 

Shot on Eastmancolor, relatively cheap and globally available, and influenced by Hollywood colour melodramas of the time, in particularly Rudolph Maté's Mississippi Gambler (1953) (source), and in its turn greatly influenced the implementation of colour in global cinema to come.

 

Jigokumon won two Academy Awards in 1955, for Best Costume Design and Best Foreign Language Film.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #colours #orange #vermilion #TeinosukeKinugasa #KanKikuchi #KazuoHasegawa #MachikoKyō #IsaoYamagata #YatarōKurokawa #YasushiAkutagawa #Eastmancolor #samurai #shinto #drama #history #romance #theatre #Japan #1950s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-3zdb Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0200 狂つた一頁 [Kurutta ippēji / A Page of Madness] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/kuang-tsuta-ye-1926 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 狂つた一頁 [Kurutta ippēji / A Page of Madness] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 狂つた一頁 (1926)/div div class="caption" The servant's wife (Yoshie Nakagawa) eating. She looks up at someone offscreen, and smiles. DP: Kōhei Sugiyama./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #TeinosukeKinugasa #YasunariKawabata #MasuoInoue #AyakoIijima #YoshieNakagawa #HiroshiNemoto #EikoMinami #MisaoSeki #KōheiSugiyama #drama #fragment #AvantGarde #SilentFilm #ExperimentalFilm #BookAdaptation #Japan #1920s ★★★★★ ♥︎/div /section ]]>

狂つた一頁 [Kurutta ippēji / A Page of Madness] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)

Sep

12

狂つた一頁 (1926)

The servant's wife (Yoshie Nakagawa) eating. She looks up at someone offscreen, and smiles. DP: Kōhei Sugiyama.

#FilmDinner #TeinosukeKinugasa #YasunariKawabata #MasuoInoue #AyakoIijima #YoshieNakagawa #HiroshiNemoto #EikoMinami #MisaoSeki #KōheiSugiyama #drama #fragment #AvantGarde #SilentFilm #ExperimentalFilm #BookAdaptation #Japan #1920s ★★★★★ ♥︎

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