YasunariKawabata &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:YasunariKawabata @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:40:56 +0200 有りがたうさん [Arigatō-san / Mr. Thank You] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qcq1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 有りがたうさん [Arigatō-san / Mr. Thank You] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Arigatō-san (1936)/div div class="caption" Arigatō-san (Ken Uehara) courteously thanks someone who shares the road for giving way. DP: Isamu Aoki./div div class="txt" A movie that makes you want to travel "Arigatō! [Thank you!]" ### – Mr Thank You to everyone – poultry included – he passes on his bus Friendly and helpful, Arigatō-san (Ken Uehara) is there for his passengers and non-bus travellers alike. A sweet roadmovie from a Japan now lost to time. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #HiroshiShimizu #YasunariKawabata #KenUehara #RyujiIshiyama #EinosukeNaka #MichikoKuwano #MasaoHayama #MitsukoMito #KeizōHoriuchi #IsamuAoki #comedy #drama #Movember #RoadMovie #BookAdaptation #Japan #1930s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

有りがたうさん [Arigatō-san / Mr. Thank You] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)

Nov

6

Arigatō-san (1936)

Arigatō-san (Ken Uehara) courteously thanks someone who shares the road for giving way. DP: Isamu Aoki.

A movie that makes you want to travel*

“Arigatō! [Thank you!]”

– Mr Thank You to everyone – poultry included – he passes on his bus

Friendly and helpful, Arigatō-san (Ken Uehara) is there for his passengers and non-bus travellers alike. A sweet roadmovie from a Japan now lost to time.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #HiroshiShimizu #YasunariKawabata #KenUehara #RyujiIshiyama #EinosukeNaka #MichikoKuwano #MasaoHayama #MitsukoMito #KeizōHoriuchi #IsamuAoki #comedy #drama #Movember #RoadMovie #BookAdaptation #Japan #1930s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qcq1 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:30:00 +0100 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 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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