YasushiAkutagawa &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:YasushiAkutagawa @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:35:06 +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 猫と庄造と二人のをんな [Neko to Shōzō to futari no onna / A Cat, Shozo, and Two Women]... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/mao-tozhuang-zao-toer-ren-nowonna-1956 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 猫と庄造と二人のをんな [Neko to Shōzō to futari no onna / A Cat, Shozo, and Two Women] (Shirō Toyoda, 1956)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" Love Your Pet Day /div div class="img" 猫と庄造と二人のをんな (1956)/div div class="caption" Shōzō (Hisaya Morishige) on the beach with his beloved cat Lily. DP: Mitsuo Miura./div div class="txt" Someone owns a pet on Love Your Pet Day (UK) "I'm sharing my husband with a cat. This is humiliating!" ### – Nakajima Shōzō is torn between his ex-wife and his current spouse, but really just wants to spend time with Lily, his cat./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #LoveYourPetDay #ShirōToyoda #JunichirōTanizaki #HisayaMorishige #IsuzuYamada #KyōkoKagawa #YasushiAkutagawa #MitsuoMiura #comedy #romance #animals #cats #BookAdaptation #Japan #1950s/div /section ]]>

猫と庄造と二人のをんな [Neko to Shōzō to futari no onna / A Cat, Shozo, and Two Women] (Shirō Toyoda, 1956)

Feb

20

Love Your Pet Day

猫と庄造と二人のをんな (1956)

Shōzō (Hisaya Morishige) on the beach with his beloved cat Lily. DP: Mitsuo Miura.

Someone owns a pet on Love Your Pet Day (UK)

“I'm sharing my husband with a cat. This is humiliating!”

– Nakajima

Shōzō is torn between his ex-wife and his current spouse, but really just wants to spend time with Lily, his cat.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #LoveYourPetDay #ShirōToyoda #JunichirōTanizaki #HisayaMorishige #IsuzuYamada #KyōkoKagawa #YasushiAkutagawa #MitsuoMiura #comedy #romance #animals #cats #BookAdaptation #Japan #1950s

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