hikaruhayashi &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:hikaruhayashi @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:52:45 +0200 藪の中の黒猫 [Yabu no naka no kuroneko / A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove] (Kaneto... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cyny <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 藪の中の黒猫 [Yabu no naka no kuroneko / A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove] (Kaneto Shindō, 1968)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 藪の中の黒猫 (1968).png)/div div class="caption" Two country women sit on the floor on tatami mats, eating from bowls using chopsticks. They look directly at us, seemingly interrupted. DP: Kiyomi Kuroda./div div class="txt" A mother and daughter who are raped and murdered by a rogue samurai, return as cat-shaped onryō, vengeful spirits. &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #KanetoShindō #KichiemonNakamura #NobukoOtowa #KeiSatō #RokkōToura #KiwakoTaichi #TaijiTonoyama #HideoKanze #EimeiEsumi #HikaruHayashi #KiyomiKuroda #Hooptober #revenge #bakeneko #kaibyō #yōkai #folklore #horror #ghosts #cats #animals #Japan #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

藪の中の黒猫 [Yabu no naka no kuroneko / A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove] (Kaneto Shindō, 1968)

Oct

13

藪の中の黒猫 (1968)

Two country women sit on the floor on tatami mats, eating from bowls using chopsticks. They look directly at us, seemingly interrupted. DP: Kiyomi Kuroda.

A mother and daughter who are raped and murdered by a rogue samurai, return as cat-shaped onryō, vengeful spirits.

 

#FilmDinner #KanetoShindō #KichiemonNakamura #NobukoOtowa #KeiSatō #RokkōToura #KiwakoTaichi #TaijiTonoyama #HideoKanze #EimeiEsumi #HikaruHayashi #KiyomiKuroda #Hooptober #revenge #bakeneko #kaibyō #yōkai #folklore #horror #ghosts #cats #animals #Japan #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cyny Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:42:35 +0200 血は渇いてる [Chi wa kawaiteru / Blood Is Dry] (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1960) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-367j <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 血は渇いてる [Chi wa kawaiteru / Blood Is Dry] (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1960)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 11/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Chi wa kawaiteru (1960)/div div class="caption" The September 11 copy of a scandal magazine. It costs 30 yen. DP: Tōichirō Narushima./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #YoshishigeYoshida #KeijiSada #KanekoIwasaki #ShinIchirōMikami #MariYoshimura #MasaoOda #IchirōSugai #RokkōToura #HikaruHayashi #TōichirōNarushima #advertising #suicide #satire #drama #Japan #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

血は渇いてる [Chi wa kawaiteru / Blood Is Dry] (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1960)

Sep

11

Chi wa kawaiteru (1960)

The September 11 copy of a scandal magazine. It costs 30 yen. DP: Tōichirō Narushima.

 

#FilmDuJour #September #YoshishigeYoshida #KeijiSada #KanekoIwasaki #ShinIchirōMikami #MariYoshimura #MasaoOda #IchirōSugai #RokkōToura #HikaruHayashi #TōichirōNarushima #advertising #suicide #satire #drama #Japan #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-367j Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0200 血は渇いてる [Chi wa kawaiteru / Blood Is Dry] (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1960) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-4239 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 血は渇いてる [Chi wa kawaiteru / Blood Is Dry] (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1960)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" beer/div div class="img" Chi wa kawaiteru (1960)/div div class="caption" A man and woman share a meal in a top-floor restaurant. The view is numerous identical modern buildings. She's smoking and they both clutch large beer mugs. Two dishes hold small bits of food with toothpicks stuck into them. DP: Tōichirō Narushima./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #beer #YoshishigeYoshida #KeijiSada #KanekoIwasaki #ShinIchirōMikami #MariYoshimura #MasaoOda #IchirōSugai #RokkōToura #HikaruHayashi #TōichirōNarushima #advertising #suicide #satire #drama #Japan #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

血は渇いてる [Chi wa kawaiteru / Blood Is Dry] (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1960)

Jul

17

beer

Chi wa kawaiteru (1960)

A man and woman share a meal in a top-floor restaurant. The view is numerous identical modern buildings. She's smoking and they both clutch large beer mugs. Two dishes hold small bits of food with toothpicks stuck into them. DP: Tōichirō Narushima.

 

#FilmDinner #beer #YoshishigeYoshida #KeijiSada #KanekoIwasaki #ShinIchirōMikami #MariYoshimura #MasaoOda #IchirōSugai #RokkōToura #HikaruHayashi #TōichirōNarushima #advertising #suicide #satire #drama #Japan #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-4239 Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:23:18 +0200 藪の中の黒猫 [Yabu no naka no kuroneko / A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove] (Kaneto... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-x750 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 藪の中の黒猫 [Yabu no naka no kuroneko / A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove] (Kaneto Shindō, 1968)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" Garfield the Cat Day/div div class="img" 藪の中の黒猫 (1968)/div div class="caption" A young woman in white, strangely resembling a cat, seemingly lapping a drink from a bowl. DP: Kiyomi Kuroda./div div class="txt" A scene with a cat for Garfield the Cat Day (USA) &nbsp; A mother and daughter who are raped and murdered by a rogue samurai, return as cat-shaped onryō, vengeful spirits./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #GarfieldTheCatDay #KanetoShindō #KichiemonNakamura #NobukoOtowa #KeiSatō #RokkōToura #KiwakoTaichi #TaijiTonoyama #HideoKanze #EimeiEsumi #HikaruHayashi #KiyomiKuroda #revenge #bakeneko #kaibyō #yōkai #folklore #horror #ghosts #cats #animals #Japan #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

藪の中の黒猫 [Yabu no naka no kuroneko / A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove] (Kaneto Shindō, 1968)

Jun

19

Garfield the Cat Day

藪の中の黒猫 (1968)

A young woman in white, strangely resembling a cat, seemingly lapping a drink from a bowl. DP: Kiyomi Kuroda.

A scene with a cat for Garfield the Cat Day (USA)

 

A mother and daughter who are raped and murdered by a rogue samurai, return as cat-shaped onryō, vengeful spirits.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #GarfieldTheCatDay #KanetoShindō #KichiemonNakamura #NobukoOtowa #KeiSatō #RokkōToura #KiwakoTaichi #TaijiTonoyama #HideoKanze #EimeiEsumi #HikaruHayashi #KiyomiKuroda #revenge #bakeneko #kaibyō #yōkai #folklore #horror #ghosts #cats #animals #Japan #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-x750 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0200 鬼の詩 [Oni no uta / Song of the Devil] (Tetsutaro Murano, 1975) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8kbc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 鬼の詩 [Oni no uta / Song of the Devil] (Tetsutaro Murano, 1975)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="occasion" Jerry Seinfeld – 1954/div div class="img" 鬼の詩 (1975)/div div class="caption" Keima Kyo entertaining his audience by hanging numerous clay pipes from his face. DP: Yasuhiro Yoshioka./div div class="txt" A comedian, or set in Brooklyn or NYC, for Jerry Seinfeld's birthday (1954). &nbsp; Rakugo (落語, litt. "story with a fall"), is a style of Japanese comedy performed while seated. Armed with a few props, the rakugoka recites a comical monologue using pitch and gestures. &nbsp; A dramatic retelling of the life of rakugoka Katsura Beikyo II. Keima Kyo, a talented rakugoka, is offered apprenticeship from an older successful performer, but refuses. Young and arrogant, he decides to take over the other man's act instead./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #TetsutaroMurano #GiichiFujimoto #SaburōDate #GiichiFujimoto #JunHongō #YukitarōHotaru #HisashiIgawa #HikaruHayashi #YasuhiroYoshioka #drama #history #biography #BookAdaptation #ATG #Osaka #Japan #1970s/div /section ]]>

鬼の詩 [Oni no uta / Song of the Devil] (Tetsutaro Murano, 1975)

Apr

29

Jerry Seinfeld – 1954

鬼の詩 (1975)

Keima Kyo entertaining his audience by hanging numerous clay pipes from his face. DP: Yasuhiro Yoshioka.

A comedian, or set in Brooklyn or NYC, for Jerry Seinfeld's birthday (1954).

 

Rakugo (落語, litt. “story with a fall”), is a style of Japanese comedy performed while seated. Armed with a few props, the rakugoka recites a comical monologue using pitch and gestures.

 

A dramatic retelling of the life of rakugoka Katsura Beikyo II. Keima Kyo, a talented rakugoka, is offered apprenticeship from an older successful performer, but refuses. Young and arrogant, he decides to take over the other man's act instead.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #TetsutaroMurano #GiichiFujimoto #SaburōDate #GiichiFujimoto #JunHongō #YukitarōHotaru #HisashiIgawa #HikaruHayashi #YasuhiroYoshioka #drama #history #biography #BookAdaptation #ATG #Osaka #Japan #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8kbc Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0200 少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-z1y7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 少年 (1969)/div div class="caption" The boy in his school uniform (Bin Amatsu) at a table in a traditional Japanese room with his meal untouched. A man eats next to the kid who glances at someone or something offscreen. The table is set for three. DPs: Seizō Sengen & Yasuhiro Yoshioka./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #NagisaŌshima #BinAmatsu #FumioWatanabe #AkikoKoyama #TetsuoAbe #TsuyoshiKinoshita #LoLoCannon #DoYunYu #HikaruHayashi #SeizōSengen #YasuhiroYoshioka #ATG #drama #crime #biography #CarCrash #Japan #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969)

May

6

少年 (1969)

The boy in his school uniform (Bin Amatsu) at a table in a traditional Japanese room with his meal untouched. A man eats next to the kid who glances at someone or something offscreen. The table is set for three. DPs: Seizō Sengen & Yasuhiro Yoshioka.

#FilmDinner #NagisaŌshima #BinAmatsu #FumioWatanabe #AkikoKoyama #TetsuoAbe #TsuyoshiKinoshita #LoLoCannon #DoYunYu #HikaruHayashi #SeizōSengen #YasuhiroYoshioka #ATG #drama #crime #biography #CarCrash #Japan #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-z1y7 Mon, 06 May 2024 13:43:57 +0200 少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/shao-nian-1969 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" Freebie: National Insurance Awareness Day/div div class="img" 少年 (1969)/div div class="caption" The boy waiting next to a buzy road. DPs: Seizō Sengen & Yasuhiro Yoshioka./div div class="txt" Freebie: National Insurance Awareness Day (USA) redux. &nbsp; A boy (Bin Amatsu), helps out his father and stepmother's insurance money scam by pretending to be injured in traffic. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalInsuranceAwarenessDay #NagisaŌshima #BinAmatsu #FumioWatanabe #AkikoKoyama #TetsuoAbe #TsuyoshiKinoshita #LoLoCannon #DoYunYu #HikaruHayashi #SeizōSengen #YasuhiroYoshioka #ATG #drama #crime #biography #CarCrash #Japan #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969)

Dec

17

Freebie: National Insurance Awareness Day

少年 (1969)

The boy waiting next to a buzy road. DPs: Seizō Sengen & Yasuhiro Yoshioka.

Freebie: National Insurance Awareness Day (USA) redux.

 

A boy (Bin Amatsu), helps out his father and stepmother's insurance money scam by pretending to be injured in traffic.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalInsuranceAwarenessDay #NagisaŌshima #BinAmatsu #FumioWatanabe #AkikoKoyama #TetsuoAbe #TsuyoshiKinoshita #LoLoCannon #DoYunYu #HikaruHayashi #SeizōSengen #YasuhiroYoshioka #ATG #drama #crime #biography #CarCrash #Japan #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/shao-nian-1969 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 16:06:21 +0100 鉄輪 [Kanawa / The Iron Crown] (Kaneto Shindō, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tie-lun-1972 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 鉄輪 [Kanawa / The Iron Crown] (Kaneto Shindō, 1972)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" fried eggs/div div class="img" 鉄輪 (1972)/div div class="caption" Meg Flower as the young woman eats a fried egg straight from a spatula. She's naked. DP: Kiyomi Kuroda./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #eggs #KanetoShindō #NobukoOtowa #HideoKanze #MegFlower #HikaruHayashi #KiyomiKuroda #revenge #drama #ghosts #romance #PinkuEiga #Japan #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

鉄輪 [Kanawa / The Iron Crown] (Kaneto Shindō, 1972)

Sep

20

fried eggs

鉄輪 (1972)

Meg Flower as the young woman eats a fried egg straight from a spatula. She's naked. DP: Kiyomi Kuroda.

#FilmDinner #eggs #KanetoShindō #NobukoOtowa #HideoKanze #MegFlower #HikaruHayashi #KiyomiKuroda #revenge #drama #ghosts #romance #PinkuEiga #Japan #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tie-lun-1972 Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:25:29 +0200 刺青 [Irezumi / The Tattoo] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ci-qing-1966-mtbx <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 刺青 [Irezumi / The Tattoo] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1966)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 18/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 刺青 (1966)/div div class="caption" Otsuya (Ayako Wakao) and one of her samurai clients share sake and a small meal. Beautifully framed by cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa there's all we need to see – Otsuya's facial expressions and the fiery, protective 籠目 (kagome, litt. eye) pattern – with not much more on display. DP: Kazuo Miyagawa./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #YasuzōMasumura #JunichirōTanizaki #AyakoWakao #GakuYamamoto #HikaruHayashi #KazuoMiyagawa #BookAdaptation #tattoos #spiders #FemmeFatale #Japan #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

刺青 [Irezumi / The Tattoo] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1966)

Jul

18

刺青 (1966)

Otsuya (Ayako Wakao) and one of her samurai clients share sake and a small meal. Beautifully framed by cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa there's all we need to see – Otsuya's facial expressions and the fiery, protective 籠目 (kagome, litt. eye) pattern – with not much more on display. DP: Kazuo Miyagawa.

#FilmDinner #YasuzōMasumura #JunichirōTanizaki #AyakoWakao #GakuYamamoto #HikaruHayashi #KazuoMiyagawa #BookAdaptation #tattoos #spiders #FemmeFatale #Japan #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ci-qing-1966-mtbx Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:12:15 +0200 刺青 [Irezumi] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ci-qing-1966 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 刺青 [Irezumi] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1966)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" National Tattoo Day/div div class="img" 刺青 (1966)/div div class="caption" Seikichi tattooing (the correct term for the act-of is tebori) the 絡新婦 / じょろうぐも [jorōgumo, litt. “entangling bride”] on Otsuya's back. DP: Kazuo Miyagawa./div div class="txt" ##### Otsuya's (Ayako Wakao) is forced into #prostitution and marked with a large spider tattoo. As the figure slowly takes shape under horishi Seikichi's skilled hands, Otsuya too transforms.\ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalTattooDay #YasuzōMasumura #JunichirōTanizaki #AyakoWakao #GakuYamamoto #HikaruHayashi #KazuoMiyagawa #BookAdaptation #tattoos #spiders #FemmeFatale #Japan #1960s ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

刺青 [Irezumi] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1966)

Jul

17

National Tattoo Day

刺青 (1966)

Seikichi tattooing (the correct term for the act-of is tebori) the 絡新婦 / じょろうぐも [jorōgumo, litt. “entangling bride”] on Otsuya's back. DP: Kazuo Miyagawa.

Otsuya's (Ayako Wakao) is forced into #prostitution and marked with a large spider tattoo. As the figure slowly takes shape under horishi Seikichi's skilled hands, Otsuya too transforms.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalTattooDay #YasuzōMasumura #JunichirōTanizaki #AyakoWakao #GakuYamamoto #HikaruHayashi #KazuoMiyagawa #BookAdaptation #tattoos #spiders #FemmeFatale #Japan #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ci-qing-1966 Mon, 17 Jul 2023 22:40:29 +0200