Now watching:

'Sansho the Bailiff' (山椒大夫)

- directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
- written by Fuji Yahiro, Yoshikata Yoda, Ogai Mori (Short story)
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- with Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyōko Kagawa, Eitarō Shindō, Akitake Kōno.....

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Mizoguchi’s The 47 Ronin (1942) skips sword fights for soul-searching. A wartime epic full of honor, grief, and resistance wrapped in ritual. The revenge? Off-screen. The gut-punch ending? All there.
🔗 https://vikingsvssamurai.com/the-47-ronin-mizoguchis-epic-of-honor-and-resistance/
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The 47 Ronin: Mizoguchi’s Epic of Honor and Resistance

Look around you. Everyone here has brought his short sword as well as a cotton robe, possibly never to see his family again, prepared to die.

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祇園囃子 [Gion bayashi / Gion Festival Music] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)

祇園囃子 [Gion bayashi / Gion Festival Music] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) Dec 15 茶 .jpg) Studying the tea ceremony, accompanied by directo...

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Of course, the true star of “Saikaku Ichidai Onna” AKA “The Life of Oharu” AKA “Saikaku: Life of a Woman” (1952) is this very good kitty
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Toshirō Mifune in “Saikaku ichidai onna” AKA “The Life of Oharu” AKA “Saikaku: Life of a Woman” (1952) (also pictured is Kinuyo Tanaka)
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Kinuyo Tanaka in “Saikaku Ichidai Onna” AKA “The Life of Oharu” AKA “Saikaku: Life of a Woman” (1952)
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Japanese posters for “Saikaku ichidai onna” AKA “The Life of Oharu” AKA “Saikaku: Life of a Woman” (1952)
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Sansho the Bailiff (1954) - well executed, not exactly...upbeat? #film #SanshoTheBailiff #KenjiMizoguchi

Dipping my little toe into the tail-end of the #Bales2024FilmChallenge. Lets see how far I get.

Something with #tea for #InternationalTeaDay

浪華悲歌 [Naniwa erejī / Osaka Elegy] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/naniwa-ereji-1936

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浪華悲歌 [Naniwa erejī / Osaka Elegy] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936)

浪華悲歌 [Naniwa erejī / Osaka Elegy] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936) Dec 15 International Tea Day A woman in kimono sits at a low wooden tea c...

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