#Tamio Kawaji

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Poster for A Gangster’s Morals (盛り場仁義), 1970, directed by Yasuharu Hasebe (長谷部安春) and starring :

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) Saburo Kitajima (北島三郎) Hideaki Nitani (二谷英明) Masaya Oki (沖雅也) Minami Shinsuke (三波伸介) Kotaro Satomi (里見浩太郎) Tamio Kawaji (川地民夫).

#Meiko Kaji #梶芽衣子 #Yasuharu Hasebe #Saburo Kitajima #Hideaki Nitani #A Gangster's Morals #Masaya Oki #Minami Shinsuke #Kotaro Satomi #Tamio Kawaji #盛り場仁義 #長谷部安春 #北島三郎 #二谷英明 #沖雅也 #三波伸介 #里見浩太郎 #川地民夫 #poster

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EVERYTHING GOES WRONG [SUBETE GA KURUTTERU] Seijun Suzuki Japan, 1960

#watching #Seijun Suzuki #Japanese films #1960 #Tamio Kawaji #Yoshiko Nezu #Sayuri Yoshinaga #Shinako Nakagawa #Izumi Hagiwara #The Criterion Channel #Eclipse Series

[byneddiedingo]

Tamio Kawaji in The Warped Ones (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1960) Cast: Tamio Kawaji, Yuko Chiyo, Eiji Go, Hiroyuki Nagato, Noriko Matsumoto, Kojiro Kusanagi, Chico Roland, Chigusa Takayama, Reiko Arai, Yoko Kosono. Screenplay: Nobuo Yamada. Cinematography: Yoshio Mamiya. Production design: Kazuhiko Chiba. Film editing: Akira Suzuki. Music: Toshiro Mayuzumi.  The Warped Ones ends with its bad-boy protagonist, Akira (Tamio Kawaji), and his prostitute friend, Fumiko (Noriko Matsumoto), laughing it up at an abortion clinic, amused that they are there with the virtuous Kashiwagi (Hiroyuko Nagato) and Yuki (Yuko Chiyo) because the former has impregnated Fumiko and the latter is pregnant with Akira's child. The Warped Ones belongs to a genre known as taiyozoku, or "Sun Tribe" films, portrayals of the undisciplined youth of postwar Japan. Among them are movies like Ko Nakahira's Crazed Fruit (1956) and three released the same year as The Warped Ones, Nagisa Oshima's Cruel Story of Youth and The Sun's Burial, and Masahiro Shinoda's Youth in Fury. But even hard-edged directors like Oshima and Shinoda couldn't resist putting a moral spin on their portraits of wayward youth. Kurahara could, and The Warped Ones is all the more fascinating for its willingness to see the world the way Akira sees it. Kawaji gives an amazing over-the-top performance in the role, never quite standing still for a moment. He doesn't walk, he dances, prances, skips, and contorts, and Yoshio Mamiya's camera swirls and jogs along with him, ever restless, ever kinetic. Even in closeups his face is constantly in motion, often with a cigarette stuck between his lip and teeth or in the corner of his mouth. He is the embodiment of a certain kind of existential freedom, so self-centered that he refuses, unlike his friend, Masaru (Eiji Go), to join a gang that might multiply his opportunities for mayhem. The only thing on Earth to which he pays obeisance is jazz, provided by Toshiro Mayuzumi's score. But even without punishing Akira for his considerable crimes, the film manages to make the point that he's no role model. Instead, he's an object lesson in the impossibility of achieving pure freedom.   

#The Warped Ones #Koreyoshi Kurahara #Tamio Kawaji

[mariocki]

Tôkyô nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter, 1966)

"Otsuka! You call yourself a yakuza?"

"Money and power rule now. Honour means nothing!"

#Tôkyô nagaremono #tokyo drifter #seijun suzuki #japanese cinema #yakuza film #1966 #Yasunori Kawauchi #tetsuya watari #chieko matsubara #hideaki nitani #tamio kawaji #ryûji kita #eiji gô #isao tamagawa #eimei esumi #tomoko hamakawa #takeshi yoshida #michio hino #shuntarô tamamura #shinzô shibata #yûzô kiura #hiroshi chô #an absolutely beautiful film; a visual masterpiece and a calculated fuck you from Suzuki. Nikkatsu‚ frustrated by the director's attempts #to inject avant garde visuals into their straight genre pieces‚ slashed his budget and his schedule and basically said make a yakuza film #and don't get weird. in response he delivered his most visually experimental piece to date‚ a pop art kaleidoscope take on the gangster #ballad which also critiques the lack of reward that comes from loyalty to a corporate system (i wonder what that could be about Seijun..) #and also manages to parody american western cinema and the burgeoning spy film boom. it isn't quite perfect (i get what the bar room brawl #scene is doing as pastiche‚ but it's still too long and too messy) but as a paring down of the themes of yakuza cinema (and then inverting #those themes‚ so that loyalty and honour become a weakness) mixed with the sheer joyful spectacle of the film is nothing short of joy #Watari and Matsubara would be reunited for the (excellent) Outlaw Gangster series‚ which plays these same tropes deadly straight

[randomrichards]

TOKYO DRIFTER:

Hit man leaves the job

Has to fend off his mob boss

Colourful crime flick

#Tokyo drifter #random richards #poem #haiku #poetry #haiku poem #poets on tumblr #haiku poetry #haiku form #poetic #criterion collection #criterion channel #tetsuya watari #chieko matsubara #seijun suzuki #tamio kawaji #Yasunori Kawauchi #crime drama #Youtube

[vintagecinemaart]

Gappa the Triphibian Monster-Rare Original Vintage Movie Poster of Hiroshi Noguchi's Kaiju Adventure with Tamio Kawaji and Kôji Wada #gappa #Gappathetriphibianmonster #godzilla #kingkong #gorgo #vintagecinemaart #movieposter #wallart #kaiju https://etsy.me/3Xbt8FV https://www.instagram.com/p/CnUk0Y3OkAb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#gappa #gappathetriphibianmonster #godzilla #kingkong #gorgo #vintagecinemaart #movieposter #wallart #kaiju

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The Man Who Rode the Typhoon - 1958

Fusoku 40 Metoru  風速40米

#風速40米 #Fusoku 40 Metoru #The Man Who Rode the Typhoon #Yujiro Ishihara #Tamio Kawaji #Mie Kitahara

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The Warped Ones (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1960).

#the warped ones #koreyoshi kurahara #kyônetsu no kisetsu #tamio kawaji #yoshio mamiya #akira suzuki #kazuhiko chiba #yuko chiyo #eiji gô #hiroyuki nagato #the warped ones (1960) #kyônetsu no kisetsu (1960)

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Cruel Gun Story (Takumi Furukawa, 1964)

#Cruel Gun Story #takumi furukawa #film noir #black and white #noirvember #1964 #Jô Shishido #jo shishido #long shot #Joe Shishido #Kenju zankoku monogatari #Chieko Matsubara #Tamio Kawaji #Yuji Kodaka #Minako Katsuki

[scenesandscreens]

Tokyo Drifter (1966)

Director - Seijun Suzuki, Cinematography - Shigeyoshi Mine

"A drifter needs no woman."

#scenesandscreens #Tsuyoshi Yoshida #Ryūji Kita #Hideaki Esumi #Eiji Go #tokyo drifter #seijun suzuki #Shigeyoshi Mine #tetsuya watari #chieko matsubara #hideaki nitani #Tamio Kawaji

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Double Feature It has Destroy all Planets aka Gamera vs. Viras 1968 and Monster from a Prehistoric Planet aka Gappa the Triphibian Monsters 1967

#Destroy all Planets #Daiei Studios #Kôjirô Hongô #Tôru Takatsuka #Carl Craig #Michiko Yaegaki #Mari Atsumi #Junko Yashiro #Peter Williams #Monster from a Prehistoric Planet #Tamio Kawaji #Yôko Yamamoto #Yûji Odaka #Kôji Wada #Tatsuya Fuji #Keisuke Inoue #Zenji Yamada #Bumon Koto #Kôtarô Sugie #Saburô Hiromatsu

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Poster for A Gangster’s Morals (盛り場仁義), 1970, directed by Yasuharu Hasebe (長谷部安春) and starring (from L to R):

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) Saburo Kitajima (北島三郎) Hideaki Nitani (二谷英明) Masaya Oki (沖雅也) Minami Shinsuke (三波伸介) Kotaro Satomi (里見浩太郎) Tamio Kawaji (川地民夫).

I scanned this from a Nikkatsu promo book that had similar horizontal posters for movies being released in 1970 called ‘70 Nikkatsu New Year’s Movie (‘70 日活のお正月映画).

#Meiko Kaji #梶芽衣子 #Yasuharu Hasebe #Saburo Kitajima #Hideaki Nitani #A Gangster's Morals #Masaya Oki #Minami Shinsuke #Kotaro Satomi #Tamio Kawaji #盛り場仁義 #長谷部安春 #北島三郎 #二谷英明 #沖雅也 #三波伸介 #里見浩太郎 #川地民夫 #poster #scanned by me #‘70 日活のお正月映画

[mariocki]

Kutabare akutô-domo - Tantei jimusho 23 (Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!, 1963)

"Will you help us out of your sense of justice?"

"I'm not in the mood for jokes. It's work, I'll get paid. I need a gun and a fake driver's license."

#kutabare akutô domo tantei jimusho 23 #detective bureau 2 3 go to hell bastards #detective bureau 2 3 #go to hell bastards #1963 #films i done watched #japanese cinema #yakuza film #seijun suzuki #jô shishido #tamio kawaji #reiko sassamori #nobuo kaneko #kinzô shin #naomi hoshi #asao sano #yûko kusunoki #kotoe hatsui #hiroshi hijikata #iwao yamazaki #on paper i suppose this might easily have been a fairly by the numbers yakuza thriller #but its suzuki so of course its much more than that #a colourful stylish thriller full of eccentrics and dark humour. the support characters are great #especially shishido's employees. lots of familiar faces too. it's not as out there as suzuki's late films but #it's not as formal as his early work either. it belongs to a sort of middle ground of lively genre fare #i suppose the turning point might be the very next film he made. youth of the beast is just that bit more avant garde #and that bit more affecting #still this is great fun and certainly one i will revisit im sure

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Poster for Cruel Gun Story (Kenju Zankoku Monogatari, 拳銃残酷物語), 1964, directed by Takumi Furukawa (古川卓巳) and starring Jo Shishido (宍戸錠), Chieko Matsubara (松原智恵子) and Tamio Kawachi (川地民夫).

#criterion #criterion collection #Cruel Gun Story #Nikkatsu #Jo Shishido #Kenju Zankoku Monogatari #拳銃残酷物語 #Takumi Furukawa #古川卓巳 #宍戸錠 #Chieko Matsubara #松原智恵子 #Tamio Kawaji #Tamio Kawachi

[ozu-teapot]

Teenage Yakuza | Seijun Suzuki | 1962

Toshio Sugiyama, Tamio Kawaji

#Toshio Sugiyama #Tamio Kawaji #Seijun Suzuki #Teenage Yakuza #1962 #Tamio Kawachi

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'Tokyo Drifter' – A lonely hitman on a wild odyssey on Criterion Channel

‘Tokyo Drifter’ – A lonely hitman on a wild odyssey on Criterion Channel

Weird, wild, and nearly incomprehensible, Seijun Suzuki’s gangster movie masterpiece Tokyo Drifter (Japan, 1967) recreates the Yakuza genre as a pop-art James Bond cartoon as directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It opens on a gangland beating on the docks of the grimy waterfront, a dynamic widescreen image in stark, overexposed black and white. As a trumpet brays a tune that sounds like a nightclub…

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#1967 #Blu-ray #Chieko Matsubara #Criterion Channel #Criterion Collection #DVD #Hideaki Nitani #Japan #Nikkatsu #Seijun Suzuki #Tamio Kawaji #Tetsuya Watari #Tokyo Drifter #VOD