#Yoshiyuki Fukuda

[randomrichards]

BELADONNA OF SADNESS:

Assault by a king

Leads woman down a dark path

Becoming vengeance

#beladonna of sadness #random richards #poem #haiku #poetry #haiku poem #poets on tumblr #haiku poetry #haiku form #poetic #anime #eiichi yamamoto #jules michelet #Yoshiyuki fukuda #Aiko Nagayama #Youtube

[vincekris]

Belladonna of Sadness (哀Belladonna of Sadness (哀しみのベラドンナ) 1973

Director: Eiichi Yamamoto

Writters: Yoshiyuki Fukuda,Eiichi Yamamoto

#Belladonna of Sadness

[watcher-in-the-woods]

Belladonna of Sadness (哀しみのベラドンナ, 1973)

Directed by Eiichi Yamamoto Screenplay by Yoshiyuki Fukuda & Eiichi Yamamoto Based on the book La Sorcière, written by Jules Michelet.

#belladonna of sadness #kanashimi no beradonna #horror #devil #anime #horror movies #horror fans #70s horror #deal with the devil #jean and jeanne #la sorcière #witchcraft and satanism #witch #witchcraft

[the-monkey-ruler]

Son Goku Jumps the Silk Road (1982) 孫悟空シルクロードをとぶ!!

Director: Hideo Takayashiki

Screenwriter: Yoshiyuki Fukuda

Starring: Ikue Sakakibara / Ayako Sawada / Tetsuro Igawa / Kinya Aikawa / Han Keiko / more...

Genre: Animation

Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan

Language: Japanese

Date: 1982-06-17 (Japan)

Also known as: Son Goku Silk Road wo Tobu

Type: Retelling

Summary:

By order of Emperor Taizong, Master Sanzo and Goku head to the faraway Tenjiku to retrieve sutras. In a certain village, he tries to convert the youkai Hakkai and add Sagojyo, who lives in the river, with him, but Gojyo leaves. The party, who approached the flaming mountain, was surrounded by youkai due to a mysterious child’s ruse. Their true identities are generals of the heavens who were an assassins sent by the emperor out of jealousy of the popular Sanzo. With Gojyo's help, the group escaped danger and continued their journey to Tenjiku of their own accord.

Source: https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/son-gokuu-silk-road-wo-tobu

Link: N/A

#Son Goku Jumps the Silk Road #孫悟空シルクロードをとぶ!! #Son Goku Silk Road wo Tobu #jttw media #jttw movie #movie #xiyouji media #lost media #animation #retelling #jttw #sun wukong #Tang Sanzang #zhu bajie #sha wujing #addition

[byneddiedingo]

Belladonna of Sadness (Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973) Cast: voices of Tatsuya Nakadai, Aiko Nagayama, Katsuyuki Ito, Shigako Shimegi, Masaya Takahashi, Natsuka Yashiro, Masakane Yonekura. Screenplay: Yoshiyuki Fukuda, Eiichi Yamamoto. Cinematography: Shigeru Yamazaki. Production design: Kuni Fukai. Animation: Gisburo Sugii. Music: Masahiko Sato. There are images of extraordinary beauty and sinister power in Belladonna of Sadness, but they are also mixed with Pop Art clichés; psychedelia borrowed from Peter Max and his acolytes, album covers, and the Beatles' film Yellow Submarine (George Dunning, 1968); and kitsch reminiscent of greeting cards and nudie illustrations from back issues of Playboy. That is to say, it's a mixed bag. There seems to have been at some point an attempt to turn the film's fable into a feminist statement, but the link of the story of a violated woman who turns into a witch with the role of women in the French Revolution is tacked on unconvincingly at the film's end. Nevertheless, it's like no other animated film I've seen, and not just because its images have a striking, violent erotic content. The story is about Jeanne, who on the night of her wedding to Jean is subjected to the ruler's droit de seigneur, but not just to him: She is raped by his courtiers as well. Trigger warnings are appropriate at this moment, because the rape is signified by images of Jeanne being torn apart with a torrent of blood that fills the screen. Eventually, Jeanne is tempted by the devil (a terrific voice performance by Tatsuya Nakadai), who appears to her in the form of a penis (no kidding). She allows him to possess her body but not her soul, and through various episodes, including a harrowing treatment of the Black Death, she prevails, striking out against nobility and the church. At one point she "liberates" the peasantry by means of an orgy, a sexual fantasy that is both astonishing and sometimes hilarious. Eventually, she is caught and burned at the stake, but the implication is that, like her namesake Jeanne D'Arc's, her cause will prevail. The film's vision is ultimately incoherent, but its audacity is worth experiencing.

#Belladonna of Sadness #Eiichi Yamamoto #Tatsuya Nakadai

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Abe's “ties” with the Unification Church were politically motivated

Korea Times  July 14, 2022

By Kang Hyun-kyung

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2022/07/113_332706.html

Yuji Hosaka, a naturalized Korean professor at Sejong University in Seoul, said media coverage about the Unification Church has increased in Japan …

Hosaka said the Unification Church seems to be seen by many Japanese as a localized religious movement, rather than a religious sect that was imported from Korea, noting this could be another reason for the apparent absence of hate crimes against Koreans.

He claimed that Shinzo Abe's "ties" with the Unification Church were politically motivated. Abe and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) tried to take advantage of the religious movement for their elections, because the Unification Church has an anti-communist affiliate that has some 10 million members, according to him. "In Japan, the registered members of the Unification Church are 600,000 or so, but those who are affiliated with the anti-communist group [IFVOC founded in Japan in 1968] are far greater than the church members mainly because the latter is non-religious and people can join without being affiliated with the church," he said. These members were a key political asset to Abe as, due to their huge membership, they could make or break his elections, Hosaka went on to say.

The Unification Church is one of the new religious movements that allegedly created several social problems in Japan. A source familiar with the Unification Church said that it has been embroiled in [many hundred] legal actions as some of its members hired lawyers to get their past donations back. Criticism emerged about the religious sect for it allegedly solicited its members to make huge donations, he said.

____________________________

Yamagami sent a letter to a blogger the day before the attack and saying Abe was not the original enemy [he had wanted to kill Hak Ja Han since 2002 when his family was made bankrupt following his mother’s involvement with the FFWPU] but he targeted Abe for being the real world’s “most influential UC sympathizer” and Yamagami “didn’t have time to think about” the political impact of Abe’s death.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/17/national/abe-suspect-letter/

____________________________

Fukuda Takeo on the LDP and Moonies Relationship

Nikkan Gendai interviewed the former secretary of LDP politician Fukuda Takeo (Prime Minister in the 1970s). He says that Unification Church sent young women to lawmakers’ offices as unpaid volunteer workers. He didn’t think it was strange because it was well known that Kishi was friends with Rev. Moon.


He also said that most LDP lawmakers supported Rev. Moon’s International Federation for Victory over Communism back then, and that the LDP-UC relationship has probably continued until today.
 https://www.nikkan-gendai.com/articles/view/life/308263/2


Text came from Jeffrey J. Hall’s Tweets

____________________________

Japanese Unification Church and Election Mobilization Japanese Church leaders reach out to inactive UC members by email, text, and call when it comes to pushing elections and voting for the LDP. There was a lot of contact coming from leadership up until the assassination. Many UC officials are silent right now.

____________________________

LDP’s ties to UC acknowledged LDP politician in Kobe frankly confirms the close ties between LDP and Unification Church. “Depending on the person they may be closer or less close, but EVERYONE in the LDP has connections (to the UC)”


https://www.nikkan-gendai.com/articles/view/news/261913

____________________________ Politicians’ Video Messages 
The Japanese FFWPU use prominent politician’s video messages as internal propaganda. Believers were repeatedly shown such videos and led to believe the politicians were followers of Moon’s teachings.

____________________________ Yoshiyuki Inoue “shares our beliefs,” according to UC leader
 TBS News23 – 8 minutes into this video we can see LDP lawmaker Yoshiyuki Inoue attending an FFWPU/UC event on July 6, 2022, receiving an endorsement from a church leader who says Inoue shares their beliefs.

____________________________

IFVOC = International Federation for Victory over Communism – Mike Breen

The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

Nobusuke Kishi was known as a monster, responsible for the deaths of thousands, and as a friend of Sun Myung Moon

Lawyers in Japan say Unification Church is lying about not extorting donations from followers

#Shinzo Abe #Sun Myung Moon #IFVOC #Victory over Communism #Unification Church #Hak Ja Han #Family Federation for World Peace and Unification

[mes-envies-de-culture]

Le projet Grendizer U a une date de sortie

A vos agendas : Goldorak U sort le 13 juillet 2024 et il aura fallu plus de 40 ans pour revoir le personnage iconique s’offrir une cure de jouvence.

Le générique de l’anime est dorénavant disponible grâce au site officiel de Grendizer U et le tout est assuré par Manga Productions. L’opening a été réalisé par Glay et on constate que les personnages ont subi un sérieux lifting.

La réalisation est assurée par Mitsuo Fukuda du studio GAINA (Mobile Suit Gundam Seed) et bien entendu, l’emblématique Go Nakai est le producteur exécutif. Pour compléter cette petite équipe, on retrouve Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Neon Genesis Evangelion) pour le character design et Kôhei Tanaka (One Piece) pour la musique.

Pour en savoir plus, une petite visite sur le site officiel de Grendizer avec un rappel que l’histoire du projet à débuté le 25 août 2022.

#Goldorak #grendizer u #manga #anime #Youtube

[dorothydalmati1]

Rurouni Kenshin Season 2 Episode 9: Across the Boundary Between Edo and Meiji: Kenshin and Shishio Face to Face!

Written by Yoshiyuki Suga

Directed by Jun Fukuda

Storyboarded and animation directed by Akihiro Enomoto

#anime #rurouni kenshin #censorship

[dfjiewei]

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JTBC 드라마 '대행사' 후속 작품 '신성한, 이혼'이 강태경 작가의 동명 웹툰이 원작으로 알려지면서 화제가 되고 있다.

등장인물 및 인물관계도를 살펴보면 신성한(조승우)은 파이니스트의 길을 걷던 중에 한 사건을 계기로 이혼 전문 변호사가 됐다. 그가 갑자기 법조인이 되기로 결심했던 이유는 무엇일까?

기상캐스터 출신 라디오 디제이 이서진(한혜진)은 청취자들의 인기를 한몸에 받고 있지만 남편의 정서적 학대를 받고 있다. 그런 남편이 반갑게도 이혼을 요구했지만 아들만은 포기하지 못해 신성한 변호사를 찾는다.

신성한 사무실 사무장 장형근(김성균)은 신성한의 중학교 친구로 사랑했던 사람에게 이별 통보를 받는다. 역시 신성한 중학교 친구 조정식(정문성)은 하는 일마다 죄다 말아먹는 사람이었지만 부동산 사장이 된 이후로 빛을 보고 있다.

라면집 할머니 막내딸 김소연(강말금)은 신성한 사무실 아저씨들이 걱정돼 급하게 대신 가게 문을 열었다. 라디오 PD 방호영(유주혜)와 더불어 감초 역할을 톡톡히 해낼 것으로 보인다.

사진=JTBC '신성한, 이혼' 드라마 '신성한, 이혼'은 총 12부작 예정으로 OTT는 티빙과 넷플릭스에서 공개한다. 제작사는 SLL, 하이그라운드, 글뫼이며 극본은 유영아 작가가 맡았다.

한편 '신성한, 이혼' 방송시간은 매주 토, 일요일 오후 10시 30분이며 재방송 및 다시보기는 오는 5일 오전 10시 30분, 오후 3시 10분에 1회가 방송될 예정이다.

JTBC 드라마 신성한 이혼 다시보기 1회 2회 3회 4회 5회 6회 7회 8회 9회 10회 11회 12회 13회 14회 15회 16회 17회 18회 19회 20회 마지막회

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He was very impressed with Tomino Yoshiyuki's Triton of the Sea, but said he had no intention of doing animation. A senior who works at Toyoo Ashida's studio live said, "I'm busy with Sunrise work, but I need someone to decipher the continuity and help with the work." So I went to help and heard that he was good at deciphering Conti, so he was hired the same day. He is a newcomer, but he was in charge of setting production at Invincible Robo Try The G7, and then participated in setting production for the strongest Robo Dai Oja.

Animation work was fun, but it was an unstable industry with low wages and no insurance, so I thought the future was uncertain. I quit Sunrise to take over the family business, a drapery store. returned to Kanda Takeyuki, whom he met at Garat, taught Fukuda how to draw storyboards, and during the Armored War Dragona, Kanda said, "I think you can direct it." So, I started directing in earnest. He begins his full-fledged career as a director.[1] Because of this, Fukuda mentions Kanda Takeyuki as his teacher. He acted under the name of Mitsuo Fukuda (福田 満夫 or ふくだみつお) for setting production and directing responsibilities. Since he worked as a setting producer in the early days, he wrote and supervised most of the settings in the works he directed.신성한 이혼 다시보기 7화 8화 누누 무료 7회 8회

After that, he went through directing for Demon God Hero Waru Wataru and Madong King Grand Zotte, and was promoted to directing chief in Hero Ex Kaiser, and was in charge of the bank scene, which is considered a famous scene in these 3 works. He is said to have been called the master of the bank scene in Sunrise because of his good skills. He has a heroic beauty and uses refined directing. The summon scene and bank shot that Granjo fans like in Korea are also the work of this person. In particular, the influence of Fukuda's directing on the Hero series was so great that director Katsuyoshi Yatabe copied his directing from Fibird, the Hero of the Sun, and Dagan, the Legendary Hero, even though Fukuda did not participate. As Shinji Takamatsu takes over as director, you can see a direction that is a little different from Fukuda. Even in the Wataru series, from 2 onwards, Fukuda does not participate, but the direction of the back dragon sword directed by Fukuda in 1 and the direction of the Holy Dragon sword in 2 are the same. In addition, in the end, someone else is doing it, so it gives a somewhat awkward feeling.신성한 이혼 다시보기 7화 8화 누누 무료 7회 8회

In 1991, he made his debut as a director by directing and storyboarding at Shinsegi GPX Cyber Formula. Afterwards, in Cyber Formula Double One and Zero, which were released as OVAs, he succeeded in directing the original plan, director, and screenplay by himself.

He only participated in Mobile Suit V Gundam once as a continuity, and at this time, he studied directing under director Tomino. This became a springboard, and in 2002 he became the general manager of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.

After finishing the Cyber Formula series, he supervised GEAR Warriors Dendo, and participated in the fighting crash Gear Turbo as a 3D chief, creating action scenes.신성한 이혼 다시보기 7화 8화 누누 무료 7회 8회

After Sid, there are no special works or projects, but Sid-related settings, supervising plastic models, and directing and producing other animations within Sunrise. Rumors circulated that he was kicked out of the industry and became unemployed, but he denied it, saying, "If I don't work, how can I live with my family?" He was once a freelancer, but seems to have gone back to taking care of Sunrise.

And he was in charge of directing the opening movie for Warlord Shinhee ~Battle Master Mk.2~, which was released on the PSP. #

On March 29, 2019, he returned to his directorial position as the director of MEGOHIME MEGOHIME, an animation jointly produced by Fukushima GAINA and Miharu Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. However, it's not a TV series, it's a local PR animation, and the running time is pretty short, around 10 minutes. The production team [2] and the voice actors are confused about such a topic. [3]

After a while, in October 2014, he participated as a creative producer in a new animation called Cross Ange Angel and Dragon's Yunmura.신성한 이혼 다시보기 7화 8화 누누 무료 7회 8회

In fact, there are cases where it is said that it is unemployed because of the long gap between works, and there are cases where it is said that it is buried in the industry, but at least the former is close to slander. There are a lot of people who do directing activities with such a hiatus, and it takes quite a bit of time to create the setting or proceed with production. In the first place, there are dependents and the children are young, but if they were kicked out of the industry or unemployed, the family would have been ruined. He is strictly watching his work activities within Sunrise. It looks like this because of Sidman's activities that have been holding on for 10 years. After the SEED TV version, it was produced as a special edition, and then developed into an HD remaster. And now, a special edition of SEED HD is also being produced. Most of my work life was devoted to creating and revising SEED, but many people know that I did nothing at this time. Of course, there are people who do multiple works, but there are also many people who spend their entire lives working on one project. There are many writers who are in a similar profession, cartoonists, who make a hit, then turn it into a follow-up or collector's edition, and there are many one-hit wonders who live their entire lives on a single hit song, such as composers and singers. People who live their entire lives with only one hit work are widely spread, regardless of the creative field. It is absurd to say that it is deformed. It's rare in the animation industry, but how can Sid be so successful that he's been alive for nearly 20 years…신성한 이혼 다시보기 7화 8화 누누 무료 7회 8회

Therefore, it is difficult to conclude that Fukuda has been buried in the industry. There is a faction of animators who prefer to work with Fukuda, and there are many cases in which animation directors release works every 4 to 5 years, but Fukuda has worked almost without a break, including the SEED remaster. Also, no matter how much Fukuda is criticized, there is a fan base that supports Fukuda, and except for Gear Warrior Dendo, there have been no ruined works since their debut, and they have given Sunrise and Bandai a huge amount of money. He has no reason to be buried [4] [5] The work that proves this is Cross Ange Angel and Dragon's Bon Dance, where Fukuda's position is the producer. To the extent of being a producer, it means that Fukuda's status within Sunrise is quite high. Being a producer is impossible without connections. Entering 2020-2021, he participated in the Gunpla Battle series such as Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE as a directing intermittently, and then resumed the position of director of the Gundam Seed theatrical version, 신성한 이혼 다시보기 7화 8화 누누 무료 7회 8회which is being promoted again to restart the Gundam Seed world view, and resumed the large-scale project of Sunrise. took over To put it bluntly, apart from his position within Sunrise and the commercial success of his films, it would be better to see that people's perception of him has become subtle due to the various problems in this document.

In 2020, he was in charge of directing some episodes of Gundam Build Divers Liraise, and the episodes he was in charge of were highly praised for directing.

It is said that he is quite talented in directing, but it is his wife and personality that have caused the biggest damage to his career. After coming to Cyber Formula Saga, I discussed with my wife that the story was not going well during planning, and then I suddenly selected my wife, Chiaki Morosawa, as the scriptwriter for the work. After that, I enjoyed working with my wife. Because his ability as a role was a mess, people who fell in love with Fukuda's directing talent in the past and became his fans also dropped out of school. It is to the extent that he divides his work career before and after participating in Morosa. As will be discussed later, it is also the 신성한 이혼 다시보기 7화 8화 누누 무료 7회 8회decisive reason why Mitsuo Fukuda's career as a manager has been sluggish compared to his time in Leeds, despite the high status of Mitsuo Fukuda within Sunrise.

In this respect, he is more outstanding as a director than a director, and can be seen as a runaway director who needs someone to stop him even when directing. Among the works he created, the well-received Cyber Formula and Cross Ange have in common that there was a separate person to stop and control Fukuda.[6]

Directing features[edit] He enjoys shooting Dutch angles, where he captures subjects at an angle with the camera, and is good at directing things by turning the camera angle round and round and capturing objects in three dimensions. This method of utilizing perspective and three-dimensional effect with diagonal composition is sometimes called Fukuda Pars (Fukuda Perspective) in industry terms. In addition, it is often used to increase the sense of speed by letting light rays or concentration lines pass through the background. Obari Masami, who worked as an animator under him, also followed this directing, and is known worldwide as Obari's directing, but the originator is Fukuda. It was Fukuda, not Obari Masami, who first performed the Brave Sword.신성한 이혼 다시보기 7화 8화 누누 무료 7회 8회

Since he has been producing the settings for robot animations for a long time, he structurally grasps which robots transform, where and which weapons are used and how they are used, and directs them. In the case of Gundam SEED, Fukuda made these settings, so when the game or plastic model comes out, it is supervised by Fukuda. Even if he was not active in his work, he continued to work and eat and live. Fukuda's production of transformation and synthesis gives the impression of transforming a real toy by turning it.

With this directing ability, the bank scenes of several animations of Sunrise were extracted in high quality. However, it is a problem that he uses a lot of bank scenes in his work. Rather, "I don't know why anime these days don't use bank scenes in the 2010s. If you use bank scenes effectively, the quality of the work gets better." I prefer the bank scene to the extent of emphasizing the importance of the bank scene.신성한 이혼 다시보기 7화 8화 누누 무료 7회 8회

Of course, it is true that if you select the bank scene well and use it in the right place, you can catch both rabbits: quality improvement and cost reduction. In fact, Fukuda's bank scenes, such as the Granjo summoning scene, Eldekaiser casting scene, Cyber Formula's drift and overtake scene, Freedom's first sortie scene, and the hero series' transformation fusion or special move scene, not only have excellent drawing quality, but also make unique viewers They are excellent bank scenes in that they make the mulberry fill up and 신성한 이혼 다시보기 7화 8화 누누 무료 7회 8회naturally lead to toy purchases. However, Fukuda does not simply use bank scenes, but overdoing them to the point of being a problem. Later on, it is not effective to use bank scenes from the beginning of the bank scenes that exceed 1/3 of the synagogue.

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#Belladonna of Sadness #Eiichi Yamamoto #Tadami Watanabe #Yoshiyuki Fukuda #Masahiko Satoh #Shigeru Yamazaki #Mushi Production #animation #movie #cinema #anime

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Belladonna of Sadness (Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973).

#kanashimi no beradonna (1973) #eiichi yamamoto #yoshiyuki fukuda #jules michelet #kuni fukai #gisaburô sugii #osamu tezuka #belladonna of sadness #belladonna of sadness (1973) #yamamoto eiichi #kanashimi no beradonna

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Damn. I was about to not watch it and do Archer or something cuz I wasn’t in the mood, but then I accidentally payed attention for five minutes and it sucked me in. Belladonna of Sadness (1973)

#belladonna of sadness #mi #belladonna of sadness 1973 #eiichi yamamoto #yoshiyuki fukuda

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Belladonna of Sadness (哀Belladonna of Sadness (哀しみのベラドンナ) 1973

Director: Eiichi Yamamoto

Writters: Yoshiyuki Fukuda,Eiichi Yamamoto

#Belladonna of Sadness

[haropla]

It's been a while since I watched Seed.. Uh explain the imperialism apologia? Just curious

(Okay, so you may not have asked for this spiel in particular, but you did ask and this is gonna be a lot and most of it will be under a cut to spare my followers.)

To preface this, it’s important to know that when Yoshiyuki Tomino, the director and writer of the original Mobile Suit Gundam series in 1979, helped create the series that started the franchise, he uses imagery and allegory to condemn the acts of the Axis powers in WWII, Japan included. There’s the infamous “Sieg Zeon” rallying cry meant to evoke “Heil Hitler”, but this also resulted in having a non-Japanese protagonist in a time when that was unheard of, and showing what is very clearly the Iron Cross and Rising Sun, the symbols of Germany and Japan during WWII, on banners displayed at the funeral of one of the early antagonists.

Gundam as a series was a reflection of the creator(s) time growing up in the aftermath of WWII, and Gundam as a franchise started with not just anti-war sentiment at its foundations, but also that of anti-fascism and anti-imperialism. A work that's meant to retell Mobile Suit Gundam’s plot will also inevitably address these themes.

So with that being said, it’s very insidious that Fukuda and Morosawa created a series that was meant to be Mobile Suit Gundam for a new generation, but completely ignored what was at the heart of what Tomino did for Gundam as a series and franchise by miring mainline CE in staggering amounts of Japanese jingoism.

As mentioned before, Amuro Ray is not Japanese. But because he was created during a time when this was “impossible,” Tomino and character designer Yasuhiko Yoshikazu still created an alternate backstory in case this wouldn’t be accepted.

To Tomino and Yoshikazu, it was important that their protagonist not be Japanese to represent the fact that this piece of media reflecting on WWII does not have a Japan-centric worldview.

At the center of Gundam SEED is the protagonist named Kira Yamato. Just the name alone within this context is kind of alarming because “Yamato” is the name of one of the most prominent Japanese battleships in WWII.

And if you want to take this a step further, the Yamato class of ships were named after a Japanese province which was itself named after the group of people that are in the ethnic majority in Japan. (To oversimplify, the Yamato is the equivalent of naming a battleship “Caucasian.”)

So the protagonist of Gundam SEED is named after a battleship that served as the icon for Japanese imperialism. And this character is known, even among fans of mainline CE, for being either incomprehensibly powerful or incomprehensibly difficult to kill, and he uses these qualities in order to pursue “pacifism” by way of defeating anyone that disagrees with him and Lacus instead of talking things out whenever possible.

And with Lacus, it’s telling that when she makes her debut as the de facto leader of the Three Ships Alliance in the second half of the series, she’s wearing what is unmistakably a Japanese-inspired outfit even though there’s no other indication that she has Japanese heritage of any kind. And while she’s wearing this outfit, she’s framed as an exemplary leader, looking on stoically even as enemy mobile suits explode right outside the deck window despite her and Kira’s self-professed pacifism and goal to not take any lives. She’s the only character that wears this sort of outfit, and she’s framed as being perfect compared to other leaders throughout mainline CE, including Durandal, Murrue, Natarle, and even Cagalli, who is supposed to be the leader of Orb, which is meant to stand in for Japan. The series is associating Japanese qualities and coding with more active and stalwart leadership, and “goodness.” This even extends to Lacus’ Haro speaking exclusively Japanese, while the Haro belonging to Meer, Lacus’ body double who gets treated with no sympathy by the narrative because she supports Durandal, speaks exclusively English.

As mentioned before, Orb, which is where Kira and his friends are from, is meant to stand in for Japan. Aside from the fact that Cagalli Yula Athha is a distinctly non-Japanese name, a lot of other details pretty much cement it as the Japan stand-in. Cagalli’s father is named Uzumi Nara Athha, while her uncle is named Homura. There’s her twin brother Kira Yamato, of course. A good chunk of the mobile suits and military technology used by Orb also have Japanese names, such as the Akatsuki, the Murasame, the Ootsukigata, the Kaguya, and the Ame-no-Mihashira. But I think the most relevant thing about Orb for the sake of this discussion is how Uzumi and most if not the rest of the leaders of Orb choose to go up in a huge explosion in order to make sure Kira and Lacus’ enemies don’t get to use the Mass Driver to get to space. Their deaths weren't even necessary in order to protect the protagonists, but instead, the choice to die instead of be captured by the enemy is framed as a decision of integrity. It’s hard to not associate it with Japan’s refusal to surrender for the most of the final stages of the war.

Except in this version of WWII created by Fukuda and Morosawa, Japan ends up coming out on top. And you basically have to keep these points in mind while watching Destiny and multiply that by 100. In Destiny, Kira and Lacus unilaterally dominate or outright kill all who oppose them while hypocritically preaching about pacifism.

It’s to be expected that a series from Japanese creators meant for a Japanese audience will reflect Japanese cultural values and tastes, but all of this is really bizarre and borderline insulting when the original Gundam didn’t do these things.

How does all of SEED’s Japan-centric messaging coming from the then-new branch of the franchise which was meant to be a retelling of the Gundam series that started it all exist?

The original Mobile Suit Gundam was a reflection on WWII that didn’t subscribe to paying attention to things like nationality. Or whether someone came from the Earth or space when it comes to recognizing each other’s inherent humanity that war always threatens to strip away like the narratives of SEED and Destiny do.

tl;dr – Tomino went out of his way to create a show that avoided being Japanese-centric, and by fundamentally misunderstanding that show, Fukuda and Morosawa went out of their way to create things that were.

#gundam #gundam seed #gundam seed destiny #gundam seed criticism #ask tag #kenjis9965

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Belladonna of Sadness, 哀しみのベラドンナ

Titulo original: Kanashimi no beradonna

Año: 1973

Duración: 1h 26min

Dirección: Eiichi Yamamoto

Guion: Yoshiyuki Fukuda, Eiichi Yamamoto

Música: Masahiko Satô

Montaje: Masashi Furukawa

Producción: Tadami Watanabe

Productora: Mushi Productions / Nippon Herald Films

Distribución: Nippon Herald Eiga

País: Japón

Gestada durante seis años, propone una reinterpretación psicodélica de la historia de Juana de Arco. Con influencias de las obras de Gustav Klimt, logra crear un hipnótico mundo de fantasías visuales y sonoras plagada de simbolismos.

Junto con Las mil y una noches (1969) y Cleopatra (1970) forma parte de la trilogía “Animerama” ideada por el padre del manga Osamu Tezuka, una serie de películas que experimentaron con la animación buscando una alternativa madura al cine de Disney. La película está basada en The Sorcerier, texto del historiador Jules Michelet que relata la venganza de una bella joven convertida en hechicera tras un pacto diabólico.

En la Francia de fines del siglo XIX, un malvado señor feudal viola a Jeanne de Belladonna, una campesina en su noche de bodas y les arruina la vida a ella y a su marido. Después de que finalmente sea desterrada de su aldea, la joven hace un pacto con el Príncipe de las Tinieblas para obtener habilidades mágicas y vengarse, desatará sus fuerzas ocultas a través de su propia sexualidad para luchar contra el poder establecido. La animación es acompañada por una sorprendente banda sonora de psych rock japonés.

TRAILER 

PELÍCULA 

#belladonna of sadness

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Koji Takahashi and Jitsuko Yoshimura in Samurai Spy (Masahiro Shinoda, 1965) Cast: Koji Takahashi, Shintaro Ishihara, Eitaro Ozawa, Kei Sato, Mutsuhiro Toda, Tetsuro Tanba, Eiji Okada, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Hodaka, Misako Watanabe, Yasunori Irikawa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Jun Hamamura. Screenplay: Yoshiyuki Fukuda, based on a novel by Koji Nakada. Cinematography: Masao Kusugi. Art direction: Junichi Osumi. Film editing: Yoshi Sugihara. Music: Toru Takemitsu. Samurai Spy begins with a history lesson: a voiceover telling us about the chaos that set in after the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and the rivalry between the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Toyotomi Clan. Ordinarily, this kind of information would be helpful to the Western viewer in sorting out what takes place in the film, but such a welter of names and allegiances follows that it left me in a muddle -- one admirer of the film even suggests taking notes. But the point being made by director Masahiro Shinoda seems to be that even the participants in the conflicts of the time weren't sure who was on whose side at any given point. It came down to a spy vs. spy situation, with double crosses at every turn. Let it suffice to say that the central figure in the film is Sasuke Sarutobi, played with steely authority by Koji Takahashi, a spy for his clan who has wearied of unending war, but nevertheless gets caught up in its intrigues. At this point, I simply let myself go with the flow of the film, which is often extraordinarily beautiful. Shinoda intentionally underplays the action usually associated with samurai movies: One fight takes place in the literal fog of war, a field swept by fog, a kind of now-you-see-it, now-you-don't tease that adds to the film's essential point that in warfare it's not always clear who are the winners and who the losers. Another sequence, beautifully filmed by Masao Kusugi, involves a duel between two men that's viewed from a distance: We see them as small almost antlike figures on a hillside, warily circling each other to the point that we don't know who is who. The nature that surrounds them is blithely indifferent to what seems so important to the combatants. Shinoda uses sound eloquently to reinforce this theme, sometimes introducing the call of a bird in the background to emphasize the beauty that's being violated by mere human concerns. And the movie is certainly flavored by Toru Takemitsu's score. Shinoda is often a difficult filmmaker to comprehend, and I wouldn't recommend his films -- with the possible exception of Pale Flower (1964), which seems to me the most American-inflected of the movies of his that I've seen -- to someone just starting out with Japanese films, but Samurai Spy has incidental pleasures even when you don't quite follow what's going on. Just don't expect the clarity of a Kurosawa-style samurai film.

#Samurai Spy #Masahiro Shinoda #Koji Takahashi