Hideki Takahashi (高桥英树), Jo Shishido (宍戸錠) and Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) in One Hundred Gamblers: Chivalrous Path (Bakuto Hyakunin Ninkyodo, 博徒百人 任侠道), 1969, directed by Takashi Nomura (野村孝)
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Jo Shishido (宍戸 錠)
Scanned from Shukan Heibon (週刊平凡) 1967 Jan 5.
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film is unique among the storytelling genres in that it is able to show you incredibly powerful and resonant images. like this shot of jo shishido ignoring his hot wife showering so he can huff rice
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'Youth of the Beast' – Yakuza cinema out of control on Criterion Channel
Youth of the Beast (Japan, 1963), Seijun Suzuki’s delirious take on pulp gangster films blows the lid off the genre with mad energy and stylistic excess.
It opens in somber B&W with a single color element—a pink flower laying on the floor— and explodes into bright color, blaring music, and random violence. From there Suzuki twists a cliché riddled revenge plot lifted from Akira Kurasawa’s…
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(via JHALAL DRUT: Nitani Hideaki, Asaoka Ruriko & Shishido Jo)
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Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) and Jo Shishido (宍戸錠) in Blood For Blood (流血の抗争), 1971, directed by Yasuharu Hasebe (長谷部安春).
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Promotional photo for YOUTH OF THE BEAST [ 野獣の青春, Yajū no Seishun ] (1963).
A film directed by Suzuki Seijun [ 鈴木 清順 ]. Starring Shishido Jo [ 宍戸 錠 ], Watanabe Misako [ 渡辺美佐子 ], Kawachi Tamio [ 川地 民夫 ], Kobayashi Akiji [ 小林昭二 ], Kaneko Nobuo [ 金子信雄 ], Go Eiji [ 郷 鍈治 ], Abe Yuriko [ 阿部 百合子 ], and Esumi Eimei [ 江角 英明 ].
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I just heard you talking about doing High and Low for KJB on Da Youtube Zone and yes. It's probably my favourite non-Samurai Kurosawa movie. Just a classic thriller.
Have you ever seen A Colt is my Passport? It's another classic Japanese Noir. Stars a guy called Jo Shishido, who got cheek implants to stand out from the run of Japanese actors.
And that put me on to Branded to Kill with the same star, directed by Seijun Suzuki, a movie about a hitman with a fetish for the smell of boiling rice, which is absolutely fucking insane.
... sorry, I get excited about Japanese Noir movies.
eventually we will do every Japanese Noir film
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Another set of 10 for this October challenge:
11. Takeshi Kitano
12. William Finley as Winslow Leach
13. Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig
14. Jennifer Connelly from Phenomena
15. Ron Perlman
16. Juan Garcia Esquivel
17. James Randi
18. Jo Shishido
19. Humphrey Bogart
20. Bela Lugosi from Murder In The Rue Morgue
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'Gate of Flesh' – the mercenary world of Japan after World War II on Criterion Channel
Seijun Suzuki puts the candy colored art direction of an American Technicolor musical in the service of an erotically charged tale of desperation and doom with Gate of Flesh (Japan, 1964).
The lurid melodrama of prostitutes, gangsters, and black marketeers is set on the ruins of the Tokyo waterfront in Japan’s post-World War II depression. Starving maiden Maya (Yumiko Nogawa) joins a group of…
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