Onibaba (1964)
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Takato Yamamoto
Kuroneko / Onibaba. 2021
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Onibaba (1964)
“I'm not a demon! I'm a human being!”
Director: Kaneto Shindo
Cinematographer: Kiyomi Kuroda
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“I fly aimless from dream to dream Belonging to a thousand years of poetry.”
~•Mahmoud Darwish•~
#Mahmoud Darwish, from ‘Mural’, #poetry #beautiful #Kaneto Shindô , Black Cat
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Onibaba (1964)
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Review "The Naked Island" ("Hadaka no shima")
I watched "The Naked Island" directed by Kaneto Shindô. The main actors are Nobuko Otowa as Toyo, the mother,
Taiji Tonoyama as Senta, the father, Shinji Tanaka as Tarô - the elder son, and Masanori Horimoto as Jirô - the younger son. These four make up a family that grows sweet potatoes on an island not far from the mainland (well, I assume it is one of the major islands of the Japanese chain of islands). This island has no water for drinking. It sits in the inland sea. Every day the parents make at least two trips to the mainland to get buckets of water to bring back to the island. Each of them, together or individually, carries up two large buckets that sit on a piece of wood that rests on their shoulder. They have to carry the water-filled buckets up a narrow path which goes up a very tall hill to where they live and cultivate plants . This does not look like an easy task. . It is almost a Sisyphean task. They do reach the top but they have to do it over and over again every day. There are some side characters. The younger son goes to school on the mainland. There is a teacher and a classroom of kids. Later there appears a priest. One thing of note for this film is that there is no dialogue. None. There is background music which is repeated throughout the movie. It is pleasant at first but you begin to wonder about it as it gets repeated day after day. There is also some singing by the school children once, I believe. So actually the names of the two boys may be in the script but you never hear their names. One does wonder why they don't have a cistern system to catch rain when it does rain or some mechanical device or conveyance to get the water up the hill. No reason is given. The movie goes through four seasons and you see some of their daily activities, although the main activity relates to the growing, harvesting and use of the sweet potatoes and of some type of grain and other normal daily activities including caring for some animals they have, meals, etc. This film is in black and white. The setting is really quite lovely. The viewer sees the acceptance by the family of their life. I believe this is set just after WWII and I think everyone has difficult times and this certainly illustrates that. I enjoyed the film although it is somewhat depressing seeing them go through these same days and hardships, day after day. Occasionally the boys play and laugh. Occasionally the mother and father have smiles on their faces, watching the boys, at the end of the day, taking a hot bath, etc. They do have some outings to the mainland which obviously are entertaining. This is a marvelous film. There is only one angry scene in the film when the mother spills one of her two buckets of water. The father walks a few steps down (they are in the middle of their cultivated area), looks at her and slaps her. It is more of a slap about her wasting water than in true anger. She doesn't really react. She accepts this. One is lead to believe she understands this and doesn't really have a problem with it. There is also a sad portion of the movie but I won't detail that here.
Although one might think that the two adults are actually farmers, they are both actors and are in many movies. In real life Shindô, the director, later married Nobuko Otowa, the mother in the film. Interestingly enough both Nobuko Otowa, who died first in real life, and later Shindô both had their ashes scattered on this island. There were many years and many films between this film and their deaths.
This film won numerous awards including the Grand Prix at the Moscow International Film Festival. In the classic films list, They Shoot Pictures Don't They, this film is number 876.
The release I watched is from Criterion and the print is excellent. There is a lot of supplemental material which I will watch today and over the next few days.
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histórias com felinos:
Um Sonho de Mil Gatos (quadrinhos) Neil Gaiman
O Reino dos Gatos (filme) dir. Hiroyuki Morita
Sussuros do Coração (filme) dir. Hiroyuki Morita
O Gato Preto (filme) dir. Kaneto Shindô
Gato Negro (filme) dir. Lucio Fulci
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CINECLUBE ONLINE FILHOS DE HIROSHIMA KANETO SHINDÔ 1952
Filme japonês de 1952, dirigido por Kaneto Shindô (Onibaba), sete anos depois do lançamento, pelos Estados Unidos, da primeira bomba atômica contra o Japão. O longa foi um dos concorrentes ao grande prêmio no Festival de Cannes, na França, em 1953.
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A Ilha Nua
(Hadaka no Shima)
JP, 1960
Kaneto Shindô
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Da Condição Humana
A Ilha Nua é uma obra ímpar. Não apenas por se tratar de uma obra prima do cinema mundial, absolutamente intemporal, como também por possuir uma linguagem cinematográfica tão bela, simples e invulgar, que não me consigo recordar de nenhum outro filme que lhe seja comparável.
Com uma única palavra pronunciada ao longo de todo o filme (e mesmo essa a fazer fé na legenda é uma simples interjeição) a obra é um magistral poema dedicado à condição humana, a sua fragilidade mas também à enorme tenacidade e espírito de sacrifício, sem os quais não teria sido possível sobreviver, muito menos construir civilizações.
Servida por uma cinematografia exemplar a preto e branco mas em formato panorâmico (2.35:1) de Kiyomi Kurida e por uma banda sonora inesquecível de Hikaru Hayashi, que ganha um protagonismo desusado face à ausência de diálogos, este é um filme que encanta quem o vê pela primeira vez e que nunca mais o esquece por toda a sua vida. Absolutamente perfeito.
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Human Condition
The Naked Island is a unique work. Not only because it is a masterpiece of world cinema, absolutely timeless, but also because it has such a beautiful, simple and unusual cinematographic language, that I cannot remember any other film that is comparable to it.
With a single word uttered throughout the entire film (and even that one, to be believed in the subtitle, is a simple interjection) the work is a masterful poem dedicated to the human condition, its fragility but also to the enormous tenacity and spirit of sacrifice, without which it would not have been possible to survive, let alone build civilizations.
Served by exemplary cinematography in black and white but in panoramic format (2.35:1) by Kiyomi Kurida and by an unforgettable soundtrack by Hikaru Hayashi, which takes on an unusual role due to the absence of dialogue, this is a film that enchants anyone who sees it for the first time, and who never forgets it for the rest of his life. Absolutely perfect.
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