#michitaka tsutsui

[shihlun]

Joji Matsuoka

- Twinkle

1992

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[imsailorpluto]

Last weekend I watched Bataashi Kingyo (Swimming Upstream), a Japanese movie from the 90s, adapted from manga of same name.

It's one of those movies I wish I watched 15 years ago, you know, when I was 15.

It's about a teenage boy Kaoru who is all into motorcycles, then one day, as he passes by his school's swimming pool, a girl accidentally pours a bucket of water on him. In frustration, he starts shouting at the girl, but when he realises that's Sonoko, the leading girl of the swim team, his tone changes and all frustration melts away. It's the moment he falls in love with the girl, decides to quit riding his bike with the boys, and joins the swimming team. He doesn't even know how to swim, but he's confident to win Sonoko's heart by becoming an Olympic medalist.

Of course, the movie isn't about his journey towards becoming a professional swimmer, it covers a fairly short period of time during which Kaoru constantly pursues Sonoko. There are some more spoilers ahead - all the way to the blue The End.

His swimming and training skills are only those of a beginner and willpower alone is not enough for an overnight transformation. His sport journey can be compared to that of winning over Sonoko. While chasing the object of his desire, he's tactless, impatient, stubborn, self-centred and doesn't understand a word no. His sense of self is extremely distorted. He's the main character in his own story, just like any other boy, but he's also convinced he's the main character in everyone else's story too. Especially Sonoko's, which couldn't be further from the reality. Meanwhile, the only person who sees him as the main character is the mechanic girl, his friend who is in love with him, Puu.

In this silly little triangle, he doesn't care much about this bike girl, just like Sonoko doesn't care much about him either. And isn't that just a typical teenage love story? Puu is really awesome tho.

While Sonoko is annoyed and repulsed by Kaoru's pushy behaviour, she eats her frustration away in hopes to gain weight and become less pretty to Kaoru. It is the last act of desperation, since everything else she tried didn't work. Not even fake dating with Nagai, the number 1 swimmer of their high school.

Of course, due to overeating and a change of lifestyle, she ends up depressed. And despite all of it, Kaoru still sees her the way she is, and is still just as in love as he was the first time he saw her. Once he finally understands his actions are hurting Sonoko, he gives up. In the meantime, Sonoko got so used to his presence that she starts missing him. She loses the weight and decides to pursue him. Eventually, they both end up having a fight and a conversation followed by Kaoru's love confession. The End.

This one was a lovely break from both life and kdrama for me. It is such a cliché but it depicts how boys behave during their teenage years and, to be honest, it also depicts the majority of grown men as well, those who never grow up to stop the kind of stubborn and annoying act of an immature teenager. It also shows the neverending harmful coping mechanisms girls and boys run to in acts of desperation. The main characters are teenagers but I can't stop thinking how not much changes in the adult age. Overeating, social distancing, procrastination, self-hatred. Such typical behaviour for a woman when she's hurting. And stubbornness, spite, persistence and exploitation, as traits of generally extremely immature and hurting men.

It's a good movie with everything in mind, especially for these sultry summer days, when all you need is some icy drink, deep shade and something to play in the background. And, you know, you can always not overthink it to this extent and make it a bit more enjoyable.

Have any of you watched Swimming Upstream already? I haven't found many posts about this movie at all, which could be just Tumblr search engine doing a lousy job, again. Sure, it isn't as popular nowadays nor is it trending, but I find it kind of nice to get familiar with this kind of "old school media." Acting isn't superb, and neither is the plot, but filming is so calming and beautiful I can't help but recommend this one (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

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[crazyasianlove]

Great Gift Ep. 4 (Sub. Esp)

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[ljaesch]

Anime Film Review: Miss Hokusai

Miss Hokusai is an anime film based on a manga by Hinako Sugiura that was released in 2015. Miss Hokusai Directed by: Keiichi Hara Written by: Miho Maruo Starring: Yutaka Matsuhige, Anne Watanabe, Gaku Hamada, Kengo Kora, Jun Miho, Shion Shimizu, Michitaka Tsutsui, Kumiko Aso, Danshun Tatekawa Run Time: 90 minutes The film begins in 1814 (during the Edo period of Japan), and focuses on O-Ei, a…

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[malestarssockedfeet]

#Michitaka Tsutsui #Socks #White Socks #Submission

[myheartyurete]

Asunaro Hakusho (1993)

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[anamon-book]

父と子の掟　風間健 集英社

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[everything-maxriemelt]

Had lunch with my Japanese friend today, we talked about an old Japanese horror movie called “Shikoku” (死国), then I remember those few years when I was very into Japanese TV drama. And how much I used to like the actor Michitaka Tsutsui 筒井道隆. He was also the lead actor in one of my very favourite Japanese gay films “Twinkle” (Kira Kira Hikaru/星閃閃)

And then my friend told me he also starred in the Japanese version of “24” recently! 😆😅

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[natehoodreviews]

Born Bone Born may be one of the worst ever Western localizations of a Japanese film title. Its pithy alliteration feels designed to be forgettable, custom made for getting lost in the backwash of foreign streaming titles on Netflix or Amazon. The original title is both informative and dignified: Senkotsu, the name for a rural Okinawan funeral practice of bathing a deceased person’s bones one year after burial. It seems unfair that Masato Harada’s recent mediocre war epic was allowed to maintain its original Japanese title of Sekigahara while this tiny gem of a dramedy should be burdened by such an aggressively terrible English title. For this new film by comedian Toshiyuki Teruya is a humanistic cross between the family comedies of Yoji Yamada and the delicate introspective character studies of Hirokazu Kore-eda. The film follows the Shinjo family living on the Okinawan island of Aguni as they prepare for the senkotsu ritual one year after the death of their matriarch Emiko (Mariko Tsutsui). The proceeding twelve months proved tumultuous ones: her husband Nobutsuna (Eiji Okuda) has fallen into a catatonic alcoholic stupor; her eldest son Tsuyoshi (Michitaka Tsutsui) has gone sour and mean after losing custody of his children in a nasty divorce; her estranged unmarried daughter Yuko (Ayame Misaki) returns from the mainland nine months pregnant with her boss’s baby.

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Published on UnseenFilms.net

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[maegane]

Marmalade Boy Special Film Book

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[shihlun]

Junji Sakamoto

- KT

2002

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[dry-valleys]

“In both cases these two countries, protected by a band of water – even if a narrow band – have become the repositories of the cultural content of the continent behind”

Bernard Leech on Britain and (one of his main influences) Japan.

After my first ever visit to Valentine Clays yesterday I followed the British Ceramics Biennial, which I’d seen at Bethesda, Airspace, Spode, and the Potteries Museum, back to the Goods Yard; yesterday’s visit was my fourth, which isn’t bad for a place I’d never heard of a month ago!

The Goods Yard, once a warehouse shifting goods between the railway and canal, has been empty for decades and I can’t be the only local to have known nothing about it, despite living here my whole life.

Rhiannon Ewing James has overseen this project, which I hope will raise awareness of this place, its past, present and future, with Staffordshire University; although I am a Keele graduate, I take my hat off to Staffs for the work they do in clay.

Here are (2) Osamu Tsutsui, (3) Michitaka Fukumo, (4) Mishio Suzuki, (5) Miyuki Machida, (6) Monika Furuya, (7) Masashi Kawamatsu, (8) Rieko Yura, (9) Shuji Haneisi, and (10) Shungo Nemoto.

They are all from Kasama, Japan, a fairly new pottery town; although they are aware of Japanese tradition, the fact that (unlike Stoke on Trent) Kasama has few old potters makes it a place which leans towards the modernist side.

After seeing a Japanese pottery making, Leach later recalled that “By this to me a miracle, I was carried away to a new world. Enthralled, I was on the spot seized with the desire to take up the craft”. This is something that I’ve noticed time and again with people who start doing something else, get into ceramics and never look back; it has also inspired artists in Kasama, some of whom come from pottery backgrounds but others who got into it through discoveries of the kind Leach made.

The Kasama potters have married art and industry and I hope will become more widely known outside Japan as a successful city of the kind I hope my home city will become, helped by the planned regeneration of the Goods Yard.

As you can see, the Goods Yard is a functional and somewhat ugly building from the outside, and the ceramics festival ends soon (I write on 9 October 2021 and it stops on 17 Ocrober) but I support the regeneration and hope that by the time the ceramics festival is back in 2023, I hope it will be housed in the workshops here and I’ll be reminding the students and hotel-goers how their deposit was paid.

#photos #stoke on trent #staffordshire #pottery #ceramics

[crazyasianlove]

Great Gift Ep. 9 Final (Sub. Esp)

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[ilikelookingatthesky]

Character vs. actor ages at the beginning of the drama:

A list comparing the ages of historical personas in 1854 and actors in 2004. I’m using the year the story starts, not the year the drama opens up with (1864). Hopefully I’ve calculated everything correctly!

Shinsengumi

Shingo Katori/Kondo Isami: 27/20

Koji Yamamoto/Hijikata Toshizo: 28/19

Tatsuya Fujiwara/Okita Souji: 22/10 (or 12 if born in 1842)

Joe Odagiri/Saito Hajime: 28/10

Nakamura Kantaro II/Todo Heisuke: 23/10

Taro Yamamoto/Harada Sanosuke: 30/14

Masato Sakai/Yamanami Keisuke: 31/21 (or 19 if born in 1835)

Tomomitsu Yamaguchi/Nagakura Shinpachi: 35/15

Takashi Kobayashi/Inoue Genzaburo: 45/25

Shoei/Shimada Kai: 30/26

Koji Ohkura/Kawai Kisaburo: 30/16

Seichū-rōshi gumi

Koichi Sato/Serizawa Kamo: 44/24

Kazuyuki Aijima/Niimi Nishiki: 43/18

Itō-dōjō party

Shosuke Tanihara/Ito Kashitaro: 32/19

Aizu Domain

Michitaka Tsutsui/Matsudaira Katamori: 33/18  

Tosa Domain

Yosuke Eguchi/Sakamoto Ryoma: 37/18

Chōshū Domain

Ken Ishiguro/Kido Takayoshi: 38/21

Hiroyuki Ikeuchi/Kusaka Genzui: 28/14

Satsuma Domain

Takashi Ukaji/Saigo Takamori: 42/26

Tokugawa shogunate

Noda Hideki/Katsu Kaishu: 49/31

Tetsushi Tanaka/Matsumoto Ryojun: 38/22

Others

Koji Ishizaka/Sakuma Shozan: 63/43

Jay Kabira/Henry Heusken: 42/22    

(I’m using the Shinsengumi no Makoto page/Wikipedia as a birthdate source. Names are written as stated on Wikipedia.)(I didn’t include the girls because I have no idea where to find the dates?? I’ll update if I do. Some people have no dates listed so they’re not mentioned and some people arent there because there is simply too many of them and I get lazy XD)

#shinsengumi #shinsengumi! taiga #nhk shinsengumi #shinsengumi! #nhk taiga drama

[rowel-anime-trends]

Yuki Sakurai, Kenichi Takita, Emi Wakui, Makita Sports, Michitaka Tsutsui, Shinya Niiro join film

#rowel animenovelman #anime #best anime #anime review