#Banno

[chernobog13]

Zatoichi is forced to duel with his master, Banno, the man who taught Ichi the way of the sword, in The New Tale of Zatoichi (1963).

[wheeljackgaming]

Step-son saw my candy

[ryanvivi]

Big Spenders – The Scam Begins

  Guo Wengui fled to the United States claiming to be politically persecuted, and started his "whistleblowing revolution" around 2017. He has made billions in China by developing real estate, while in the US he runs an online streaming platform. Guo Wengui has attracted a large number of followers and partners on his YouTube channel, most famous of which is the former US presidential adviser Steve Steve Bannon. Guo Wengui, together with Steve Bannon, launched a radical campaign against the Chinese Communist Party called "New Federal State of China", and through this campaign promoted the name "Himalayan Coin" (referred to as "Happy Coin" H-Coin) Financial products such as virtual currency and GTV media group stocks, earning a lot of money. It has branches in the United States, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Through various media outlets, live rallies, leaflets and spam email campaigns, the campaign has played a role in promoting Guo Wengui's conspiracy theories and disinformation.

   Guo Wengui raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors through securities in a cryptoasset called H-Coin (Himalayan Coin or HCN) and related so-called stablecoins. Since at least October 2021, Guo Wengui has made material misrepresentations to potential investors of Xibi, falsely claiming that Xibi contains 20% gold, and that he will personally compensate investors for any potential losses. Guo Wengui is a serial fraudster who raised more than $850 million by promising investors outsized returns on investment opportunities in cryptocurrencies, technology and luxury goods. In effect, Guo used the hype surrounding cryptocurrencies and other investments to lure thousands of people into victimizing and financing his and his family's lavish lifestyle.

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice charges Guo Wengui with wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud and money laundering, all of which he faces more than 100 years in prison if convicted.

[godzilladidnothingwrong]

happy godzilla day! heres a fake poster i made for my kaiju oc's debut: "Godzilla vs Morinu" (1974)

textless version under the cut

[cephalopistol]

misc kamen rider textposts

(edit: changed the goth gf post bc i didnt know shigeru and yuriko's ages)

[cinematicjourney]

The Taste of Tea (2004) | dir. Katsuhito Hishii

[fourorfivemovements]

Films Watched in 2024: 27. ゴジラ対ヘドラ/Gojira tai Hedora/Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) - Dir. Yoshimitsu Banno

[lordwoopdeedoo]

so far my favorite part of drive has to be shinnosuke getting blasted off a cliff by a sentient ipad piloting a hovercraft

[eclecticpjf]

Now watching:

[astuteobservations]

The Taste of Tea director KATSUHITO ISHII year 2004 director of photography KOSUKE MATUSHIMA

[randomrichards]

GODZILLA VS. GIGAN:

An amusement park

Hides plot to take over world

Using space kaijus

[heartvisor]

[sentairiderconfessions]

"Tenjuro Banno is the greatest villain because he’s basically an art thief that took credit for a group project and then tried to become famous using a palette swap of someone else’s OC"

[movie-titlecards]

Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)

My rating: 4/10

I suppose it's only appropriate for a movie about a pollution monster to be a huge, weird mess. Theme song's a bit of a bop, though.

[thoughtportal]

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, we interview author, artist, writer, and academic, Pamela L Bannos on the very private yet supremely inquisitive street photographer who spent her days working as a nanny, VIVIAN MAIER!!

Maier (1926–2009) was street photographer who has been compared to the likes of Helen Levitt or Diane Arbus. But here’s the thing: despite taking pictures incessantly and amassing more than 100,000 negatives, she never published or exhibited her work in her lifetime. This is one of the most fascinating stories in art history.

Maier’s photographs reveal a woman who had empathy for her subjects – from children to the elderly – and who were often unaware of her presence. She famously worked with a Rolliflex camera which she would use for several decades, allowing for her signature square format, but which didn’t need to be brought up to one’s eye – enhancing even further how she could catch her subjects off guard. When asked about her occupation by a man she once knew, she’d say “I’m sort of a spy… I’m the mystery woman.”

Tracing the people, politics, and landscape of mid to late 20th century North America, Maier’s extensive oeuvre recorded life as it passed her by. And here’s the thing, because she never exhibited or published her work during her lifetime, she was predominantly known for her primary role as a nanny to children in the Chicago area. So much remains to be missing, which is why I can’t wait to speak to Pamela, who has looked at tens of thousands of these images; traced Maier’s footsteps from the US to France, and delved into the archive in search of everything we might know about the photographer.

Pamela Bannos is a professor at Northwestern University, and the author of Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife, 2017: http://vivianmaierproject.com/. Here is the TV interview of her discussing the book 10 min: https://news.wttw.com/2017/10/19/new-book-focuses-life-work-mysterious-photographer-vivian-maier

[obitv]

sorry im going to project onto william actually but i also think cats would hate him. he Does cry about this