#Ken Kurihara

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100 byou no Keno Kenka Battle Royale, Yamazato wa jizoku kanouna sekai datta, Everlasting 33 Mao Asada Ice Show, Last Hole, Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Dokokai Kanketsu-hen Chapter 1, Japanese Film Trailers

Welcome to the second of three trailer posts The first part is here and the second part follows tomorrow. 100 byou no Keno Kenka Battle Royale    100秒の拳王　ケンカバトルロワイアル 「100-byou no ken-o kenka batoru rowaiaru」 Release Date: September 06th, 2024 Duration: 98 mins. Director: Toshimitsu Chimura Writer: Toshimitsu Chimura (Screenplay), Starring: Tetta Seki, Naoki Takeshi, Louis Kurihara, Itsuji Itao,…

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Kinuyo Tanaka in Sandakan 8 (Kei Kumai, 1974) Cast: Komaki Kurihara, Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoko Takahashi, Takiko Mizunoe, Ken Tanaka. Screenplay: Sakae Hirosawa, Kei Kumai, based on a book by Tomoko Yamazaki. Cinematography: Mitsuji Kanau. Production design: Takeo Kimura. Music: Akira Ifukube Kinuyo Tanaka was one of the world's greatest actresses, celebrated particularly for her work with Kenji Mizoguchi in The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953), and Sansho the Bailiff (1954), and she gives a heartbreaking performance in one of the last films she made before her death in 1977, Sandakan 8. She plays Osaki, an elderly woman who was sold into prostitution as a girl, servicing overseas Japanese in brothels in what's now Malaysia. In the film she tells her story to a young woman, Keiko Mitani (Komaki Kurihara), who is researching the history of the karayuki-san, women who were sent throughout the South Pacific to work as prostitutes. We see Osaki's life in flashbacks in which she's played beautifully by Yoko Takahashi. Osaki struggles at first against the life she has been forced into, but eventually gives in to the reality of her situation. Still, once the practice of selling girls for overseas prostitution is ended by the Japanese government and Osaki is able to return home, she finds herself the object of scorn. Even in old age, living in a shack on the outskirts of a town, she is looked down upon by her neighbors because of her past. When Keiko first visits her, Osaki tries to pass her off to the neighbors as her daughter-in-law from Kyoto. (After her first return to Japan, Osaki went to Manchuria, where she married and had a son. He sends her money, but his wife has never visited and seems determined to have nothing to do with her.)  Sandakan 8 tells a compelling story without excessive sentimentality or sensationalism. It drifts occasionally into clichés, as when Osaki falls in love with a shy young man who loses his virginity with her and promises to return when he's made enough money to buy her out of prostitution, but eventually he betrays her when he finds her exhausted after servicing a pack of randy sailors that has swarmed into the brothel after their ship came to port. But the rapport that develops between Osaki and Keiko is splendidly portrayed, as is Keiko's determination to make the story of the karayuki-san known in a country that would prefer to keep it an unknown episode in Japan's history.

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Bears Sweep To Finish 5-1 At CRC 7s

Cal Completes Year With Three Wins, Finish Season 22-1

PHILADELPHIA — California beat Clemson, 50-0, to complete a three-match sweep at the Collegiate Rugby 7s Championship, capping the Golden Bears' 5-1 June at the CRC with a win over the Tigers after a 38-0 shutout of Virginia Tech and 34-5 win over Wisconsin earlier at Talen Energy Stadium. Forced to regroup in a bizarre tournament structure that almost assured that either Cal or Life would be left out of the cup bracket after pool play, the Bears played solid 7s rugby to seal their victory. "As I said after Saturday, we played pretty well again today," said head coach Jack Clark. "Now, us scoring 120-5 in plate matches is mostly a disservice to the teams with legitimate aspirations toward the plate. We accept our end of the proposition, but it doesn't feel right for others." The Rugby Bears exited the event relieved for the status of freshman Jason Severance, who was released from a local hospital after being transported for observation following an injury in the first half, and is now with his teammates and parents. The Golden Bears, winners of three of four competitions they entered, including the PAC 7s conference championship, complete their 2018-19 year in Olympic 7 with an overall record of 22-1. Nine of the 13 student-athletes who competed at the 2019 CRC return for the 2019-20 year, which awaits the program just around the corner as the United States prepares to compete in Rugby 7s at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. "I am proud of how the boys were able to focus on the next most important thing and finish strong," said graduated senior captain Nic Mirhashem. "Very excited for the boys returning in the fall. They're a very talented and hardworking bunch."

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Bad Movie i have Black Butler :The Movie  aka Kuroshitsuji 2014

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[Announcement] 朗読劇「星降る街」(roudokugeki hoshi furu machi)

you will be able to watch all 12 shows @ OPENREC.tv (July 7th, 2020 ~ July 13th, 2020)

price: ￥5.000 (each) [notice: you will probably need to use a VPN to watch the show^^ ]

Cast:

Takenaka Ryouhei Yonehara Kousuke Watanabe Kazuki Ogasawara Ken Kiyama Ryuu Kuge Kyouhei Tomita Maho Ikuta Teru Satou Hiroki Yamaoki Yuuki Yoshida Shougo Kurihara Taiga Endou Ruka Kuryuu Mina Hoshimori Sana Endou Mitsuki Yamaguchi Rikako Ueno Yumi Chitose Yuu Nagase Chihiro Ikegaya Akito Nazuka Kaori Yao Kazuki

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ISML 2019: Mai Sakurajima Wins The Ruby Necklace

ISML 2019: Mai Sakurajima Wins The Ruby Necklace Touma Kamijou, Against All Odds, Wins Ruby Pendant

By Jo-Ryan Salazar The Bedlam On Baltic Avenue November 9, 2019

The strains of "Hey Hey Guy" by Ken Laszlo, the legendary Italo Disco crooner, were ringing loud as Mai Sakurajima finally broke through after numerous necklace rounds of the International Saimoe League left her wanting. Sakurajima, a 20-1 dark horse defeated Emilia 13781-12827 to win the 2019 ISML Ruby Necklace on Ruby Match Day 4. Schwi Dola was third with 9026 votes, Rikka Takanashi was fourth with 7208 votes, Asuna Yuuki was sixth with 4919 votes, Kurisu Makise was seventh with 3822 votes and Mashiro Shiina took command of the lanterne rouge with 3381 votes. Chtholly Nota Senirious was fifth but her tallies were not available at time of press.

Touma Kamijou finally got off the schneid with a 12906-11190 Upset of the Round over Archer to win the Ruby Pendant. Yuuta Togashi was third with 8990 votes, Katsuki Bakugou was fourth with 5909 votes, Kazuma Satou was fifth with 5317 votes, Rintrou Okabe was sixth with 4056 votes, Levi was seventh with 3319 votes and Taki Tachibana was last with 2664 votes. Kaguya Shinomiya is now one cross-seasonal victory away from succeeding Violet Evergarden as Speaker of the Saimoe Diet after routing Gray 20872-9217.

Advancing to the Diamond Period from the Female Division were Azusa Nakano (141877.5), Kamui Kanna (140994.5), Mio Akiyama (154759.6), Shouko Nishimiya (155882.2), Chino Kafuu (136106.4), Index Prohibitorum (135430), Yoshino (133999.4) and Megumin (152525.3). Over on the Male Division side, advancing to Diamond were Nagisa Shiota (104753.9), Willem Kmetsch (116299.9), Shirou Emiya (118960.4), Koyomi Araragi (103944.9), Yuzuru Otonashi (109709.3), Ryuuji Takasu (112043.7), Kyon (114767) and Kiritsugu Emiya (109097.4).

In a special dual match, Kobeni Yonomori and Hakuya Mitsumine defeated Yuki Kurihara and Shin'ya Momotsuki 10551-9258. In other exhibition action, Mei Raiden prevailed over Kiana Kaslana 9304-9164, Bronya Zaychik thumped Fu Hua 11427-6494, Theresa Apocalypse belted Himeko Murata 14494-3887, Sakura Yae throttled Kallen Kaslana 13240-5828, Yukina Himeragi dominated Aria Holmes Kanzaki 13323-9858 and Yashiro Isana defeated Mikoto Suou 8755-8414.

Match Day 1 of the 2019 International Saimoe Ruby Period is scheduled for November 11, 2019. Vote for your favorite characters at InternationalSaimoe.com and join the ongoing debate. And keep it right here on the Bedlam on Baltic Avenue for continuing coverage of the International Saimoe League, the world's premier anime character competition.

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A LIST OF 1/2 JAPANESE + 1/2 WHITE FACECLAIMS w/ RESOURCES

if you see any corrections that need to be made/know of any fcs that can be added to the list, please pm me! this list was last updated 3/13/2020.

male conan gray (1998) ryan potter (1995) louis kurihara (1994) nico hiraga (1997) max ando (1991) darren barnet (1991) takaya honda (1987) sen mitsuji (1987) remington hoffman  (unknown) anthony thornburg (unknown)

female ayumi roux (2000) tina tamashiro (1997) reina hardesty (1996) saila kunikida (1996) asami zdrenka (1995)  yagi arisa (1995) maggy gibb (1992) hayley kiyoko (1991) sayo yoshida (1990) noemie nakai (1990) mitski (1990) nichole bloom (1989) kimiko glenn (1989) joanna sotomura (1987) jun hasegawa (1986) jolene purdy (1983) eleanor matsuura (1983) devon aoki (1982) jennifer spence (1977)

fcs without resources joji/george miller (1991) laurdiy mona matsuoka Benjamin Ken Bernadet david sakurai ian anthony dale koji niiya reiko aylesworth cary alexander

bonus 1/4 japanese bc why not

kaylee bryant matt champion yumi lambert

special thanks to japanesefcs’ directory find my 1/2 chinese + 1/2 white masterlist HERE find my 1/2 korean + 1/2 white masterlist HERE

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How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death.

Screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto (April 18, 1918 -- July 19, 2018) was one of Akira Kurosawa’s least-known collaborators, if only because he was not part of the director’s photogenic actors. But Hashimoto was more than just a Kurosawa collaborator. The screenwriter was raised in the Japanese countryside and was discharged from military service in World War II because of tuberculosis -- forcing him to spend four years in a veterans’ hospital. A fellow patient one day handed Hashimoto a magazine on cinema and, poring through the contents, it was then Hashimoto decided to pursue a career in filmmaking. He sent a screenplay to Mansaku Itami (a major figure of 1930s Japanese cinema, but whose films have largely not been distributed to the West), who was so impressed that he became the young Hashimoto’s mentor until his death in 1946.

Rashômon was Hashimoto’s screenwriting debut (and what a hell of a debut). Over the next several decades, Hashimoto’s films -- regardless of the director or actors involved -- would explore humanity from its most altruistic to its most unconscionable moments of cruelty. Hashimoto retired in 1982, having been with Toho Company for almost the entirety of his career. He passed away at a hundred years old in July -- the last of Kurosawa’s regular screenwriters living, and arguably the dean of that entire group.

Nine of his films are pictured above (left-right, descending):

Rashômon (1950) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, and Minoru Chiaki

Ikiru (1952) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Takashi Shimura, Shin’ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri, and Bokuzen Hidari

Seven Samurai (1954) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Katô, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Isao Kimura, Yoshio Tsuchiya, and Bokuzen Hidari

I Live in Fear (1955) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Minoru Chiaki

Throne of Blood (1957) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, and Minoru Chiaki

Harakiri (1963) -- directed by Masaki Kobayashi; also starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarô Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama, and Yoshio Inaba

The Sword of Doom (1966) -- directed by Kihachi Okamoto; also starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, and Toshirô Mifune

Dodes’ka-den (1970) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, and Yûkô Kusunoki

Hakkodasan (1977) -- directed by Shirô Moritani; also starring Shôgo Shimada, Ken Takakura, Hideji Ôtaki, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Tetsurô Tanba, Rentarô Mikuni, Komaki Kurihara, Akira Hamada, Mariko Kaga, and  Yûzô Kayama

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せんだい歴史学カフェ　第108回放送「雨ニモマケズ　風ニモマケズ　雨と人間の西洋史」の参考文献

第108回放送をご視聴いただき、ありがとうございました！

放送時のtogetterまとめはこちら⇒https://togetter.com/li/1735207

今回の参考文献は以下の通り！

「雨は当然降るものだから～洪水にそなえる古代ローマの街づくり」の参考文献

・堀賀貴編『古代ローマ人の危機管理』九州大学出版会、2021年（https://www.ajup-net.com/bd/isbn978-4-7985-0301-1.html）

・堀研究室ウェブサイトではHerculaneum, Ostia遺跡の３Dマップを視聴できるhttp://history.arch.kyushu-u.ac.jp/

「「水の奇跡」と聖人　～中世初期北イタリアの気候変動と社会変動」の参考文献

・A. Izdebski and M. Mulryan (eds.), Environment and Society in the Long Late Antiquity, Leiden 2019. 

・K. Sessa, "The New Environmental Fall of Rome: A Methodological Consideration," Journal of Late Antiquity, 12(1), 2019, 211–255.

・G. Zanchetta, M. Bini, K. Bloomfield et al., “Beyond one-way determinism: San Frediano’s miracle and climate change in Central and Northern Italy in late antiquity,” Climatic Change, 165(1–2), 2021, 25 ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03043-x )

・狩野彰宏「石筍古気候学の原理と展開」『地質学雑誌』118(3)、 2012年、157–171頁。

・中塚武監修『気候変動から読みなおす日本史２　古気候の復元と年代論の構築』臨川書店、2021年。

・中塚武監修『気候変動から読みなおす日本史１　新しい気候観と日本史の新たな可能性』臨川書店、2021年。

・The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database: 　http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/search.php

「神の怒りが地上に現れる～近世ヨーロッパでの嵐や洪水」の参考文献

・黒川正剛『魔女・怪物・天変地異　近代的精神はどこから生まれたか』筑摩選書、2018年。

・栗原健「気候変動とプロテスタント信仰－近世ドイツにおけるルター派聖職者の「嵐の説教」『人文研紀要』84、2016年9月、67-83頁。

・甚野尚志「災害を前にした人間」甚野尚志、堀越宏一編『中世ヨーロッパを生きる』東京大学出版会、2004年、81-98頁。

・Ken Kurihara, Celestial Wonders in Reformation Germany, New York, 2016.

・Till-Holger Borchert and Joshua P. Waterman, The Book of Miracles, Köln, 2013.

以上、よろしければご参照ください！

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Listen/purchase: Augustones by SPANOVA

eleased October 16, 2020 Music, Words & Arranged by SPANOVA SPANOVA are Ken Tasaki / Piano. Fender Rhodes, Programming Shin Tasaki / Vocals, Guitar, Programming ●Augustones Satoru Tachibana / Drums Takeshi Kurihara / Tenor Saxophone & Flute ●Amega-Furumaeni Koji Ota / Drums Takuto Unigame / Bass Takeshi Kurihara / Tenor Saxophone Moky / Recording & Mix Engineer Emi Ishiuch / Assistant Engineer João Carvalho (João Carvalho Mastering) / Mastering Engineer Kamikene (Hatos, Normalization) / Graphic Designer

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Takumi Kiramura in Zentai Suit Dances in Shibuya for Tonkatsu DJ Agetaro Live-Action Film

    The forthcoming live-action film adaptation of Iipyao (story) and Yujiro Koyama (arts)'s comedy manga Tonkatsu DJ Agetaro has posted a short clip titled "YouTuber Debut Edition." In the clip featuring C+C Music Factory's 1990 hit song "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," the film's star Takumi Kitamura (the vocalist/guitarist of the five-member dance-rock band DISH//) and his friends in zentai suit with a tonkatsu head are dancing in the center of Shibuya. As they are showing off their performance, the number of views of the clip is growing rapidly.

  In addition to Agetaro's friend group "Sandaime DougenZaka Brothers" (played by Ryo Kato, Kouta Asaka, Rui Kurihara, Ko Maehara), the clip also introduces popular Japanese comedian Fuwa-chan (front row center of the photo above), who makes her film debut by playing herself.  

  Kitamura says, "Wearing the zentai suit alone breaks my heart, but I felt the strongest because it was the same costume as everyone of Sandaime. I wasn't embarrassed about the filming in Shibuya. I felt more embarrassed when I was on the studio set surrounded by staff."

  The Ken Ninomiya (Chiwawa-chan)-directed film was originally set for a release on June 19 but has been delayed to October 30 due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

    "YouTuber Debut Edition" clip:

  渋谷の中心で❗️ EVERYBODY DANCE NOW????‼️ ＜＜????#北村匠海×#フワちゃん????＞＞ Youtuberデビュー！な映像解禁???????? カツてない"とんかつDJ道"に邁進中のアゲ太郎と3代目道玄坂ブラザーズ！ 人気YouTuberの仲間入りを果たすことはできるのか…⁉️#とんかつDJアゲ太郎 pic.twitter.com/ZeX07QvVDz

— 映画『とんかつDJアゲ太郎』公式 (@tonkatsuDJmovie) October 1, 2020

    Full trailer:

    Poster visual:

      Main cast:

  Agetaro Katsumata: Takumi Kitamura 

Sonoko Hattori: Maika Yamamoto 

Kuraudo Yashiki: Kentaro Ito 

Iori Oiri / DJ Oily: Yusuke Iseya 

Mitsuo Muro: Ryo Kato 

Kyuji Natsume: Koudai Asaka 

Josuke Shirai: Rui Kurihara 

Takashi Hirazumi: Ko Maehara 

Agesaku Katsumata: Brother Tom 

Koromo Katsunuma: Natsumi Ikema 

Katsuyo Katsunuma: Reiko Kataoka 

     Source: "Tonkatsu Dj Agetaro" live-action film website / Twitter

  (C)Iipyao, Yujiro Koyama/Shueisha, Movie "Tonkatsu Dj Agetaro" Production Committee

(C)Iipyao, Yujiro Koyama/Shueisha

    By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

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Men’s Rugby 5/28/2019 1:45 PM | By: Cal Athletics

Cal Competes For Championship At CRC 7s

Golden Bears Back To Philadelphia Saturday & Sunday

BERKELEY – The Golden Bears compete this weekend at the Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby 7s Championship in Philadelphia, where California joins the six-pool, 24-team field at Talen Energy Stadium. Cal takes on Indiana at 11:10 a.m. ET to begin play in Pool C Saturday, followed by Colorado at 1:30 p.m. ET and Life at 3:15 p.m. ET. The Bears' first and last matches of pool play are on ESPN+. Other pools at the CRC include Clemson, Lindenwood, Temple and Virginia Tech in Pool A; Notre Dame, Penn State, St. Bonaventure and UCLA in Pool B; Boston College, Iona, Kutztown and Wisconsin in Pool D; Arizona, Fordham, Saint Joseph's and Saint Mary's in Pool E; and Army, Dartmouth, Navy and South Carolina in Pool F. The six pool winners from Saturday's matches will be joined by the two next-best teams in Sunday's championship bracket, culminating with the championship cup final at 4:30 p.m. ET. Television coverage Sunday is on ESPN2 and ESPNEWS. Cal, five-time national 7s champions from 2013-17, has won all three 7s events it has entered so far this year and comes into the 2019 CRC with a season record of 17-0 in the Olympic form of the game. The Bears carry with them an all-time 7s record of 169-18-0 (.903), including an all-time mark of 43-3 (.934) at the CRC. In its pool, Cal has seen Life four times before at the CRC and won them all, beating the Running Eagles in the 2012 bronze medal match, 22-12; the 2013 final, 19-14; the 2015 semifinals, 33-5; and the 2017 final, 19-0. The 2019 CRC will be the first 7s action for the Running Eagles since last year at the same event, when Life went 4-1, beating Notre Dame and Air Force, and Penn State twice, including 12-5 in the quarterfinals, before falling to eventual champion Lindenwood in the semifinals, 17-7. The Bears are 3-0 all-time vs. the Buffaloes in 7s but will be facing them for the first time at the CRC. The Buffs most recently went 3-0 at the Rocky Mountain 7s after advancing to the final of the Las Vegas Invitational 7s in February, when Colorado upset Kutztown, 19-17, in the semis following shutouts of Saint Joseph's and Clemson. Cal bested Indiana in both their previous meetings in 7s, winning in the 2017 CRC semifinals, 29-14, and in pool play at the 2018 USAR 7s, 34-14. The Hoosiers enter the 2019 CRC coming out of the Big 10 7s series this spring, highlighted a 4-2 showing at the Northwestern 7s. Indiana most recently competed at the USAR College 7s, where the Hoosiers' highlights were wins over USC, 27-10, and Arkansas, 15-12. The student-athletes selected for Cal's CRC campaign are led by senior captain Nic Mirhashem, a member of Cal's 2017 CRC championship team as a sophomore. Senior Troy Lockyear, a 2018 All-American, is set to compete in his first CRC, as is senior Elliot Webb, whose brother Russell is now an international player for Hong Kong after captaining Cal's 2017 CRC championship team in his final season. Selections from the Bears' junior class start with Sam Cusano, MVP of the 2017 CRC (pictured above), and continue with Christian Dyer, set to make his second trip to Philadelphia. Ken Kurihara, who contributed three tries and six conversions to Cal's 2018 PAC 7s title, will play in his first CRC. Half the Bears' squad is comprised of frosh-sophs, from sophomores Sam Golla, Adam Roeske and Marcus Shankland, to freshmen Henry Poon, Sam Walsh and Jason Severance. All members of Cal's most recent PAC 7s championship team, they will be playing in their first national 7s postseason with the exception of Shankland, who competed at the 2018 USAR College 7s. "It has been a long season, but this always an exciting way to wrap things up," said head coach Jack Clark. "Half of our 12 players have never participated in the CRC, which results in us being overall inexperience for the task at hand. This said, the team is looking forward to the challenge. A member of the U.S. Rugby Hall of Fame, Clark leads the Golden Bears with a fellow Hall of Famer in associate head coach Tom Billups. Together, they have coached the Bears throughout their nascent 7s history and all five of Cal's national 7s titles. Cal's first CRC championship team in 2013 included future USA Olympian Danny Barrett, who excelled on the international stage at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio and is poised once again to represented the United States at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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2017.05.20 OEdo no Candy 2 Event and Movie Review!

I got a chance to go to another OEdo Candy event and I got to go to the showing of the new movie plus they had a butai aisatsu (stage greeting) from some of the cast after.

*PSST: if you just want to read about the stage greeting then Ctrl F and ‘Stage Greeting’. It’s at the bottom of the page/post.

First the MOVIE REVIEW

NON-SPOILER REVIEW

Overall: This is partly what I was expecting and partly not. I was expecting it to be fantastical and romancy、 BUT I wasn’t expecting it to be so fairy-like and lots of glittery special effects and weird colour tones and such. It definitely makes it all the more magical and luckily, isn’t too distracting. Also it wasn’t as BL-y as I was under the impression of. I wish this movie had been longer. I needed and wanted more character development. The visuals were amazing, it was very funny (which I also wasn’t expecting) and the characters were great. It’s definitely an Indie-styled movie. It’s not a clean cut, it’s not professional looking, the editor purposefully leaves in real actor mistakes that happened for comic relief. BUT it’s enjoyable, fascinating and I’m glad it ended with a ‘To Be Continued’. Rating: 7/10

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Now for cast and spoiler section and everything:

CAST

Kurihara Rui aka Louis Aramaki Yoshihiko aka MakiChan Someya Toshiyuki aka Someyan Fujita Tom Akazawa Tomoru aka Tomorun Kamiya Riku Shiono Akihisa Asuma Kousuke Yura Achiha Hiko Robin Komina Kouji Nakamura Kaito Tokito Kishimoto Takuya aka KishiTaku Izumi Shuuhei Moriya Koji Kazuki Haru Doi Kazumi Hashimoto Zenitsu Nakajima Ken Nihira Shougo aka Shougokun Mori Issei Dairi IG Saya Onuki Yuusuke Mayama Akihiro Takahashi Hiromu Sano Shirou Fukikoshi Mitsuru Takenaka Naoto Koizumi Kyouko

That’s a fucking long list xD anyway!

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SPOILER REVIEW

I am going to go into a lot of detail about scenes and plot so you’ve been warned. Also I still haven’t seen the first movie so I many have left stuff out or not understand some parts because of that. Okay, let’s start!

The Movie Itself

Already mentioned in the non-spoiler section but: It was more Indie than I was expecting. I knew it wouldn’t be a perfect Toho cinematic-like movie because it has stage actors in and they usually have the more raw and not quite polished movies, but the director has been on Shabekuri007 and the cast is stella, top stage actors AND some HUGE TV names are in this cast, so I was expecting some professionalism but I was so wrong! It’s so, so Indie in it’s style. The cuts and edits aren’t quite so clean, the special effects are ridiculously fake but make everything look so pretty. The colouring and tone of the movie, especially when they’re in Underworld, is very obvious and like shades of green and blue rather than natural colours. So I was a little surprised at first. It’s obvious straight away that it’s Indie style, but I like this style thankfully so it didn’t bother me for long. I like this style; it’s definitely a style I enjoy but some people won’t.

Continuing on about the use of colour and sparkle effects when they were in the Underland; they were definitely creative and entertaining. For example there’s this sparkler like movement and light that goes around the characters, and at one point, love hearts are falling down around Someya and Riku when they finally meet and they realise they’re fated to be together. Just like these pics:

At first the special effects were very jarring and distracting BUT I got used to them. Although(!) it’s going to be annoying as fuck when it comes out of DVD because we ALL want to get those pretty and good shots of our favourite actors, but because the sparkles and such that just go all over their faces and everything, they aren’t going to be the best of shots. They should bring out an unfiltered version for us! They’ll make more money that way too!! xD

This movie was a lot less gay than I was expecting. Especially because on Tsutaya’s (a Japanese rental website and store) website the first OEdo movie is labelled as ‘erotica’ but like... there’s two kiss scenes, some rope scenes, and implied whipping but that’s all! But I guess Japanese censorship is more sensitive that way? I’d just say this is a PG-12, it’s really nothing too raunchy.

This movie was FUNNY! Funny as fuck! I wasn’t expecting it to be funny at all! I laughed the entire time! Either because of the stuff happening in the movie itself was funny, or because knowing the actors and their personalities it’s funny. It’s also very purposefully funny, like the editor saw a mistake and was like ‘that’s hilarious! Keep it in!'. Especially Asuma’s scene and the Masturi/Festival scene which I’ll explain later. There’s definitely scenes that happened by mistake or weren’t part of the script, but the editor and director purposefully left them in the final cut to give the audience a laugh and embarrass the actors xD

The story is simple-ish enough to understand and it’s very fun to watch, but like I said in my non-spoiler review; I wish this movie was longer so we could’ve gotten MORE plot and MORE character development and MORE comedy,. I just want MORE. Luckily at the end it said ‘To Be Continued’ however I assume the cast will change again(?) just like it did between the first and second movie, which is a shame because I’d like as much of this cast back as possible.

The Actors and Characters and Their Scenes

Kurihara Rui:

He surprised me. I’ve seen him in person and I’ve seen him on tv as himself many times and he very much has the persona of someone who is very emo-like with life and very monotone and doesn’t like to smile and is very witty but straight faced when he jokes. Even when I saw him at the first OEdo event he was like this! But in the movie, he at least had facial expressions! At first he didn’t but then we see him freaking out in the bathroom and being concerned. For the most part he stays as himself but I was surprised he could actually give SOME sort of acting performance. He is model so of course he looks damn pretty in his white outfit, and his skin looks freaking flawless as fuck in this movie. But I am very happy and surprised from the performance he did give.

Aramaki Yoshihiko:

My boy... first I have a bone to pick with you Aramaki Yoshi-always-straight-hiko!!!! (Can you tell what it is yet?)

OF COURSE MakiChan is the ONLY (no wait Asuma is too but he’s not a main character) straight person in this movie! EVERYONE else is obviously gay but oh no MakiChan just HAS to be the straight character -__- I was hoping for him and Akazawa to have a thing going on in this, instead of him denying he’s in love with his childhood female friend the entire movie -__- oh well! Least he’s somewhat gay in Honoo no Mirage... one day I’ll get my gay movie from him! I better! All stage actors have one! Also you work with Shosan a lot and he’s done quite a few! Also Baba and TakaChan! Come on Maki! GIVE ME MY GAY MAKICHAN MOVIE! I’m okay... moving on...

MakiChan’s character was chara (how would you even translate ‘chara’ in English?! ‘Playboy’? or ‘Likes to mess around’?) as fuck though. His first scene is him opening a very posh person’s door to reveal a very posh and stuck up girl and takes her through his izakaya while winking at his mates that he’s ‘gotten in there’. Then at the end of the date she pulls him slightly into the car and kisses him on the cheek. Once she’s left, he’s like ‘yes I’ve scored!’ BUT at the same time is totally adorable because he’s over the moon by just a simple kiss and can’t take his hand off his cheek where she kissed him! He was both chara and cute at the same time! Also the next day he’s with Shiono and is holding a teddy and just being so cute and child-like that he got a kiss from the most popular girl in his university xD Just adorableness galore from MakiChan! With the teddybear = adorable. Trying his hardest to join in on the (real) matsuri/festival = adorable! When he wakes up at the end = ADORABLE! 

ALSO very badass when he attacks and kills Robin in a second! Also OMG! In the beginning he sees his dad come out of the Boys Bar that’s next door to the izakaya, and he chases his dad down and is like ‘you’re not gay?!’ and his dad’s like ‘why you think your mother and I.... anyway I’m gay. You do realise I’m gay right? You might not understand but that’s how it is!’ And the next day MakiChan turns to Shiono and is like ‘my dad told me he’s gay...what the fuck?!’ xD And his dad was being played by FREAKING Takenaka Naoto! TAKENAKA NAOTO! He’s a freaking movie and TV star! He’s amazing in whatever he does and he was in this?! And with MakiChan?! AND as MakiChan’s DAD?! And being a GAY daddy?! He was fabulous and amazing (as always) in this!

Speaking of Akazawa and MakiChan. I really loved their relationship and my head thinks they were dating in it even though his character is supposed to be straight, and I think Akazawa’s character was supposed to be in love with Rui’s character in the UnderWorld. Nevertheless their relationship was great BECAUSE MakiChan’s character in the Underworld cannot speak, he’s mute, and luckily Akazawa can hear him via telepathy which was cute so Akazawa helped MakiChan out a lot.

I can confirm that for many many months even before the movie first came out, MakiChan and co were saying you can hear them say ‘facial’ instead of ‘washoi’ during the festival scene, and I can confirm that they do in fact say ‘facial’ instead of ‘washoi’ in the scene xD I was giggling quite a bit.

Little side note: In UnderWorld he is the only character who has a recollection and memories of his time in the Real World.

Finally! As disgusting as it sounds (but shouldn’t be a surprise if you know me) MakiChan’s underarm hair made a special guest appearance and it made me VERY happy <3 why am I so fucking weird...MOVING ON!

Someya Toshiyuki:

Someya is so pretty when he dresses up and has make up in a more feminine manner! He was gorgeous! I could not look away! And the kiss with Someya and Riku was perfect though! It was rather heart-racey but nothing too heart-racey (am I even getting enough oxygen to my brain right now to be able to talk about this properly?!) xD 

BUT! One moment that got me giggling though is when Someya takes like 5 minutes to cut Riku’s rope from his hands -- it really doesn’t take that long! It wasn’t that thick of a rope at all and I just cracked up the longer the scene went. I get it was a long scene so they could keep talking and so the sexual tension between them built up but it was a ridiculous amount of time.

Why did he have to die though?! Riku gets killed by Tom so then Someya kills himself with a knife in front of Tom and because Tom has essentially lost the person he loves he shoots himself in the head! ... I’ve just realised how freaking Romeo and Juliet this all is... it literally is just a movie about romance and being dramatic and everyone dying and/or killing themselves for the people they love xD what the fuck... it’s still good though!

Fujita Tom:

Surprisngly Tom’s character was pretty interesting! I don’t know why I expected him not to be because I was impressed with him in Kamen Rider Amazons and I enjoyed seeing him in person last time... 

I liked his character. He was like a warlord and looked very good upon his throne. I liked both his Real World and UnderWorld Character. His Real World character works in the freaking Boys Bar along with Someya. In fact the entire Boys Bar scene and location itself is ridiculous and hilarious! It’s this very loud, strip-bar which is right next to MakiChan’s brother’s (played by Riku) izakaya and that’s why they have conflict, because they can hear the Boys Bar’s music every night. Seriously the entire Boys Bar scene is amazing, I think I enjoyed it a bit too much xD Anyway, back to Tom; I liked both his character but was short lived, again leading back to the whole ‘I needed more from this movie’ complaint.

Akazawa Tomoru:

I remember that in the last event, the director commented (probably during the Making video) on how big Akazawa’s eyes are, and seriously, while watching this movie, they really are huge! It doesn’t help he has these blue eye contacts in that really light his face up (not in a stupid way! A natural way!) so they looked obviously bigger compared to everyone else too.

But damn Akazawa’s death scene was sad and upsetting =[ It was so quick and unexpected too! He was seriously struggling =‘[ he got his neck slit open and was on the floor in his pool of blood coughing and trying to save the others before they get killed, and he’s like ‘I’m so glad you weren’t here (when they came <-- they being Tom’s group who are after Rui because he’s some magical white fairy thing I think).

Kamiya Riku:

He is MakiChan’s brother in this! But also Someya’s fated lover. A majpr plot of the story is that until he meets Someya (again) in the real world, he doesn’t remember anything except his family. He’s a very quiet character but once he finds Someya the amount of love you can see in his eyes towards Someya and how his face completely softens when he sees Someya, it’s so adorable!

Shiono Akihisa:

Shiono is a freaking puppy! He’s in love with his and MakiChan’s childhood friend, but she’s in love with MakiChan and instead of confessing his love to her, -- although there is a hypothetical scene that plays out where he tells her to forget MakiChan and hugs her and confesses his love to her but! -- he lets her go and holds back so in the end, her and MakiChan can get together! He’s too precious for this world! He’s so sweet! He also does the Matsuri with MakiChan which is great too! It was a short time but you could easily see their long friendship shine through their scenes together.

Asuma Kousuke:

Asuma’s character had a lisp and it was fucking hilarious. Several times in the movie, the characters (to his character) were like ‘why do you say Sa Si Su Se So instead of Sa Shi Su Se So’ It was a funny bit every time, especially when he was like ‘I don’t speak weird!’ and they all laughed. His character also got slapped a lot by the other characters as another form of comic relief.

Also in his very first scene, he clearly (the actor, not the character) overhits the wooden overhead part and makes a huge noise, you can see slight pain in his face, and everyone in the room (I was in) pissed themselves laughing. It was obviously a ‘the actor accidentally did it but we thought it was hilarious so left it in the movie’ moment.

By the way, Asuma it TOO tall and TOO skinny! xD

Robin:

His visual and the metal arm armour he has is badass! He looks so good in his costume and seriously that arm is soooo amazing! Even the cast and staff commented on how nice it is and Robin was happy he got to wear such a cool looking thing. His character is like an assassin but is so easily killed by MakiChan in one swift and quick movement -- it was an awesome scene! But unfortunately it turns out MakiChan didn’t completely and successfully kill him because as MakiChan tries to help Someya get Riku, Robin comes from behind and stabs him and he dies. But it was a cool movement when MakiChan ninja-slashed him.

Nakamura Kaito:

This little cutie! Him and Tokito were like supposed to be waiting on Someya but spent most of their time being pretty dumb (in an adorable way) and playing games with each other. Especially when MakiChan turns on Tom (he uses a sleeping drug on him) and Robin, after slashing Robin, the two of them are hugging one another and going ‘please don’t kill us!’ and MakiChan lets them go. It was such an adorable moment from them. It was cut when they played Rock-Paper-Scissors together too.

Kishimoto Takuya:

His guests appearance was absolutely hilarious! So he plays the driver of car of the women who MakiChan takes to his izakaya. And once out of view of the izakaya, she tells KishiTaku to stop the car. Here she removes her shoes and puts her feet on the headrest infront of her (she’s in the back seat behind Kishi who’s driving) and her feet are either side of his face and he’s like ‘o_O’ and ‘=O’ but also super enjoying it. I’m pretty sure she ends up putting her feet ON his face and he’s goes into this like orgasmic state and enjoys it thoroughly. His character was so amusing.

Doi Kazumi and Nihira Shougo:

There were some great cameos from people like Doi Kazumi (who was a worker at the Boys Bar) and Kishimoto Takuya (seriously KishiTaku’s part was hilarious! I am not doing it justice above!), also freaking Takenaka Naoto (who I already fangirled over)!

Furthermore, I freaked during the All Boys Bar scene when for a SPLIT (literally a split, split second) when I saw my very own Shougo-kun!! It was a moment of ‘*double take* wait what?!’ when I saw him. I practically jumped out of my seat when I found him! I was so shocked and excited to see him in it because I was not expecting him! I immediately tweeted him after seeing the movie and was like ‘why didn’t I know?! But also I’m impressed at how quickly I spotted you xD’ which makes me seem super stalkery xD oh well! But I am so proud of my boy and when I saw his name in the credits and realised I was right about spotting him, I was a very happy girl ^_^

Hashimoto Zenitsu:

He ends up being MakiChan’s dad’s entertainment in the Boys Bar and they look so freaking hilarious with each other. Knowing Takenaka he was the one super into the role and being like ‘lets do this! lets really do this’ and making it look so lovey dovey and sickly and funny as possible and I imagine Zenitsu was just going along with it. It’s such a good but short scene with them two.

Sano Shirou and Fukikoshi Mitsuru:

These two HUGE tv stars guest starring in this movie. I’ve always liked both of them (and Takenaka) and I really liked Fukikoshi’s character! He was very funny! Especially towards the end when MakiChan(I think?) is trying to explain what happened in Underworld and Fukikoshi is asleep the entire time xD

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After the Movie, it was the CAST EVENT/STAGE GREETING:

It was: Aramakaki Yoshihiko (duh that’s why I went xD), Asuma Kousuke, Robin, Nakamura Kaito and Takahashi Zenitsu. 

I was second row to the right-hand side (and the row behind me and all the seats to my right were empty, so safe to say it was obvious when he was looking at me), so as soon as MakiChan came on stage, he saw me and smiled at me ^_^ Then at another point in the talk show, Asuma was talking and I was giggling silently and very hard at him, and MakiChan saw me and had to stop himself from laughing - he made that ‘holding back the smiling/laughing’ type face. I feel guilty for making him almost crack up on stage but also special because only me and him know why.

They first had a Mini-Talk but I don’t really remember what happened or what was said but I remember laughing a lot - sorry! But I do remember them talking about Robin and his cool character, so he was like ‘okay! Everyone close your eyes! The audience will clap on which one of you they want me to kill!’ Even though they were suspicious at first, they complied and they all closed their eyes and he walked around the back of each of them and waited for us to clap. Naturally Asuma and MakiChan had the biggest claps, SO Robin decided to kill both of them with his ‘air sword’ (he didn’t have one on him). To which MakiChan was like ‘that’s not how I’d kill someone!’ and Robin was alarmed at first at how serious MakiChan sounded at killing someone (xD) but then asked, ‘well how would you do it then?!’ so MakiChan said he’d show them. But before that MakiChan did the same thing as Robin and asked the audience the clap at who they wanted killed and it landed on Asuma xD so the first time he just killed Asuma with an air sword and then the second time it was MakiChan giving Asuma a drink and saying like ‘Otsukare’ and then Asuma drinks it and collapses to the floor and MakiChan is like ‘I’d poison them!’ with a smile on his face xD which is related to his character in the movie because his character does drug Fujita Tom’s drink but doesn’t kill them.

Then we had the Senshuu-Kai which is like a lottery and they picked the audience’s seats from a box and it was to win one of five signed copies of the script. Most of the people who won were on the second floor -- there were only like 20 seats on the second floor and FOUR people from there got signed copies! We were all surprised at how lucky the top floor was. 

ALSO The boys mentioned they watched the movie FROM the second floor. When the movie had ended I did see about 6 people stand up and slink backstage, so it must’ve been them! That means MakiChan was opposite me and one floor up! I wonder if he saw me the entire time! =O *dead*

Finally there was the HIGH TOUCH/FIVE on the way out!

Being technically the back row (it was set out weird. I was row N but second row on the right. Don’t ask) I was one of the first to go to the high five. The boys were lined up outside next to where the goods had been and the order was: Zenitsu, Robin, Nakamura, Asuma and finally MakiChan. I remember high-fiving Zenitsu and Nakamura completely, but I don’t remember high fiving Robin, and I barely remember Asuma, only just thinking ‘he smiles well’ and ‘DAMN HE TALL!’ xD 

With MakiChan being at the end, he got a few seconds longer with everyone as they left. He gave me this huge smile, high fived me, waved at me, said thank you and good bye, and waved me off and watched me walk away to the stairs ^_^ <3 okay I’m dead *dead* he’s always so amazing with his fans. God dammit guys... he’s so amazing... such a good person *dead*

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GOODS

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Speaking of OEdo I hit for the next butai aisatsu of this movie! AND I’M FIRST ROW! LEGIT FIRST ROW! June 24th! So hopefully I’ll have a mini report about the aisatsu and maybe some extra comments about the movie ^_^

I’m getting there! About 3 more to go! *dead*

[leenaevilin]

[Pics] 舞台『かくりよの宿飯 折尾屋編』(butai kakuriyo no yadomeshi orioya hen)

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Cast:

Jounin Tatsuki as Ginji (銀次)

Nomoto Hotaru as Tsubaki Aoi (津場木葵)

Maejima You as Byakuya (白夜)

Kurihara Taiga as Hideyoshi (秀吉)

Matsumura Yuu as Ranmaru(乱丸)

Suzuki Masaya as Hatori (葉鳥)

Sunaga Fuuta as Raijuu  (雷獣)

Takahashi Saki as Ougon Douji (黄金童子)

Kobayashi Ami as Isohime (磯姫)

Ichimura Sumire as Sasara (笹良)

Yuasa Masayuki as Sasuke (サスケ)

Kimura Kouhei as Chibi (チビ)

Yamazaki Masashi as Matsuba (松葉)

Ogasawara Ken as Oodanna (大旦那)

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