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TRADITIONAL CLASSINESS MEETS RISING SEXINESS IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF JAPANESE CINEMA.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1272x1734 -- Spotlight on classic Japanese actress Motoko Yano, photographed in 1959, better known as Machiko Kyō (Kyō Machiko, March 25, 1924 – May 12, 2019).

EXTRA INFO: Active primarily in the 1950s, she is now considered one of Japan's first sex symbols and one of its greatest screen actresses. She celebrated her posthumous centennial earlier this year.

Source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Machiko_Ky%C5%8D_1959.

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Album: Unhappy Birthday Year: 1981 Label: Kitty Records → Universal Music Japan Lyrics: Machiko Ryu / 竜真知子 Music: Makoto Yano / 矢野誠

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Grace Quaye by Geray Mena for Something About Rocks January 2024. Machiko Yano (Makeup Artist).

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Everything You Need To Know About Standing Ground, the British Brand Making Time-Traveling Garments

Ahead of his London Fashion Week show, the designer offered a look inside his sculptural fashion label, built on Irish mysticism, fantasy classics, and an intuitive approach to craft

Ireland’s standing stones, or dolmens, are the oldest remaining neolithic monuments in the country. For Michael Stewart, the designer behind London-based label Standing Ground, they are portals through time: stoic witnesses to the eons. He recalls taking frequent trips to visit them as a child, enchanted by the centuries-old mysticism buried deep within. “Ireland is a superstitious country, which is a good thing, because the dolmens have been preserved and protected over time,” he muses. “They’re feared in a way, so people don’t dare touch them.”

It’s no secret that Stewart’s spiritual connection to these megalithic tombs informs his brand’s name and modus operandi. Speaking from his new studio at the Sarabande Foundation in East London, he explains that the dolmens possess a transcendent quality, which he projects onto his own statuesque garments: deceptively simple creations that borrow from the futurism of sci-fi and fantasy classics such as Lord of the Rings to imagine evening wear, custom garments, and body ornaments that feel rooted in neither past, present, nor future.

After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2017, Stewart established Standing Ground in 2022, before attracting the attention of Lulu Kennedy’s Fashion East incubator program, and making his London Fashion Week debut as part of the Spring/Summer 2023 shows.

Remaining loyal to his source material of neolithic artifacts and figures—images of a dolmen and a Saint Brigid’s cross adorn his spare studio walls—he doesn’t have a mood board or sketches, and freely admits to having done no new research since his master’s degree. Instead, Stewart takes an intuitive, and manual, approach to draping, sculpting, and craft, developing his own lines and patterns by hand to produce alien silhouettes that flow from and protect the body like topographic armor.

Stewart is currently working on his third collection for Spring/Summer 2024, which expands on the dialogue between distant pasts and otherworldly futures. “It’s different to what I would’ve presented last February, which was very beautiful, but not as menacing,” he confesses. “I wanted to take some time to figure out what I was doing, and not pigeonhole myself.”

This collection dials back the clock to pre-human times, focusing on primordial, skeletal, and fossilized forms to create uncanny garments that explore the relationship between objects and their surrounding environment. Imagining a world where ancient objects grow and shapeshift across each collection, the designs suggest a speculative place where humankind and nature are mirrors for each other—or, as Stewart puts it: “seeing the body as a landscape and the landscape as a body.”

Makeup by Machiko Yano / Hair by Moe Mukai / Casting by AAMØ Casting / Model is Nyaueth Riam / Fashion Assistance by Florence Thompson / Makeup Assistance by Krishna Branch-Mackowiak

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Brian’s Note: Cultured magazine’s story was published last year on 15 September. It mentions “Stewart is currently working on his third collection for Spring/Summer 2024.” Some of the dresses included in that collection are the dress Caitríona wore to the IFTAs and the ones below.

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Remember… Ireland’s standing stones, or dolmens, are the oldest remaining neolithic monuments in the country. ☘️

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❤️Happy 100th Birthday Machiko Kyō! ❤️

(March 25, 1924 - May 12, 2019)

Was born Matoko Yano in Osaka, Japan.

Machiko Kyō was a prominent star of Japanese cinema, the height of her career was in the 1950s. She acted in many critically acclaimed films which include: Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu, Teinosuke Kinugasa's Gate of Hell, and Yasujirō Ozu's Floating Weeds. She was also in an American film, The Teahouse of the August Moon in 1956.

Kyō's other noteworthy films she acted in were Kinuyo Tanaka's 1960 film, The Wandering Princess and Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1966 film, The Face of Another.

She acted until her 80s, her final role was in an NHK television drama Haregi Koko Ichiban in 2000.

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Naoko for @janemagazine_ Photographer Lara Angelil @laraangelil Stylist Lauren Rucha @laurenrucha Model Naoko with Grey Model Management @glassleopard Casting Abi Corbett @abi_corbett Make-up Machiko Yano @machiko_yano Hair Christos Bairabas @chriscrossedd Set Maya Angeli @maya_angeli (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoeiXwRr_CP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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In the Memory of great Machiko Kyō (1924-2019)

One of the last living stars of the Japanese Golden Age Cinema Machiko Kyō passes away aged 95.

��In 1950, the film of Akira Kurosawa Rashomon based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story “In a Grove” became the first Japanese feature in the history of cinema to conquer the world stage. The film has won the Academy Honorary Award and Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951. The lead female star of the film was 25-years-old Machiko Kyō made a fantastic breakthrough with her role as a femme fatale of the story. Machiko Kyō has pulled the actor’s performance on the new level with her ambiguous and haunting character. She was able to emphasize the very essence of the story and demonstrated vividly the breadth of extreme emotions. Rashomon made her superstar of the Orient cinema whose glory and importance could be compared with Vivien Leigh’s role she’s been playing for decades in the West.

Born as Yano Motoko in 1924 in Osaka, Machiko Kyō was raised in a poor slum-like district of the city. She aspired to be a dancer from an early age and entered the stage at the age of 12. She’s been trained as revue dancer till the late 1940-s before she was discovered by the scout of Daiei studio and made her first appearance on the screen to become a renowned actress.

The most prominent period of Machiko Kyō’s career has covered the 1950-s and beginning of the 1960-s, the times of the rise Japanese Golden Age cinema. Perhaps, her most well-known role in the West, in addition to Rashomon was a noblewoman Lady Wakase in Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu Monogatari (1953). The enigmatic and mesmerizing sashay of the Machiko Kyō’s character through the troubled world of Ugetsu became a memorable personification of the illusions the men easily fall for. Machiko Kyō reunited with one of the greatest Japanese directors Kenji Mizoguchi later to star in 1955 Princess Yang Kwei-Fei and in Street of Shame (1956) becoming the director’s final film.

One of the most important motifs of the Japanese films of the 1950-s was related to the changes in social conduct of Japan and independent women getting more rights and freedom. Machiko Kyō became one of the most important symbols of this topic portraying independent, strong hard-working and tough women in many films of the directors developing such topic throughout their career. This is not only Mizoguchi���s Street of Shame but Mikio Naruse’s films, such as Younger Brother, Older Sister (1953), Sorrow in Only for Women (1958) by Kaneto Shindo, Yasuzo Masumura’s novel in an anthology film Jokyo (1960), Teinosuke Kinugasa’s films and many others.

Yasujiro Ozu, the Japanese master of the cinema who is highly acclaimed in the West, also cast Machiko Kyō in his film Floating Weeds (1959). The role of aging and jealous kabuki-actress became one of the essential for the famous Japanese actress. The only foreign film starring Kyo is The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956), the American feature where Kyō played together with Marlon Brando. The film considered among her most remarkable roles.

Until these days, Machiko Kyō remained the last living actresses who starred in the classic films of the most prominent Japanese masters of the Golden Age starting from the late 1940-s. The life of Machiko Kyō was a subtle link to the pre-war time in Japanese history and rise of the Japanese culture and art in the post-war period. She would be remembered for enigmatic roles, for portraying women in the fight for their rights in Japan, and for recreating the ancient Japanese customs and outfits on the screen with her various roles. A beautiful and great Machiko Kyō will remain the symbol of the Japanese cinema glory and her role in the development of cinema and defining the traditions of Japanese films make her immortal.

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Fashion Stylist and Art Director : Salina Hayashi

MakeUpArtist: Machiko Yano

Model: Kasumi

Photographer: Anna Miyoshi

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ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL

February 16, 2018

Photography & styling: Alex Blonde Makeup: Machiko Yano Model(s): Eny Jaki @ M&P and Makala Johnson @ Wilhelmina Editor: Rosie Daly

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"HIDE AND SEEK" King Kong Magazine photographs MOTOHIKO HASUI stylist KOJI OYAMADA hair & make up MACHIKO YANO model MIYU OTANI

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Legal High (en japonés: リ ハ ハ ハ Hepburn: Rigaru Hai) es una serie de televisión japonesa que se emitió en Fuji TV en abril de 2012. Fue escrita por Ryota Furusawa y dirigida por Junichi Ishikawa. Legal High era un drama judicial con inclinaciones de comedia con dos personajes principales: Kensuke Komikado (Masato Sakai), un abogado astuto que nunca perdió una demanda, y Machiko Mayuzumi (Yui Aragaki), una abogada prometedora con un fuerte sentido. de Justicia. Legal High también protagonizó Kotaro Satomi, Junnosuke Taguchi, Eiko Koike, Katsuhisa Namase, Masaki Okada, Haru Kuroki, Ryōko Hirosue y Masato Yano. #retroact #legalhigh #legalhigh2 #tv #jdrama #tvshow #tvseries

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#Repost vogueitalia: ✨Closure✨A new editorial by @johnpheyes inspired by the works of John Batho and Sally Mann. 'CLOSURE’ presents a trapped world of darkness and ambivalence, contrasted with an etherial lightness👉See more on Vogue.it ✨Team credits: photography – John P Heyes; Styling – Alexandra Bickerdike; hair – Miho Emo; makeup – Machiko Yano; set - Lucy Blofeld; model – Mira Alldinger – The Hive

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More Staff Revealed for "The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!" TV Anime

  The official website for Ryuoh no Oshigoto! (known in English as The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!), an upcoming TV anime based on the series of light novels written by Shirow Shiratori and illustrated by Shirabi about a high school age shogi master and the 3rd grade elementary school student who claims she's his apprentice, has updated with a new key visual and new cast listings.

    The updated cast list for Ryuoh no Oshigoto! include:

  Original work: Shirow Shiratori

Original character design: Shirabi

Director: Shinsuke Yanagi

Series composition: Fumihiko Shimo

Character design: Akane Yano

Art director: Atsushi Satomi

Director of photography: Tetsuya Kawada

Sound director: Satoshi Motoyama

Sound production: Magic Capsule

Music: Kenji Kawai

Music production: Nippon Columbia

Producer: Dreamshift

Animation production: project No. 9

  Additionally, the opening theme, entitled "Kore Kara" ("After This"), will be performed by Machiko. The ending theme, entitled "Mamoritai-mono no Tame ni" ("For the Sake of What I Want to Protect"), will be performed by Miku Itō.

    The original Ryuoh no Oshigoto! light novels are published by GA Bunko, an imprint of SoftBank's SB Creative subdivision. BookWalker Global is producing an English language version of the series under the title The Ryuo’s Work is Never Done!, and they describe the series as follows:

    The Ryuo’s Work is Never Done! is about a teenage boy named Yaichi Kuzuryuu who happens to be the strongest shogi player in history, holding the top title of “Ryuo” (Dragon King). One fateful day, shogi-loving elementary student, Ai Hinatsuru, appears before him claiming that he promised to be her master. But was such a promise really ever made? Thus began their master and disciple relationship! Who can match their level of intensity and passion for shogi?

  The first volume of The Ryuo’s Work is Never Done! will be available from BookWalker Global in the Fall season of 2017. The Ryuoh no Oshigoto! TV anime will begin broadcasting in Japan in January of 2018. 

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 feat.Maria Andersson Written&Arranged by Yusuke Nakamura https://soundcloud.com/yusuke_nakamura http://www.irmagroup.jp/music-label  Lyrics : Maria Andersson Performer 

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 Hair Rieko Yamamoto  Make Up Machiko Yano 

 Film Asistant Shiho Nakamura Film Yuta Naoumi http://www.yutanaoumi.uk Costume Horace Clothing http://horace.bigcartel.com

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Makala and Eny photographed and styled by Alex Blonde

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