#Shirley Yamaguchi

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House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller, 1955)

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Yoshiko Yamaguchi (Shirley Yamaguchi or Li Xianglan) in 2006.

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2022: Marsha Hunt, Marsha Virginia Hunt, attrice statunitense, attiva sul piccolo e grande schermo fin dal 1935 – una carriera che dura da quasi 80 anni apparendo un numerosi film. Marsha sposò il regista Jerry Hopper nel 1938. Divorziarono nel 1943. Sposò il suo secondo marito, lo sceneggiatore e regista radiofonico Robert Presnell Jr. nel 1946. Hunt era incinta e molto malata durante le riprese…

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2024 To Read List (plus reasons as needed):

TW for Columbine/school unaliving mention and conversion mentions (homophobia). If I've missed your trigger let me know so I can fix the tags accordingly.

All book titles connected to their respective Goodreads pages.

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold - Reading this out of pure spite in response to an-in my opinion- unfair video about Sue. Won't link it so the guy doesn't get harassed but it made my blood boil. Side note: I have a special interest in Columbine but I in no way am interested in joining Tumblr's TCC. Eric and Dylan should not be fangirled over imho.

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett - I like faerie books

Murder Your Employer: The McMaster's Guide of Homicide by Rupert Holmes - No particular reason; saw it at B&N and thought it seemed interesting. R.L. Stine apparently liked it so hey, why not?

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix - I've been looking at this author for a while, and I own some of his books on audible, but I've been trying to get back into physical media

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom by Satoru Yamaguchi, illustrated by Nami Hidaka, and translated by Shirley Yeung - Whole series, but I'm on the second book. One of my all time favorite animes. Can't wait for the Switch game to come out in NA.

Fire Dancer by Catherine Jones Payne - I met this author about 2 years ago at a convention and she is awesome. I'm almost done with her Breakwater series, which I also recommend if you like mermaids.

Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins by Charles Winecoff - Perkins has been said to be bisexual, but based on further research I genuinely think that he might have been a homosexual. This topic surrounding him has interested me for a while. especially since I have reason to believe that this came from conversion therapy.

RWBY: After the Fall by E.C. Meyers - I love RWBY and also fanfiction reasons. I also got Before the Dawn and Roman Holiday for similar reasons.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - Okay so I read the first book around the time the first movie came out but I only watched the movies past that, and I suddenly got hooked back in by people mentioning small details that Collins wrote, as well as Panem Academy and Emhahee on tiktok

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Yoshiko "Shirley" Yamaguchi, 1952.

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@hotvintagepoll yoshiko yamaguchi propaganda (she was credited as shirley yamaguchi in her english-language movies)

Shirley Yamaguchi in House of Bamboo (1955)

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Day Six- Film: Japanese War Bride 

Release date: Jan 29th, 1952 

Studio: 20th Century Fox 

Genre: drama 

Director: King Vidor 

Producer: Joseph Bernhard, Anson Bond 

Actors: Shirley Yamaguchi, Don Taylor 

Plot Summary: Jim, an American soldier, meets Tae, a Japanese nurse, while recovering from injuries on the battlefield in Korea. They fall in love, marry, and move to the U.S. Both Jim’s family and the entire community have a hard time accepting Tae. Racism and the wounds of WWII loom over everything. 

My Rating (out of five stars): *** 

The message of this movie would get more stars than three, but the quality of the actual film knocks it down a few. It’s obvious the filmmakers meant well, but ultimately it is pretty ham-fisted.

The good:  

It does TRY to offer some moral complexity. There are American characters, native Japanese characters, and even a local Californian Japanese American family. All have their very real scars from the war that complicate their interactions.  

It TRIES to avoid simple stereotypes of Japanese people and at least ATTEMPT to flesh out characters 

The actors playing Japanese characters were actually Japanese 

The actress playing Tae was wonderful and very sympathetic 

The character Jim was actually a sweet guy. He did sometimes treat her like a child, but honestly, it wasn’t too different than how he would have treated an American woman at the time. 

The bad: 

Lots of use of the word “J-p,” although it always came out of the mouths of racist characters. It was just startling, for example, to hear things like, “Oh, look at the little J-p baby. I must say, they are really cute.” 

Some infantilizing of Tae.  

The film acts like Jim is somehow emancipating her because he doesn't make her bow for him anymore.

Fran! Fran the sister-in-law! She was not only racist but just a horrible jealous person. I started making a running joke of yelling “Fran, you’re a cow!” whenever she spoke so I wouldn’t get so angry at her. 

For me, this ultimately ended up being a very fascinating time capsule of the early post WWII years in America, even if it wasn't a great film. It was also apparently regarded as positive and helpful for Japanese “war brides” of the time, so big props for that! 

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Shirley Yamaguchi in 'Dear Soldier' 1944 山口淑子

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§ 2.862. La casa de bambú (Samuel Fuller, 1955)

Más interesante de lo que en principio pudiera parecer. Choque de civilizaciones, principios contrapuestos, gustos, valores, formas, criterios... todos distintos, poco homogéneos y difícilmente reconducibles a un patrón común. Toda esa dicotomía se muestra muy claramente. La trama, sin embargo, queda algo más plana. No por su complejidad, que es notable, sino por su desarrollo, a veces errático, otras discontinuo.Interesantísimo Robert Ryan, un titán de la actuación que siempre da la talla. Aunque esos zapatos marrones que lleva no le pegan en absoluto. Muy interesante lo que manifiesta en el principio de la cinta: no somos gánster, no llevamos armas, somos educados en uno de los países más educados.También está fabuloso Robert Stack. Más humano quizá, menos distante que Ryan, pero bien trabajado en su personaje. La chica es Shirley Yamaguchi, y también interviene Brad Dexter, que parece raro no verle en películas del oeste.Muy bonita la historia de amor entre el policía y la chica japonesa. Y está bien tratado el desprecio que sufre ella por sus  conciudadanos por ese hecho.La película me ha encantado. La vi hace años. Tengo apuntado que fue en julio de 2014, y en el apunte digo que es la segunda vez que la veía.Fuller es mucho Fuller. Es un directorazo con todas las letras, con una vida en sí misma de película. 20 cintas, todas ellas con su sello personal.

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look it guts me to vote against Lana but Yoshiko Yamaguchi! aka Li Xiang Lan (李香蘭) aka Pan Shu Hua aka Shirley Yamaguchi aka Yoshiko Otaka - one of the Seven Great Singing Stars of 1930s Shanghai, most known for The Evening Primrose (夜來香) but my absolute favourite song by her is If Only I Had Met You Before I Was Married (恨不相逢未嫁時). She was, as OP has said, a coloratura soprano; the first note she hits in this song is insane.

She also had an incredibly dramatic and scandalous life: she was born to Japanese parents in China, but passed herself off as Chinese for much of the 1930s and 1940s. She starred in some very controversial films decried by the Chinese as being Japanese propaganda, yet was criticised when she toured in Japan for wearing Chinese qipao and speaking with a Mandarin accent.

After World War II, she was arrested in Shanghai and sentenced to death for treason and collaborating with the Japanese, and was only saved from execution at the eleventh hour by her parents having her childhood friend smuggle her birth certificate into Shanghai inside the head of a geisha doll, thus proving she was Japanese to begin with.

Despite her acquittal, her reputation in China was in tatters and she subsequently moved to Japan, reinventing herself as Yoshiko Yamaguchi. She went on to be a TV news anchor, an activist for pro-Palestinian causes and a Member of Parliament, serving for 18 years. She's absolutely fascinating, and I could listen to her sing forever (I have listened to her for a lot of my life already).

Propaganda

Lana Turner (Ziegfeld Girl, The Postman Always Rings Twice)— A serial monogamist who was married 8 times, "Sweater Girl" Lana was a gorgeous and respected actress with a shitshow of a personal life. Just look at her. Fuck it, I'd marry her too.

Yoshiko Yamaguchi (Scandal, Sayon's Bell, House of Bamboo)—Coluratura soprano, actress, journalist, and politician! She plays opposite Hot Vintage Man Winner Toshiro Mifune in the movie Scandal and is so gorgeous and talented.

This is round 3 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Lana Turner:

I've had a soft spot for her ever since a very ancient man in a pub told me I looked "like a young Lana Turner"

She's an icon!

Messy as fuck personal life, including her daughter killing Lana’s abusive boyfriend, but a real movie star.

Yoshiko Yamaguchi:

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Scandal (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)

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Kazuo Hasegawa and Li Xianglan (Yoshiko Yamaguchi) in Song of the White Orchid (白蘭の歌, 1939)

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ty for the tag!!! (my ass is not doing the formatting I'm too tired to care)

weirdest dream: hmmm. I once dreamt I was the gay child from haunting of hill house and my sister, Shirley from the show, was trying to slit my thoart w a kitchen knife. i watched myself fight her back in the 3rd person. I also have apocalypse dreams all the time.

snack I love: chips and salsa! carrots are also good w salsa.

last movie watched: this random aussie Xmas movie w my mom. was better than I expected 7/10.

fav fictional characters: beth greene, ellie williams, shauna shipman, lottie matthews, ekko from arcane, jinx, will byers, yamaguchi tadashi, emily from class of 09, haley from sdv, lisa frankenstein

vanilla or chocolate: chocolate.

tag: anyone who wants to!! I meant it go for it

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hello angels ⁠♡⁠♡ i decided to do a tag game bc i haven't done one in a long time and they're always really fun imo !!

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౨ৎ weirdest dream you can remember:

i was in a tim burton movie and got kidnapped by a vampire which was my bsf, then had to marry him bc i had wings and he liked them, then ate gum and died bc it was poisoned (there were def weirder ones but i can't recall them rn)

౨ৎ random snack you love:

joghurt with banana, peanut butter and chocolate omggg and watermelon with chips i swear it's really good !!

౨ৎ last movie you watched + rating:

juno: 9.5 out of 10 i loved ittt !! >ᴗ<

౨ৎ fav fictional character(s):

atm im especially obsessed with cassie ainsworth and pearl although there are a looot more !!

౨ৎ vanilla or chocolate?

i can't decideee myself ahhh

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25. O Escândalo (醜聞, 1950), dir. Akira Kurosawa