#Takami Yoshimoto

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Rena Yanase (Takami Yoshimoto) being escorted by her beau.

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Ultraman Tiga (Ep 37) : Flower

"Why are the cherry blossoms so beautiful? It's because there are corpses buried beneath them. Their beauty comes from the blood of the people who sacrificed themselves so that we could live in peace."

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Happy 85th birthday to Susumu Kurobe! 🎂

Born Takashi Yoshimoto on October 22, 1939, Kurobe is primarily known for his role as Shin Hayata/Ultraman in the TV series Ultraman (1966-1967). He has reprised this role, as well as done a few other roles besides Hayata, in several other Ultraman TV series and movies.

However, Kurobe is also widely known for his villain roles in other tokusatsu shows (that his role as Hayata/Ultraman seems an outlier, lol).

He is the father of Takami Yoshimoto, who played Rena in Ultraman Tiga. They appeared together in Great Decisive Battle: The Super 8 Ultra Brothers in 2008.

First picture:

Kurobe in character as Hayata holding up the Beta Capsule, with Ultraman.

Second picture - collage:

1 - As Shigeo Kimura in Ultra Q (Kurobe's first appearance in an Ultra series)

2 - As Shin Hayata in Ultraman

3 - As Shinji Ookuma in Ultraman Leo

4 - As Dr. Hideomi Kuromatsu in Kamen Rider Black

5 - As Satohara/Doubleman in Uchuu Keiji Gavan

6 - As Harada in Tokusou Exceedraft

7 - As Crime Boss in J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai

8 - As Dr. Onkichi Kuroda in Tokkei Winspector

9 - As Ikemazu Yumeboshi in Ultraman Nice series of Bandai commercials

10 - As Kenzo Tomioka in Ultraman Max

(Sorry for the weird order, as I did this in a "zigzag" pattern lol).

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Hi! okay i would quite literally inject your writing into my veins if i could, but i wanted to ask you if you have book recommendations, because you just have this incredible way with words and metaphors and UGH. your writing is indescribable, its so visceral and reverent. I genuinely dont have the vocabulary to describe it, im so serious.

so, in that, i would love to know all of your books recommendations, because you seem like someone with incredible taste. (and i mean all, shit you loved, books you hated. anything and everything!)

thank you for gracing the world with your talent <3

ahhh, thanks!!! admittedly, i'm not as well-read as i'd like to be, but i've been trying to branch out since i gravitate more toward poetry, nonfic mythology, essays, and memoirs over novels most of the time. but these are some of the things i've read in the last few months/picked up recently or that stuck with me the most:

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (cheating here because i've read this eight times now but ahhh i could not recommend Achebe more. poetry, essays, novels. read everything. read it all.) In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones The Reformatory by Tananarive Due Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice The Innocents by Michael Crummey Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Banyan Moon by Thao Thai Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista i think every rec list includes the classics so i tried to avoid adding them, but i also suggest: Battle Royale (Koshun Takami), Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie), Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto), the Xenogenesis Trilogy (Octavia E. Butler), No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (among others).

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The Many Faces of Chika (2005)

またの日の知華 The Many Faces of Chika (2005)  directed by Kazuo Hara cinematography by  Masakazu Oka

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The Many Faces of Chika またの日の知華 (2005) Dir: Kazuo Hara, Producer/Writer: Sachiko Kobayashi

The Many Faces of Chika またの日の知華 (2005) Dir: Kazuo Hara, Producer/Writer: Sachiko Kobayashi @js_film_nyc

The Many Faces of Chika    またの日の知華 「Mata no Hi no Chika」 Release Date: January 05th 2005 Duration: 114 mins. Director: Kazuo Hara Producer: Sachiko Kobayashi Writer: Sachiko Kobayashi Starring: Takami Yoshimoto (Chika Chapter 1), Minoru Tanaka, Makiko Watanabe (Chika Chapter 2), Seiichi Tanabe, Kumija Kim (Chika Chapter 3), Yoshikazu Kotani, Kaori Momoi (Chika Chapter 4), Isao Natsuyagi, Toshie…

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Recently Viewed: The Many Faces of Chika

The Many Faces of Chika—the only scripted drama ever produced by documentarians Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi—features a fascinating narrative gimmick: in each of the four chapters that comprise the film’s overarching plot, the title character is portrayed by a different actress.

What is the deeper thematic significance behind this unconventional creative choice? Is it intended to symbolize the contradictory ways in which our protagonist is perceived (and, more often than not, objectified) by the men in her life? To literalize the emotional transformations that she undergoes in response to her traumatic experiences? Or perhaps to personify the various identities that she inhabits as she struggles to navigate the treacherous sociopolitical landscape of Japan circa the 1960s and ‘70s?

Honestly, I don’t think that a definitive answer exists—which is, in my opinion, actually preferable: that lingering ambiguity merely enriches the story, inviting speculation and interpretation. Attempting to impose a concrete, one-size-fits-all “meaning” upon a movie as complex and nuanced as The Many Faces of Chika is both reductive and counterproductive; it’s far better to simply go with the flow of its mournful, elegiac atmosphere.

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Rena Yanase a member of GUTS (Global Unlimited Task Squad) in 1996′s Ultraman Tiga played by Takami Yoshimoto.

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I always love the Ultra trope where our hero was so oblivious to stuff that even your captain tried to help in their loveline (and tease them for it) wwww

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Rena is smiling because she’s happy that it’s Friday!

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Even the old and new Ultras ship the best couple, Daigo and Reena! 😝

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// 13/10/2021 // [ 13/10/1971 ] 50 Years Happy Birthday to Takami Yoshimoto [ 吉本多香美 ] - Rena Yanase // Ultraman Tiga. [ 1996 ] Via - https://instagram.com/yoshimototakami #吉本多香美 #吉本多香美生誕祭 #吉本多香美誕生祭 #吉本多香美生誕祭2021 #ウルトラマンティガ https://www.instagram.com/p/CU8waRChjvP/?utm_medium=tumblr

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A post for my book recommendations, to be continuously updated as I read and remember more. Because without reading, I would not be writing. 

All time favourites are marked with a ☆

All are sorted by genre and will be linked (if able) to their Goodreads pages so that you can dig deeper into whatever catches your eye

(ps if you have a Goodreads account, you can add me here)

Anthology/Short Story Collections

Behold This Dreamer - Walter de la Mare ☆

Love Letters of Great Men - Ursula Doyle

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami

Essays

Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay ☆

In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Fiction (Classic)

Persuasion - Jane Austen ☆

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Awakening - Kate Chopin

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell ☆

Siddhartha - Hermen Hesse

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera ☆

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction (Modern)

All’s Well - Mona Awad ☆

The Pisces - Melissa Broder

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Vegetarian - Han Kang

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova ☆

Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

The Road - Cormac McCarthy ☆

Under the Hawthorne Tree - Ai Mi

The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller ☆

After Dark - Haruki Murakami ☆

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami ☆

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi

Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi ☆

A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

Blindness - Jose Saramgo

How To Be Both - Ali Smith

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ☆

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Ru - Kim Thúy

Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín

Big Fish - Daniel Wallace

Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto

Horror/Thriller

Tender is the Flesh - Augustina Bazterrica

The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

I’m Thinking of Ending Things - Iain Reid

Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

Gerald’s Game - Stephen King

The Shining - Stephen King

Audition - Ryū Murakami

Manga/Graphic Novels

Basilisk - Futaro Yamada, Maseki Sagawa

Death Note - Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata

Eureka Seven - Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou

Lore Olympus - Rachel Smythe

Nana - Ai Yazawa ☆

Paradise Kiss - Ai Yazawa

Uzumaki - Junji Ito

xxxHolic - CLAMP

Memoirs/Journals

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi

Henry and June - Anaïs Nin ☆

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls ☆

Non-Fiction (General)

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain

The Red Market - Scott Carney

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Jane Mayer

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr, E.B White

Non-Fiction (Philosophy/Spiritual)

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castañeda

Silence: In the Age of Noise - Erling Kagge ☆

The Kybalion - Three Initiates ☆

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo - Chögyam Trungpa

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

Poetry Collections

I Love My Love - Reyna Biddy

Let Us Compare Mythologies - Leonard Cohen

The Prophet - Khalil Gibran

The Anatomy of Being - Shinji Moon

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

Science Fiction

Dune - Frank Herbert

Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

True Crime

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote ☆

Young Adult

A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray ☆

The Diviners - Libba Bray

The Sun is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon

BONUS: Or, A Book I Hated So Much That it Deserves Mention Here

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

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Who are your favorite published authors? Or any books you love to re-read?

I don't really reread published books. The only thing I've actually reread is various parts of the Bible, my favorite is 💖Colossians💖, love to reread that one hehe New International Version

But I guess published books I enjoyed as an adult/older teen were...

The Crazy Rich Asians series by Kevin Kwan - very fun and easy reads, I loved them very much, I saw the movie so many times

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto - a nice read, I rec it very much

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls - my sister rec'ed it hard, and it showed up on a Grad school assignment, so I ended up finally reading it, but yes it's very good and very sad

Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin - i recommended this to all my friends and dragged my then-bf-now-husband to the movie on one of our first dates and he liked it too

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong - her stories are kind of outrageous, but they're all engaging and memorable

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - ok the cover is boring but it's so funny and worth every dumb minute, it's classic for a reason

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling - Yes. It is good and the reviews describe it better than I can.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie - I was shame to say that I only read this recently. It's a book that should be required reading for every American high schooler tbh

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - Ok, so I don't know if I understood what was going on for 50% of the time, but I liked it, and was for a short time on a Haruki Murakami kick, where I read quite a few novels of his, where I still didn't understand what was going on for 50% of the time.

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami - yah, it's crazy, and I had never read anything like it before (per my sister's recommendation). It was nuts when she gouged the guy's eyes out with her fingers. I can read this sort of thing. I can't watch it on film.

John Dies at the End by David Wong (not a Chinese dude, this is like, a white guy using a pen name) - Another rec from my sister. Actually, a bunch of the books on this list are recs from my sister. This series is crazy and absolutely cannot-put-down-until-you're-done. Not a relaxing read and very confusing and engaging.

As a child/teen, I read a lot of the classics and popular books, like the Harry Potter series, the Little House on the Prairie series, the Redwall series, The Hunger Games series, a few of the Jane Austen books, and princess-y books like A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, and The Royal Diaries series. I read a few other witch-y type series that I can't remember the name of.

Basically, the published books I read are nothing like NaruHina fanfiction,,, I don't read the romance genre (like, wait, you can get paid to write smut??). But I tend to want to read classics, books that seem like cultural phenomenon, and translations of Japanese literature. I prefer authors of color. If you have recs for me, let me know!!!!!!

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