#With Beauty and Sorrow

[celluloidrainbow]

美しさと哀しみと | WITH BEAUTY AND SORROW (1965) dir. Masahiro Shinoda When Ōki, the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager and then wrote a bestselling novel about it, reappears in her life, Otoko's pupil and lover Keiko hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family from the inside, starting with Ōki himself and moving to his son, Taichiro. Based on the novel Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata. (link in title)

[byneddiedingo]

Mariko Kaga in With Beauty and Sorrow (Masahiro Shinoda, 1965) Cast: Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Kaga, So Yamamura, Kei Yamamoto, Misako Watanabe, Haruko Sugimura. Screenplay: Nobuo Yamada, based on a novel by Yasunari Kawabata. Cinematography: Masao Kosugi. Art direction: Junichi Osumi. Film editing: Yoshi Sugihara, Music: Toru Takemitsu. Some mannered acting and stagy blocking mars Masahiro Shinoda's otherwise involving With Beauty and Sorrow, a revenge drama that doesn't quite transcend its genre. Toshio Oki (So Yamamura), a womanizing novelist whose wife just barely puts up with his extramarital exploits, once had an affair with the young artist Otoko Ueno (Kaoru Yachigusa). She became pregnant but lost the baby at birth, and suffered severe psychological trauma. Now she lives with a young woman, Keiko (Mariko Kaga), her student and her lover. Otoko has recovered her emotional stability, and even agrees to meet Oki when he telephones her on a visit to Kyoto, sending Keiko to his hotel to take him to the restaurant where they will reunite. But Keiko is, as even Otoko suggests, a little "crazy," and after the meeting begins to plot ways to bring about her lover's revenge on Oki. Eventually, this involves Keiko's seducing not only Oki but also his son, Taichiro (Kei Yamamoto), a graduate student of medieval Japanese history, with predictably disastrous consequences. Old pro So Yamamura is excellent as Oki, and it's good to see the great Haruko Sugimura, veteran of many films by Shinoda's mentor, Yasujiro Ozu, in the small part of Otoko's mother. But the younger actors, particularly Kaga and Yamamoto, turn what might have been an affecting portrayal of doomed characters into melodrama. The film benefits from Toru Takemitsu's score, though it sometimes feels a bit at odds with the soap-operatic events on screen.

[egophiliac]

What do you think of Rook's savanaclaw card? <333

I didn't get him (and I need to save my keys for Silver's birthday, sob) so I looked up his groovy, and I'm not over how incredibly dramatic and epic and cool it looks in direct contrast to the absolutely ridiculous context. just look at that dynamic action and his majestic sparkling tears and keep in mind that this is pretty much right after a bunch of characters have been dance battling for his soul.

and then even the actual moment of the groovy is just like

this is NOT a negative in the slightest, I love it all, this truly was an incredible update in so many ways

[zegalba]

Frédéric Molenac: Lady of Sorrows (2024)

[boar-cry]

after death ; life again.

what a lovely bouquet! what's the occasion?

[exposingmyveins]

my pillows have felt more sorrow from me than any person will ever know.

v. || exposingmyveins

[strwbrryfire]

we were born to be national treasures

or, 8104 (taylor's version) — willow / i'm only me when i'm with you / mary's song (oh my my my)

[nicstylus]

Two sides of the same coin

[bedforddanes75]

hello how have i never seen this before i need to bite him

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

I understand your discouragements, your sorrows...  If you can't write anymore, do what you want, I will always understand. Of course, it will be sad on days without you. But I trust and love you. Don't let yourself go too far into inertia though. Don't forget me completely. In any case, give up your imaginations about your platitudes or your wrongdoings. I want your letters and I am only looking for the palpitation, the flame, the impetus. I am looking for the signs, the secret that runs through your beautiful face.

Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, February 9, 1950 [#181]

[sirenspells]

Mari jumpscare

More experimenting with characters' hair. Also gave her a beauty mark for fun :3 (her headspace counterpart not having one is intentional)

[musouie]

i propose we all just be one huge harem and i take turns kissing your beautiful faces by the hour

[daddy-long-legssss]

All My Own Stunts

Josh [Homme] comes and sings on this one. He’s very dominant, his voice. When you record his voice it just sort of leaps out, it’s great. What else can I tell you about that one? It’s got another reference to cowboy films. It just says, “I’ve been watching cowboy films on gloomy afternoons” which were something I were doing at the time. It’s also where we let ourselves have a bit of a wig-out.

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[mikefrawley]

Your Beautiful Innocence

One day you'll find all you've been looking for even if you can't yet see it, love is always true she's ever searching for kind and gentle spirits and she could find no one more worthy than you Yes there have certainly been dark days indeed when weary eyes perceived no trace of light yet even in the many lost and lonely moments your beautiful innocence was shining bright So please remember though it may hurt today and you fear you will find no end to your sorrow love will surely reach you when the time is right and lift you up to a kinder and gentler tomorrow

[feychild1225]

Jin Bao’s first impression of Siming and Xiao Bao’s first impression of Huai En.

[natalieina]

The crimson rivers of Autumn leaves paint my dress with blood... I feel the first frozen air in the space of forest... But Autumn is always in my soul. My hair threads falling like birch leaves. My chest full of poisonous berries of euonymus and elderberry. My skin become thinner and palor like Autumn sun rays... Tranquil silence will full all around and I drown in it, like in transparent waters of lake.

Self-Portrait.

Dress by Agnieszka Osipa.

Natalie Ina Photography.

October 2021.

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