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Results of 2023 Year

January

Manga: "The Reason Why Raeliana Ended Up at th Duke's Mansion" by MIlcha |09| Manga: "Who Made Me a Princess" by Plutus |12| Book: "The Signal-Man" by Charles Dickens |13| Book: "New Pass" by Amelia Edwards |13| Cinema: "Amsterdam" by David Russel |14| Book: "The Portrait" by Margaret Oliphant |15| Anime: "JoJo Bizzare Adventure" by Naokatsu Tsuba |15| Book: "Fight with Shadow" by Carl Jung |16| Book: "Diagnosing of Dictators" by Carl Jung |16| Book: "Western Nationalism and Eastern Nationalism" by Benedict Anderson |22| ------------------------------------ 6 Books; 2 Manga; 1 Cinema; 1 Anime

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Febrary

Manga: "Mutant wa Ningen no Kanojo to Kiss ga Shitai" by Giba-chan |01| Manga: "Ishuzoku Joshi ni ○○ Suru Hanashi" by Suimin |12| Book: "99 Stupid Questions about Art and More One" by Alina Nickonova |16| Manga: "Frau Faust" by Kore Yamazaki |18| Manga: "Secret Alliance" by Lero |18| Manga: "Yuusha Goikkou no Kaerimichi" by Ryouji Hirano |19| Anime: "Happy Sugar Life" by Nobuyoshi Nagayama |19| Manga:"Kyuuketsuki Marguerite to Kuenai Gokinjo" by Yuu Aikawa |24| Book: "Edgar Allan Poe. Burnt Life. Biography" by Peter Aykroyd |25| Manga: "Hanamachi Oni" by Hina Sakurada |26| Cinema: "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick |26| Cinema: "The Pale Blue Eye" by Scott Cooper |27| Cinema: "Menu" by Mark Mylod |27| ------------------------------------ 2 Books; 7 Manga; 3 Cinema; 0 Anime

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March

Anime: "Darling in the FranXX" by Atsushi Nishigori |03| Manga: "Bara no Tame ni" by Akemi Yoshimura |03| Cinema: "Cowboy from Copenhagen" by Nicolas Winding Refn |04| Cinema: "Breakfast on Pluto" by Neil Jordan |05| Cinema: "Holy Spider" by Ali Abadasi |06| Cinema: "Youth" by Paolo Sorrentino |07| Manga: "I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss" by Anko Yuzu |09| Manga: "Goodbye, Eri" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |15| Book: The Entire Collection of Prose by Edgar Allan Poe |21| Cinema: "i am thinking of ending this" by Charlie Kaufman |23| Cinema: "We Need Talk About Kevin" by Lynne Ramsay |24| Manga: "Beware the Villainess!" by Yeolmae |28| Cinema: "Phantom Thread" by Paul Thomas Anderson |29| ------------------------------------ 1 Books; 4 Manga; 7 Cinema; 0 Anime

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April

Anime: "Konosuba" by Natsume Akatsuki, Kurone Mishima, Yuujirou Abe, Takaomi Kanasak |01| Anime: “Only Yesterday” by Isao Takahata |02| Manga: "My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness" by Kabi Nagata |02| Manga: "Koroshiya 1" by Hideo Yamamoto |03| Manga: "1" by Hideo Yamamoto |03| Book: “Tradition of Literary Gothic” by Bella Nacpock |08| Book: “Metamodernism. Historisity, Affect and Depth” by Robin van den Akker |10| Anime: "GTO" by Tooru Fujisawa, Noriyuki Abe |14| Book: “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious” by Carl Jung |16| Manga: "Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku" by Yuuji Kaku |18| Cinema: “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” by Laura Poitras |24| Cinema: “New Old Play” be Qiu Jiongjiong |25| Book: "Octet" by David Foster Walllace |25| Cinema: “Benedetta” by Paul Verhoeven |27| Manga: "Cells at Work! CODE BLACK" by by Shigemitsu Harada, Akane Shimizu, Issei Hatsuyoshi |28| Manga: "The Villainess Needs Her Tyrant" by Ta-Hong Il |30| ------------------------------------ 4 bOOKS; 6 mANGA; 3 Cinema; 3 Anime

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May

Book: “Tell me a sto…” by Una Hurt |02| Manga: "The Villainess's Maker" by Jeongu, I-Su Seol |02| Book: “Lectures on aesthetics” by Georg Hegel |05| Book: “In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities” by Jean Baudrillard |06| Anime: "Cowboy Bibop" by Hajime Yatate, Shinichirou Watanabe, Shinichirou Watanabe, Akira Toba |14| Anime: "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Hajime Yatate, Shinichirou Watanabe, Toshihiro Kawamoto, Kimitoshi Yamane |14| Cinema: "The Whale" by Darren Aronofsk |15| Cinema: "Lamb" by Vladimar Johannsson |16| mANGA: "Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell" by Unfins |17| Cinema: "Bones and All" by Luca Guadagino |18| Cinema: "Alcarras" by Carla Simon |19| Cinema: "Everything, Everywhere All at Once" by Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan |20| Manga: "The Villain's Savior" by Myeong Rang, Zetson, Seur-A Yeon |22| Cinema: "The Hateful Eight" by Quentin Tarantino |26| Book: “Chrysanthemum and Sward. Models of Japan culture” by Ruth Benedict |27| Book: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J.D. Salinger |29| Book: "A Haunted Monastety" by Rober van Gulik |30| Manga: "When the Villainess is in Love" by HJ, Gwi-Jo Seo |31| ------------------------------------ 7 Books; 4 Manga; 6 Cinema; 2 Anime

June

Manga: "Croa Chimera" by Kairi Sorano |02| Cinema: "Django Unchained" by Quentin Tarantino |02| Cinema: "Interstellar" by Cristopher Nolan |04| Cinema: "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear" by David Zucker |07| Manga: "Coffin Jackson" by Chongtak |08| Manga: "Babelheim no Shounin" by Shouichi Furumi |08| Book: "Seven Night" by Jorge Luis Borges |09| Book: "Watch Cinema" by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio |14| Cinema: "Call of the Night" by Kotoyama, Tomoyuki Itamura |18| Cinema: "Crows are White" by Ashen Nadeem |18| ------------------------------------ 2 Books; 3 Manga; 5 Cinema

Jule

Manga: "Scroll if You Dare" compilation webtoons |08| Manga: "Hell is Other People" by Yong-Ki Kim |08| Cinema: "Dreams" by Akira Kurosawa |09| Manga: "The Witch and Her Zombie Son" by Sinyura |09| Book: "Metaphysics" by Aristotle |24| ------------------------------------ 1 Book; 3 Manga; 1 Cinema

August

Cinema: "Master Gardener" by Paul Schrader |03| Manga: "Nude Model" by Tsubasa Yamaguchi |09| Book: "The Silence of the White City" by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi |10| Anime: "Akudama Drive" by Tomohisa Taguchi |12| Manga: "Miageru to Kimi wa" by Makoto Kobori |16| Anime: "Elfen Lied" by Mamoru Kanbe |17| Manga: "Shingeki no Kyojin" by Hajime Isayama |24| Manga: "Final Girl" by You Kokikuji |24| Manga: "Itoshi no Living Dead" by AidaIro |25| Manga: "Adolte and Adarte" by AidaIro |25| ------------------------------------ 1 Book; 6 Manga; 1 Cinema; 2 Anime

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September

Manga: "Vanilla Jingai x Jingai Yuri Anthology" |04| Manga: "Cinnamon Jingai x Ningen Yuri Anthology" |04| Anime: "Neon Genesis Evangelion" by Hideaki Anno |07| Cinema: "Murder on the Orient Express" by Sidney Lumet |08| Cinema: "Men" by Alex Garland |09| Manga: "Neko no Otera no Chion-san" by Makoto Ojiro |10| Cinema: "Amélie" by Jean-Pierre Jeunet |10| Book: "Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects" by Bertrand Russell |11| Cinema: "Crimes of the Future" by David Cronenberg |11| Cinema: "The Scent of Green Papaya" by Tran Anh Hung |16| Anime: "Inu-Oh" by Hideo Furukawa, Taiyou Matsumoto, Masaaki Yuasa, Fuuga Yamashiro |17| Anime: "The Duke of Death and His Maid S1" by Inoue, Yoshinobu Yamakawa |27| ------------------------------------ 1 Book; 4 Manga; 6 Cinema; 2 Anime

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October

Cinema: "Death Proof" by Quentin Tarantino |05| Cinema: "Jackie Brown" by Quentin Tarantino |05| Cinema: "Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood" by Quentin Tarantino |07| Cinema: "American Psyho" by Marry Harron |08| Cinema: "Fight Club" by David Fincher |08| Cinema: "Leon" by Luc Besson |09| Cinema: "Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola |11| CinemaL: "Autumn Sonata" by Ingmar Bergman |12| Cinema: "Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon" by Ana Lily Amirpour |14| Cinema: "El Conde" by Pablo Lorrain |14| Cinema: "Asteroid City" by Wes Anderson |15| Cinema: "Mona Lisa" by Neil Jordan |20| Book: "The Master of Petersburg" by John Maxwell Coetzee |26| Anime: "Serial Experiments Lain" |31| ------------------------------------ 1 Book; 12 Cinema; 1 Anime

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November

Book: "Not After Midnight" by Daphne du Maurier |11| Book: "My Lost City" by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald |11| Cinema: "The Killer" by David Fincher |11| Manga: "Mariage busines" by KEN |16| Anime: "GOLDEN BOY" by Tatsuya Egawa |17| Book: "Men Without Women" by Ernest Hemingway |17| Manga: "Monster and the Beast" by Renji |19| Manga: "Shinonome Tantei Ibun Roku" by John Tarachine |19| Manga: "Bird Collector" by Kang Se Ah |20| Cinema: "Kurosawa’S Way" by Catherine Cadou |22| Book: "Modern Nihilism. Chronicle" by Costantino Esposito |26| Cinema: "Triangle of Sadness" by Ruben Östlund |27| Cinema: "Past Lives" by Celine Song |27| Cinema: "Rapito" by Marco Bellocchio |29| Anime: "Angel's Egg" by Mamoru Oshii, Yoshitaka Amano |29| Cinema: "A Haunting in Venice" by Kenneth Branagh |30| ------------------------------------ 4 Books; 4 Manga; 6 Cinema; 2 Anime

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December

Book: "The Lake" by Banana Yoshimoto in English |05| Book: "Aesthetics. Textbook for universities" by Victor Bychkov |10| Cinema: "The Holdovers" by Alexander Payne |15| Cinema: "Chinatown" by Roman Polanski |15| Manga: "Pandora Hearts" by MOCHIZUKI Jun |19| Book: "This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace |20| Book: "May '68 Did Not Take Place" by Gilles Deleuze |22| Book: "Citrons from Sicily" by Luigi Pirandello |22| Book: "Six Characters in Search of an Author" by Luigi Pirandello |23| Cinema: "May December" by Todd Hayness |24| Manga: "The Wife I Loved Dearly" by Touryuumon Takeda |25| Manga: "Our Torsos Align: Human x Monster Love" by Ryou Sumiyoshi |25| Cinema: "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" by Joseph Sargent |25| Manga: "Red Riding Hood's Wolf Apprentice" by Sayaka Mogi |26| Manga: "Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 17-21" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |26| Manga: "Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 22-26" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |27| Manga: "Just Listen to the Song" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |27| Manga: "Look Back" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |27| Manga: "Tetteleposan" by Tatsuki Fujimoto |27| Manga: "Imomushi" by Suehiro Maruo |27| Book: "Trilogy" by Jon Fosse |28| Manga: "The King and the Paladin" by Rin-Bi Lee |29| Cinema: "Seven Weeks" by Nobuhiko Obayashi |30| Manga: "Stargazing Dog" by Takashi Murakami |31| Manga: "Star Protector Dog" by Takashi Murakami |31| Manga: "Emergency Rations & Bountiful Feasts" by Nagabe |31| Cinema: "Between Revolutions" by Vlad Petry |31| ------------------------------------ 7 Books; 14 Manga; 6 Cinema

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Top the Best Books of Year: 1. "The Lake" by Banana Yoshimoto in English 2. "Not After Midnight" by Daphne du Maurier 3. "The Master of Petersburg" by John Maxwell Coetzee Top the Best Manga of Year: 1. "Frau Faust" by Kore Yamazaki 2. "Bara no Tame ni" by Akemi Yoshimura 3. "The Witch and Her Zombie Son" by Sinyura Top the Best Cinema of Year: 1. “New Old Play” be Qiu Jiongjiong 2. "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick 3. "Between Revolutions" by Vlad Petry Top the Best Anime of Year: 1. "Cowboy Bibop" 2. "Serial Experiments Lain" 3. "Call of the Night"

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Yojimbo

T 1961 ‧ Western film/Action ‧ 1h 50m

Yojimbo (Japanese: 用心棒, Hepburn: Yōjinbō, lit. 'Bodyguard') is a 1961 Japanese samurai film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords fight for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard.

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master (Toshirô Mifune), enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon (Kamatari Fujiwara) and sake merchant Tokuemon (Takashi Shimura) to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Release date: April 25, 1961 (Japan)

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Budget: 90.87 million JPY

Sequel: Sanjuro

Cinematography: Kazuo Miyagawa

Adaptations: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Last Man Standing (1996),

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Toshiro Mifune

Tatsuya Nakadai

Yoko Tsukasa

Isuzu Yamada

Daisuke Katō

Takashi Shimura

Kamatari Fujiwara

Atsushi Watanabe

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Japanuary III: Yojimbo (1961) - Recap

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As the title sequence plays, over footage of a rōnin, who we'll refer to as the yojimbo (Toshiro Mifune), walking through the Japanese hills, we get an honestly pretty sick musical riff, which blends a more Japanese genre of music with a western jazz feel, and honestly, I can dig it. The music here is Masaru Sato, who was apparently influenced by the legendary Henry Mancini for this soundtrack. And yeah, I hear it. So, great start for me, and one of those all-too-rare times the music makes a heavy impact for me in a film.

A father and a son are arguing, when the yojimbo happens upon them. The farmer father is trying to implore his son not to become a gambler, but the son is tired of living in poverty and runs off, to the dismay of his hard-working father. The yojimbo asks for some water (and just kinda takes it), while the farmer and his wife complain about the state of the next generation, and of the town itself, which is expecting a silk fair to roll into town. The yojimbo walks into town, curious, as all the townsfolk are hidden away. In the process, a dog approaches with

Um. OK. That's definitely normal. The yojimbo is soon approached by Hansuke (Ikio Sawamura), the weasely constable of the town who informs him that several businesses here are looking for protection, and could hire the yojimbo as a bodyguard, the salary for which he asks a cut. Corrupt and weasely, then. The town is, apparently, overrun by yakuza, which the yojimbo encounters and quickly turns away from. He instead goes to a restaurant, run by Gonji (Eijirō Tōno), a struggling restaurant owner who elaborates on the town's struggles, and the battles between two rival yakuza bosses. It's, uh...it's a lot of exposition, gonna be honest.

But said exposition reveals that rivals Seibei (Seizaburo Kawazu) and Ushitora (Kyū Sazanka) are fighting over the inheritance of the town's yakuza clan. The constable Hanasuke is corrupt, the mayor and silk merchant Tazaemon (Kamatari Fujiwara) is cowardly and useless, the sake brewer Tokuemon (Takashi Shimura) sided with the new gang and declares himself the new mayor, and the casket maker (Atsushi Watanabe) is rich-as-shit under the new paradigm. And all this immediately convinces the yojimbo that he's staying to cleanse the town...for money, of course.

The yojimbo goes out and offers to protect the town from its occupation. He fairly quickly encounters a gang of gamblers, who attempt to threaten the yojimbo, and are incredibly ineffective, both because they're posers, and because he just immediately kicks their asses, and chops a dude's arm off in the process. Yeah, he's pretty immediately effective, and the entire town sees it. It takes no time at all for him to prize money from yakuza lord Seibei, and gets a hefty sum from him as a result. However, he overhears Seibei and his wife Orin (Isuzu Yamada) plot to kill him before he has time to collect his sum for the job, and they enlist their meek son Yoichiro (Hiroshi Tachikawa) to do it. Yoichiro, by the way, is the reason all this is happening, because Seibei's decision to appoint him as heir to the gang made Ushitora rebel and form his own group, complete with blackjack and hookers.

When they ask the samurai's name, he calls himself "Sanjuro Kuwabatake", after a mulberry field outside in some Usual Suspects-Keyser Soze-type move. And it's at this point that I realize that the film has never actually named the yojimbo. Huh. So, yeah, we'll switch to calling him Sanjuro, though. Anyway, Sanjuro's appointment upsets Honma (Susumu Fujita), his current master swordsman, who runs away just before a massive battle between the two groups at noon. As the two face off, Sanjuro reveals that he's leaving their services, knowing of their plot to kill him afterwards and taking understandable offense. He also announces this to Ushitora's gang, and walks off to let them all duke it out amongst themselves.

So. This is definitely a Western. I feel like I can't forget that little feature. There's a battle between two rival gangs in a small isolated town at high noon. There's a corrupt sheriff and a cowardly mayor. There's swordfights in place of gunfights (and really pathetic swordfights, too, they're playing sad chicken with each other). And there's a lone man who can stand against it all. Yeah, this is a Western, and I'll mention more on that later. Anyway, we get the announcement that the fight is called off when a district inspector is coming around, and all the criminals have to hide away while the town pretends that it isn't completely fucked.

Now that his plan to let the gangs massacre each other has failed, Sanjuro waits with Gonji while the inspector's in town, and reveals that his plan is to extort the desperate gang leaders for as high a fee as he can. He also finally sees Tazaemon, the useless and cowardly mayor, who comes out of hiding to eat with the inspector, as do Tokuemon and Seibei, which reveals that the inspector is also corrupt. Meanwhile, Sanjuro is met by Inokichi (Daisuke Katō), Ushitora's secondhand and strong but idiotic brother, with the greatest unibrow ever committed to cinema. Orin also arrives to try and schmooze Sanjuro over after her "little joke" about murdering him earlier, and both compete over trying to gather his favor.

Ten days later, the inspector is still in town, and the gangs are fighting over the favor of Sanjurbo, exactly as he predicted. Ushitora arrives at Gonji's tavern, flanked by his acromegalic bodyguard, Kannuki (Taku Iyaku). He's there to negotiate with Sanjuro, knowing that the fighting is about to begin again after the inspector leaves due to a magistrate's murder in another town, which Ushitora has nothing to do with, for real and for true. He offers Sanjuro more money to fight on his side, but he refuses, driving prices up even further. But when the fighting is set to start once again, it simply doesn't. Instead, the gangs make a truce to make way for the silk fair, which Sanjuro warns is simply set-up for even worse violence to come. And what's worse is, our rival is about to make his appearance.

Unosuke (Tatsuya Nakadai), Ushitora's younger brother, has appeared for the first time in some years, fighting on his brother's side. And what's more, he's packing heat! Yeah! He has a pistol, and I suddenly realize that this is taking place in the 1800s! To be specific, it's 1860, and Japan is headed headfirst into the Meiji Restoration. Interesting. How does the swordsman compete with the pistol? Excited to see that face-off. Anyway, this revelation is followed by the gambler's revelations: the town's gambling halls have to be shut down for the silk fair, leading to their anger and violence. Meanwhile, the assassins that killed the official in another town to lure the inspector away get blasted in Gonji's tavern, and Sanjuro overhears them talking about it.

Recognizing the value in these guys, Sanjuro kidnaps them, then sells them to Seibei, while also going to Ushitora and telling them that Seibei is the one responsible for their capture, and getting money from him as well. A goddamn good hustle, I tell you what. The two younger brothers of Ushitora, Unosuke and Inokichi (Uno and Ino for short) kidnap Yoichiro, Seibei's son, in order to exchange him for the two assassins, which is done in the early morning. However, Uno kills the assassins with his pistol, and keeps Yoichiro in a double-cross, only for Seibei to triple-cross them and reveal that he's kidnapped Nui (Yoko Tsukasa), the mistress of the sake-brewer Tokuemon, an ally of Ushitora. Jesus Christ, these fuckin' people.

The following morning, this leads to yet another standoff between the gangs, where the exchange of Yoichiro and Nui is set to take place. This is thrown into chaos by the appearance of Nui's son, causing her to run for it, and Yoichiro to do the same. With the exchange made, rivalries are fueled anew. It's also revealed that Nui was sold to Tokuemon to cover the debts of her gambling-addicted husband, Kohei (Yoshio Tsuchiya), and has built a shed next to their house so Kohei can always hear Tokemon having sex with his wife, JESUS CHRIST, THESE FUCKIN' PEOPLE

The next day, Sanjuro goes to Ushitora, offering his services in exchange for 30 ryo, and finds out where Nui is being held. Accompanied by the dim-witted Ino, he gets him to beat up Kohei, then rushes in to reveal that all six guards watching Nui are dead. Once Ino runs off to tell Ushitora, Sanjuro goes in and kills the guards, freeing Nui and telling her and her family to fucking RUN. He makes a mess of the guardhouse to cover his tracks, then shows a shocked Ushitora the devastation, blaming it on 15 of Seibei's men, and escalating the gang war further.

Soon after, Tazaemon's silk house is burned to the ground, as a salvo against Seibei for the return of Nui. Seibei retaliates by destroying Tokuemon's sake stores. Fight after fight afte fight, and the town is completely ruined, covered with dead bodies. Even the casket maker's depressed, because who needs coffins for this many bodies. Meanwhile, Gonji is uncharacteristically happy, because he's realized that Sanjuro is actually a good guy, after helping Kohei and his family. However, this revelation doesn't seem super-positive to Sanjuro. And that's made far worse by Uno and Ino's visit, who reveal that Kohei's family has been sighted, and that Sanjuro's treachery has been uncovered. A letter from the happy family seals the deal, and Sanjuro is taken in for torture and interrogation.

Beaten by the thugs and interrogated for the whereabouts of Nui, Sanjuro is not doing amazing. However, he obviously wouldn't know where there are, but still refuses to talk. savagely beaten by Kannuki and left seemingly unconscious. But, since these guys are honestly pretty bad at their jobs, and pretty stupid to boot, Sanjuro tricks them into believing he's escaped, then actually escapes in the process. Y'know, that old classic gag. He crawls his way back to Gonji's place, and tells him to tell his pursuers that he went to Seibei's place. While Unosuke doesn't believe him, the rest do, and Ushitora commands that Seibei's home and people be smoked out. When they leave, Sanjuro and Gonji plot to smuggle Sanjuro out of town in a coffin, so that he can return to kill Ushitora's gang.

On the way out, Sanjuro, Gonji, and the coffin-maker watch as Ushitora and his men kill Seibei's gang, his wife, his son, and Seibei himself. Sanjuro's plots and planning have finally led to an inevitable end. With Gonji's help, Sanjuro is safely smuggled out of town, and takes a few days to recover his health in preparation for the inevitable standoff with Ushitora's gang. However, the casket-maker arrives at his hiding place, and reveals that Gonji's been taken. He delivers a sword to an enraged Sanjuro, who returns to save his friend from the gang.

Holy shit, this rules. The fuckin' high noon showdown between the lone warrior and the gang of criminals, armed with a sword against several enemy blades and a fucking pistol? GOD, this shit rocks. Some actual Clint Eastwood Western shit right here. In fact, fun fact, this literally was Clint Eastwood Western shit...but more on that later, there's a fight about to happen, and it's sick. He takes out several gang members, including Ushitora and Inokichi, and kills Unosuke and gives him his gun as he dies.

And then, Tazaemon comes out of his silk house, STILL ALIVE SOMEHOW, wearing a samurai outfit and beating a prayer drum, clearly fucking completely insane at this point, finds Tokuemon and stabs him to death! Man...did Sanjuro ruin this town, or was it already fucked? Either way, the cowardly constable finally appears after the bloodbath, and Sanjuro tells him, Gonji, and the casket-maker that the town will be safe from now on. He takes off, says goodbye, and THAT IS IT! The movie is over with one final playing of Sanjuro's jangly theme, and DAMN! What a fuckin' movie!

My score: 92%. Check out the Review for more detail!

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genkinahito · 10 months ago

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Suton すとん Director: Rikako Watanabe [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Suton すとん「Suton」 Release Date: 2024 Duration: 41 mins. Director: Rikako Watanabe Writer: Rikako Watanabe (Screenplay), Starring: Chie Sakamoto, Mai Murakami, Atsushi Honma, Yujiro Hara, Miki Igarashi. Suton is a kind of sound in Japanese that is used to describe coming to an “understanding” or “settling” something. This is the crux of Rikako Watanabe’s same-named short, a minimalist drama where…

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teragames · 1 year ago

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Los promocionales de "Kawagoe Boys" confirman su estreno

El nuevo video promocional del anime "Kawagoe Boys" (@kbs_anime) revela su fecha de estreno.

El momento de conocer la historia de un encuentro del destino entre un ex director de orquesta y un grupo de estudiantes está cada vez más cerca. Con diseños originales de Ebimo de HIGH CARD, Kawagoe Boys Sing está siendo dirigido por Atsushi Matsumoto (Brothers Conflict) en los estudios evg y Telecom Animation Film, con diseños de personajes adaptados para animación por Haru Watanabe y música…

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kasuna-kotonoha · 8 months ago

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Between Dazai, Atsushi, and Chuuya, who would you want to see as the Bungo Stray Dogs representative in a hypothetical multi fandom react fic?

Other characters include: Goro Akechi (Persona 5), Akeno Misaki (High School Fleet), Miho Nishizumi (Girls und Panzer), Shuichi Saihara (Danganronpa v3), Leo Valdez (Heroes of Olympus), Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) , Hanayo Koizumi (Love Live School Idol Project), You Watanabe (Love Live Sunshine), Giyu Tomioka (Demon Slayer), Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia), Aventurine (Honkai Star Rail), Furina (Genshin Impact), Shin Tsukimi (Your Turn to Die) and Yuki Sohma (Fruits Basket)

feel free to leave your reasoning as well

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altair1206 · 2 years ago

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Lexus "Next Chapter" from Caleb Slain on Vimeo.

Use headphones! IG: @calebslain

5 productions. 4 countries. 3 continents. This sonic experience is the reveal film for the first ever Lexus all-electric car. The creative challenge was to express the imperceptible side of nature through sound, exemplifying the erosion between driver and natural world. Logistically, this was my first time directing any part of a shoot remotely (about 75% remote), which at one point involved directing two productions in Japan and Thailand simultaneously. Very fun challenge, made possible by the extraordinary talent who contributed around the globe.

Friends have asked how much of the footage we filmed ourselves, so I’ll come out and say there are THREE shots in this video we licensed and modified instead of filmed. See if you can guess them!

xo Slain

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Executive Creative Director: Hiroyuki Ito Director: @CalebSlain

Agency (Dentsu) Creative Director: Masashi Sada Art Director: Hirofumi Isoya Planner: Daisuke Matsunaga Planner: Takahiro Hasegawa

Production (AOI) Producer: Hirohide Takene Producer: Ryuta Iwasa Production Manager: Koichiro Narita Production Manager: Naoko Kido Production Manager: Haonan Mak Production Manager: Haruka Ono

U.S. Production: @ampersand_us Managing Director: @detchmendy Exec Producer: Susan Herbert Line Producer: @DaveJRobertson Post Producer: @susanagosti

Mr. Slain Producer: Keita Yamamura

CINEMATOGRAPHY Big Sur: @williamdstone Japan: @erwancloarec Michigan: @mr_terpstra Thailand: @garndp Peru: @danielgarate77

Starring: @makoto88kamiya

POST PRODUCTION Editor: @pezzillosview Audio Post Production: @otbirds OTB Sound Design + Mix: @idelgas OTB Executive Producer: Guin Frehling Colorist: Benoit Coté Rodeo Prost Prod: @nkmcgregor Rodeo Asst: @_bugbee_ VFX + CG: SLANTED * Atsushi Ueta * Shinji Santoh * Kazushi Nagase * Ayano Watanabe Online Editor: Chitoshi Murata

— PRODUCTION UNITS —

BIG SUR Production Supervisor: @flyin321 Commercial Coord: @ursiebrown Travel Coord: Lina Hou DOT Coord: Marques Jackson 1st AD: Paul Chaput 2nd AD: Adam Stern Chili Cinematographer: Will Stone 1st AC: Mark Quintos 2nd AC: Theresa Wong DIT: Bryan Perido Gaffer: Frank Stzalkowski BBE: Tom Cloutier Key Grip: Mark Otewalt Production Designer: Brett Lama SPFX: Matt Heon FX: Zack Lonas FX: Jennifer Terrel Prop Master: Josh Frager Precision Driver: Matt O'Sullivan Arm Car Op: Robert C. Barcelona Arm Car Driver: Patrick Roth Remote Head Tech: Keaton Bowlby Drone Pilot: @jofhanwright Drone Op: @seanriv Drone Tech: Kai Hill Gimbal Tech: Ruben Palacios VFX Supervisor: @tikiguy_69 VTR: Andreas Tarazi Script Supervisor: Carol De Pasquale

JAPAN Assistant Director: Nagisa Kodama Director of Photography: Erwan Cloarec Translator Producer: Taka Kawatsu 1st AC: Yasushi Miyata 2nd AC: Moe Arizumi 3rd AC: Alex Witmer DIT: Sou Tony Naoi DIT: Fuya Imai  Car Stylist Team (SEEK) * Nozomu Sato * Akio Kawamura Low Loader Operator (S3) * Teppei Kazama * Shota Saito Drivers (GROOVE) * Shinji Kikuchi * Shigenobu Murayama * Touma Suzuki * Toru Tanaka * Muneo Hirakawa * Shingo Omori * Akane Ikemoto * Masaki Matsumoto Stylist: Takumi Iwata Stand-In: Masaru Tsuzuruki Nurse: Hayato Takahama

MICHIGAN Cinematographer: Chad Terpstra Production Coordinator: Dennis Nagelkirk Camera Assistant: Jackson Ezinga Production Scout Assistant: Andrea Napierkowski

THAILAND Passion Pictures Bangkok Producer: Beryl Anne Tan Cinematographer: Mr. Rattakarn “Garn” Srithavatchai Production Manager: Ms. Kornlapas Sawasdee Assistant PM: Mr. Weerasak Kala Location Manager: Mr. Ekthanat Sawasdee Prop Master: Mr. Jirapat Theparvut Props: Mr. Chaiya Changphauk Props: Ms. Kanitwanan Pornjarungsak Focus: Mr. kitikorn Nuchpum Head Lighting: Mr. Tanayut Muhamud Key Grip: Mr. Ittipol Nabangchang // Lighting & Grip (Gear Head co., ltd) Camera Team (Lifeboat Camera)

PERU APU Productions Cinematographer: Daniel Gárate Producer: Bruno Canale

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