#bamboo doll of echizen

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Japanese film industry through Brian Brake’s lenses, ca. 1964

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越前竹人形 (1963) · Kozaburo Yoshimura

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Bamboo Doll of Echizen

JP, 1963

Kôzaburô Yoshimura

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Ayako Wakao in “Bamboo Doll of Echizen” (1963) directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura

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Ayako Wakao in the 1963 Japanese movie "Echizen Bamboo Doll"

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Bamboo Doll of Echizen, 1963, Kozaburo Yoshimura

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Japanese actress Ayako Wakao on the set of ‘Bamboo Doll of Echizen’, 1963

Ph. Brian Brake

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越前竹人形 (1963) · Kozaburo Yoshimura

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越前竹人形 (1963) · Kozaburo Yoshimura

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越前竹人形 (1963) · Kozaburo Yoshimura

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"Ayako Wakao" ... Director Kozaburo Yoshimura "Echizen Bamboo Doll" 1963

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The Best of March 2022

Best Discovery: The Green Planet

           Runners Up: An Actor's Revenge, Devi, There's Always Tomorrow

Best Rewatch: Blue Velvet

Most Enjoyable Fluff: As Luck Would Have It

           Runners Up: Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con a Con, Chasing Leprechauns, Flashdance, Garage Sale Mysteries: Picture a Murder, It Could Happen to You, Live Nude Girls, Lost & Found, The Quest

Best Female Performance: Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet

           Runners Up: Barbara Stanwyck in There's Always Tomorrow, Ayako Wakao in Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Best Male Performance: Kyle MacLachlan in Blue Velvet

           Runners Up: Fred MacMurray in There's Always Tomorrow, Shin Saburi in Equinox Flower

Best Supporting Performance or Cameo: Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet

           Runners Up: Laura Dern and Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet, Kinuyo Tanaka in Equinox Flower

Most Enjoyable Ham: Jean-Claude Van Damme in The Quest

           Runners Up: Faye Dunaway in Scorchers, Lori Loughlin in Garage Sale Mysteries: Picture a Murder, Catherine Mary Stewart in Scenes from the Goldmine

Best Mise-en-scène: Blue Velvet

           Runners Up: An Actor's Revenge, The Castle of Sand, Devi, Equinox Flower, The Green Planet, Himiko, The Martian Chronicles, There's Always Tomorrow, Wings of Desire

Best Locations: Blue Velvet (suburban paradise and seedy corners of Wilmington, North Carolina)

           Runners Up: As Luck Would Have It (assortment of picturesque Irish tourist destinations), The Castle of Sand (various landscapes from all regions Japan), The Green Planet (rolling hills, South Australian desert), Himiko (forest, mountains, lake)

Best Score: Blue Velvet (Angelo Badalamenti)

           Runners Up: Bamboo Doll of Echizen (Sei Ikeno), Devi (Ali Akbar Khan), Himiko (Tōru Takemitsu), Made in U.S.A. (Sonic Youth), The Martian Chronicles (Stanley Myers), Wings of Desire (Jürgen Knieper)

Best Cartoon: Red Hot Mama

           Runners Up: The Country Cousin, Mother Pluto, She Wronged Him Right

Best Leading Hunk: Patrick Warburton in The Woman Chaser

           Runners Up: Zac Efron in Gold, Niall Matter in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con a Con, Adrian Pasdar in Chasing Leprechauns and Made in U.S.A., Jorge Rivero in Manaos, Jean-Claude Van Damme in The Quest

Best Supporting Hunk: John Ford Coley in Scenes from the Goldmine

           Runners Up: Vincent Lindon in The Green Planet, Jason Patric in Lost & Found, James Remar in The Quest, Patrick Warburton in Scorchers

Assorted Pleasures:

- Otherworldly pink-tinged Martian landscapes in The Martian Chronicles

- Virtuosic dance, music and acrobatics sequences in The Green Planet

- Delightfully bizarre, grotesque and sloppy animation style in Buddy's Day Out and I've Got to Sing a Torch Song

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The Best of February, 2018

Best Drama: The Remains of the Day

           Runners Up: Lady Bird , Howards End, Women in Love, The Bamboo Doll of Echizen, The Rain People

Best Comedy: The Tall Guy

           Runners Up: Health, Withnail & I

Most Powerful Experience: Apocalypse Now

           Runners Up: Jacob's Ladder, Deliverance

Best Mise-en-scène: Apocalypse Now

           Runner Up: Dream Crimes

Best Dramatic Performance: Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day

           Runner Up: Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird

Best Comic Performance: Jeff Goldblum in The Tall Guy

           Runners Up: Richard E. Grant in Withnail & I, Lauren Bacall in Health

           Honorable Mention: Mae West in Myra Breckinridge

Best Ensemble Cast: Women in Love

Best Screen Couple (tied): Alan Bates and Oliver Reed in Women in Love, Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in The Remains of the Day

           Runner Up: Bruce Willis and Scott Bakula in Color of Night

Best Sex Scene (tied): Alan Bates and Oliver Reed in Women in Love, Emma Thompson and Jeff Goldblum in The Tall Guy

Best Live Performance: Emma Thompson in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - In Concert with the New York Philharmonic

Best Location: Steaming

Best Hunk (tied): Alan Bates and Oliver Reed in Women in Love

           Runners Up: Bruce Willis in Color of Night, Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now

          Honorable Mention: Elliott Gould in Busting, Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now

Coziest Film: Steaming

          Runner Up: Castaway

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Ayako Wakao on the set of “Bamboo Doll of Echizen”, 1963

photos by Brian Brake