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unclewileys-bahblog · 3 months ago

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saw the party subsys and immediately zeroed in (we've been trying that among another fictive from a diff source half-formed that we're trying to get fully formed lmao; if there was a level in mind do that but otherwise 2 is appreciated pls n ty 🥺)

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Level 2 Stranger Things alter pack.

note; LETS FUCKING GOOOO!!!!

Name: William “Will” Byers

Titles: The Cleric, Will The Wise, The Boy Who Came Back To Life, He Who Paints, The Lovestruck Boy

Age: 11-16

Gender: Transmasculine, Transgender, Starboy, Starprince, Princedecorated

Pronouns: He/him/his, Star/boy/starboyself, Prin/prince/princeself

Sexuality: Gay

Species: Human

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Source: Stranger Things

Roles: Artist, Paichmate

CisIDs: cisHuman, cisJewish (religion), cisIntrovert, cisAbused, cisTraumatized, cisCPTSD, cisAutistic, cisGAD, cisHighEmpathy

TransIDs: transTigerTail, transTigerEars, transTigerPaws, transYellowEyes, transStarPupils

Paraphiles: Agalmatophilia, Tetagophilia, Masochist

Other Labels: Tiger Therian, T4T, Anti-harassment, Pro/Com/Darkship

Name: Michael “Mike” Wheeler

Titles: The Paladin, The Heart

Age: 12-16

Gender: Genderfluid, Berrygender, Fruitgender

Pronouns: He/him/his, She/her/hers, They/them/theirs, Berry/berrys/berryself, Cit/citrus/citrusself

Sexuality: Pansexual, Aceflux

Species: Human

Ethnicity: Caucasian. Italian background

Source: Stranger Things

Roles: Chameleon

CisIDs: cisHuman, cisAmbivert, cisFluctuatingEmpathy, cisTraumatized, cisNeglected, cisCPTSD, cisBPD, cisADHD

TransIDs: transTransMasc, transAFAB, transStarPupils

Paraphiles: Plushophilia, Necrophilia

Other Labels: T4T, Dark/Pro/Comship, Spotted Gecko Therian

Name: Lucas Charles Sinclair

Titles: The Dungeon Master, Stalker, Ranger

Age: 12-16

Gender: Pangender

Pronouns: Any & All pronouns

Sexuality: Omnisexual

Species: Human

Ethnicity: African American

Source: Stranger Things

Roles: Gatekeeper, Memory holder

CisIDs: cisHuman, cisExtrovert, cisTraumatized, cisCPTSD, cisAngerIssues, cisADHD, cisAutistic

TransIDs: nullTrauma, nullPTSD, transFamous

Paraphiles: Teleiophilia, Autoimlaphilia

Other Labels: Age Regressor (2-5), ADHD4ADHD, Anti-harassment

Name: Dustin Henderson

Titles: Dusty-Bun, Compass Genius

Age: 12-16

Gender: Transfeminine, Transgender, Browntabbycatic, Catgenderfluid

Pronouns: She/her/hers, Cat/cats/catself, Kit/kitten/kittenself, Kit/kitty/kittyself, Mew/mews/mewself, Meow/meows/meowself, Paw/paws/pawself, Whisker/whiskers/whiskerself

Sexuality: Lesbian

Species: Human

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Source: Stranger Things

Roles: Companion, ADHD holder

CisIDs: cisHuman, cisAmbivert, cisHighEmpathy, cisTraumatized, cisCPTSD, cisADHD, cisAutistic, cisHPD

TransIDs: transAFAB, transCisWoman, transInternetFamous

Paraphiles: Transvestic Fetishism, Bibliophilia, Hybristophilia

Other Labels: T4T, Angela Giarratana Factkin, Spider Gwen Fictkin

Name: Jane “El” Hopper

Titles: The Lost Girl, 011, Eleven, Mage

Age: 12-16

Gender: Nonbinary, Bigender, Dessertibunbakic, Icecreamic

Pronouns: They/them, He/him, She/her, Bun/bunny/bunnyself, Sniff/sniffs/sniffself, Ice/cream/icecreamself

Sexuality: Asexual, Biromantic

Species: Human

Ethnicity: Mixed

Source: Stranger Things

Roles: Memory Holder, Destressor

CisIDs: cisCaucasian, cisIndigenous, cisHumanWithPowers, cisNonHumanish, cisPCOS, cisAmbivert, cisCPTSD, cisTraumatized, cisAbused, cisNeglected, cisRaped, cisAutistic, cisOCD

TransIDs: transCelebrity, transActress, transFamous, transSouthernAccent

Paraphiles: Necrophilia, Consang, Serviphilia

Other Labels: Age Regressor (0-7), T4T, Proship, Anti-harassment

Name: Maxine “Max” Mayfield

Titles: Zoomer

Age: 13-16

Gender: Girlflux, Strawberrycrepecharic

Pronouns: She/her/hers, It/its/itself, Strawberry/crepe/strawberrycrepeself

Sexuality: Aroflux, Bisexual

Species: Human

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Source: Stranger Things

Roles: Anger holder, Gatekeeper

CisIDs: cisHuman, cisIntrovert, cisFluctuatingEmpathy, cisTraumatized, cisAbused, cisCPTSD, cisBPD, cisAutistic, cisDepression, cisAngerIssues

TransIDs: nullDepression, nullTrauma, nullCPTSD, transHappyChildhood

Paraphiles: AutoDacryphilia, AutoMAP, Somnophilia

Other Labels: Strawberry Crepe Cookie Fictkin, Shotacon, Darkship

- Mod Eddie

#🎱 ; wiley’s specials #🧛 ; mod eddie #alter packs #headmate creation

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bah-circus · 5 months ago

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Howdy there, big fan of your blog and finally putting in an ask, could we get a strongman tier Neito Monama (MHA) fictive please and thanks?

Of course dear audience! We have heard your request and have found a suitable performer for you! We hope this performance suits your needs, but you are free to make any adjustments you wish.

❣︎For Our Next Act, Please Welcome,,,❣︎

Neito Monoma!!!

°·⊱ Name: Neito Momona, Alexander, Ivy, Ophir, Lumen, Vanilla

°·⊱ Age: 16

°·⊱ Race/Species: Quirked Human

°·⊱ Source: My Hero Academia

°·⊱ Role: Emotional Mirror, Memory Holder, Chameleon, Roleflux

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°·⊱ Sex: Female

°·⊱ Gender: Vanillapawic, Biteion, Pupgender, Demipup, Boyprincess, Notboygirl, Fluidmasc

°·⊱ Pronouns: They/Them; Vi/Vir; Paw/Paws; She/Her; 👑/👑s; Bark/Barks; Nip/Nips; Bite/Bites; He/Him

°·⊱ Sexuality: Biromantic Gay

°·⊱ Personality: Outwardly narcissistic but deeply insecure, theatrical, protective of those he trusts, analytical, struggles with self-worth, loyal to a fault

────── · · · · ──────

°·⊱ Nicknames/Titles: Momo, Alex, The Phantom Thief, Copycat, Phantom Menace

°·⊱ Likes: Competition, Analyzing Abilities, Dramatic Entrances, Proving his Worth, Classical Music, Tea Ceremonies, Strategy Games

°·⊱ Dislikes: Being underestimated, Mentions of Class 1-A, Losing, Being Alone, Silence, Genuine Vulnerability

°·⊱ Emoji Sign-Off: 👁️‍🗨️✨🪩♟️🆔👑

°·⊱ Typing Quirk: Incredibly overzealous with their word choice, will use lots of big words and will put any words vi wants to be emphasized in ALL CAPS, speaks in a lot of hyperbole.

────── · · · · ──────

°·⊱ TransIDs: transAge [18], trisADHD, permaHyper, transSmoker, transShorter [5’2”], transDogHybrid, permaAdored, transCuteHarmful, transBully, trisPrepStyle, transBakingSkill

°·⊱ CisIDs: French, Japanese, Wasian, Blue Eyes, Blonde Hair, Autism, ADHD, Only Child

°·⊱ MUDS: Narcissistic Personality Enorder

°·⊱ Paras: 🛐, 🥄⚙️, 🍼🥄, 👥🌼, ⚙️🐾, 🪽😇, 👏🪄, 🫶🌹

°·⊱ Faceclaim: 1 | 2

Hud some fin ! Hawp ye enjoy th' pack !! - Pest Swarm ; Soap

Had some fun ! Hope you enjoy the pack !!

#★Act Request★#bah #build a headmate #build an alter #alter pack #alter packs #alterpacks #radqueer #rq🌈🍓#rq safe #endogenic #pro endo #endo safe #willogenic #tulpamancy

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jellyfish-headmates · 1 year ago

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★ " something is swimming in ! " ★

let's go see who it is!

TW: themes/images of artistic gore, cannibalism, & death.

Name(s): andrew (graves), andy (graves)

Pronouns: he/him, they/them, ze/zim, rai/rain, ash/ash, fi/fire, gore/gores, cut/cuts, scar/scars, null/nulls, cruel/cruels

Age: 22

Gender(s): demiboy, transmasc, deadthing, gorrorslashxic, nightgoric

Orientation(s): lesboy

CisIDs: harmful, green eyes, black hair, cannibal, insane, smoker

TransIDs: nullharmful, permatired, transinkblood, transautocannibalism, transcorpse, transcultist, transcultmember, transprogrammed, permamanipulated

Paraphilias: 🌼, ⚰️, 🌷, 👥

Role(s): chameleon

Signoff: 💚🔪

Source: andrew graves - the coffin of andy and leyley

Appearance: canon

Species: human.. barely

Likes: his sister, cigarettes/smoking, being problematic, sleeping, themself (sometimes), being a fictive, zir bed probably, fults, artistic gore

Dislikes: themself (sometimes), waking up early/staying up late, eating (occasionally), bright lights, flashing lights, being forced to do literally anything

Triggers: spooky things lol (horror games and stuff), tasks/chores, also really just tries to front whenever possible

made this one before we started the blog! feel free to yoink rain :3

~ 🐠🪐

#♡ NEW FISH IN THE REEF #radqueer #rq 🌈🍓#rqc🌈🍓#transid #pro transid #build an alter #build a headmate #pro endo #endo safe #endogenic

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alter-soup · 1 year ago

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hii! could we get a fictives based off of amber from scream 5? preferable a transmasc/trans spectrum alter :3 everything else is up to you !! tyyyy

Name(s) - Adam, Tyler, Denver, Cole, Alex, Blaze (I'm so sorry)

Pronouns- he/him

Suggested Neopronouns- fake/fakeout, div/divet, static/statics, blade/blades, spree/sprees, stab/stabs, mimic/mimics, ☏/☏

Gender(s)- Trans Male

Suggested Xenogenders- Luckthiefic, Monsterslasher, Skrackmemcatic

Orientation- Straight or Unlabeled

Age- 17

Species- Human

Source- Scream 5

Role(s)- Chameleon

Kins- French Bulldog

Personality traits/details- Dramatic, unserious, funny, playful, thrill-seeker

Likes- Horror movies (usually only the originals and not the sequels), true crime (please be careful with this!!), prank calls, acting/performing, fanfiction, comedy podcasts, diagram studies

Dislikes- Having to repeat himself, lack of trust or belief, people running their mouths off about stuff he doesn't care about

Sign Off- 🎤🔗

Extra details- he doesn't take insults very personally which can often work in his and others favor but some may get irritated by it - when he watches slasher movies he'll mimic the killer's voice and comment on the strategies of the killer - if you ask him to help come up with a username or password for you he'll most likely give you the most random list of numbers you've ever seen

Faceclaim-

(+ a masc picrew version) ((the skin in the picrew is so off oh no!! T^T))

Picrew

#🌸🐞#build a headmate #endo friendly #build an alter #endo safe #pro endo #alter creation #created system #alter packs #willowgenic #headmate creation

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aepluric · 7 months ago

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Zazz & Zor Fictives

reminder that beings will almost definitely not turn out exactly as described, and these can be edited & changed as needed.

this blog is anti Radqueer / TransID!

" it's beatdown time! "

✦ Names : Zazz , Crimson , Maw , Alastair , Riot , Akuma , Grim , Salem.

✦ Age : Age Invisible ( Agehazy , Palaikian ).

✦ Pronouns : It/Its , Shock/Shocks , Claw/Claws , Cy/Cybers , Fang/Fangs , Byte/Bytes , Girr/Girrs , Shx/Hxr.

✦ Gender : Boyfail , Masccomplexic , Sortaboy.

✦ Xenogender : Waterwebic , Aerowhalic , Creauterelle , Fluffdeceitgender.

✦ Attraction : Compliaro , Liersian.

✦ Other IDs : N/A.

✦ Species : Zeti.

✦ Source : Sonic The Hedgehog.

✦ Birthday & Zodiac : 2nd August + Leo.

✦ Roles : Ògregulator , Emotional Processor , Jester , Comedian.

✦ Sign Off / Proxy : ♂️ , 🍼 , 🤡 , 🎉 , 🎊 , 🃏 , 💦 , 🌊 , 🫧 , ⛲

✦ Appearance : Has small bat-like wings that can wrap around hxr girlfriend.

✦ Associated Colours : Wild Strawberry ( #FF3399 ) , Amazon ( #3B7A57 ) , Cornflower Blue ( #63A5EB ).

" my only joy is in joylessness. "

✦ Names : Zor , Calix , Acid , Blythe , Hunter , Zach , Adrian , Arlo.

✦ Age : Age Akin ( Polyage , Enilikian ).

✦ Pronouns : It/Its , Hx/Hxm , Bite/Bites , Bone/Bones , Gloom/Glooms , Gore/Gores , Grr/Grrs , Gut/Guts.

✦ Gender : Transneufem , Censari , Etheria.

✦ Xenogender : Emowhiskeric , Sourcandyblastic , Edgywolfkinnic.

✦ Attraction : Luminian , Uraniflux.

✦ Other IDs : N/A.

✦ Species : Zeti + Goat.

✦ Source : Sonic The Hedgehog.

✦ Birthday & Zodiac : 13th March + Pisces.

✦ Roles : Sympathetic Regressor , Curadare , Bitch / Janusian , Chameleon.

✦ Sign Off / Proxy : 🖤 , 🦇 , 🥀 , 🕷️ , 🌹 , 🕸️ , 🔪 , ⛓️ , 🦎

✦ Appearance : Has a long, spiky tail with a tuft of fur at the end, akin to a lion. Its horns curl all the way back.

✦ Associated Colours : Eminence ( #682889 ) , Portica ( #F7E465 ) , Tawny Port ( #7B2A38 )

#✦ member #source: sonic the hedgehog #create an alter #build a headmate #create a headmate #build an alter #headmate pack #pro endo #endo safe

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fictionkinfessions · 1 year ago

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cannots:

What do u mean im not Rapunzel from Tangled

things we have in common that multiple other kin also have: artist ( i do knitting, painting, sewing), green eyes, prefers barefoot, long hair, mommy issues, sings a lot, likes chameleons (has three plushes and nearly had a pet before funds fell through)

and that was all before i even knew about kninning :3

i also realize her type of guy is a pattern type some of my kin fall for even. jfc

/j: its bc im black isnt it 😔

but fr shout out to Rapunzel kinnies my heart goes out to you and how awesome you are!!

- Star Butterfly Fictive

#fictionkinfessions #fictive #starbutterflyfictive #gamrep #cannots #mod party cat

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thecouncilwill-seeyounuminous · 2 years ago

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↳ ☆ “ hello! we are the numinous council! „ ˗̖́

☆ “ contents „

↳  system info

↳  frequent fronters

↳  boundaries

☆ “  system info „

↳ collective name: numi, numinous, or the council; responds to jan

↳ collective pronouns: he/ze/it/she

↳ body age: minor

↳ member total: 450+

↳ system type: traumagenic + polyfragmented

↳ other: audhd (autism + adhd), anxiety, minor dyslexia, bpd, npd, hEDS, pots

☆ “  frequent fronters „

↳ 🫧 jan ♫ host/core/chameleon ♪ he/it/ze ♩ trans masc + queer

↳ 🪷 pond/paradox ❀ host/composite/positivty holder ⁂ she/her ☺︎ femme + aroace-spec queer

↳ 🔮 futaba sakura ▚ cohost/overseer/fictive ☕︎ it/she/xe/nya/pix/sh3/byte/cli/ey ⚠︎ agender femme + ace/queer

↳ ☣️ dexter erotroph ◈ cohost ◉ they/xey/he/it ▣ masc/neu + aroaceflux

↳ 🎭 the mimic ♛ chameleon ♜ ???/??? ♞ ??? + ???

↳ 🐟 gillion tidestrider ☔︎ cohost/trauma holder/fictive ☾ he/sog/it/ze/lun ⚓︎ masc (fish) + ace/demi/bi

↳ 💉 sub S.T. mine ✹ subsystem host/fictive ✧ he/it/voi/haz/sci/beep/zip ⚡︎ masc adjacent + bi/queer

↳ ⚰️ emizel tucker ☠︎ prosecutor/fictive ✟ he/dae/fang/it ✸ masc + gay/queer

↳ 🍵 dr. takuto maruki ☕︎ local therapist/fictive ✍︎ he/ze/it/they ⚕︎ masc neutral + ace/bi

↳ 🎸 lukas graft ☠︎ ex-host/ex-cohost/protector/trauma holder ⚡︎ he/it/they/ze ⚔︎ masc + bi

☆ “  boundaries „

↳ DNI

please DNI if your blog revolves around anything that qualifies as NSFW. this includes but is NOT limited to: highly suggestive or outright sexual content, gore, self-harm, etc.

please DNI if you engage in syscourse or system discourse. i have zero interest in prosecuting people struggling with the same thing as me. if you are a system or if you’re a singlet or even if you’re a secret third thing, you are welcome to interact as long as you are civil.

please DNI if you engage in discourse about mental health or physical disability legitimacy. as a physically and mentally disabled system, we’d like to avoid ableist sentiments.

↳ general boundaries

✔︎ DMs, tagging, sarcasm, asks, mutuals

 front requests, doubles, source talk, source mates, joke insults or threats, nicknames

✘ unreality, flirting, phobias, asking for personal info, asking for contact info

p.s. if you say you’re a system, or anything else similar, we will believe you. you are like us, we are like you. whether you are high amnesia, low amnesia, high communication, low communication, many alters, few alters, or whatever other differences you have that make you all you, we will accept you and believe you. <3

↳ ☆ “ meeting adjourned! „ ˗̖́

#system #blog sorting tags ->#council members #council declares

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villainkinconfessions · 1 year ago

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we’re fictives and not fictkin but whatev here we go.

I’m kestrel, insys dating chameleon (both from wings of fire). we keep wanting to enter our tags and rb fan art of ourselves n such but all of it is like “these people are evil and irredeemable” and like even if we don’t say we are fictives it’s hard to admit we as a system like our source selves because we feel like we’ll be shamed.

I know that, on least on my end, I abused my adopted kids in canon. I don’t have many source memories? so I’m not sure if I did in my specific timeline (I hope not…I really really hope not. they didn’t deserve it.) but I just feel so attached to my source and my past and I feel bad so I just. is it such a crime I want to write a fix it where I wasn’t abusive and me & my husband & my daughter all stayed as a happy family and we took care of the adopted kids well and . like it might’ve not turned out perfect but it could’ve turned out good. I dunno I should get to writing that eventually

— kestrel

(p.s. thanks for having this blog)

#Kestrel fictive #Wings of Fire fictive #villainkinconfessions #mod yokai #That is what we are here for !

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lets-be-here-anyway · 5 years ago

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Hi!

I’m K.O (or Kaio), and I’m an “OK K.O.!” fictive and a member of an OSDD-1b system known as Blendy Pens (or more accurately, a subsystem of Blendy Pens we’re currently calling Chameleon Kidz). I made this blog mainly to interact with not only the plural community (especially any other fictives!), but to hopefully make some friends who’ll accept us for who we are ^^ some of the others (who aren’t the main fronters bc they already have their own blog) may speak here too so be aware of that!

-K

#osdd 1b #plural system #pluralgang #fictive #introduction post

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letterboxd · 4 years ago

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Chameleon.

For Japanuary, J-horror auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa talks to Aaron Yap about upending genre expectations with his dreamy new travelogue To the Ends of the Earth, the unconscious connections between his films, and how it’s time for a proper evaluation of Robert Zemeckis.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s continued, uncontested position as a horror auteur isn’t unjustified. Emerging as a key voice in the J-horror boom of the late ’90s, Kurosawa hypnotized us with his chilly, haunting, atmospheric—and often apocalyptically tinged—visions of baffling serial killers, ghosts in machines, insidious doppelgangers and vengeful apparitions.

Bong Joon-ho once called Kurosawa’s 1997 mind-bender Cure one of the greatest films ever made. Pulse, his terrifyingly prophetic 2001 film, for my money—and many Letterboxd members’—might still be the creepiest of all contemporary horrors. “It is the only film I’ve ever seen in which every single shot feels genuinely haunted,” writes Connor.

Rarely behaving in a traditional scary-movie fashion, Kurosawa’s idiosyncratic horror films often test our expectations of genre, then deliver beyond those boundaries to probe his recurring themes: identity and isolation, humanity’s relationship to technology and nature, and deep-seated anxieties that nibble away at society’s crumbling fabric. Pulse, besides being an exercise in deftly crafted dread, is a great, telling, melancholy movie about the overwhelming loneliness of the digital age.

Yoko (Atsuko Maeda) and her travel show crew in ‘To the Ends of the Earth’.

However, the general focus on his horror “side” tends to eclipse a filmography that’s far richer and more versatile than he’s usually given credit for. Over the past two decades, we’ve seen him seem forge a thrillingly chameleonic, unpredictable path that’s included an ecological thriller (Charisma), an Ozu-esque family drama (Tokyo Sonata), a metaphysical romance (Journey to the Shore) and an alien invasion sci-fi (Before We Vanish). No one is really doing it like Kurosawa, and To the Ends of the Earth is arguably his most exciting and enigmatic left-turn yet.

To the Ends of the Earth is a commissioned piece to celebrate the diplomatic relations between Japan and the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan, but that doesn’t diminish that it’s unmistakably a Kiyoshi Kurosawa film, not a tossed-off, exoticized, postcard-pretty travelogue. His signature languorous pacing, shrewdly slippery tonal calibration, and acute spatial sensitivity are at full bore, servicing a loosely plotted tale of TV travel show host Yoko (former J-pop singer Atsuko Maeda) and her crew attempting to complete shooting an episode in the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent.

If anything, this movie should really confirm him as a filmmaker of bold, fictive playfulness in a comparable register to Jacques Rivette, Olivier Assayas and Christian Petzold—something that 2013’s hour-long, similarly fish-out-of-water head-rush Seventh Code, also starring Maeda, hinted at. In To the Ends of the Earth, gentleness, compassion and dream-like bursts of song and fantasy percolate through a disquieting maze of displacement—cultural, artistic, gendered—and the result is an adventurous, unpindownable, thoroughly humanistic work of curiosity and imagination.

Some years ago you did a “double feature”-themed interview with the Belfort Entrevues Film Festival where you revealed the sources of inspiration for some of your films. What film, if any, was a chief influence for To the Ends of the Earth, and can you tell us in what way? Kiyoshi Kurosawa: When I make my work, I often consciously refer to films from the past, but that’s usually the case with genre films. For example, Cure was greatly inspired by The Silence of the Lambs. However, To the Ends of the Earth is not a genre movie, so I wasn’t consciously thinking of any specific films. However, the composition of the story, that the main character appears in every scene, is based on films by the Dardenne brothers. Viewing their films The Child and Two Days, One Night, it’s clear to see how the depiction of just one person can turn trivial incidents into something serious and suspenseful.

Atsuko Maeda and Kiyoshi Kurosawa on the set of ‘To the Ends of the Earth’.

Watching Bright Future, To the Ends of the Earth and Creepy back-to-back recently, I noticed several parallels and motifs which may or may not be intentional. For example, a jellyfish makes an appearance in a scene on TV in Creepy, or there’s a TV report of a blaze in To the Ends of the Earth that momentarily hints at a bigger natural catastrophe that echoes the jellyfish swarm in Bright Future, or other apocalyptic moments in your films like Charisma and Before We Vanish. Do you find that some of these motifs work on a subconscious level for you, or were some of them intentionally threaded in? It’s a very interesting point. Some of them were intentional and some were not at all. It’s true about jellyfish, they appear in both Bright Future and Creepy. However, this is the first time I’ve noticed. The endings of Charisma and Before We Vanish were already written in the script by necessity, so of course, it’s intentional. The depiction of the blaze on TV in To the Ends of the Earth was introduced to show something happening in Japan while the main character is taking a small adventure in Uzbekistan. I wanted to show that her boyfriend was in some kind of crisis there. While the fire on the TV is merely an accident, it does appear apocalyptic. I may have overdone that a bit. Perhaps some kind of unconscious thinking was at work.

That amusement park ride scene in To the Ends of the Earth has stayed with me in the way it suggests terror out of something seemingly mundane. What are some scenes from other films that have stayed with you? The amusement park ride scene wasn’t introduced to express terror. What I wanted to show was how crazy the assignment is and Yuko’s professionalism. She takes on the assignment without fear. This may have been a bit overdone as well. However, I thought that Atsuko Maeda, who didn’t hesitate to actually ride it three times, was a real professional. Apart from that, if I think about the movies that force people to experience horror, what comes to me are Roger Corman’s Pit and the Pendulum. Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. I also remembered the episode in Freddie Francis’s Torture Garden, where a grand piano has a will to kill people, which was great.

Your films tend to be very location-based; environments and spaces appear to play a significant part. The pandemic has been the ultimate test of our relationship with spaces and each other. How has the pandemic impacted you as a filmmaker, and are there themes and ideas that you are interested in exploring further as a result of Covid? As you pointed out, when I make a movie, I pay great attention to the location. The moment I find a good location, I feel that the script will be transformed into a movie. It is the moment when fiction and reality are fused. It’s hard to say anything though, I haven’t made a movie since the pandemic started. What I can say, at least, is that sitting in front of the computer at home is not cinematic at all. So far, I don’t feel that something new will be born from it. What should I do? After all, I feel that a movie can only be made by going out in the city with a camera after utilizing the best epidemic prevention system possible.

If you had to pick a film that’s a personal favorite, which would you pick, and why? It's too difficult a question. Japanese movies and foreign movies have different viewpoints. Also, there are completely different categories of movies [that] greatly influence me when I make films and the movies I saw when I was young that make me nostalgic. It’s impossible to choose just one. But, well, the one that comes to mind is Sam Peckinpah’s The Ballad of Cable Hogue, which is both nostalgic and heavily influential for me.

You’ve spoken about your fondness for American filmmakers like Tobe Hooper, Robert Aldrich, Steven Spielberg et al. Are there new, or more recent American filmmakers and films that have caught your attention or that you’re particularly excited by? I don’t know much about young American directors, but what I always care about is Alfonso Cuarón. Of course he is not a new, young filmmaker, but an auteur. Also, since this is a good opportunity, I’d like to mention Robert Zemeckis. He made such masterpieces as Cast Away and What Lies Beneath around 2000. For some reason, he has never been properly evaluated at all. For a time he was devoted to animation. However, he made a spectacular return to live-action films with Flight and continues to shoot unique masterpieces like Allied and Welcome to Marwen. Of course, not many people appreciate these works. However, he does not seem to care about public opinion at all and continues to boldly shoot new works. Perhaps Zemeckis is the American film director who makes the most authentic films today.

What are your movie-watching habits like? Do you continue to watch movies on physical media or prefer streaming these days? What was the last movie you saw in a theater? Basically, I like to watch movies at an ordinary movie theater in the city the most. When I can’t go to the movie theater, or even though I know the film is going to be boring but I have to watch a movie for business, I have no choice but to watch it on DVD or Blu-ray. Of course, I also use VOD once in a while. The last movie I saw in the theater, as of today, was the Japanese film The Voice in the Crime. I saw that just yesterday. I saw it with my wife at a cinema complex in Shinjuku, Tokyo. It was the latest work by the director who made the previous masterpiece Flying Colors, and I expected much from it. It was speedy and quite well done until the middle of the film, but by the ending, it was too boring. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a good movie.

What’s a memorable film-related moment from your childhood, perhaps something you experienced with family or friends, or a film that scared you or made you cry? The movies that my generation often watched growing up were mainly monster movies. The most unforgettable one was Matango. Like Godzilla and Mothra, it was directed by Ishirō Honda. I went to see this movie with my friends. It had a rather cute touch in the promotional materials depicting a mushroom with a monstrous appearance. However, the content was completely different from a normal monster movie. Shipwrecked survivors on an uninhabited island encounter monstrous mushroom creatures washed up on the shore. These are not unknown creatures such as Godzilla or Mothra, but the horrifying ending of a human being. The characters are being infected, changing one another into mushroom humans. All of us children trembled from the bottom of our hearts. In retrospect, the work is an extreme horror aiming along the same line as [Howard Hawks and] Christian Nyby’s The Thing from Another World. It was probably the first time I encountered horror which was not “to escape from destruction” but “when a human being becomes something not human”.

Is there a filmmaker or film you think about a lot that you don’t get to talk about much and would like to show some appreciation? I haven’t talked much about the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series directed by Kinji Fukasaku. I don’t know how well this series of Japanese movies is known abroad, but when I was a high-school student I saw this and quickly became a big fan. I’ve watched a variety of yakuza movies since then, and it’s safe to say that nothing beats this series. As the title suggests, the films depict a yakuza world without “Jingi” (yakuza’s moral code), and it was really humorous and exciting to see the betrayals and the destruction. After I saw this, all those traditional yakuza movies dominated by the strange ideology of “Jingi” looked like a childish fantasy.