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Yoshimitsu Morita

- Lost Paradise

1997

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仄暗い水の底から / Dark Water Hideo Nakata. 2002

Street 6 Chome-24-6 Sagamihara, Chuo Ward, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0231, Japan See in map

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The only time Chacha smiles is when she's with the ladies

Strategist Kanbei / Gunshi Kanbei (Ep 34)

Just like in Shogun, the only time Ochiba smiles was when she's with Mariko. 🥰

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18x2 Beyond Youthful Days

Movies watched in 2024

18x2 Beyond Youthful Days (2024, Taiwan/Japan)

Director: Michihito Fujii

Writers: Michihito Fujii & Hirokawa Hayashida (based on the travelogue by Jimmy Lai)

Mini-review:

This is the third Michihito Fujii movie I've watched this year, and at this point it's become clear that I really, really connect with his filmmaking voice and style. There's something about his work that feels nostalgic and melancholic in a very personal way. And in this particular case, the main character is played by one of my favorite actors in the world, Greg Hsu, who does as great as I've come to expect of him. The story itself is nothing groundbreaking, but it's very well-told and is further elevated by the stunning cinematography, which turns the film into a gorgeous scenic showcase for both Taiwan and Japan. So yeah, 18x2 Beyond Youthful Days is a beautifully filmed and acted movie that will satisfy anyone looking for a solid tearjerker.

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When Marnie Was There (2014)

Director - Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Cinematography - Atsushi Okui

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Dark Water will be released on 4K Ultra HD on March 19 via Arrow Video. Peter Strain designed the cover art for the 2002 Japanese horror film; the original poster artwork is on the reverse side.

Hideo Nakata (Ringu) directs from a script by Yoshihiro Nakamura and Kenichi Suzuki, based on Kôji Suzuki's 1996 short story. Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, and Yu Tokui, star.

Dark Water is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) and original Japanese lossless 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio with English subtitles. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Interview with director Hideo Nakata

Interview with author Koji Suzuki

Interview with cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi

Interviews with actors Hitomi Kuroki and Asami Mizukawa and theme song artist Shikao Suga

Making-of documentary

Trailers

TV spots

Booklet written by film historians David Kalat and Michael Gingold

Dark Water follows Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her only child, Ikuko. When they move into a new home within a dilapidated and long-forgotten apartment complex, Yoshimi begins to experience startling visions and unexplainable sounds, calling her mental well-being into question, and endangering not only her custody of Ikuko, but perhaps their lives as well.

Pre-order Dark Water.

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I went to Hitomi Kuroki's premium preview.

黒木瞳さんのプレミアム試写会行ってきました♡

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66. Film - Dark Water (Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara)

Year - 2002 Director - Hideo Nakata Cast - Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno Cinematographer - Junichiro Hayashi Rating - 6/10 For fans of - Ringu, One Missed Call, The Grudge

What it is.

A divorced mother moves to an apartment building with her daughter where the roof is constantly leaking water. The origins of the leak are supernatural, and lead the mother and daughter to a disturbing discovery.

What rates it.

I love that J-Horror moves slowly, building up suspense without the climax that we’ve been conditioned to expect from American horror movies. It keeps the audience engaged and constantly curious.

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1997  失楽園

Lost Paradise

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Yoshimitsu Morita

- Lost Paradise

1997

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Hitomi Kuroki in Sada (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1998)

Cast: Hitomi Kuroki, surutarô Kataoka, Norihei Miki, Kippei Shîna, Toshie Negishi, Bengal, Renji Ishibashi, Kyûsaku Shimada. Screenplay: Yuko Nishizawa. Cinematography: Noritaka Sakamoto. Production design: Kôichi Takeuchi. Film editing: Nobuhiko Obayashi. Music: Sotaro Manabu.

Having seen House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977) and In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976), I had to see what the director of the former -- a brightly colored, over-the-top horror film, set to a bubble-gum pop soundtrack, about a gaggle of Japanese schoolgirls who find themselves in a haunted house and proceed to die in various colorful and inventive ways -- would do with the latter -- a sexually explicit account, with full nudity and unsimulated copulation, of the crime of Sada Abe, who in 1936 killed her lover, Kichizo Ishido, carved their names on his body, and cut off his genitals, carrying them around with her until she was arrested. The story of Sada has been the subject of numerous books and at least five movies in Japan, after her trial -- which resulted in five years in prison -- set off a nationwide sensation, turning her into a kind of folk hero. The result is a curiously show-offy film that Obayashi fills with all manner of tricks: switches from color to black-and-white, characters breaking the fourth wall, eccentric cuts and startling shifts of tone, and deliberate violations of cinematic convention. In one scene, Sada (Hitomi Kuroki) and her lover, whose name has been changed to Tatsuzo (Tsurutaro Kataoka) in the film, are walking along the street together. The camera follows Tatsuzo from right to left as he speaks, then cuts to Sada as she replies. Film convention calls for a shot followed by a reverse shot, in which we see first Tatsuzo and then Sada from different angles. Instead, Obayashi cuts to Sada, filmed from the same angle and still traveling from right to left, as if she has somehow physically replaced Tatsuzo. This and similar impossible cuts and angles in the film are probably meant to suggest Sada's identification with her lover. Tone shifts mark the film from the beginning: It opens with 14-year-old Sada's rape by a teenage boy, a harrowing scene that is nevertheless somehow played as if it were comic, just as later Sada's work as a prostitute shifts into comic mode with speeded-up action and cuts to a voyeur watching from his hiding place, and a fight with Tatsuzo's wife becomes almost slapstick. Obayashi seems determined to avoid anything that smacks of melodrama or sentimentality. but not always successfully. The screenplay, by Yuko Nishizawa, tries to add depth to Sada's story by inventing a young medical student, Okada (Kippei Shina), who tends to her after her rape. He becomes a symbol of Sada's loss of anything but physical love when he is forced to part from her: He gives her his scalpel and has her mime cutting out his heart and taking it with her -- an obvious foreshadowing of her actual use of the scalpel on Tatsuzo. Sada spends much of the film hoping to be reunited with Okada, only to find that he has leprosy and has been sent to an island on the Inland Sea for quarantine. The film ends with a shot of an elderly woman looking out across the sea to the island. In contrast to Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses, Obayashi's film avoids nudity, but this only serves to add another layer of distance between the viewer and Sada. Kuroki, a beautiful young actress, does what she can with the role, but the constant camera tricks and the limitations imposed by the script never let us get more than a superficial glimpse of what drove Sada Abe to act as she did.

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Seen in 2022:

Lost Paradise (Yoshimitsu Morita), 1997

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Great Teacher Onizuka Remake (S2E5)

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Ayaka To Perform Theme Song for The Rose of Versailles Film

Ayaka To Perform Theme Song for The Rose of Versailles Film #ベルサイユのばら #TheRoseOfVersailles #anime #manga #ベルばら映画 #ベルばら #ベルサイユのばら

Two months until the new animated film based on Riyoko Ikeda’s iconic Shojo manga, The Rose of Versailles makes its debut in Japan and it has been confirmed that Ayaka will be performing the film’s theme song. Singer and Songwriter Ayaka will be performing -Versailles-, where she shared her excitement and how honored that she was given the opportunity to perform music for the new film. Joining…

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Dark Water (2002)

31 Days of Horror My ★★★★ review of Dark Water #FilmReview #MovieReivew

Dark Water (2002) Synopsis – A mother and her 6-year-old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water- Dark Water Director – Hideo Makata Starring – Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi Genre – Horror | Mystery Released – 2002 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. If you liked: The Grudge, The Legend of Hell House, The Pool After the release of the influential and…