#machiko akira

[weirdlookindog]

Kaidan yukijorô / 怪談雪女郎 (1967)

AKA The Snow Woman; The Woman of the Snow; Snow Ghost; Ghost Story of the Snow Fairy; Ghost Story of the Snow Witch

[citizenscreen]

Akira Kurosawa’s RASHOMON won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival #OnThisDay in 1951.

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Cast & crew photos on the set of Rashōmon (1950)

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It was just a glimpse. First I saw her, then she was gone—I thought I had seen an angel. And right then I decided I would take her, that I’d have her even if I had to kill the man... 

RASHŌMON (1950) dir. Akira Kurosawa  

[minayuri]

Machiko Kyō in Rashomon (1950) - 羅生門 | dir. Akira Kurosawa

[boydswan]

It was this Tajomaru who killed that man. 羅生門 (1950, 黑沢明)

[cinematicjourney]

Rashomon (1950) | dir. Akira Kurosawa

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Now watching:

[citypopdaily]

Midnight Blue by Yumi Seino / 清野由美

Album: Natural Woman Year: 1981 Label: Columbia (Blow Up sublabel) Lyrics: Machiko Ryu / 竜真知子 Music: Akira Inoue / 井上鑑

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TRADITIONAL CLASSINESS MEETS RISING SEXINESS IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF JAPANESE CINEMA.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1272x1734 -- Spotlight on classic Japanese actress Motoko Yano, photographed in 1959, better known as Machiko Kyō (Kyō Machiko, March 25, 1924 – May 12, 2019).

EXTRA INFO: Active primarily in the 1950s, she is now considered one of Japan's first sex symbols and one of its greatest screen actresses. She celebrated her posthumous centennial earlier this year.

Source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Machiko_Ky%C5%8D_1959.

[weirdlookindog]

Kaidan yukijorô / 怪談雪女郎 (1967)

AKA The Snow Woman; The Woman of the Snow; Snow Ghost; Ghost Story of the Snow Fairy; Ghost Story of the Snow Witch

[cesarescabinet]

Casting ideas for a 1960s Le Morte D'Arthur adaptation in Edo Japan (Orkney Edition):

King Lot: Masayuki Mori

Queen Morgause: Machiko Kyo

Sir Gawain: Shigeru Amachi

Sir Mordred: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Sir Agravaine: Tatsuya Nakadai

Sir Gaheris: Yūzō Kayama

Sir Gareth: Akira Ishihama

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Machiko Kyō in “Rashomon” (1950) dir. Akira Kurosawa

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Rashomon (1950)

My rating: 6/10

I think this is yet another one of those seminal works that, because they were so seminal, have lost a lot of their punch - there have been so many references, homages and straight up rip-offs in the intervening 70-odd years, the original just ends up feeling kind of unremarkable.

[jpnnewmusicdaily]

季節の翳りに (Kisetsu no Kageri ni) by Machiko Watanabe / 渡辺真知子

Album: Memories Year: 1979 Label: CBS/Sony Lyrics: Akira Ito / 伊藤アキラ Music: Machiko Watanabe / 渡辺真知子