#minami setsuko

[sandreeen]

Tsuda Kenjirou as Kamata Kunio ① || Last Man: Zenmou no Sousakan

[gayest-persona-character]

Round 1!

Rules

Vote for who you think is more queer/gay (doesn't matter if you think they're bi, pan, gay, lesbian, etc. Who's the most not straight!)

I will allow propaganda in the form of asks or notes (tags and comments)

Be nice and respectful. Not everyone has the same headcanons.

Remember, this is mostly just for fun! We have a few submitted characters for this exact purpose, so don't take things too seriously. (It doesn't matter what the results are, most persona characters will be queer-coded in my heart)

The list of polls is as follows:

Labrys vs. Daisuke Todoroki

Principal Kobayakawa vs. Yukiko Amagi

Mayumi Yamano vs. Suguru Kamoshida

Bebe vs. Sho Minazuki

Isako Toriumi (Maya) vs. Ann Takamaki

Ichiryusai Madarame vs. Ichiko Ohya

Chihiro Fushimi vs. Ai Ebihara

Philemon vs.Shibusawa

Kou Ichijo vs. Fuuka Yamagishi

Munehisa Iwai vs. Miyabi Hanakouji

President Tanaka vs. Akihiko Sanada

Ryuji Sakamoto vs. Taro Namatame

Kanami Mashita vs. Haru Okumura

Nozomi Suemitsu vs. Angel and Julian

Ryotaro Dojima vs. Rio Iwasaki

Sadayo Kawakami vs. Maya Amano

Nagi vs. Saori Hasegawa

Cashier from Peace Diner vs. Junpei Iori

Chizuru Ishigami vs. Minoru Inoue

Chihaya Mifune vs. Mamoru Hayase

Misuzu Hiiragi vs. Lala Escargot

Setsuko Sonomura vs. Junko Kurosu

Eri Minami vs. Tae Takemi

Zen vs. Kenji Tomochika

Eriko Kirishima vs. Takeharu Kirijo

Mika vs. Metis

Junya Kaneshiro vs. Takuto Maruki

Moel Gas Station Attendant vs. Hanako Ohtani

Maya Okamura vs. Igor

Sayoko Uehara vs. Makoto Yuki

Lesbian Student from P3 vs. Mami Shibata

Shunsuke Fujii vs. Saki Konishi

Tatsuya Suou vs. Akinari Kashihara

Miho Ogishima vs. Kinshiro Morooka

Hisano Kuroda vs. Ayane Matsunaga

Kanji Tatsumi vs. Makoto Nijiima

Marie vs. Tatsuya Sudou

SIU Director vs. Reiji Kido

Baofu vs. Takahisa Kandori

Yuuki Mishima vs. Tamaki Uchida

Zenkichi Hasegawa vs. Yosuke Hanamura

Mitsuo Kubo vs. Aigis

Kei Nanjo vs. Margaret

Masao Inaba vs. Noriko Katayama

Yukino Mayuzumi vs. Saeko Takami

Tadashi Satomi vs. Chidori Yoshino

Yumi Ozawa vs. Gay Demons P2

Kasumi Yoshizawa vs. Yuka Ayase

Hidetoshi Odagiri vs. Mutatsu

Shinjiro Aragaki vs. Kazushi Miyamoto

Localized version of Naoya vs. Ren Amamiya

Coach Hiraguchi vs. Chie Satonaka

Shuji Ikutsuki vs. Shiho Suzui

Futaba Sakura vs. Naoto Shirogane

Jin Shirato vs. Hifumi Togo

Keisuke Hiraga vs. Eikichi Mishina

Maki Sonomura vs. Toranosuke Yoshida

Rise Kujikawa vs. Elizabeth

Goro Akechi vs. Yuko Nishiwaki

Noriko Kashiwagi vs. Ulala Serizawa

Yuko Himeno vs. Anna Yoshizaka

Hikari vs. Joker (IS)

Mitsuru Kirijo vs. Hidehiko Uesugi

Masayoshi Shido vs. Youichi Makimura

[mybeingthere]

Keiko Minami (1911 - 2004, Japanese) was born in the Imizu District of Toyama Prefecture. She was orphaned at a young age and was raised along with her sisters by their uncle. Her grandmother, Setsuko was the younger sister of the scientist Jōkichi Takamine. Her father, Tatsuyoshi Minami graduated from the University of Tokyo Law School and was once in the faculty of law at the University of Tokyo. Her mother, Kiyo, was a poet who studied in the Department of Japanese Literature at Japan Women’s University.

Minami expressed an early interest in the arts. She painted and wrote poetry in high school, and studied the art of children's stories under the Japanese novelist and poet Sakae Tsuboi. She attended the School of Fine Arts Tokyo (東京美術学校), now called the Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学), from 1927 until 1929. Between early 30s and mid-40s, Minami likely returned to and stayed in Toyama. She got married and had a son.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_Minami

After the war in 1945, Minami moved to Tokyo with her son. Introduced by Ineko Sata, she studied literature from writer Sakae Tsuboi and oil painting from Western-style painter Yoshio Mori.

http://www.minamikeiko.com/

[tesshex]

Yet more quality artwork has been served by none other than @beanganronpa! Today, Tarosuke Minami, the Ultimate Choreographer, takes centre stage!

Truly the embodiment of leading by example, Tarosuke’s talents can be traced back to his affinity for traditional and ballroom dancing. For almost as long as he’s been able to walk, he has had a natural knack for bringing music into the physical realm, and the many awards and accolades that that brought him resulted in his becoming quite the sought-after teacher-- and that’s saying nothing of his sassy, sharp-witted demeanour in person.

Consequently, dancers of all ages began to come to him for leadership, whether in learning to dance at all, or even in how to choreograph everything from music-videos, to flash-mobs, to larger-scale cinematic projects; and he’s always happy to demonstrate his designs first-hand to get his point across. If a performance is needed, he’s never short on energy...

Other character profiles: BOYS: Masato • Momo • Riku • Machigairo • Yuki • Yuto • Tarosuke NON-BINARY FRIEND: Kimiko GIRLS: Kagami • Setsuko • Kanna • Misaki • H?????? • Masami • C???? • Akasuki

Image 1: Tarosuke's character-profile.

TAROSUKE MINAMI / ミナミ タロスケ

ULTIMATE CHOREOGRAPHER / 超高校級の「振��師」

"Get ready. I'll be armed with sass and opinions... as always~"

SPECIES: European badger Meles meles

GENDER: Male BIRTHDAY: 1st March

LIKES: Reality TV DISLIKES: Arrogance

Image 2: a screenshot of Tarosuke within the story.

Tarosuke stands in the Gym, during the daytime of Chapter 1, shrugging dismissively.

Dialogue: “If we ignore the whole “kill each other” thing, this really isn’t all that bad... or is it selfish of me to say that?”

[jcwtpdx69]

The CANDY POP series 2020

1). MAYURI

2). REIKO RAIDOU (Japanese Brigitte Bardot)

3). SACHIKO

4). HITOMI

5). HINAKO

6). SATSUME

7). HIMIKO

8). SAKURA

9). SAYURI

10). AKARI

11). AKIE

12). MIDORI

13). MICHIME

14). AYAKO

15). MOMIJI

16). MIYOSHI

17). REIKO

18). JUNKO

19). YURIKO

20). USAGI

21). TERUKO

22). NOZOMI

23). KAORI

24). IKUKO

25). MIWAKO

26). TATSUKO

27). IZUMI

28). MINAMI

29). TACHIME

30). KASUMI

31). HONOKA

32). ORIE

33). AYANE

34). FUJIKO

35). HIROMI

36). AYAME

37). RYOKO

38). SHINOBU

39). HANAKO

40). AZUSA

41). SAYUMI

42). AKIKO

43). CHIEKO

44). TAKAKO

45). SUMIRE

46). MITSUKO

47). TAKEKO

48). CHISAKO

49). SHIZUKO

50). NATSUMI

51). RANKO

52). RUIKO

53). MICHIKO

54). TAEKO

55). SETSUKO

56). HARUMI

57). MADOKA

58). KOTORI

59). MIKAKO

60). TSUGUMI

[mtamarindo55]

Oh Lucy! (2017)

So a heads up, it says comedy, but a dramady, you'll chuckle, it has its charming moments, but the topics in the movie can be heavy, so if your looking for a feel good comedy, this isn't it. Also suicide is a recurring theme, so heads up, I’ll also will be talking about it since it happens in the movie.

So our movie is about a lady named Setsuko (Shinobu Terjima), she sorta gets a referral for some English classes, since her neice had already paid for the classes but can’t get a refund. There she meets Takeshi (Koji Yakusho), we will know him as Tom, another student, and John (Josh Hartnett), the handsome English teacher. One day she shows up to find John quit teaching and sees him run off with her niece to go to America. She decides to go too, to get closer to john, and to find out if Mika (Shioli Kutsuna), her niece is ok, but her sister, Mika's mother, Ayako (Kaho Minami) tags along too.

It was interesting, we have two sisters bickering about an old love that was lost from Setsuko and stolen by her sister. But they never reconcile. We have Setsuko constantly reminded she is single and that she will forever be single.

We see her get too attached to John, and John rejects her. And when Setsuko finds Mika, we learn she broke up with him. Setsuko decides to tell her niece about her fling with John, but instead of laughing about it, it sends Mika into a rage, and she's so upset she tries to commit suicide right before Setsuko's eyes.

This puts further strain between Setsuko and her sister, Ayako. And when she tries to reach out to John one last time, we learn there is absolutely no chance.

Back in Japan, Setsuko quits her job and tries to take sleeping pills to commit suicide herself. Tom/Takeshi being thoughtful, stops by to she how she was after her trip and helps her reverse her mistake. Tom/Takeshi opens up to her about his son's suicide. And it ends.

I also think opening up was a recurring theme, the hugging, and finally tom opening up to her, in hopes she’d let him into her life, and maybe stop any further attempts. I also liked how scary the subway train became. We see what it can do in the beginning of the film, and there are multiple times where a shot is framed like an accident can happen at any moment.

Anyway, I liked it, not sure if I'd like yell at you to go watch it, but if your down for a little melodrama, go for it.

[guardiannews24]

Live-Action Gunjo Film Reveals More Cast, Visual, April 15 Worldwide Debut - News

Live-Action Gunjo Film Reveals More Cast, Visual, April 15 Worldwide Debut – News

Netflix revealed more cast and a visual on Saturday for its live-action film adaptation of Ching Nakamura‘s Gunjō yuri drama manga. The new cast includes Yōko Maki, Anne Suzuki, Tetsushi Tanaka, Sara Minami, Shinya Niiro, Shunsuke Tanaka, and Setsuko Torimaru. The film will be available worldwide simultaneously on Netflix on April 15 under the title Ride or Die (Kanojo in Japan). The film will…

[recentanimenews]

Kiko Mizuhara Shows Her Calm Profile in Teaser Visual for Gunjo Live-action Film

    Netflix Japan's official Twitter has posted a teaser visual for the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Ching Nakamura's lesbian drama manga Gunjo, showing a profile of Kiko Mizuhara (Mikasa in the Attack on Titan live-action films), who is cast as one of its two female lead characters, and a hand that gently touches her hair from behind. The tagline written in the Twitter post is "a woman who killed a man and a woman who made her kill the man for a love that can never be fulfilled."

  The new title of the adaptation is Kanojo (She), and it will start streaming on Netflix worldwide on April 15, 2021. In addition to the previously announced Mizuhara and Honami Sato (the drummer of Japanese rock band Gesu no Kiwami Otome), Yoko Maki, An Suzuki, Tetsuji Tanaka, Sara Minami, Sinya Niiro, Shunsuke Tanaka, and Setsuko Torimaru newly join the cast members. 

    〜決して叶わぬ恋のために、人を殺した女と殺させた女〜 水原希子 x さとうほなみ 主演。二人の行き場の無い逃避行を描いたロードムービー『彼女』が、4月15日からNetflix にて独占配信されます。@kikoxxx @honami_s #彼女 pic.twitter.com/7QQJhj0Lm6

— Netflix Japan (@NetflixJP) February 13, 2021

        The adaptation centers on two women - Rei Nagasawa (Mizuhara), who is homosexual, and Nanae Shinoda (Sato), who has been suffering severe domestic violence by her husband. Rei has been in love with Nanae since their high school days, and kills her husband for her. Nanae feels alienated and afraid of Rei, who has committed murder for her, while Rei accepts everything in order to keep Nanae alive. Both of them want love, but they also have disconnected feelings for each other.

  Ryuichi Hiroki, who previously worked on several live-action film adaptations of the popular shoujo manga series, including Strobe Edge (2015), Wolf Girl and Black Prince (2016), and Marmalade Boy (2018), is attached to direct. And acclaimed rock musician Haruomi Hosono (Happy End, Yellow Magic Orchestra) provides the theme song.  

      Source: Netflix Japan Twitter, Eiga.com

  (C) Ching Nakamura, Shogakukan

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu

[pulp-diction]

In “Oh Lucy!” suicide seems to be everywhere. It’s there when Setsuko (Shinobu Terajima) is trying to catch the train to work in the opening moments of the film, and again when a loved one receives upsetting news later on. The implication of its ubiquity seems to lurk behind every mention of a train delay, every bad day—every time a coworker tells her “I haven’t seen one yet.”

It doesn’t help that writer/director Atsuko Hirayanagi seems intent on making the Japan of the film a dour one: From the drab train station to a stuffy office job bathed in fluorescent, there’s an overwhleming sense that Setsuko is stuck in this version of Japan, this version of her life.

So when her niece Mika (Shiori Kutsuna) runs away with an English teacher to Los Angeles, and Setsuko and her sister follow her. Her sister Ayako (Kaho Minami) hopes to get her daughter back. And Setsuko, well, she’s going for love. But maybe she’s just looking for an escape.

After all, her life seems more colorful when she’s following in Mika’s footsteps: The first vivid color we see comes when she attends the English language school Mika sends her to, and it’s only once she’s taken the leap to the U.S. that she finally starts exploring her personal bubble rather than just let it be stepped on.

This is the world of “Oh Lucy!” Hirayanagi tinges a story of human connection with a profound sense of discomfort. She holds on moments a beat too long, allowing the humor in the room to curdle into something darker. There’s a love there — she allows Terajima to have so much fun being Setsuko, flipping quickly between childlike vulnerability and aged despair with a gentle, guiding hand — but it can be hard to watch.

To make the film Hirayanagi expanded the short film she made of the same name in 2014, and there’s definitely some rough edges around those growing pains. Many of them feel like they could be washed away by the overall ambiguous tone of the film, but there’s always a bit more of a desire for resolution; the relationship between Setsuko and Ayako, or the role the English teacher John (Josh Hartnett) finds in Setsuko’s life.

But there’s an elegance to the way Hirayanagi unfolds the film, revealing key bits of information as they become truly necessary, and not a moment too soon. It’s amazing the way the fresh details can recolor the scenes that came before it, and cast a long shadow over everything that comes next.

After all, that’s the heartbreaking thing about “Oh Lucy!” — that darkness is always lurking in the periphery. It’s a credit to Hirayanagi and Terajima’s adept performance that the audience can forget the immense sorrow boiling behind the scenes, but they do. And if you’re not careful, it can swallow you whole.

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NAMES IN USE

For mobile users that can’t see the page because tumblr app is sh*t

INORI – VALKARI – PANNA – AEKO – WOQU – KORU

REON – NIKKI – ARANA – NATALIA – ELI – ANSON – KAYDE

CLARY – SAMMY – IVY – YANI – CLAIRE – RYOU – KHIA

SOFI – MAI – LIVIE – ERICA – ERICA-JO – AMBER

RYE – AYAMI – AYYYDEN – MEL – AJR – BATTERY

ASTRID – RAE – ALLY – HITOMI – AIKO – SAPPHIRE

OPAL – CELINE – ALISA – LULU – RICKY – FLORA

CCRY – LIOKA – EM – IZA – TAMA – NOELLE – EMI

ASPEN – CHARA – AERI – KEN – LEXI – AN – EL

PIPER – ELLY – LOTTIE – ABBY – LUNA – AVA – NEO

KIARA – ANNIE – SAGE – NICO – AKANE – CAT – MIA

ALICE – AYA – MINAMI – AKIZA – RAELYNN – SETSUKO

NOEL – SUNNY – ANEMONE – RIHARA – MARY – HANA – LIZZ

MIO – RENA – RHIANNON – SASHA – AELIUS – TATIANA

JOSE – BURI – JOSEPHINE – BELL – MOMO – SAKURA

HARU – IO – REMI

[kentootv]

今日、恋をはじめます (Love for Beginners)

MOVIE DETAILS

Title: 今日、恋をはじめます

Title (english): Love for Beginners

Genre: Romance / Teen

Release Date: December 8, 2012

Runtime: 120 min.

Distributor: Toho

PLOT

Hibino Tsubaki (Takei Emi ) is a young teenage girl with a talent for styling other people's hair. Yet, Tsubaki suffers from low self-esteem and isn't very comfortable styling her own hair. She also has a tendency to dress old-fashioned. She's teased at high school because of this.

One day, popular male student Tsubaki Kyota (Matsuzaka Tori) targets Tsubaki for teasing. Kyota holds sway over the entire classroom and is quite a playboy. Inexplicably they fall in love. Meanwhile, Kyota has commitment issues...

TRAILER

CAST

Takei Emi as Hibino Tsubaki

Matsuzaka Tori as Tsubaki Kyota

Kimura Fumino as Nana

Aoyagi Sho as Hananoi

Yamazaki Kento as Nishiki Hasegawa

Shinkawa Yua as Hibino Sakura

Takanashi Rin as Yamauchi Arisa

Dawkins Erina as Misaki

Fujiwara Reiko as Kana

Takaoka Saki as Kanzaki Kyouka

Murakami Hiroaki as Tsubaki Keita

Asou Yumi as Hibino Setsuko

Hasegawa Hatsunori as Hibino Shoichiro

Additional Cast Members:

Katoono Taikou

Yamazaki Hirona

Sakai Ayane

KENTA

Kondo Maaya

Iijima Akari - Hibino Tsubaki (child)

PRODUCTION STAFF

Director: Furusawa Takeshi

Assistant Director: Kikuchi Takeo

Original writer (novel): Minami Kanan

Screenwriter: Asano Taeko

Producer: Takeda Yoshitaka, Watanabe Yoshiyuki, Tashiro Hideki

Cinematographer: Kikumura Tokusho

WEBSITE 

Official Homepage: www.kyokoi-movie.jp

source : AsianWiki

SPOILER

Yamazaki Kento played as Kyota's chilhood friend. He has love interest on Tsubaki's younger sister 'Sakura' while Sakura has crush on Kyota. Kind of triangle love? Or maybe not? Find the full story by download or stream here:

[DOWNLOAD LINK]

RAW & SUBTITLES: Ganool, Doramax264, Akadesu

STREAM (with engsub)

[lifejustgotawkward]

365 Day Movie Challenge (2018) - #223: Oh Lucy! (2017) - dir. Atsuko Hirayanagi (52 Films by Women 2018: #59)

It is difficult to say whether Oh Lucy! is intended to be more of a gentle fish-out-of-water comedy, a wacky road trip odyssey or a somber reflection on the meaning of life in Japanese society for a single woman in her forties since the film tries to be all three of those things without ever satisfactorily coalescing into a whole, unified cinematic experience. I love the Independent Spirit Award-nominated performance by Shinobu Terajima as Setsuko Kawashima, the lonely main character who spends her days wasting away in a bland cubicle job and who impulsively decides to attend English classes taught out of a back room in a shady massage parlor - receiving the American nickname “Lucy” by her overly enthusiastic teacher, John (Josh Hartnett), as a result - but I reckon that Terajima might have had a better showcase for her talent if the story hadn’t been so ridiculous.

Setsuko/Lucy and her chronically displeased sister, Ayako (Kaho Minami), follow John to sunny Los Angeles when he abruptly departs Japan. As it turns out, he is in a relationship with Ayako’s impetuous daughter, Mika (Shioli Kutsuna), although they are separated by the time that Setsuko and Ayako arrive in California. The sisters convince John to drive across the state with them to locate Mika, but of course this search is complicated by Setsuko’s obvious crush on John. (An important plot point that defines the prickly dynamic between the Kawashima sisters: Mika’s father was originally Setsuko’s boyfriend, before Ayako stole him.)

Is filmmaker Atsuko Hirayanagi’s ultimate message that cross-cultural bonds can’t last? I’m not sure, and certainly Setsuko/Lucy’s return home does not suggest that homecoming is any better a decision than her US vacation/escape was. It’s nice that there is decent chemistry between the protagonist and her one American English school classmate, Takeshi Komori/”Tom” (Kôji Yakusho), and he seems to represent hope for brighter days in Setsuko’s future, but I can’t help feeling let down by the potential Oh Lucy! had to be something greater than the sum of its disjointed parts. Perhaps if the film had focused solely on the story’s Japanese characters, cutting out all the nonsense involving Josh Hartnett and travels through the US, the end result would have been more effective.

P.S. Since I didn’t mention this earlier: Paula Huidobro, the cinematographer recently Emmy-nominated for her work on the season finale of “Barry,” also demonstrated her skill behind the camera in Oh Lucy!. I think my favorite shot is this image of Shinobu Terajima in Setsuko’s blonde “Lucy” wig, the electric-flora decorations in the massage parlor providing a halo around her hair.

[mybeingthere]

Keiko Minami (1911 - 2004, Japanese) was born in the Imizu District of Toyama Prefecture. She was orphaned at a young age and was raised along with her sisters by their uncle. Her grandmother, Setsuko was the younger sister of the scientist Jōkichi Takamine. Her father, Tatsuyoshi Minami graduated from the University of Tokyo Law School and was once in the faculty of law at the University of Tokyo. Her mother, Kiyo, was a poet who studied in the Department of Japanese Literature at Japan Women’s University.

Minami expressed an early interest in the arts. She painted and wrote poetry in high school, and studied the art of children's stories under the Japanese novelist and poet Sakae Tsuboi. She attended the School of Fine Arts Tokyo (東京美術学校), now called the Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学), from 1927 until 1929. Between early 30s and mid-40s, Minami likely returned to and stayed in Toyama. She got married and had a son.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_Minami

After the war in 1945, Minami moved to Tokyo with her son. Introduced by Ineko Sata, she studied literature from writer Sakae Tsuboi and oil painting from Western-style painter Yoshio Mori.

http://www.minamikeiko.com/

[glenngaylord]

WIG OUT - My Review of OH LUCY! (4 Stars)

Sometimes the most deceptively simple of films can sneak up on you and elicit an unforeseen emotional response.  OH LUCY!, the feature debut of San Francisco-based filmmaker, Atsuko Hirayanagi, reminded me so much of the work of Jim Jarmusch, but with a more layered, less deadpan approach to its characters.  

Based on a childhood friend she observed in her native Japan, OH LUCY! follows Setsuko (the remarkable  Shinobu Terajima), a dead-inside woman who works as an office drone and lives in a tiny, messy apartment.  We first see her on a subway platform, her face covered in an air pollution face mask, where she witnesses a horrific incident.  That it seems par for the course to her tells us in such an economical way how soul-deadened she’s become.  

Setsuko’s only real connection to humanity lies with her adorable niece Mika (Shioli Kutsuna), a waitress and delightful schemer/dreamer.  When Mika asks her aunt to take her place in an ESL class, Setsuko, out of sheer boredom, takes the leap.  Located in what can best be described as a cross between a brothel and a den of prostitution mixed with a taste of whorehouse, the teacher, John (a fully engaged and engaging Josh Hartnett), welcomes her with a big hug.  

Not used to human contact, Setsuko seems put off, but grows intrigued when John’s unusual teaching methods come into play. These include insisting Setsuko assume a more American name and don a wig.  In short order, we welcome “Lucy” to the story, Setsuko’s alter-ego.  Lucy hilariously has all of the assertiveness and humor that Setsuko lacks.  John pairs her up with another student, “Tom” (Kôji Yakusho), and they soon trade delightful English phrases and high-fives.  

Circumstances will eventually bring “Lucy” to San Diego, and without giving anything away, this section of the film forces us to rethink the immigrant experience.  Hirayanagi brings such humor and pathos to the table in what can best be described as a generous and twisted.  Comic moments butt up against surprisingly tragic ones so seamlessly and feel completely organic and true.  Life seems to unfold in such a believable way.  “Lucy”, while enormously empathetic, has a tendency to screw up royally or be incredibly mean, yet we understand every one of her many mood shifts.  It’s a wonderful marriage of filmmaker and star.

“Lucy”, with her silly wig and overly-rounded mouth when she attempts American colloquialisms, upends the usual existential drama by constantly surprising us with her observations and reactions to things.  We’ve all seen this story a thousand times, but we haven’t seen it through this cultural filter before.  She’s a character in crisis from beginning to end, often the victim of her own making, but we root for her nonetheless.  

Matching Terajima every step of the way is a terrific cast.  Aside from the aforementioned Hartnett, who really steps up, especially in a tough, come-to-Jesus moment near the end, I loved Kaho Minami's sly performance as Setsuko’s more put-together but equally damaged sister.  I believed every push and pull of their complicated relationship.  Only Megan Mullally stands out as ill-used in a fairly useless cameo on board a plane, but it’s a very minor quibble in a film this sweet, funny, dark and ultimately moving.  Who hasn’t been or known the Setsuko’s of the world, who, with the help of a little hairpiece and a gentle push, can have their shot at a happier life?

[mybeingthere]

Keiko Minami (1911 - 2004, Japanese) was born in the Imizu District of Toyama Prefecture. She was orphaned at a young age and was raised along with her sisters by their uncle. Her grandmother, Setsuko was the younger sister of the scientist Jōkichi Takamine. Her father, Tatsuyoshi Minami graduated from the University of Tokyo Law School and was once in the faculty of law at the University of Tokyo. Her mother, Kiyo, was a poet who studied in the Department of Japanese Literature at Japan Women’s University.

Minami expressed an early interest in the arts. She painted and wrote poetry in high school, and studied the art of children's stories under the Japanese novelist and poet Sakae Tsuboi. She attended the School of Fine Arts Tokyo (東京美術学校), now called the Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学), from 1927 until 1929. Between early 30s and mid-40s, Minami likely returned to and stayed in Toyama. She got married and had a son.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_Minami

After the war in 1945, Minami moved to Tokyo with her son. Introduced by Ineko Sata, she studied literature from writer Sakae Tsuboi and oil painting from Western-style painter Yoshio Mori.

http://www.minamikeiko.com/

[guardiannews24]

Live-Action Gunjo Film Reveals More Cast, Visual, April 15 Worldwide Debut - News

Live-Action Gunjo Film Reveals More Cast, Visual, April 15 Worldwide Debut – News

Netflix revealed more cast and a visual on Saturday for its live-action film adaptation of Ching Nakamura‘s Gunjō yuri drama manga. The new cast includes Yōko Maki, Anne Suzuki, Tetsushi Tanaka, Sara Minami, Shinya Niiro, Shunsuke Tanaka, and Setsuko Torimaru. The film will be available worldwide simultaneously on Netflix on April 15 under the title Ride or Die (Kanojo in Japan). The film will…