#tatsushi omori

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🎋 Seto & Utsumi (2016)

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Every Day A Good Day/ 日日是好日 (2018), dir. Tatsushi Ōmori.

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Shadow of Fire

directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, 2023

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星の子

Directed by Tatsushi Omori　大森立嗣 2020 Japan

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Theory: 【Oshi No Ko】 will be the title of Shima's movie for Kana

The reason why 【Oshi No Ko】's title never drops the lenticular brackets 【】 is because it will likely be the title for the movie that Arima Kana will star in, the "masterpiece" promised to her by Director Shima.

Most of us know by now that Arima Kana's character was based off of Ashida Mana, a famed child actor in Japan that international fans may know from Pacific Rim.

Anyone think Kana's berets are a parallel to Mana's red shoe?

After getting famous from the TV Drama "Mother" in 2010 at age 6, they tried capitalizing on her fame by getting her into music, to little success. Mana-chan says in an interview that she, "sings the songs my mother wants me to sing". In the years that followed, her acting gigs started drying up.

Until year 2020, when award-winning Director Tatsushi Omori cast her at 16yo in the lead role of the film 【Hoshi No Ko】. Literally translated, Child of the Stars or Star Child, but with the Western release title Under the Stars.

A Child Star in a film called Star Child, hmmm.

This move in her career was paramount as a springboard for her comeback, until she had recently been awarded as Newcomer of the Year in the 47th Elan d'Or Awards.

Note: This image is not taken during the awards

I just feel like I wanna see Kana in this dress too

Coming back to its parallels in the show, Akasaka-sensei and Yokoyari-sensei had an interview with Tsutaya, where they were asked this very question: Why does the title keep the double quotations 【 】 and what does it mean?

Many thanks to twitter @aldeberu for pointing this out

Just like how people have pointed out that Tokyo Blade had some parallelisms with the characters in Oshi no Ko, 【Oshi No Ko】 may actually become the title of the film that revives her career and regains her renown and respect in the industry.

I believe that this may be a hallmark event in the plot of the story. Or, at the very least, the reward in its resolution.

Either:

Kana's performance in 【Oshi no Ko】 causes Kamiki to pay attention to her, attempt to harm her, and Kana works together with Aqua and everyone else to thwart him. (In this case, instrumental to the plot's resolution.)

Or, 【Oshi no Ko】 will be the film where Arima Kana's acting is so honest and impactful that Aqua is so moved that he realizes he is allowed to enjoy acting and filmmaking in this life, that he is allowed to love Kana honestly, and that he has the right to move on and heal from his trauma. (That is to say, the emotional resolution of Aqua's arc as our main character.)

Option #1 continues to support the theory that Oshi No Ko the manga/anime is meant to be a story about Arima Kana.

But Option #2 supports Aka Akasaka's tweet "Kurokawa Akane is the child who will take me away. Arima Kana is the child who will bring me back."

A reminder that Oshi in the title is spelled as 推し, which literally means Favorite. Oshi No Ko's literal translation is Favorite Child. It is "Hoshi" that means Star, just like in Ashida's movie "Hoshi No Ko".

So why would a Japanese manga title literally named 【Favorite Child】 be given a Western release title as 【My Star】 if it wasn't about her?

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japanese movies to watch

☆mother (2020) by tatsushi omori

☆ritual (2000) by hideaki anno

☆house (1977) by nobuhiko obayashi

☆an autumn afternoon (1962) by yasujiro ozu

☆harakiri (1962) by masaki kobayashi

☆love letter (1995) by shunji iwai

☆nobody knows (2004) by hirokazu kore-eda

☆all about lily chou-chou (2001) by shunji iwai

☆blue (2002) by hiroshi ando

☆drive my car (2021) by ryusuke hamaguchi

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gerumaniumu no yoru (2005, dir. tatsushi omori)

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Mother (2020)

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🐈‍⬛ Seto & Utsumi (2016)

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Every Day a Good Day /日日是好日 (2018), dir. Tatsushi Ōmori.

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соба

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Child of the Stars (2020)

星の子 Child of the Stars (2020)  directed by Tatsushi Ōmori cinematography by  Kenji Maki

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日日是好日 / Day a Good Day (2018) dir. Tatsushi Omori