#yoshio yoshida

[clemsfilmdiary]

To Sleep So as to Dream (1986, Kaizō Hayashi)

夢みるように眠りたい　（林海象）

5/19/23

[vintagejapanesebaseball]

Minoru Murayama and Yoshio Yoshida

[shihlun]

Yoshishige Yoshida

- Confessions Among Actresses

1971

[anamon-book]

ボビーに首ったけ　片岡義男 角川文庫 カバーイラスト＝吉田秋生 ・山川晃

[dokuhan]

This is a major shot in the dark, but does anyone happen to have video files of those live action His Favorite commercials that aired in Japan in 2015? They aren’t on YouTube anymore and the only one I can find on Dailymotion has a watermark and some edition on it. 

I need them for a thing I want to do about the series and how it’s such a long runner, but there’s so little easily available outside information about it. 

Update to this: I found one of them on YouTube with Chinese subtitles, but I know there’s three others. 

[thewomanwithamessedupmind]

Look at this adorable boy! He’s from a manga called Aitsu No Daihonmei. I read all 10 volumes in 2 days. It’s super adorable but unsettling sometimes. I love this guy. He’s short (like me) and bullied a lot by girls and others. He’s considered ugly. But I think he’s the complete opposite. He can never catch a break. But I love him. I got really into it and still love it. Plus...

This face of his reminds me of Luffy from One Piece. I mean... they aren’t identical but very close. Anyway, thought I’d share what I’ve been up to. Btw, it’s a yaoi manga. So, if you aren’t into that... then oh well. 

[the-swan-sequence]

“To sit alone in the lamplight, with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen sensations— such is a pleasure beyond compare.”

Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness 1340

Art: The Tale of Genji - Wakana by Yoshio Okada (1939-2021)

[demifiendrsa]

Look Back - PV

The anime film adaptation of Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Look Back one-shot manga will hit theaters in Japan on June 28, 2024.

Singer urara will perform "Light song" composed by haruka nakamura.

Poster

Cast

Mizuki Yoshida as Kyōmoto

Yūmi Kawai as Fujino

Staff

Original Creator: Tatsuki Fujimoto

Director: Kiyotaka Oshiyama

Screenplay: Kiyotaka Oshiyama

Character Design: Kiyotaka Oshiyama

Art Director: Kiyoshi Sameshima

Art Director Assistants: Yoshio Harisaki, Takashi Omori

Color Key Artist: Maya Kusumoto

Compositing Director of Photography: Kazuto Izumita

Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose

Sound Director: Eriko Kimura

Music: Haruka Nakamura

Animation Production: Studio Durian

[landofanimes]

Akatsuki no Yona: Houka no Inori-hen (2019)

Yona of the Dawn: Prayer of the Signal Fire Arc Stage Play

Main cast character portraits:

Rina Ikoma as Yona (returning) Masaki Yabe as Son Hak (returning)

Kaito Kumagai as Yun Taichi Shiozaki as Kija Shunta Sono as Shin-Ah Jyutaro Yamanaka as Jae-Ha Kaito Hori as Zeno

Kenji Takechi as Kan Sujin Takeshi James Yamada as Kan Kyo-Ga Minami Tsurimoto as Kan Tae-Jun (returning)

Yusuke Seto as Lee Geun-Tae Sakiho Motonishi as Yun-Ho

Juri as Li Hazara

Shou Jinnai as Suwon (returning)

Ensemble: Kotaro Yoshida, Kenichi Sato, Yoshio Sato, Mikami Shinji, Jotaro Matsumoto, Yuhei Hayakawa, Hisato Kojima, Shunki Shimoda, Kazuki Igidani, Mana Minamihisamatsu, Rei Ando, Kaede Kato

[the-monkey-ruler]

Monkey Typhoon (2001) アソボット戦記五九

Director: Mamoru Hamazu / Osamu Sekida / Ittoku Tanahashi / Kyousuke Mihara / Takenori Mihara / Yoshiaki Okumura / Shunji Yoshida / Kazuo Nogami / Yoshito Qin / Hiroshi Haraguchi / Akihiko Nishiyama / Yuki Kinoshita Screenwriter: Shinobu Shinobu / Hashimoto Yushi / Nakaze Rika / Urasawa Yoshio / Kobe Kazuhiko / Shizuya Isao Starring: Kappei Yamaguchi / Tomoichi Seki / Masaki Iizuka / Takeharu Kunimoto / Nozomi Sasaki / Minami Takayama / Atsuko Enomoto / Shinichiro Miki Genre: Comedy / Science Fiction / Animation / Adventure Official website: http://mv.avex.jp/asobot/asobot.html Country/Region of Production: Japan Language: Japanese Date: 2002-10-01 Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 52 Single episode length: 23 minutes Also known as: Association Robot Goku / Asobotto Senki Goku / Five-Nine Wars / Aboto Senki Five-Nine / Monkey King Five-Nine / Journey to the West / Assobot战记五九 / 五九战记 / 阿波特战记五九 / 猴王五九 / 西游战记 IMDb: tt5916944 Type: Reimanging

Summary:

On December 31, 2052, in order to prevent the scientist Ryutaro from destroying the world, Xuanzang Jiuzou asked his son Xuanzang Sanzang to select some robots from 99 robots numbered 1-99. Sanzang finally selected five robots: Gokyuu, Tongoh, Jou, Suuji, and Mioto. On January 1, 2053, Ryutaro modified the program of supercomputer Eve and began to destroy the world. In order to protect Sanzang, Zero, the first generation robot manufactured by Jiuzao, was destroyed along with the robots Soichi Fujimura and Souka Fujimura created by Ryutaro. Robot Tai is Wujiu's opponent on the surface, but in fact he is protecting Wujiu and his group. In order to restore the supercomputer Eve's program to its original appearance and return to December 31, 2052 to stop Ryutaro, they must find 49 parts to save the world. Head east! For Abbot (a life form of opportunity) to coexist with humans...

One thousand years in the future, the world has lost its balance. All the giant trees up to 10,000 meters high have been cut down by humans as obstacles. The entire world has turned into a desert. Only humans and Abbot are left in this world that is heading for destruction. As if guided by fate, Sanzang and Gokyuu meet. Traveling together, Sanzou - a young man shrouded in mystery, Gokyuu - the strongest and worst Anbot around, Tongoh - an Anbot fond of drinking, Jou - someone who is great with machines, Suuji - a female Anbot thief, and last but not least, Mioto. And so, their journey begins to the boundless East, to the land where the sun was born!

Source: https://myanimelist.net/anime/3193/Asobot_Senki_Gokuu

Link: https://gogoanime.be/anime/monkey-typhoon-xDRN/

[annoyingfiredeangiant]

Yoshio Harada/原田芳雄 played Shōin Yoshida 吉田松陰 he was 31 years old. "Tennō no seiki /天皇の世紀 "1971 year 2end series "wildfire /野火".

[byneddiedingo]

Jitsuko Yoshimura in An Innocent Witch (Heinosuke Gosho, 1965)

Cast: Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kin Sugai, Taiji Tonoyama, Minoru Terada, Keizo Kawasaki, Yoshio Yoshida, Eijiro Tono, Takayuki Akutagawa. Screenplay: Hideo Horie, based on a novel by Hajime Ogawa. Cinematography: Sozaburo Shinomura. Art direction: Totetsu Hirakawa. Film editing: Sadako Ikeda. Music: Sei Ikeno.

An Innocent Witch begins like a documentary, with a voiceover narration describing the pilgrimages to Mount Osore, where the faithful gather to ask blind seers to facilitate communication with their dead loved ones. One of the pilgrims is Kikuno (Kin Sugai), who wants to speak with her daughter, Ayako (Jitsuko Yoshimura). As the seer goes into her trance, the film switches abruptly to a conventional narrative in which we learn that Ayako was sold -- willingly, it seems -- into prostitution by her mother because Ayako's father (Yoshio Yoshida) is too ill to continue supporting the family as a fisherman and gatherer of seaweed. (The father is never told about Ayako's work as a prostitute; he thinks only that she has gone to the city to earn more money.) In the brothel, Ayako loses her virginity to her first customer, a wealthy lumber wholesaler named Kansuke (Taiji Tonoyama). Pleased with the young woman, Kansuke becomes Ayako's regular customer. Then one evening a shy young man named Kanjiro (Minoru Terada) arrives with his fellow military cadets and Ayako relieves him of his virginity. They begin to fall in love, but just before he is called up for service, Kanjiro realizes that his own father, Kansuke, has been one of Ayako's customers. Kansuke, it turns out, has been aware that Kanjiro has also been seeing Ayako, and doesn't really mind sharing her with his son. But Ayako has promised Kanjiro that she won't see his father again, and when Kansuke insists on having sex with her anyway, he dies of an apparent heart attack. Soon word arrives that Kanjiro has also died at the front. The coincidence of the deaths of a father and son causes Ayako to be labeled a "femme fatale." But while visiting Kanjiro's grave, Ayako meets his older brother, Kanichi (Keizo Kawasaki), and her involvement with this ill-fated family deepens into further tragedy. The film climaxes with Ayako seeking a kind of exorcism that will purify her of guilt, but that, too, has fatal consequences. The core story of An Innocent Witch is very well handled by screenwriter Hideo Horie and director Heinosuke Gosho, but the framing of it in the context of a documentary about the search for communication with the afterlife feels awkward, as if Horie and Gosho were trying to impose a larger statement about the consequences of superstition on the material. Ayako's story speaks for itself without extra help.

[dailymuseums]

Welcome to the inaugural series of this blog! On 11/23I went to the Morikami Museum & Gardens in Delray Beach, FL., where there was an exhibit on art created with traditional Japanese paper and papermaking techniques. The nine modern artists featured are Aoyama Hina, Horiki Eriko, Ibe Kyoko, Ikezaki Yoshio, Ishii Kakuko, Kimura Yuko, Nishimura Yuko, Tanaka Takaaki, and Yoshida Ayomi. The exhibition runs from November 5, 2022 to April 2, 2023.

Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper

"For over 1000 years, Japan has produced some of the world's finest paper, using strong natural fibers and exceptional production techniques passed down through the generations. Japanese handmade paper, known as washi (Japanese: 和紙) is still made in some areas of Japan and used in painting, calligraphy, origami and other traditional art forms.

Recently, contemporary Japanese artists have been turning to this supple yet sturdy material, using it as a medium for creating highly textured two-dimensional works, complex sculptures, and dramatic installations. Employing techniques ranging from layering, weaving and dying, to twisting, folding, and cutting these artists demonstrate the endless contemporary applications of this ancient material.

Washi Transformed focuses on washi as a medium for contemporary art in Japan and spotlights the works of nine very different contemporary Japanese artists who are exploring the artistic potential of this traditional material. The artists: Aoyama Hina, Horiki Eriko, Ibe Kyoto, Ikezaki Yoshio, Ishii Kakuko, Kimura Yuko, Nishimura Yuko, Tanaka Takaaki, Yoshida Ayomi - all push the boundaries of Japanese washi art in terms of texture, dimension and scale, creating works that challence our assumptions about the nature of the material. Their abstract paper sculptures, lyrical folding screens, dramatic installations and highly textured wall pieces all demonstrate the resilience and versatility of washi as a medium in the realm of international contemporary art."

Traditional Japanese Washi

"According to early Japanese texts, Chinese papermaking techniques were first brought to Japan in 610 C.E. by a Korean Buddhist monk. Early Japanese paper was made from hemp, but eventually all washi was made from the mitsumata (Latin: Edgeworthia chrysantha) shrub, the gampi tree (Latin: Diplomorpha sikokiana) and kōzo (Latin: Broussonetia papyrifera, paper mulberry tree). The long, strong fibers of kōzo produce very strong, dimensionally stable papers, so they are the most commonly used washi fibers.

In traditional Japanese papermaking, the bark is first steamed and the darker outer sections are removed. The remaining fibers are rinsed, cooked until soft, and then beaten to break the fibers into pulp made-up of thin strands. The fiber pulp is mixed into a vat of water creating a water suspension. A bamboo sieve-like screen is dunked into the suspension and drawn up, catching some of the pulp on the surface of the screen, while the water drains away.

Around the 8th century, Japanese papermakers invented the nagashizuki, or discharge, technique, in which they add a vegetable substance called neri (Japanese: 粘剤) to the suspension and then skillfully maneuver the screen to keep the fiber mixture in constant motion, resulting in sheets of paper that are thin, translucent and very strong. Each sheet is removed from the screen and left to dry and bleach in the sun.

Because of its long fibers, washi is much tougher than ordinary paper made from wood pulp, so it has been employed in a wide range of traditional arts, from printmaking, painting, and origami to clothing, toys, kites, and architecture. Now designated by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage, much of Japan's washi is made in and around the city of Echizen in Fukui prefecture along the north coast of central Honshu island."

(Source: Morikami Museum & Gardens Exhibit)

[docrotten]

MATANGO (ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE, 1963) – Episode 135 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“I was confused. I couldn’t decide what to do. Then… I ate them!” Oh, oh. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, and Jeff Mohr, along with guest host Dirk Rogers – as they journey to a Pacific island and attempt to resist the lure of the deadly mushrooms found in Ishirô Honda’s Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People, 1963) from Toho.

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 135 – Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People, 1959)

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Synopsis: A group of pleasure-seeking young people is stranded on a mysterious island when their boat crashes. One by one they succumb to the lure of the deadly mushrooms.

  Director: Ishirô Honda

Writers: Takeshi Kimura (screenplay); Shin’ichi Hoshi & Masami Fukushima (adaptation); William Hope Hodgson (story by, “The Voice in the Night,” Blue Book Magazine, November 1907); Sakyo Komatsu (uncredited)

Music by: Sadao Bekku

Cinematography by: Hajime Koizumi

Director of special effects: Eiji Tsuburaya 

Chief assistant special effects director: Teruyoshi Nakano

Special effects unit production manager: Shigeru Nakamura

Special effects art director/Special effects set decorator: Akira Watanabe

Costume Design/Art Department: Shigeru Komatsuzaki

Selected Cast:

Akira Kubo as Kenji Murai – Professor

Kumi Mizuno as Mami Sekiguchi – Singer

Kenji Sahara as Senzō Koyama – Sailor

Hiroshi Tachikawa as Etsurō Yoshida – Writer

Yoshio Tsuchiya as Masafumi Kasai – Owner

Hiroshi Koizumi as Naoyuki Sakuta – Skipper

Miki Yashiro as Akiko Sōma – Student

Takuzô Kumagai as Doctor  (billed as Jiro Kumagai)

Yutaka Oka as Doctor

Keisuke Yamada as Doctor

Hideyo Amamoto as Skulking Transitional Matango

Haruo Nakajima as Matango

Toku Ihara as Transitional Matango

Kuniyoshi Kashima as Transitional Matango

Masaki Shinohara as Matango

Kōji Uruki as Matango

Tokio Ōkawa as Matango

In this episode, your Classic Era Grue Crew is joined by Dirk Rogers, a special effects artist with KNB EFX Group and a long-time friend of the show. As the guest host, Dirk chose Matango for this episode’s topic and with the movie’s use of effects – miniatures, suits, prosthetics, set dressing – it’s easy to see why this is one of his favorites. 

Dirk was originally drawn to Matango because it featured a lot of the same players from the Godzilla films. He loves the damp (shall we say moist?) atmosphere, the use of color reminiscent of Mario Bava, the sets, and the miniatures. He’s always loved Matango and feels the English title, Attack of the Mushroom People, doesn’t represent the depth of what you get from the film. Dirk also provides valuable insights into the effects work and the documentation of who did what during the production.

Matango is probably Chad’s first exposure to body horror and the horrors of fungus. He loves the way the story ramps up the terror and the cringeworthy fungus-filled sets. As one of Toho’s best, Matango still holds up for him. Daphne is blown away by the colors and the textures of the mushrooms and the fungi, loving it all over again. Jeff agrees that “Attack of the Mushroom People” sounds kind of hokey and doesn’t represent the depth of the story told in Matango. He loves the concept, the story progression, the creepy and downright icky creatures and fungi, and the movie’s cultural and historical relation to the horrors experienced by the Japanese from the atomic bombs of World War II.

Dirk was turned onto the writings of William Hope Hodgson by this movie as it is developed from Hodgson’s short story, “The Voice in the Night.”  During the episode, the crew discusses several versions of this story, all of which are provided through the following links:

Story: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Voice_in_the_Night

Audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASIfPcyTAH0

Suspicion (TV series, 1957-1958), Episode 24: “The Voice in the Night” (aired 24 March 1958); from the story by William Hope Hodgson; starring James Donald, Barbara Rush, Patrick Macnee, James Coburn. This is a very poor resolution but the Classic Era Grue-Crew still enjoyed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssi6_YWrrxc

If you have been motivated by this episode to catch Matango (and you should be), at the time of this writing, it is available to stream from Classic Horror Movie Channel, Tubi, The Criterion Channel, and various PPV sites. In terms of physical media, Matango is available on DVD.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule is one chosen by guest host, the one and only Dave Dreher: The Return of Dracula (1958). 

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[mariocki]

Yôkai hyaku monogatari (Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters, 1968)

"There's no need for the ritual!"

"That's not good. These legends have been passed down since the old days for a reason - it's not prudent to neglect them. Please, you must go through with the ritual."

"I said there's no need for it."

[vintagejapanesebaseball]

Yoshio Yoshida 1958