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fuckyeahmeikokaji · 7 months

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Hisayuki Nakajima (中島久之), Etsushi Takahashi (高橋悦史), Etsuko Ichihara (市原悦子), Michiko Araki (荒木道子) and Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) in The Housekeeper Saw! (家政婦は見た!), 1984.

The episode was titled Secret Of An Elite Family's Affair (エリート家族の浮気の秘密みだれて…), so you can probably guess the plot.

#Meiko Kaji #梶芽衣子 #Hisayuki Nakajima #Etsushi Takahashi #Etsuko Ichihara #Michiko Araki #中島久之 #高橋悦史 #市原悦子 #荒木道子 #The Housekeeper Saw!#家政婦は見た!#press photo

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aneddoticamagazinestuff · 5 years

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Digital Shaman Project

New Post has been published on https://www.aneddoticamagazine.com/digital-shaman-project/

Digital Shaman Project

Death is inevitable and universal, but the way to mourn our dear ones is not. In Japan, a robot may create a new way to mourn.

The “Digital Shaman Project” revolves around robots for domestic use wearing 3D-printed faces of deceased people, and manipulated with specially developed programs to imitate those people’s speech, behavior and other physical characteristics. The idea behind this is to propose a new form of funeral in which robots spend 49 days after a person’s death with the members of his or her family. While the realm of alchemy and belief appears to be conflicting with that of science and technology, considering the common disposition of assuming and suggesting “something that is not here,” ICHIHARA proposes that both might in fact be very closely related, mutually compatible fields. Based on this idea, this project was conceived with the aim to propose new forms of prayer and entombment in this age of advanced science and technology.

©Etsuko Ichihara

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#49 days #Digital Shaman Project #Etsuko Ichihara #robots for domestic #wearing 3D-printed faces of deceased people

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byneddiedingo · 3 days

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Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai, 2016)

Cast: Voices of Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Aoi Yuki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kaito Ishikawa, Masami Nagasawa, Etsuko Ichihara, Kanon Tani, Masaki Terasoma, Sayaka Ohara, Kana Hanazawa. Screenplay: Makoto Shinkai. Cinematography: Makoto Shinkai. Art direction: Akiko Majima, Takumi Tanji, Tasuku Watanabe. Film editing: Makoto Shinkai. Music: Radwimps.

Makoto Shinkai's most commercially successful and most critically acclaimed anime is an engaging variation on the body-switch trope usually used for comedy or satire. Here it's the basis for a romantic fantasy about growing up, with its attendant problems of love and loss. A boy in Tokyo wakes up one morning to find that he's inhabiting the body of a girl in a village, and she wakes up with his consciousness inside her body. The usual comic mishaps occur as each goes through the other's daily routine. They wake up the next day with no memory of the switch, but the reactions of their family and friends make them realize that something strange happened. When it happens again and again, they begin to figure out what's going on and to keep a record of it. Eventually each discovers the other's identity and tries to communicate with them, but then the switches suddenly stop. It falls to the boy to recognize that the cessation of the switches has something to do with a disaster that struck the girl's village three years earlier. His determination to get to the source of the mystery forms the main plot of the film. Your Name is overloaded with perhaps more cosmic and mystical stuff than some viewers can tolerate, and it sidesteps some real issues about gender identity, but the astonishing visuals, cliff-hanging action and suspense, and heartfelt emotion help keep the film from bogging down into sheer hooey.

#Your Name.#Makoto Shinkai

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jpf-sydney · 3 months

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Your name [DVD]

New item:

Shelf: 778.77 SHI @ video section Your name = Kimi no na wa. original story, screenplay, deirector Makoto Shinkai.

East Melbourne, Vic. : Madman Entertainment, 2018. 1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, colour, 12 cm.

Title from container. Originally produced in Japan as a motion picture in 2016.

DVD extras: Japanese promos -- English trailer -- Makoto Shinkai filmography featurette -- TV special.

Animation production Comix Wave Films.

Japanese voice cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Etsuko Ichihara.

DVD (Region 4, NTSC); aspect ratio (16:9); English soundtrack in Dolby Digital 5.1, Japanese soundtrack in Dolby Digital 5.1.

Soundtrack in Japanese or English. Optional English subtitles.

#animation #jcentral #makoto shinkai

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mizukimatsuda · 1 year

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The Eyes of the Wind Vol.2

Vennu: Freyaalt Dates: June 4, 2023 “followed by a permanent installation tour at various locations in the city” Co-planning/local coordination: Kyohei Fujio Assistant Director: Hara Chikei Companion Editor: Moe Nishiyama Graphic Design: Okuda Nahoko (NiNGHUA) Design of Artwork Transport Box: Takuto Ohta Production of Artwork Transport Box: KIU furniture factory Concept Make: Yoshida yamar Organizer: FLOATING ALPS LLC - Exhibiting Artists: Ahmed Mannan Asako Ishizaki BIEN Etsuko Ichihara Hiroto Terauchi kazuki kimura Kenta Ishige Kyohei Fujio Meguninja Mizuki Matsuda Naoshi Kondo Nozomu Kishimoto Rick Yamakawa Rintaro Fuse Shota Tsukiyama Shu Yonezawa Tomotosi Waka Yoshida Yamar Yuki Hori Yusuke Asai

#exhibition

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future-sushi · 1 year

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Artist / Credit

Etsuko Ichihara

Artist, Fantasy inventor, Digital Shamanist

Etsuko Ichihara is Japanese artist. Born 1988 in Aichi. Graduated in Studies of Media, Body and Image from the School of Culture, Media and Society, Waseda University. She has been creating artworks that interpret Japanese culture, customs and beliefs from a unique point of view, and present new, technology-based approaches. Thanks to their strong impact, these works have been introduced across a wide range of media all over the world, such as newspapers and TV programs, radio programs, and magazines. Ichihara’s works were included in the Excellence Award at the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival, Entertainment Division in 2017, and in 2016, chosen for the INNOvation program from The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. She won Honorary Mention (Interactive Art＋) in PRIX Ars Electronica 2018 and received a STARTS Prize Nomination in the same year recently. She has recently presented her works in exhibitions such as ‘Digital Shamanism: Japanese Funeral and Festivity’ at NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], ‘Cyber Arts Exhibition 2018’ at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Japan Media Arts Festival, ‘Mediating Asia’ at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, ‘Roppongi Crossing 2022’ at the Mori Art Museum.

Interview at toco toco TV

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TEDxUTokyo(Japanese)

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Credits

Conveyor mechanical design and development: Hayashi Tamio (TASKO Inc.) Technical direction: Okiyama Ryota (TASKO Inc.), Kimura Masataka (TASKO Inc.) Sushi plate device development and installation: Nakaji Hiroaki Food sample modeling cooperation: Sato Sample, IWASAKI CO., LTD. Robot application development: Watanabe Chika Scenography cooperation: Sammonji Masaya (BKY+SENTO-DASHI committee), Uchiumi Kohei (BKY+SENTO-DASHI committee) Logo design: Hata Yurie Translation: Sato Ayako Cast: Fujii Naotaka, Mishima Yuta, Hokamura Hitoshi Video Supervision: Sakamoto Asato

Support received from

Production cooperation: Digital Hollywood University, 100BANCH, Poled Co., Ltd, ZENTech, Inc., Nofty, Inc., Kazuo Wakamiya Technical cooperation: TASKO Inc., RYUDOSHOTEN L.L.C., yakushoku saffrondo, BnA Co.,Ltd Cooperation: Mori Art Museum

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beautifulactres · 1 year

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Etsuko Ichihara (1936-2019)

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leomacgivena · 2 years

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ゴールデンウィーク、長すぎでは、、(フリーランスにとってはただ交通機関や街が混み合うだけのおいしくない期間)

市原えつこ / Etsuko IchiharaさんはTwitterを使っています

#ビジネス #25988

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posterporn · 4 years

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Your Name (2016) by CoMix Wave Films

Directed by Makoto Shinkai

Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Aoi Yūki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kaito Ishikawa, Masami Nagasawa, Etsuko Ichihara, Kanon Tani, Masaki Terasoma, Sayaka Ohara, & Kana Hanazawa

#your name #2016 #makoto shinkai #ryunosuke kamiki #mone kamishiraishi #ryo narita #aoi yūki #nobunaga shimazaki #kaito ishikawa #masami nagasawa #etsuko ichihara #kanon tani #masaki terasoma #sayaka ohara #kana hanazawa #movie poster

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gregor-samsung · 4 years

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あん [Sweet Bean] (Naomi Kawase - 2015)

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cinematic-art · 7 years

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“Once in a while when I wake up. I find myself crying.”

- Miyamizu Mitsuha

— Your Name 君の名は。(2016) Dir. Makoto Shinkai

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fuckyeahmeikokaji · 9 months

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Advert for The Housekeeper Saw! (家政婦は見た!) Series 2 from 1984.

Series 2 was subtitled Secret Of An Elite Family's Affair (エリート家族の浮気の秘密みだれて…) and starred:

Etsuko Ichihara (市原悦子) Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) Midori Kanazawa (金沢碧) Isao Yamagata (山形勲)

Scanned from a loose clipping.

#Meiko Kaji #梶芽衣子 #Etsuko Ichihara #市原悦子 #Midori Kanazawa #Isao Yamagata #The Housekeeper Saw!#家政婦は見た!#金沢碧 #山形勲 #ad #scanned by me #loose clipping

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clemsfilmdiary · 6 years

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Black Rain / Kuroi ame (1989, Shōhei Imamura)

黒い雨　（今村昌平）

8/15/18

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byneddiedingo · 1 year

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Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai in Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi, 1967)

Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Tsukasa, Go Kato, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Etsuko Ichihara, Isao Yamagata, Tatsuya Nakadai. Screenplay: Shinobu Hashimoto, based on a story by Yasuhiko Takiguchi. Cinematography: Kazuo Yamada. Production design: Yoshiro Muraki. Film editing: Hisashi Sagara. Music: Toru Takemitsu.

Like his Harakiri (1962), Masaki Kobayashi's Samurai Rebellion has a theatrical, almost Shakespearean quality and is sharply critical of the samurai code of honor. Toshiro Mifune plays Isaburo, a samurai whose son Yogoro (Go Kato) is ordered to marry the concubine Ichi (Yoko Tsukasa) of the daimyo of the clan he serves. Yogoro is reluctant, partly because Ichi has a son by the daimyo, but eventually they fall in love. Unfortunately, the daimyo's older son dies, making Ichi's child the heir, and she is ordered to return to his household. The ensuing rebellion against the daimyo's order proves calamitous to everyone. Beautifully committed performances heighten the story's tragic drive. The film's English title was apparently designed to persuade Western audiences that they were going to see a conventional samurai film, whereas it's really a story about the heroic self-sacrifice of Ichi, giving a feminist spin to the genre.

#Samurai Rebellion #Masaki Kobayashi #Toshiro Mifune #Tatsuya Nakadai

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pretty-sweet-plums · 6 years

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there’s still chills, everytime

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#i wish i got to see and go #japan #kimi no na wa #makoto shinkai #comix wave #noritaka kawaguchi #genki kawamura #taki tachibana #mitsuha miyamizu #kamiki ryunosuke #mone kamishiraishi #masami nagasawa #etsuko ichihara

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future-sushi · 1 year

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Work Details

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"Future SUSHI" includes two robots serving as the restaurant's managers, each engaging with guests.

The face of the artist, Etsuko Ichihara, was captured via 3D scanning and replicated in full-color resin to create masks for the robots. These masks, combined with motion programming that mimics Ichihara's movements, simulate a dystopian human clone using current technology.

The robots feature chest-mounted tablets that display menus mimicking the UI of Japanese sushi restaurants. They cyclically make and serve sushi while sequentially introducing every item on the menu. After presenting the last item, the robots experience a memory scramble, prompting them to restart the menu presentation from the beginning.

Another smaller robot is equipped with multilingual support to accommodate a global audience. This robot reacts to voice recognition from the audience to recommend sushi items and intentionally incorporates bug-like behaviors, such as sporadically revealing a different personality.

The robots utilized in the installation are humanoid robots from Softbank Robotics, specifically Pepper and Nao. The application development software used is Choregraphe.

[From Curator's critique by Dr. Lena Fritsch, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford]

Ichihara's use of humanoids, which have also appeared in a number of her past works, mirrors Japan's interest in linking humans or animals with technological objects, often in a light-hearted manner.

I agree with technology researcher Sone Yuji, who has examined Ichihara's works through the lens of Japanese "techno-animism", arguing that there is a strong tradition of animism in Japan: it can be found in a "wide range of phenomena, beliefs, and practices, accounting for a wide range of spirits, gods, ancestors, ghosts, or malevolent monsters. Expanding on this idea of animism, a sense of social agency that blurs distinctions between organic beings and inanimate objects, and between humans and technological things, can also be assigned to the man-made-something that indeed appears to be deeply rooted in Japanese culture. Ichihara's art combining elements of Shintoism, Buddhism, and traditional culture with cutting edge technology represents a distinctively Japanese approach that cultural anthropologist Ann Alison has found in technological toy creations such as the Tamagotchi, defining it as the "animist unconscious".

Hardware

This installation comprises a combination of multiple devices:

[Food Samples]

The future sushi has been recreated using the traditional food sample technique from Japan's food industry. The artist interviewed scientists about future food trends and related scientific technologies, combining this evidence with their imagination to conceive and create future sushi under the policy of "half science, half fantasy." A total of 18 types of sushi were produced.

Here are examples of Future SUSHI.

- 2030 / Cultured Fish Meat SUSHI BABY - A sushi larva being cultured in a petri dish, very popular among citizens. Eating is prohibited since it is a companion sushi.

-2050 / Second Stomach Install Sushi - A sushi that assists gastrointestinal functions of mankind with a degenerated digestive organ.

-2070 / Deep Sea Fish Sushi - As a result of marine resources depletion, deep-sea fish are now served for human consumption. Not so sure about freshness and taste so deep-frying is recommended. Eating it raw is unsafe.

[Sushi Plate devices]

Illuminated sushi plates themed around "Future Sushi" were developed. Magical circles created by laser cutting shine with small LEDs, imagining the sushi appearing in the present day through a portal from the future society. Devices made by 3D printing are embedded in the underside of the plates, powered by Eneloop batteries, and can be switched on and off. The coloring is designed to match the form of each sushi.

[Sushi conveyor]

The sushi conveyor, symbolizing the representation of automation and the relentless flow of time prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, was chosen for its relevance. Using real conveyor chains for sushi ensures stable operation.

[Magical dystopian security gate] As a boundary marker of the dystopian worldview, a security gate stands at the entrance to Future SUSHI. When humans pass through, it detects "future contraband," causing magical circles to light up randomly. Implemented with Arduino, infrared sensors, and Neopixel, it reacts to human passage through the gate. Only children are exempt from the contraband detection (with an exclusion setting for children's height).

[Other objects of the installation] -Mysterious Sushi Showcase: A showcase that contains replicas of such futuristic ingredients as brains, cultured salmon roe, artificial wasabi, and natural fish aged for 70 years.

-Future SUSHI Price List: A list of future SUSHI prices. The currency is NY (Neo YEN), and prices are estimated to be 100 times the current prices due to inflation. With the note: "Survival tax and oxygen charges are not included.”

Technical Requirements

[Equipment provided by the artist]

Essentials: - 18 food samples of futuristic sushi - 18 rotating sushi plates - Eneloop batteries (AAA) x20 and a charger

Items to send according to exhibition requirements: - Humanoid robot / Softbank Nao (for overseas exhibitions, a smaller robot will mainly be used) - Robot face masks - Rotating conveyor (for overseas shipping, a lighter and simplified mechanism will be considered; for a previous exhibition in Graz, Austria, a full-scale product conveyor was sourced locally, so using the same fixture might be possible) - LED mechanism for magical circle gate, circular acrylic, Arduino - Other decorative items and equipment can be provided as needed - Note: For a minimum package excluding the robot, shipping costs from Japan to Austria are approximately 450€ (based on previous exhibition experience in Graz). Items can be customized according to budget and exhibition content

[Equipments by Ars Electronica]

- 1 monitor - 1 PC for robot control - 1 display fixture for the robot - Fixture simulating an airport gate - Power supply

[Space requirements]

- A space of 5m x 5m is desirable, ideally with at least one wall - A dimly lit space is preferable for LED visibility

[Required persons and support]

- Having staff familiar with the robot control app (Choregraphe) is desirable; the operation is straightforward and can be performed by anyone - Daily battery replacement for sushi plates is necessary

[Notes]

- The design and content of the exhibition can be flexibly adjusted according to budget and space requirements

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