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theinternetisaweboflies · 1 year

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#michiyo yasuda #studio ghibli #japanese artists #rip

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as-warm-as-choco · 3 days

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just (re)watched angel's egg at the cinema tonight in utrecht. in awe and my eyes full of stars during the whole film... so eternally inspired thank u for existing oshii and amano <3 didnt know michiyo yasuda did the colors ! >_< literal goddess goodnighttttttt

#i mean theres many artists to thank but idw just list 10 people literally go to ann to search them legends #memories #michiyo yasuda #oh and tomorrow willll go for castle of cagliostro and prolly spend all the day at my favorite places in amsterdam #4k restoration and all >_<

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swantranslations · 4 months

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Miyazaki's Retirement Declarations (chronologically)

Translated from last week's NHK documentary on the production of The Boy and The Heron (more under cut). I saw people posting a screencap of this and I just couldn't contain myself. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON WAY LONGER THAN I IMAGINED LMFAO

This is from the NHK programme "Professional - Their Working Philosophy" (プロフェッショナル仕事の流儀) a few days ago (16/12/2023). The episode investigates the production process of The Boy and the Huron, and how the late Takahata Isao influenced the movie.

(It was confirmed within the documentary that Mahito = Miyazaki, Great Uncle = Takahata Isao, The Heron = Suzuki Toshio, Kiriko = Yasuda Michiyo)

The documentary is currently available on the NHK Streaming Service (Location Limited). If you have your own ways of watching and you know Japanese, I would definitely recommend the episode as it gives a lot of much-needed context to The Boy and The Heron. Personally, I haven't found a way to watch it yet, so all I know about the documentary are hearsay I saw on Japanese twitter.

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Also, at the very end of the episode, Miyazaki was shown working on a Naucicaa piece without any explanation, which led to many people speculating whether he could be working on a sequel for Naucicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

What do yall think? Do you think he's going to finally retire or release yet another animated film in a few years? I would love to see Naucicaa 2 but I also feel like he really needs to... yknow, chillax a bit and stuff. He deserves a long ass vacation.

#hayao miyazaki: im gonna retire fr bye*hands in resignation letter for literally the 10th time*#also miyazaki: *shows up at studio ghibli two days later with starbucks* yo guess what a vision was revealed to me last night #everyone else in ghibli: please let us go I'm begging you PLEASE *have not seen the outside world in 30 years*#tweet translations #studio ghibli #hayao miyazaki #the boy and the heron #naucicaa of the valley of the wind #castle in the sky #porco rosso #princess mononoke #spirited away #ponyo #the wind rises #howls moving castle

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itsmarjudgelove · 4 months

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Oukusu Michiyo 大楠道代 (AKA Yasuda Michiyo) & Namikawa Nami 川上奈美 in Shinobi no shuu 忍びの衆 (Mission Iron Castle) - Director Mori Kazuo 森一生 (1911–1989) - Daiei 大英 - Japan - 1970

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gifmovie · 2 years

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#gifmovie #film #movie #cinema #japan #japanese cinema #Kagero-za #1980s #80s #Seijun Suzuki #Heat Shimmer Theater #Michiyo Yasuda

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3080ti · 2 years

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The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003), dir. Takeshi Kitano

#zatōichi #the blind swordsman #takeshi kitano #michiyo yasuda #film #**

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chernobog13 · 2 years

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TANGE SAZEN

poster for the 1935 film Tange Sazen Returns, starring Denjiro Okochi. For some unknown reason, his right arm seems to have grown back!

Tange Saßen, the irascible, one-eyed, one-armed ronin with a strong sense of justice, is a popular character in Japanese film, television, and novels,

DVD cover for the 1935 version of Tange Sazan and the Pot Worth One Million Ryo, starring Denjiro Okochi

Tange Sazen was originally just a minor character in a serialized story published in 1927 about a Ooka Echizen, an historical figure who was a magistrate in Edo during the Tokugawa Shogunate. However, Sazen’s dramatic appearance, especially as rendered in drawings accompanying the serialized story, really caught the public’s attention.

DVD cover for the 1982 television movie version of Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth One Million Ryo, starring Nakadai Tatsuya

Film studios picked up on Tange Sazen’s popularity and, a few months after his initial appearance, three different studios released Tange Sazen films. The most popular of the three starred Denjiro Okochi, who is the actor most associated with the role. Okochi-san eventually made 13 Tange Sazen films.

DVD cover for The Secret of the Urn, the 1966 version of Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth One Million Ryo, staring Kinnosuke Nakamura and directed by the great Hideo Gosha

Tange Sazen’s creator, Fubo Hayashi, was so impressed by the success of the films that he wrote a new serial, this time with Tange Sazen as the main character. This serial evolved Sazan’s personality from the nihilist he was originally, to the cranky, argumentative, righter of wrongs that the public loved so well.

DVD cover for Tange Sazen, the 1958 version of Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth One Million Ryo, starring Ryutaro Otomo

The serial, Tange Sazen, was made into the 1935 film Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth One Million Ryo, again starring Denchiro Okochi. This time Okochi-san gave Sazen a more comic side, which again was very popular with theatergoers.

DVD cover for Tange Sazen and the Princess, a 1961 film with Ryutaro Otomo again playing Sazen

I don’t know if Fubo Hayashi wrote any other Tange Sazen novels, and I would appreciate any information any one might have. However, Tange Sazen has been filmed (as Tange Sazan and the Pot Worth One Million Ryo, or similar titles) numerous times, with each actor who portrays Sazen getting a crack at the story.

DVD cover for 1960′s Tange Sazen: The Mysterious Sword, again with Ryutaro Otomo as Sazen

Besides Denjro Okochi and his 13 films as Tange Sazen, the next film actor most associated with the role is Ryutaro Otomo. Otomo-san was a popular star of jidaigeki (samurai) films in the 1950s and 60s. He first played Sazen in 1958, and then returned to the role at least 4 more times (I have found conflicting data on the Interwebs, but I know he made at least 5 films as Tange Sazen).

DVD cover for The 1959 film Tange Sazen: The Mystery of the Twin Dragons (no, not the Jackie Chan film!); Rytaro Otomo returns again as Tange Sazen

In addition to the numerous Tange Sazen films (of which there are supposedly 34, but I have not yet been able to find a comprehensive list), there were at least 3 television series about our hero. The first ran from 1958 to 1959, and starred Tetsuro Tamba, aka the hardest working man in Japanese cinema (it is said that he never turned down a role, no matter how outrageous).

DVD cover for the 1963 version of Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth One Million Ryo, The One-Eyed Swordsman, starring Tetsuro Tamba as Tange Sazen

Tamba-san returned to the role in 1963 for The One-Eyed Swordsman: Tange Sazen, which another adaptation of Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth One Million Ryo. What’s unusual about Tamba-san’s performance is that his Sazen is missing his left arm and is blind in the left eye, while the character has always been described/depicted as missing the right arm and blind in the right eye. I don’t know if Tamba-san played the character that way in the television series, as I have not been able to track down an episode, nor do I know if the film is in any way related to the series other than having the same main character.

DVD cover for Tange Sazen, the 2004 film version of Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth One Million Ryu, starring Etsushi Toyokawa

Other famous actors (at least here in the West) who’ve portrayed Tange Sazen in film and TV are Akira Kurosawa favorite Tatsuya Nakadai (Sanjuro, Ran), and samurai film veteran Kinnosuke Nakamura (also known for playing Ogami Itto in the Lone Wolf and Cub television series).

poster for Lady Sazen and the Drenched Swallow Sword, a 1969 film starring Michiyo Yasuda

There were also at least two female versions of Tange Sazen!

Actress Komako Hara played a female Tange Sazen in a pair of films from the late 1930s. I have not seen these, and don’t know if they’re considered lost like so many pre-World War Two Japanese films are.

Then there’s 1969′s Lady Sazen and the Drenched Swallow Sword. This one stars the pretty Michiyo Yasuda as O-Kin, a female swordswoman who is not Tange Sazen, but disfigured exactly like him, and has the same cantankerous demeanor, but is ready right any wrong no matter the cost. As you can see from the poster above, she has mastered Sazen’s signature move of drawing her katana one-handed by holding the scabbard in her teeth.

cover to Osamu Tezuka’s 1954 Tange Sazen manga

Then we have the 1954 manga Tange Sazen, by the king of manga himself, Osamu Tezuka. This is an adaptation of the original Tange Sazen serial, so it’s really just the manga form of Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth One Million Ryo. I’ve not read it yet, although I did find a Japanese copy for sale on Amazon. I’ll have to check the Internet Archive to see if anyone uploaded a translated version.

So there you have it: my crash course introduction to Tange Sazen. I hoped this piqued your interest, and you seek out the films to discover this wonderful character for yourself.

#Tange Sazen #Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth One Million Ryu #Tange Sazen Returns #The Secret of the Urn #Tange Sazen and the Princess #Tange Sazen: The Mysterious Sword #Tange Sazen: The Mystery of the Twin Dragons #Lady Sazen and the Drenched Swallow Sword #Denchiro Okochi #Ryutaro #Otomo #Tetsuro Tamba #Tatsuya Nakadai #Kinnosuke Nakamura #Michiyo Yasuda #Osamu Tezuka #jidaigeki #manga

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molokoedovdmitrii · 3 years

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My favorite

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clemsfilmdiary · 4 years

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Kagerō-za (1981, Seijun Suzuki)

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Also known as: Heat-Haze Theatre / Heat Shimmer Theater

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anamon-book · 6 years

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アニメーションの色職人　柴口育子徳間書店

#アニメーションの色職人 #柴口育子 #保田道世 #michiyo yasuda #もののけ姫 #anamon #古本屋あなもん #あなもん #book cover

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ozu-teapot · 6 years

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons | Kenji Misumi | 1973

Akihiro Tomikawa, Kenji Ushio, Tomomi Satô, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Michiyo Yasuda, et al.

#Akihiro Tomikawa #Kenji Ushio #Tomomi Satô #Tomisaburô Wakayama #Michiyo Yasuda #Kenji Misumi #Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons #Lone Wolf and Cub #Baby Cart in the Land of Demons #1973

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as-warm-as-choco · 4 years

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We (re)watched “Princess Mononoke” today... The backgrounds are breathtakingly ALIVE!? The 3-4 moments that the BG were moving w/ the characters on battle action were... DOPE! The anti-war messages and pro-nature and peace are strong in all of Miyazaki’s films but... I felt so much pain watching this and the inevitable future/past of mankind taking advantage and overusing earth... So many metaphors, so many great characters, so much good and evil... Ashitaka didn’t wanna hurt Eboshi even when she cut off the Forest Spirit’s head and tried to get her to Irontown and said to San that her mother already took revenge (speaking of eating her arm before dying) and that settles it and SAN HELPING OKKOTO GETTING TO THE LAKE AND THE SOLDIERS DISGUISED AS HIS CHILDREN TO DECEIVE HIM AND DRIVE HIM MAD oh my... and the women fighting and saving the city while everyone’s gone and THE AIR I COULD FEEL THROUGH MY HAIR AND THEGOOSEBUMPS WHEN THE SPIRIT WAS RISING, WHEN MONONOKE’S MASK WAS SHOT AND BROKEN, OR THE VILLAGERS SHOOTING ASHITAKA CARRYING SAN OUT OF THERE my heart stopped i didnt remember many great details.. THE FOREST SPIRIT taking Mother Wolf and Okkoto to the other side instead of healing them as the others expected so many many metaphors and symbolism my brain can’t fathom it in mere paragraphs they need to be an essay.. uugh i LOVE MIYAZAKI HAYAO I WANNA LIVE IN ONE OF STUDIO GHIBLI’S WORLDS WITH MY DARK LORD OF A CAT AND SPACE WITCH I CO-LIVE WITH PLEASEEEE

ps: Michiyo Yasuda ‘s colors are otherworldy and thank you for existing ma’am

#studio ghibli #hayao miyazaki #mononoke hime #princess mononoke #michiyo yasuda

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movie-titlecards · 2 years

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)

My rating: 4/10

Barely a plot here: Okami is hired to murder some people, and he does. That's it. The reasons for the murder are kind of dull and political and I don't particularly care. Also there's a lengthy bit in the middle where the kid gets tortured to teach a pickpocket The Error Of Her Ways, so that's nice and pointless.

#Kozure Ôkami: Meifumadô #Kenji Misumi #Kazuo Koike #Tsutomu Nakamura #Tomisaburô Wakayama #Michiyo Yasuda #Akihiro Tomikawa #Youtube

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prehistoricfish · 6 years

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background art from devilman: the birth by mitsuharu miyamae (city hunter, yugioh), color setting by michiyo yasuda (pretty much every studio ghibli movie)

--taken from a photoset by bewareofmpreg

#michiyo yasuda #devilman #studio ghibli

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mimicteruyo · 2 years

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Before watching Angel’s Egg: “People tend to exaggerate when they say something’s ‘weird’ or ‘trippy.’ I’m sure it’s not that incomprehensible.”

While watching it:

#it is very rad though #and i'm starting to cobble together an interpretation which helps #anyway i'm now one step closer to having watched everything with colour design by Michiyo Yasuda #rip queen #teruyo talk

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jailhouse41 · 5 years

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Lobby card for Lady Sazen And The Drenched Swallow Sword (Onna Sazen Nuretsubame Katategiri, 女左膳濡れ燕片手斬り), 1969, directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda (安田公義) and starring Michiyo Okusu (大楠道代).

#Michiyo Okusu #Kimiyoshi Yasuda #Lady Sazen And The Drenched Swallow Sword #Onna Sazen Nuretsubame Katategiri #女左膳濡れ燕片手斬り #安田公義 #大楠道代 #Daiei #lobby card

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