Four Seasons: Natsuko (1980) 『 四季・奈津子 』

Directed by Yōichi Higashi 東陽一

E no naka no boku no mura (Higashi Yōichi, 1996)

Mo hozue wa tsukanai, Yōichi Higashi, 1979

No More Easy Life もう頬づえはつかない (1979)dir. Yōichi Higashi

Shiki Natsuko AKA Four Seasons: Natsuko (四季・奈津子), Yōichi Higashi, 1980

Shuji Terayama Works His film oeuvre is well known for its experimentalism and includes: Plays La Marie-Vision / Kegawa no Marie (1967) Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets / Sho o Suteyo, Machi e Deyō (1968) The Crime of Dr. Gali-gari / Gali-gari Hakase no Hanzai (1969) The Man-powered Plane (1970) Jashumon (1971) Run, Melos / Hashire Melos (1972) The Opium War / Ahen Senso (1972) Note to a Blind Man / Mojin Shokan (1973) Knock (1975) Journal of the Plague Year / Ekibyo Ryuko-ki (1975) The Ship of Fools / Aho-bune (1976) The Miraculous Mandarin / Chugoku no Fushigina Yakunin (1977) Directions to Servants / Nuhikun (1978) Lemmings to the End of the World / Lemmings - Sekai no Hate Made Tsurettete (1979) Short fiction Collected in: The Crimson Thread of Abandon Essays When I Was a Wolf (Boku ga ookami datta koro) Screenplays Mothers / Haha-tachi (1967), directed by Toshio Matsumoto The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970), directed by Masahiro Shinoda Third Base (1978), directed by Yōichi Higashi Short films Catology (1960) (lost[16]) The Cage / Ori (1964) Emperor Tomato Ketchup / Tomato Kechappu Kōtei (1971, short version) The War of Jan-Ken Pon / Janken Sensō (1971) Rolla (1974) Chōfuku-ki (1974) Cinema Guide for Young People / Seishōnen no Tame no Eiga Nyūmon (1974) The Labyrinth Tale / Meikyū-tan (1975) Hōsō-tan (1975) Der Prozess / Shimpan (1975) Les Chants de Maldoror / Marudororu no Uta (1977) The Eraser / Keshigomu (1977) Shadow Film – A Woman with Two Heads / Nitō-onna – Kage no Eiga (1977) The Reading Machine / Shokenki (1977) An Attempt to Describe the Measure of A Man / Issunbōshi o Kijutsusuru Kokoromi (1977) Feature-length films Emperor Tomato Ketchup / Tomato Kechappu Kōtei (1971, long version) Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets / Sho o Suteyo, Machi e Deyō (1971)[17][18] Death in the Country / Den'en ni Shisu (a.k.a.: "Pastoral Hide and Seek") (1974) Boxer / Bokusā (1977) Fruits of Passion / Shanhai Ijin Shōkan (1981) Grass Labyrinth / Kusa-meikyū (1983) Video Letter (1983, with Shuntarō Tanikawa) Farewell to the Ark / Saraba hakobune (1984) Photography Photothèque imaginaire de Shuji Terayama - Les Gens de la famille Chien-Dieu (1975)

The Crying Wind dir. Yōichi Higashi

March 2020

Read:

Qiu Miaojin - Notes of a Crocodile (1994) Jenny Erpenbeck - The End of Days (2012) W. G. Sebald - A Place in the Country (1998) Huang Chunming - The Taste of Apples (1980) W. G. Sebald - On the Natural History of Destruction (1999)

Listened:

CS + Kreme - Snoopy (2020) Junya Yamamura -  9 March NTS (2020) Éthiopiques - Volume 4: Mulatu Astatke (1998) Beatrice Dillon & Lucy Railton - 23 March NTS (2020)

Watched:

Sabu - Monday (2000) Tadashi Imai - Rice (1957) Junya Sato - Manhunt (1976) Ringo Lam - Prison on Fire (1987) Yōichi Higashi - Third Base (1978) Kon Ichikawa - Lonely Hearts (1981) Seijun Suzuki - Fighting Elegy (1966) Hideo Gosha - Cash Calls Hell (1966) Hou Hsiao-hsien - Three Times (2005) Edward Yang et al - In Our Time (1982) Hong Sang-soo - Night and Day (2008) Robert Bresson - Lancelot du Lac (1974) Hong Sang-soo - Woman is the Future of Man (2004)

'State of emergency’. No Oshima Prize screening. Weekends spent following Pet Architecture guides, catching unfamiliar train lines to unfamiliar suburbs, looking at other people’s houses and places of work.  It snowed more heavily on 29 March than it did at any point throughout winter.

No More Easy Life (1979) dir. Yōichi Higashi

The Crying Wind (2004)

風音 The Crying Wind (2004)  directed by Yōichi Higashi

Four Seasons: Natsuko (1980)

四季・奈津子 Four Seasons: Natsuko (1980)  directed by Yōichi Higashi cinematography by  Koichi Kawakami

Shiki Natsuko AKA Four Seasons: Natsuko (四季・奈津子), Yōichi Higashi, 1980

No More Easy Life (1979) dir. Yōichi Higashi

No More Easy Life (1979) dir. Yōichi Higashi