kunichi_nomura: Can’t believe that you’re already 30. But I guess 30s is new 20s. Happy birthday best British gentleman ㊗️🎊🌹 @harrystyles

kunichi_nomura Matane Harry. Harry is at Hosonos’s House @hosonoharuomi_info s album “Hosono House” is the one of the reason of the title. Listen to Hisono’s magical music journey from Happyend to Yellow Magic Orchestra to his solo and numerous music project. He’s the legend. Thank you, Hosono-san.

“Can’t believe that you’re already 30. But I guess 30s is new 20s. Happy birthday best British gentleman ㊗️🎊🌹 @Harry_Styles” (via kunichi_nomura)

“As I opened the door and waited, Harry entered while saying ‘Hi there.’ I last saw him when he was 25 years old and had a somewhat innocent demeanor, but now at 29, he had become more manly in his appearance. It made me wonder if this is what it feels like for parents when their son, whom they haven't seen in years, returns home for a visit.”

-Kunichi Nomura on seeing Harry again after 4 years. (9 April 2023)

via J-Wave

Thank you to harryupdates__ for quoting and translations.

Isle of Dogs (2018)

Isle of Dogs is such a unique film it’s hard to categorize it. There’s comedy but the story isn’t afraid to be emotional. It’s animated… but not made for kids. The dialogue is partially in English, the rest is in Japanese and there are no subtitles. There’s nothing else like it out there, which makes it fascinating from beginning to end.

In Japan, 2038, Megasaki City's Mayor Kobayashi (voiced by Kunichi Nomura) uses a sudden dog-flu epidemic as an excuse to banish all the city's dogs to Trash Island. Six months later, his adopted nephew, Atari (voiced by Koyu Rankin), travels to the island to rescue his beloved pet, Spot. With the help of a pack of dogs - Chief (Bryan Cranston), Rex (Edward Norton), King (Bob Balaban), Duke (Jeff Goldblum), and Boss (Billy Murray) - he navigates the perilous terrain. Meanwhile, dog-lovers on the mainland try to find a cure for the dog-flu.

The visuals strike you immediately. Rather than try and have silky-smooth stop-motion animation, director Wes Anderson shows us the animator's "finger prints" on all of the dogs. You can tell by each animal's fur where the models have been manipulated for each shot. The color palette is gorgeous, even when you’re looking at mounds of trash. Every frame is worthy of being hung up on your wall. The backgrounds are so full of detail you could look at them for hours, admiring the composition, framing, and different hues used to emphasize the mood of each scene. Smoke is created with little white tuffs, TV screens cut to traditional 2D animation, we see traditional Japanese-style paintings - there's always something new.

The story’s absurdity perfectly matches the deadpan humour. All five dogs in the pack accompanying Atari are alphas - you can tell because their names are all synonymous with “leader". This means they have to vote on every decision. It’s ridiculous in the best way. The uniquely comedic tone means you never know what's next. You think we’re headed into a dramatic moment, that this character is dead - that’s a shock but it fits in the movie - but then the movie will point out that there’s NO WAY things would go that way and reveals the scene you just saw as a fantasy. You’re so taken aback it might take you a second to laugh but you’ll be in stitches.

It’s a bold film that experiments and innovates at each opportunity… except for one. As mentioned earlier, the film is set in Japan but most of the dialogue is in English to show that dogs and people can kind of understand each other a little bit but ultimately speak different languages. The dogs in this movie don’t actually speak English but for the audience’s purpose, they do. There are also other characters which speak English - real English. They often say things to help us fill in the details. It isn’t clunky exposition but it does make you wish the film was not in two but THREE languages. Two for the humans and one for the canines so there would be a true separation between the species. Is that worth docking points for? I don't think so.

Isle of Dogs does things that in any other movie would be called sloppy. In one scene, Mayor Kobayashi leaves a critical piece of information lying around. Someone he doesn't want seeing it finds the information. The fact that it’s there makes no sense but the character who discovers this info does nothing with it. Ultimately, it's unnecessary to that particular storyline but for the film as a whole, it's important. It fills the viewers in on something that’s coming later. Rather than be stuck on the surprise when it arrives, you sit back and have a laugh at the characters’ reactions. It’s so unconventional it's perfect and could only work in a film like this one.

Like most of Wes Anderson's other projects, Isle of Dogs is so off-beat it will leave some viewers behind. Let it sit with you for a while. Better yet, watch it along with other Wes Anderson movies. Let yourself fall into the groove. You'll see. Isle of Dogs gets better with each rewatch. (August 21, 2020)

Carhartt WIP x Kunichi Nomura

March 28, 2023 — Camille via her story!

Dans le dur.

(https://www.transworldjapan.co.jp/life_sucks/prof13.html)

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Harry visiting Hosono House with Kid Harpoon and Kunichi Nomura (x) - 29/03/23

kunichi_nomura: Matane Harry. Harry is at Hosonos’s House @hosonoharuomi_info s album “Hosono House” is the one of the reason of the title. Listen to Hisono’s magical music journey from Happyend to Yellow Magic Orchestra to his solo and numerous music project. He’s the legend

Harry talking about music on Kunichi Nomura’s Travelling Without Moving - April 2023

kunichi_nomura: Matane Harry. Harry is at Hosono’s House. @hosonoharoumi_info’s album “Hosono House” is the one of the reason of the title. Listen to Hisono’s magical music journey from Happyend to Yellow Magic Orchestra to his solo and numerous music project. He’s the legend.

“They invited me to the Ariake Arena on the first day of the tour and I took my friends and family to see the show. The arena was packed with cheers. Harry's spirit to entertain the audience from the beginning to the end was full of smiles, and as a performer, he has performed more than 150 times, he was really majestic. [...] Harry is a Grammy award-winning artist. When he thanked the fans and the backstage staff, he always made a 90-degree bow.”

-Kunichi Nomura on attending Harry’s show in Japan last month. (9 April 2023)

via J-Wave

Thank you to harryupdates__ for quoting and translations.

More of Harry Edward Styles with Hosono Haruomi via his friend Kunichi Nomura's Instagram.

Btw, look who Kunichi was hanging out with yesterday. LOL