Black-and-white, but far from simple, Kon Ichikawa’s film is a survival story that stares into humanity’s darkest corners. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/20/film/fires-on-the-plain-restoration/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #konichikawa #worldwarii #japanesefilm #eijifunakoshi

#Bales2025FilmChallenge of April 8: Buddhism

ビルマの竪琴 [Biruma no tategoto / The Burmese Harp] (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)
While stationed in Burma, Mizushima disguises himself as a dhutanga, a wandering Buddhist monk, burying the remains of his fellow Japanese soldiers.

https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-537l

#HanaMatsuri #KonIchikawa #MichioTakeyama #RentarōMikuni #ShōjiYasui #cinemastodon #film

#Kokoro
#KonIchikawa

1964
Photographer Cody Ellingham
Explores the Architecture of the First Tokyo Olympics

"The 1964 Tokyo Olympics was only a moment in time, but that bright flash of summer will be forever remembered by those who were there. For the rest of us, only weary concrete remains."

https://pen-online.com/arts/1964/?scrolled=2

#olympics #tokyo #japan #architecturephotography #architecture #photography #heisei #newjapan #olympia #kenzotange #CodyEllingham #MamoruYamada #NipponBudokan #1960s #KonIchikawa #TokyoOlympiad

The people of early Japan contemplate different visions of immortality in Kon Ichikawa’s sprawling adaptation of the first chapter in Osamu Tezuka’s manga series, The Phoenix. https://wp.me/p1x9li-ksD

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A couple who met briefly in Manchuria are reunited in Kobe but find their joy short-lived amid the vagaries of the post-war society in Kon Ichikawa’s tragic romance, Nightshade Flower. https://wp.me/p1x9li-kqk

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A wise child critiques the post-war society in Kon Ichikawa's charmingly surreal familial drama, Being Two Isn't Easy. https://wp.me/p1x9li-iVz

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#Bleachbypass", as used in this context, was first used in Japanese filmmaker #KonIchikawa's film Her Brother (1960). #KazuoMiyagawa, as Daiei Film's cameraman, invented bleach bypass for Ichikawa's film

#Bleachbypass", as used in this context, was first used in Japanese filmmaker #KonIchikawa's film Her Brother (1960). #KazuoMiyagawa, as Daiei Film's cameraman, invented bleach bypass for Ichikawa's film