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“I used up all of my love and affection on that man. The fire inside my heart is gone now. What remains is only some smoke of sadness. That’s who I am.” - Hara Setsuko お嬢さん乾杯！1949

#classic film #love #sadness #black and white #lonely #setsuko hara #kinoshita keisuke #keisuke kinoshita #ojousan kanpai #お嬢さん乾杯！#here's to the young lady #ojousan kanpai!#1949 #vintage

Takamine Hideko in Karumen junjōsu (Carmen's Innocent Love) 1952

#takamine hideko #hideko takamine #Keisuke Kinoshita #kinoshita keisuke #carmen's innocent love #carmen's pure love #カルメン純情す #高峰秀子 #木下惠介 #japanese girl #japanese film #japanese cinema #japan #classic film

On December 5, 2012 Kinoshita Keisuke would have turned 100 years old. Shociku has planned a huge celebration spanning from screenings, exhibitions, lectures, dvd remasters, blu-ray releases and more. I myself don't live in Japan and will be missing out on a lot of the celebration, but their website has a lot of nice pages on Kinoshita and his films, I highly recommend anyone who has been watching his films on Hulu or any other way check this out. I'm working on translating the myself but my Japanese is beginners at best. Regardless Kinoshita is a grossly under appreciated director outside of his homeland and deserves in my humble opinion a very nice English subtitled DVD collection.

Just as a reminder. Hulu Plus members have access to over 240 Japanese films through the Criterion Collection. As a lover of Japanese film it might very well be the best investment I ever made.

#kinoshita keisuke #shochiku #japan #japanese film #keisuke kinoshita

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Hide a stone among stones and a man among men.

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#mifune toshiro #kurosawa akira #stray dog #akira kurosawa

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Toshirō Mifune in A Wife’s Heart/妻の心/Tsuma no kokoro (Mikio Naruse - 1956)

#mifune toshiro #a wife's heart #naruse mikio #mikio naruse

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Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune in Venice, 1960

#kurosawa akira #mifune toshiro

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Toshiro Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga, Ken Uehara and Ryo Ikebe

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Directors include Kurosawa Akira, Yasujiro Ozu, Naruse Mikio, Mizoguchi Kenji, Imamura Shohei, Kinoshita Keisuke, Oshima Nagisa, Sato Hajime, Kobayashi Masaki and many others.