Life of a Court Lady [Asaki Yumenishi]

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Notes #19 - Cache Cache Pastoral

(Den-en ni shisu, 1974)

By Hariu Ichiro

Typically, images and photographs serve as the base for a commanding view of several objects as well as the space that surrounds them, which is to say that they occupy a comprehensive position. Words, in contrast, constitute only a partial essence of an individual object and, as Saussure has claimed, communicate according to a linear sequence. As such they are not able to form a complete narrative unless several narratives are woven together. However, in Terayama's works these two elements are continually confused in a characteristic form. In his tanka, an image swollen with intense emotion is suddenly interrupted and collides with yet another intense image that has transcended time and space. Alternatively, two images are freely displaced. In his theater, stereotypical images doused in folk psychology along with words soaked with emotion, such as delirious nonsense or magical spells, are pulled together into an assemblage. As the established meanings are eviscerated and the audience is assaulted with violence like bullets. In his films, and particularly in Pastoral, after differentiating the links between images from the flow of the dialogue into a strict duality, the dialogue hints at desires hidden behind the discourse (the statements) and the images unfold psychoanalytically toward the root of desire. Furthermore, when both are linked up in order to construct a plot the scene changes, an uncanny image emerges, and the flow breaks off completely.

The Ceremony [Gishiki]

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Mandala [Mandara]

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初恋・地獄篇 OST - Various Artists

Nanami: The Inferno of First Love [Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen]

Directed by: Susumu Hani
1968

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Whispering of the Gods #16

"Since many years now I happen to think of Portugal when I make my films. It's something that comes from (Manoel de) Oliveira, César Monteiro or Pedro Costa. Once in Lisbon, I understood completely why I have this influence. The Buddhist way of thinking comprehends the notion of cycle, birth and rebirth. Maybe in my previous life I have been Portuguese and lived here." - Shinji Aoyama

それから OST - Shigeru Umebayashi

And Then [Sorekara]
Directed by: Yoshimitsu Morita
1985

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She and He [Kanojo to Kare]

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Lovers Corner #6 - ATG Music Files

As you might know from now, ATG (or the Art Theatre Guild) has been having an enormous influence on Nihon Cine Art's posts. Just read our analysis, our article's choices, the issue project together with Robert Nishimura, just to name a few of the projects that revolve around ATG's mythic legacy.

Well, two months ago, our kind reader H2O shared with me a seven part compilation of music from every film from the ATG's catalogue - foreign films included! Basically each CD has one track that corresponds to one movie and even though it's not the entire OST from each film, it's still a great job and it shows the passion that H2O has for music and film. In order to celebrate (early) the 3rd anniversary of this blog next February, I will share with you all this astonishing compilation of ATG sounds!
Keep in mind that you can share the link to this post in your blogs and websites, however H2O requested me not to share the megaupload links of each CD elsewhere. I would like if you respected his decision.

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Disc 1 [Foreign Movies --- 1962 - 1964]

Tracks:
01 - Matka Joanna od aniolów (Adam Walacinski)　
02 - Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi（Georges Auric）
03 - Due soldi di speranza (Alessandro Cicognini)
04 - Hets (Hilding Rosenberg)
05 - Umberto D. (Alessandro Cicognini)
06 - Smultronstället (Erik Nordgren)
07 - Aleksandr Nevskiy (Sergei Prokofiev)
08 - Pociag ("Moonray", Wanda Warska and Andrzej Kurylewicz　Quintet)
09 - L'amour à vingt ans (Georges Delerue)
10 - Cléo de 5 à 7 ("Sans toi", Corinne Marchand)
11 - Niewinni czarodzieje (Krzysztof Komeda)
12 - Tirez sur le pianiste (Georges Delerue)
13 - Ivanovo detstvo (Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov)
14 - Det sjunde inseglet (Erik Nordgren)
15 - Ilektra (Mikis Theodorakis)
16 - Le amiche (Giovanni Fusco)
17 - Ivan Groznyy (Sergei Prokofiev)
18 - That Kind of Woman (Daniele Amfitheatrof)
19 - L'année dernière à Marienbad (Francis Seyrig)
20 - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ("Jerusalem", Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
21 - Såsom i en spegel (Erik Nordgren)
22 - Une aussi longue absence (Georges Delerue)
23 - Viridiana ("Hallejujah Chorus", George Frideric Handel)
24 - Pasazerka (Tadeusz Baird)
25 - Neotpravlennoye pismo (Nikolai Kryukov)

Disc 2 [Foreign Movies --- 1965 - 1967]

Tracks:
01 - Shadows ("Nostalgia in Times Square", Charles Mingus)
02 - Advise & Consent (Jerry Fielding)
03 - This Sporting Life (Roberto Gerhard)
04 - Gycklarnas afton (Karl-Birger Blomdahl)
05 - Dama s sobachkoj (Nadezhda Simonyan)
06 - Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny (Adam Walacinski)　
07 - 8 1/2 (Nino Rota)
08 - I compagni (Carlo Rustichelli)
09 - The Sun Shines Bright (Steven Foster)
10 - Citizen Kane (Bernard Herrmann)
11 - King & Country (Larry Adler)
12 - I sequestrati di Altona (Dmitrii Shostakovich）　
13 - En lektion i kärlek (Dag Wirén)
14 - Pather Panchali (Ravi Shankar)
15 - Giulietta degli spiriti (Nino Rota)
16 - Il bell'Antonio (Piero Piccioni)
17 - Il momento della verità (Piero Piccioni)
18 - The Loved One
19 - Pierrot le fou　("Ma Ligne de Chance", Anna Karina)
20 - Bronenosets Potyomkin (Edmund Meisel)　
21 - La guerre est finie (Giovanni Fusco)
22 - Fahrenheit 451 (Bernard Herrmann)

Disc 3 [Foreign Movies --- 1968 - 1974]

Tracks:
01 - The Servant ("All Gone", Cleo Lane)
02 - Loin du Vietnam
03 - Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (Chantal Goya)
04 - Hitler, connais pas (Georges Delerue)
05 - Démanty noci
06 - Marat/Sade (Glenda Jackson)
07 - Le petit soldat
08 - Tini zabutykh predkiv (Miroslav Skorik)
09 - Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? (Michel Legrand)
10 - Week End (Antoine Duhamel)
11 - Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (Francis Seyrig)
12 - Oktyabr (Dmitrii Shostakovich）　
13 - Au hasard Balthazar (Jean Wiener)　
14 - Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Paul Misraki)
15 - O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro (Marlos Nobre)
16 - Aparajito (Ravi Shankar)　
17 - Cul-de-sac (Krzysztof Komeda)
18 - The Boys in the Band ("Anything Goes", Harpers Bizarre)
19 - Dyadya Vanya (Alfred Shnitke)
20 - Play It Again, Sam ("Blues for Alan Felix", Oscar Peterson)
21 - The Liberation of L.B. Jones (Elmer Bernstein)
22 - Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour (Hans Werner Henze)
23 - Andrey Rublyov (Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov)

Disc 4 [Japanese Movies --- 1963 - 1969]

Tracks:

01 - Pitfall (Toru Takemitsu)
02 - Ningen (Hikaru Hayashi)
03 - Kanojo to Kare (Toru Takemitsu)
04 - Silence Has No Wings (Teizo Matsumura)
05 - Yukoku ("Tristan und Isolde", Richard Wagner)
06 - Band of Ninja (Hikaru Hayashi)
07 - Ningen Johatsu (Toshiro Mayuzumi)
08 - Death By Hanging (Hikaru Hayashi)
09 - Nanami: Inferno of First Love ("Kamome", Maki Karumen)
10 - Nikudan (Main Theme, Masaru Sato)
11 - Saraba Natsu no Hikari (Toshi Ichiyanagi)
12 - Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
13 - Double Suicide (Toru Takemitsu)
14 - Boy (Hikaru Hayashi)
15 - Funeral Parade of Roses (Joji Yusasa)

Disc 5 [Japanese Movies --- 1970 - 1973]

Tracks:
01 - Apart from Life (Teizo Matsumura)
02 - Eros + Massacre (Toshi Ichiyanagi)
03 - The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Toru Takemitsu)
04 - Mujo (Toru Fuyuki)
05 - Heroic Purgatory(Toshi Ichiyanagi)
06 - Evil Spirits of Japan (Nobuyasu Okabayashi)
07 - Demons
08 - Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets ("Peace ~ Dadada", Hideki Ishima)
09 - The Ceremony(Toru Takemitsu)
10 - Mandara (Toru Fuyuki)
11 - Lost Lovers ("Mary Jane", Hiro Tsunoda)
12 - Confessions Among Actresses (Toshi Ichiyanagi)
13 - Ecstacy of Angels ("Umitsubame", Rie Yokoyama)
14 - Poem (Antonio Vivaldi)
15 - Summer Sister (Toru Takemitsu)
16 - Gozenchu no Jikanwari (Maple Leaf)
17 - The Music (Hikaru Hayashi)
18 - Aesthetics of a Bullet ("Fuzakerunjyaneeyo", Zunoukeisatsu)
19 - The Wanderers (Yukio Asami, Tei Kurisu)
20 - Coup d'Etat(Toshi Ichiyanagi)
21 - The Heart (Hikaru Hayashi)
22 - Jongara

Disc 6 [Japanese Movies --- 1974 - 1980]

Tracks:
01 - Himiko (Toru Takemitsu)
02 - Carol ("Kodomo tachi ni Yume wo", Carol)
03 - The Assassination of Ryoma (Teizo Matsumura)
04 - It was a Faint Dream (Ryohei Hirose)
05 - Death in the Country ("Kodomo Bosatsu", J.A. Shiizaa)
06 - Human Bullet ("Ransei", Masaru Sato)
07 - Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Filmmaker (W.A.Mozart)
08 - Death at an Old Mansion (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
09 - Preparation for a Festival (Teizo Matsumura)
10 - Variations ("Ai no Kageri", Shin Nakamaru)
11 - Dead Horizon ("Kuroinu", Noboru Ando)
12 - The Youth Killer (Godiego)
13 - Japanese Navel ("Aishiteiruyo", Mako Midori)
14 - Kuroki Taro: Love and Adventure (Masaru Sato)
15 - Nuclear War (Teizo Matsumura)
16 - Third (Michi Tanaka)
17 - Double Suicide at Sonezaki (Ryudo Uzaki)
18 - New Disqualified Person (Akira Otsu)
19 - Keiko (Jun Fukamachi)
20 - No More Easy Life (Sachi Arai)
21 - Disciples of Hippocrates (Shuichi Chino)
22 - Mr. Mrs. Miss Lonely (Shuichi Chino)

Disc 7 [Japanese Movies --- 1981 - 1992]

Tracks:
01 - Zigeunerweisen (Pablo Sarasates)
02 - Empire of Kids (Kosei Yamamoto)
03 - Distant Thunder (Takayuki Inoue)
04 - Hear the Wind Sing ("California Girls", The Beach Boys)
05 - At This Late Date The Charleston ("Mapel Leaf Rag", Scott Joplin)
06 - Exchange Students (Robert Schumann)
07 - Lonely Hearts Club Band in September (Ryudo Uzaki)
08 - Tatoo Ari ("Hashabye Seagull", Ryudo Uzaki)
09 - Kidnapping Blues ("Mai no Snow Samba part 2", Yosuke Yamashita)
10 - The Family Game ("I Could Have Danced All Night", Oscar Peterson)
11 - The Mosquito on the 10th Floor (Katsuo Ohno)
12 - The Deserted City ("End Title", Nobuhiko Obayashi)
13 - Mermaid Legend (Toshiyuki Honda)
14 - The Crazy Family
15 - Farewell to the Ark ("Main Theme", J.A. Shiizaa)
16 - Funeral (Joji Yusasa)
17 - Until the Party Declares Itself Dead, I Live with Flowers (Ryudo Uzaki)
18 - Typhoon Club ("Kurayami de Dance", Barbee Boys)
19 - Snow Mountain ("Tokyo Boogie Woogie", Ryoichi Hattori)
20 - Nostalgia (Toshinori Kondo)
21 - The Strange Tale of Oyuki (Hikaru Hayashi)

Notes #18 - Cinema (I)

(Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki, 1960)

The petrified screen
walls, bones,
the rough camera movement
of universal laws,
the strict calculation of light
wherein the material, already weary
automatons, metals,
wrap little by little
in the slow loveness
which is the almost indistinguishable work
of the mould splotches
the rust, the rarified space
and a hasty clock on my chest.


- Carlos de Oliveira