Osaka Elegy, 1936, Kenji Mizoguchi

Piccadilly At Night. London. 1955, Ernst Hass

The early cinema technique that became a sensation.

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Street Corner at World's End, London, 1954, Inge Morath

Sisters of the Gion (1936)

Cinematography by Minoru Miki
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

i watched osaka elegy immediately after reading this chapter of figures traced in light by bordwell

Sisters of the Gion, 1936, Kenji Mizoguchi

Isuzu Yamada, in moga (modern girl) clothes for Osaka Elegy, 1936, Kenji Mizoguchi

Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

Osaka Elegy, 1936, Kenji Mizoguchi

Osaka Elegy, 1936, Kenji Mizoguchi

Teenagers. London, 1954, Frank Horvat

Wrote about the unease of empty rooms and why I keep photographing them.

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Wife! Be Like a Rose!, 1936, Mikio Naruse

Women sunbathing, Piccadilly Square, London, 1953. In the background the cinema is showing The Thing from Another World.

42. Wife! Be Like a Rose!, 1936, Mikio Naruse

'There's a clear American influence. An extra whistles My Blue Heaven, there's a Hollywood mag cover on the fiance's wall and Kimiko hails a taxi by thumbing like Gable and Colbert in It Happened One Night.'

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'Maybe these rooms are empty like traps.'

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Samuel Beckett, on the set of Film, 1964, Steve Schapiro