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The Japan TimesA 180-year-old samurai home in rural Ehime is getting a second life — as a center for art, community and cultural revival. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/05/japan/society/akiya-rural-revitalization-ehime/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/05/japan/society/akiya-rural-revitalization-ehime/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/akiya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#akiya</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ehime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ehime</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ozu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ozu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/depopulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#depopulation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ruralrevitalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ruralrevitalization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/samurai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#samurai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tourism</a>

marilynOur household has been doing a slow retrospective of the films of Yasujiro Ozu for the past few months. He was such a distinctive filmmaker! I feel so fortunate to be able to find all of his surviving films online. It's really a treat to be able to watch them all sequentially, in the privacy of our home.Prior to this retrospective, we'd only seen three of his films: Tokyo Story, Late Spring, and Good Morning. I recall the first two of those as achingly beautiful and perfect, and I'm really looking forward to rewatching them in the coming weeks. Good Morning was lighter fare, but still quite good - and it was the one that inspired us to do this retrospective.Anyway, having started with his earliest surviving silent films and continued through to the talkies, we've worked our way through to the postwar melodrama "A Hen in the Wind". I found myself yelling at the screen a few times because the husband was such a jerk in that film, but it was still interesting to watch. (Ozu himself apparently saw that film as a failure, though, and... I respect his opinion on the matter.)Next in the sequence will be Late Spring, which we'll probably watch tomorrow or Monday. We briefly considered skipping it (having seen it before), but not for long. It's a beautiful film, and I simply want to watch it again.This is fun! Any other Ozu fans out there?<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Ozu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ozu</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/YasujiroOzu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YasujiroOzu</a>

Nevin ThompsonAlways loved the look and feel of this movie... confronting reality in an obscure island village on the sunny Inland Sea. And yet, a stage set with a curtain of rain. I think what makes this scene work particularly well is that both actors, being originally from Osaka, speak natural <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/Osaka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Osaka</a> dialect. Often imitated, but (irritatingly) never mastered unless you come from that part of Japan. <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/ozu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ozu</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/floatingweeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#floatingweeds</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cinema</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/%E6%B5%AE%E8%8D%89" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#浮草</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/%E5%B0%8F%E6%B4%A5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#小津</a> <a href="https://famichiki.jp/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#film</a>

Pablo<a href="https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ZhiZhu</a> ...and "my" phone from 2015 is now alive thanks to deactivate google upddates! Better options: <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/metager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metager</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#duckduckgo</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/qwant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#qwant</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/ecosia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecosia</a> (remember <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/oz%C3%BA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ozú</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/ol%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#olé</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/elcano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elcano</a>..) and many others....

Ricardo Harvin<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/InSearchOfOzu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InSearchOfOzu</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheCriterionChannel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheCriterionChannel</a> 2018, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DirectedBy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DirectedBy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DanielRaimi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DanielRaimi</a>, is an interesting, gentle look at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/objects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#objects</a> the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/director" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#director</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/YasujiroOzu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YasujiroOzu</a> used in, and to create, his <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#films</a>, done in a way that imbues the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/inanimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inanimate</a> with an <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/essence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#essence</a>, a sense of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spirit</a>, that let them <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/act" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#act</a> as representations of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artist</a> and shows, literally, how they helped <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ozu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ozu</a> express his ideas on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#film</a>.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Documentaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Documentaries</a> like this <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/teach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#teach</a> me how little I really know or understand about making <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#movies</a>.<a href="http://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/in-search-of-ozu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/in-search-of-ozu</a>

Indigo<a href="https://zirk.us/@nadinmai" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nadinmai</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/film" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@film</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/art_film" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@art_film</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MUBi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MUBi</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/FilmMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FilmMovement</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/CriterionChannel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriterionChannel</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Ozu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ozu</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SatyaditRay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SatyaditRay</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/JohnCassavetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnCassavetes</a>

Elisa CoghlanIf you're in NYC, a high recommendation for "To Save and Project," the annual MoMA film preservation fest, going on now.One highlight: The US premier of a restored "Kaze no naka no mendori (A Hen in the Wind)" by Yasujiro Ozu. <a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8362" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8362</a><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Film</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MoMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MoMA</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/FilmPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FilmPreservation</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NYC</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Ozu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ozu</a>

KinetographTokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953) <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Film</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TokyoStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TokyoStory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/YasujiroOzu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YasujiroOzu</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ozu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ozu</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Movies</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cinema</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JapaneseFilm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapaneseFilm</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JapaneseCinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JapaneseCinema</a>

Hossein Sharif<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ozu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ozu</a> might be famous for his clever use of static shots but it's not because he doesn't understand how to use motion... It's just that he is very restrained and picky about when to use it. Look at this shot.. when during a quarrel the characters enters the room... His uneven stance and the little curtain flailing behind him .. just marvelous. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cinema</a>

Hossein Sharif<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ozu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ozu</a> s use of color is so masterfully calculated, watching his colour films ruins other colour films for you... I particularly like his colour arrangements in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/goodmorning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goodmorning</a>

Hossein SharifI mean yes the world might be slowly inching toward annihilation... but why don't you just look at these shots from <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ozu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ozu</a> s <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/floatingweeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#floatingweeds</a> and forget all that...

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