Perhaps best known as Teshigahara’s “Woman in the Dunes,” she shimmered as the focus of the original 1964 international poster—on which Kôji Mitsui snuck in alongside her above the title. 🤭
Kôji Mitsui—convinced Tomoko Fumino has cuckolded him—compares Akira Ishihama’s face to his newborn baby’s, in Minoru Shibuya’s “Crazy Village” (1957, a/k/a “The Unbalanced Wheel”), soon to be screened by 国立映画アーカイブ 🫣
Blogger “Gondola 1987” still has a post up that’s chock full of screen caps from Shibuya’s “Crazy Village” (1957, a/k/a “The Unbalanced Wheel”)—soon to be screened by 国立映画アーカイブ—including this fun one of Isao Yamagata and Kôji Mitsui.
Wow! パッキー has the Hisaya Morishige introduction plus the opening credits—with evocative calligraphy and Toshirô Mayuzumi’s terrific music—from Shibuya’s elusive “Crazy Village” (1957, a/k/a “The Unbalanced Wheel”), soon to be screened by 国立映画アーカイブ 🫢
