I -think- Momoiro-Usagi will join
http://www.shinsengumimb.com
I invited him/her for the chat session and momoiro missed it only
because of a prior engagement. Anyways I keep telling her/him to
join.
****so if we pose questions regarding translations and what not on
shinsengumimb.com try to be clear because momoiro keeps saying that
he/she is happy to help...the problem is momoiro has NO IDEA what
she's getting into....
I don't have time to edit and some stuff we know but momoiro's
opinions are pretty neat.
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[I mentioned Sagara, Phil]
In Japan, although Saigou, Okubo, and Katsura are famous, almost all
men do not know Sagara.
Of course, RK made him famous partly. However, for most Japanese, he
is obscurity.
I got to know him with the book which I read by chance at the time
of a high school student.
I thought that it was a very merciless talk.
In Japan, the style of a text has changed to Meiji Era considerably.
Furthermore, the text style has changed also after WW2.
Japanese people cannot read the text of the Edo period in many
cases, either. Please do your best, although I think that there are
many Japanese sites which cannot be translated.
[mentioned Romulus Hillsborough's previous work and future book on
the Shinsengumi]
I read a part of the site.
Is "RYOMA-Life of a Renaissance Samurai" a novel?
It seems to be interesting as long as I look at a reviews.
Is it Shinsengumi which assassinated Ryoma with this book? The
review has said it.
The culprit who assassinated Ryoma is still unknown.
Surely, there is an opinion which makes Shinsengumi a culprit.
However, opinion that Sasaki Tadasaburou of Mimawarigumi
assassinated is leading now. But this is testimony of the friend who
was Mimawarigumi, after Sasaki dies. This testimony has many opaque
portions and Saigou Takamori is related. Therefore, there is an
opinion of a true culprit in Saigou. The fact does not clarify
[The Last Samurai]
I was surprised very much by TLS. I think that many Japanese were
surprised. TLS was wonderful Jidaigeki although there were many
mistakes and strange scenes. Can the present Japanese movie make the
movie which tells Bushido as wonderfully as TLS?
It cannot reply to me. "Twilight Samurai" was a long run in Japan.
However, I do not so like it.
[Jin Roh:The Wolf Brigade]
The work of Oshii Mamoru with what I looked at is only "Jin-Roh".
What kind of image do Americans have in wolf?
In Japan, there is the image "loneliness", "the strongest animal",
and "the ruined animal" .
A long time ago, wolfs was in Japan. They were the strongest animals
in this island country.
They did not build a group but it liked acting alone. They were
ruined by man after all.
I think that various images are mixed to "Jin-roh".
[Hiroshi Kurogane's Shinsengumi book and the animated film directed
by Kon Ichikawa]
DVD is not released.
The work makes Manga of Kurogane Hiroshi the original.
I have read Manga.
The fan who wants to see handsome Hijikata and handsome Okita seldom
reads. However, among the favorite fans of a historical fact, it is
a popular work.
Manga of Shinsengumi is planned and announced by some magazines this
year.
Some are likely to become a long series although many are short
stories.
The day when you read these works may come.
Incidentally, manga which I like is this.
http://www.youngsunday.com/rensai/comics/getsumei.html
Getsumeiseiki -sayonara Shinsengumi-
This manga is good at depiction of the scene using a sword.
Now, only two volumes are put on the market.
I think that a series should just continue for a long time.
As for the old "Shinsengumi Keppuroku", DVD will be released in July
and afterwards.
This work built the foundation of the present Shinsengumi
popularity. Therefore, there are many old fans.
The actor who played Hijikata with this work is playing the elder
brother of Hijikata's blindness in the Taiga drama.
(In fact, Hijikata had the elder brother of the blindness on 24
years old.)
I saw "Die a Samurai" (Shinsengumi shimatsuki), "TABOO" (Gohatto),
and "Mibugishiden movie" .
Although "TABOO" was disrepute at the fan of Shinsengumi, it was
popular to other people. (Kondou and Hijikata age too much.)
This movie is created based on two pieces of short tales
in "Shinsengumi keppuroku" which Shiba Ryoutarou wrote.
Although this movie is a fiction, it is the truth that there was a
disturbance of homosexuality in Shinsengumi.
"Mibugishiden" also has TV drama besides a movie.
Watanabe Ken was performing Yoshimura Kanichirou.
Although it is a good work, Saitou of Satou Kouichi or Odagiri Joe
(The actor of Taiga drama) cannot be recommended to a favorite
person.
Frightful Saitou is appearing. (Do you know Takenaka Naoto?)
[momoiro is referring the actor from SHALL WE DANCE...the funny guy
not Koji Yakusho]
About Satou Kouichi (KOICHI SATO)
Have you seen the movie of Shinsengumi in which Mifune Toshirou
performed Kondou Isami?
The actor (Mikuni Rentarou) who is performing Serizawa Kamo with
that work is Satou's father.
Mikuni is an actor very famous for Japan. And Serizawa which he
performed is also famous.
Therefore, Satou desired to perform Serizawa.
[Japanese film buffs will recall that Rentaro Mikuni starred in such
classics as BURMESE HARP, Harakiri/Seppuku, KAIDAN and more]
***Rentarou Mikuni is Koichi Sato's father...cool...