A Japanese Mirror

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by Ian Buruma

Tani Naomi being tortured again in Nawa to Hada (Rope and Skin)

  An Edo-period courtesan in a print by Utamaro, about 1796

  Modern Japanese amusing themselves at a geisha party in a long-forgotten film

  Scene in a ‘Toruko’ massage parlour in a porn film, appropriately entitled Toruko

  Female stars playing the romantic male leads in the Takarazuka version of Rose of Versailles

  Tamasaburo, the most popular young onnagata, playing an Edo-period courtesan in full regalia

  Romance in the Takarazuka theatre

  The young Yoshitsune as a fighting bishonen in a picture by Takabatake Kasho

  Young Kirokku in a fighting mood in Suzuki Seijun’s Elegy to Fighting

  Miyamoto Musashi, the archetypal hero of the Hard School, in Inagaki Hiroshi’s Ketto Ganryujima (Final Duel on Ganryu Island) 1955

  Kamikaze pilots waiting for departure in Aa Tokubetsu Kogekitai (Ah, The Special Attack Forces)

  The assassination attempt on Moronao in Inagaki Hiroshi’s 1962 film Chushingura (Tale of the Forty-seven Ronin)

  Ichikawa Raizo as a tattooed yakuza hero

  Death of the oyabun.

  The man in the suit (a rare occurrence) is Tsuruta Koji. The man on the extreme right is Takakura Ken

  Sugawara Bunta shooting his opponent in the stomach in Fighting Without Nobility

  Takakura Ken purifying his sword with saké

  Sugawara Bunta, the nihilist hero

  Good old Tora-san

  Crowds queuing to see the newest Tora-san film

 

 

 


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