land legs ( french : tempête ) is a 2015 french drama film written and directed by samuel collardey .

it was screened at the 72nd venice international film festival , where dominique leborne was awarded best actor in the horizons section .

land legs

it took the astronauts some time to regain their land legs after the long space mission .
stryker , awkward on his land - legs , stumbled and fell in an ill - calculated attempt to hoist himself hastily back into the vehicle .
get together to spend an afternoon on land & sea , become immersed in water , while more activities await on dry land . dave ' s cast of characters land & sea party makes that all happen .
just a little note , if your land legs don ' t come back by monday , go see your doctor . i had a similar problem after my first cruise - but i had an inner ear virus . it lasted about a month before my land legs got back . had to do drops several times a day .
i always get my sea legs very quickly . my land legs are a bit more reluctant to come back . a trick i learned few years ago was to take bonine the day we get off the ship and for the next few days after . it works perfectly !
sea legs was an arcane [ 1 ] and divine magic spell that could give a creature the ability to keep its balance and maneuver on board a vessel being tossed by waves . the reverse of this spell , called land legs , removed this ability , making it difficult and possibly dangerous to attempt any action on a heaving deck . as a healing effect , sea legs also prevented sea sickness . [ 2 ]
1 . 5 cups land legs rum 2 cans good quality coconut milk 1 can evaporated milk 1 can condensed milk 2 star anise 1 teaspoon regular anise seeds 2 sticks cinnamon 1 inch fresh ginger crushed 1 . 5 cup sugar 1 cup water
everyone who suffers from sea sickness dreams of ' getting their sea legs ' . but what does this actually mean , and how do you do it ?
in mdds , the symptoms * may persist for a month ( or more ) , and possibly many years . this differs from the very common condition of
land sickness
( sea legs ) that most people feel for a short time after a motion event such as a boat
the knee is a joint , actually the largest joint in the body . your knees provide stability and allow your legs to bend , swivel , and straighten .
some people after spending a long time in very rough conditions become
land sick
the moment they leave the boat for a while .
getting your sea legs means that your brain adjusts to the rolling and pitching of the boat or ship , learning to compensate for it , and ultimately experiencing the motion as ' normal ' . therefore , your symptoms of sea sickness disappear without need for any further treatments or medication . you are then said to ' have your sea legs ' .
ligaments are rope - like cords that bind bones to bones or cartilage to bones . there are four ligaments in the knee that help connect the femur to the tibia and keep your legs stable :
in order to cast this spell , the priest had to touch the person or creature being targeted . the effects lasted an hour for every level the priest had achieved . sea legs gave a person or creature the sense of balance that normally required years of sailing experience to develop , such that they could move about on a vessel in high seas and not be subject to sea sickness . if cast in reverse , land legs caused the target to lose this ability such that all movements and actions could result in being knocked off their feet . and made it difficult to stand back up . [ 2 ]
just got back in from a day sail . winds out of the south at 20 knots gusting to 30 . it was a great day to sail . it takes me and the wife about 5 min to get our sea legs and we don ' t have any issues with getting our land legs back . however after the sail today we both sat down at our own computers at the same time and both noticed we still felt like we were on the boat after looking at the computer screens . weird . we normaly don ' t feel like we are still on the boat even after spending days on it .
finally getting your sea legs feels fabulous ! but beware the flip side - now that your brain has adjusted to conditions at sea as ' normal ' you may need another period of adjustment when you disembark and return to firm ground . the ' drunken sailor walk ' is a common sight amongst those returning from a cruise , and fortunately for most people it is short lived ( no more than 24 hours ) . however , a few people will have trouble readjusting to life on land , and experience more prolonged land sickness ( in other words ' reverse sea sickness ' ) . medically this is known as mdds (
i ' ve had times where i get
land sick
so bad that i ' m about to barff on the docks . but back on the boat i ' m fine . . .
we are very proud of our rum . there . we said it . it is distilled in small batches using american cane sugar . the result is a classic puerto rican style rum—smokey , rich , spicy—perfect for making mojitos , daiquiris , caipirissima ( same as caipirinhas but made with silver rum ) or classic cuba libres ( rum and coke ) . although , if you asked us , as with all our spirits , land legs is delish just on its own .
. . . we ' ve been back since sunday , it ' s now friday and all of us are still feeling a bit wobbly , it gets better by the day , but we had no idea that getting your sea legs meant giving up your land legs as much as we have . . . . . . how long does it usually take ? by the way , we ' re all first timers , so we don ' t have any previous experience to draw upon . . . . . . thanks . . . cheers , the imagineers ncl cruise on the wind - aug 27 / 06 , it was great , i ' ll miss the wind . upcoming oceania cruise on the insignia - apr 28 / 07
i have some good news though ; i think my land legs are slowly coming back . i don ' t feel it much today . every once in awhile i feel some movement , but for the most part i think it ' s going away . it has been exactly a week ago today that i got off the ship , so i guess that ' s not as bad as it could have been . thanks to all of you for the tips ! i ' m just glad i wasn ' t the only one .
chazelle’s first film , guy and madeline on a park bench , stars a jazz trumpeter . his second film , whiplash , stars miles teller as an ambitious drummer who’s obsessed with jazz . his third , la la land , stars ryan gosling as a man who wants to resuscitate jazz music in los angeles like it’s bessie smith slowly gasping her last breaths outside a mississippi “whites only” hospital . gosling isn’t just obsessed with jazz , he’s convinced that the genre is on its last legs and it’s his sole purpose in life to restore it to glory .
seriously , tho . . . . i have pretty much lost the feeling , just a little unsteadiness every once in a while . and it ' s been alomost a whole week ! the bonine may be the ticket . . . . my one friend on the cruise took bonine , and never had
land legs
. . . . her boyfriend didn ' t take it , and he ' s still swaying a little too . i didn ' t take it either . try it . . . . after you do an ept , that is ! !
when you get back to land , your brain still has these senses decoupled , and these independent , multiple sensory attacks can once again lead to conflicting interpretations . it is this conflict of interpretation ( tetris effect ? ) that feels like a rocking motion .
depending on how long you are aboard and in what conditions , it can take days or a week or two to adjust back to land . when we moved off the boat for a while this past fall , it took about a week , i think .
unfortunately , getting your sea legs on one trip doesn ' t guarantee that your problems with sea sickness are over . the tolerance that you have developed is likely to be for the unique movements of that particular boat or ship . so unless your next trip is on the same , or very similar , vessel , your brain is likely to need another period of readjustment . this means that you will probably have to earn your sea legs anew on each trip . at least the time required for this adjustment is likely to be shorter than last time , and many people do report that their symptoms become less and less severe with increased exposure to boats and ships .
the wayward side effect of casting gosling as this jazz whisperer is that la la land becomes a trojan horse white - savior film . much like matt damon with ancient china in the great wall or tom cruise in the last samurai , in la la land , the fate of a minority group depends on the efforts of a well - intentioned white man : gosling ' s character wants to play freestyle jazz instead of the christmas jingles he’s been hired to perform because , damn it , if the people can’t hear real jazz , then it’s going to cease to exist .
that is what we around here call pcd : post cruise depression when we went on ncl dawn last year , i was holding onto walls while walking down the hallway for days . it didn ' t completely go away for 6 weeks ! ! ! i have vertigo so i ' m sure that compounded it . it ' s funny , though , it was completely gone after i booked another cruise . . . . . . hmmmmmm . . . . seriously though , some folks say to take an anti - motions sickness med to help get your land legs back . others will say book another cruise ( like me ! ! ! ) anyway , happy sailing !
flying a drone in a civil environment with clear skies can eventually take a toll on a drone . but flying a drone in less than desirable weather such a storm with strong winds can greatly impact the life expectancy of this life - saving hardware . this became evident when a bad landing caused one of the landing legs of the drone to break rendering it useless ! although a factory manufactured replacement leg is cheap , only costing a few bucks , the material is a relatively flimsy plastic which would most likely break during the next bad landing . so , the carova land rescue team and the carova sea rescue team got together and decided we could make a drone leg better than the original .
i certainly have mdds as well after living aboard for years . last winter on land , i noticed my sense of balance was off . it always felt like i was walking around on the boat . however ( luckily ) , once i started moving in any way other than walking , my balance was fine . so fortunately , my snowboarding wasn ' t affected !
i took natural dramamine with ginger in it and i had a couple alcohol shots while i was on my cruise , but now i ' m here on land for 4 days and still feel like i feel the emotion of the boat rocking back and forth . that ' s what i feel like when i am walking . have i done something wrong by mixing the two things ?
. . . . in mdds , the symptoms * may persist for a month ( or more ) , and possibly many years . this differs from the very common condition of
land sickness
( sea legs ) that most people feel for a short time after a motion event such as a boat cruise . * the symptoms most frequently reported include : a persistent sensation of motion usually described as rocking , swaying , or bobbing ; difficulty maintaining balance ; extreme fatigue ; difficulty concentrating (
brain fog
) ; dizziness , headaches and / or migraine headaches , confusion , and anxiety . many patients also describe ear symptoms such as hyperacusis , tinnitus ,
fullness
, pain , or even decreased hearing . cognitive impairment (
brain fog
) includes an inability to recall words , short term memory loss , and an inability to multi - task .
the way you move also can help you prevent knee injuries . if your sport involves a lot of jumping , make sure to bend your knees when you land , which takes pressure off of the acl . do you have to cut laterally or pivot frequently in your sport ? use your joints to crouch and bend at the knees and hips , reducing your chance of a ligament injury .
damien chazelle likes jazz music . but more than blaming his musical obsession for la la land , i suppose i can blame carl van vechten . it is , after all , van vechten ' s 1926 novel nigger heaven that fueled white interest in the harlem renaissance and led to the gentrification of the neighborhood’s nightclubs and brownstones . white interest in harlem and jazz music became widespread and likely indirectly led to chazelle’s father’s interest in jazz . after a november screening of la la land , chazelle regaled a crowd at the chateau marmont with a story about how his father influenced his love for the genre : “he was a jazz obsessive and made sure that i listened to it . . . . i love jazz and i grew up playing jazz drums , so it’s always been the music i’ve felt most connected to . ”
i don ' t usually have a problem adjusting to being back on land - what i do have a problem adjusting to is having to get my wallet out each time i buiy something . a person gets used to just signing their name ! i still remember my first cruise , getting off the ship , arriving at the airport , buying a candy bar - and it took me a full minute to realize the clerk wanted money ! boy was my face red ! ! ! made me want to get back on the ship !
it certainly varies for me - - some times i feel the land rocking for days , and other times not at all . i kind of like it , since if i close my eyes i get to pretend i ' m back on the boat ( although i do remember waking up in a hotel bed in honolulu , holding the edge of the mattress in a death - grip and convinced that i was about to be pitched onto the floor ) . what is strange to me is that after a long passage i sometimes feel completely solid once on shore , but then motion starts up a day or two later .
i took me a good 5 - 6 days to lose that feeling of the motion of the ocean . however , i wore the patch when i was on the ship , and took it off the second we were on land . i have since been told that it is best to leave it on for a few days so that the medicine can slowly leave your system as the patch loses effectiveness . some people wind up taking a bonine , dramamine , gravol or meclazine just to get rid of the wooziness . it will definitely disappear , but once it does , you know it is time to start looking for another cruise ! ! !
on our first cruise , i didn ' t feel any after effects . on the second one , i had that feeling for a day . it seems to get last longer after each subsequent cruise . after our last trans , it wasn ' t completely gone for about 2 - 3 months . toward the end of the time , the feeling comes and goes . i love the rocking motion of the ship and am not ill at all . since i am naturally clumsy on land and seem to be perfectly okay on the ship , hubby insists that my equilibrium is normally off - kilter so that on the ship with the swaying i am normal .
next , the two boxes are seperated and the object is removed . because the casting sand is sticky and will retain its shape , when the two box are brought back together a hollow cavity exist in the shape of the object we will cast . pour holes and vent holes are made and molten hot aluminium is poured into the pour hole and fills up the cavity . once the aluminium cools and hardens the aluminium can be safely removed from the sand . if all goes well then the new cast should be nearly identical to the original . many thanks to joe cloonan from the sea rescue team for his knowledge and casting skills ! ! as it turned out , land & sea rescue teams did quite an impressive job 🙂
freeze : gather players in the shallow end of the pool . define the boundaries of play so that everyone can stand up in the water . adults should play on their knees ! one person is designated as the
it .
at the sound of the whistle ,
it
has one minute to tag as many other players as he can . once a person is tagged , that player must stand still ( freeze ) and raise his hand . before a frozen player can return to action , an unfrozen player must thaw him out by submerging and swimming through his legs . a player cannot be tagged and frozen if he is underwater . at the end of the minute , blow the whistle and designate an unfrozen player as
it .
keep this game going until everyone has had a chance to be
it .
the winner is whoever has the most frozen players at the end of his stint as
it .
i ' ve had times where i get
land sick
so bad that i ' m about to barff on the docks but back on the boat , i ' m fine . . . the wife says its
pay - back
time for laughing at her while she had her head over the side . . she used to feel bad for being sick the first day out on a long trip but we stopped into the west marine ' s book store , in sausalito , a couple years ago and while talking to the woman who ran the place , the woman told her to be grateful as when she went out for a long passage , she was sick for the first five days . the wife dosen ' t feel so bad anymore . . . . . .
if this sounds exceptionally nitpicky , my gripe certainly isn’t eating me alive in a season populated by such great films as moonlight , hidden figures , and fences . but you should also know that la la land opens with a stunning and visually masterful dance sequence sung by an incredibly diverse group of los angeles denizens — but after the song concludes , we immediately cut to stone in her car on the way to an audition and her love story with gosling begins when he honks his horn at her on the freeway . those people of color who gave it their all in the opening sequence , perhaps to remind oscar voters of that hamilton musical they love so much , are quickly whisked away so the caucasian sing - along can begin . it’s hard to be upset when the whiplash ( yeah , whiplash ) is so immediate . frankly , it’s fucking hilarious .
chazelle’s aforementioned first film , guy and madeline on a park bench , actually stars a black man ( jason palmer ) and a latina woman ( desiree garcia ) . but that was the debut indie film of a harvard graduate , not a studio film with a $ 30 million budget . why tell the story more authentically when you can just try to recreate gosling and stone’s film chemistry ( presumably from crazy , stupid , love and not the flop gangster squad ) ? according to variety , chazelle spoke to michael b . jordan about portraying gosling’s role at one point , but that possibility imagines lionsgate either producing an oscar - contending film about two black people struggling through the world of jazz music rather than slavery or jordan courting a white actress for a modern update of save the last dance . both scenarios seem implausible . an advertisement for van vechten’s 1926 novel in the new yorker once asked , “why go to harlem cabarets when you can read nigger heaven ? ” perhaps now you could just watch la la land .
update , 1 : 20 pm pt : alfonso cuaron ’s jury for the 72nd venice film festival spread out its prizes across several well - received titles tonight , but it also shut out some performances and critical favorites which had been among the most discussed . what’s more , it made history by giving the first golden lion ever to a latin american film .
that drama , from afar ( desde alla ) , is also the first feature by helmer lorenzo vigas and the first ever venice entry from venezuela . the plot centers on a wealthy middle - aged man who falls for a street thug , changing both their lives . it’s based on a story by 21 grams writer guillermo arriaga .
coming into the fest , chief alberto barbera had told me that latin america was “ one of the most interesting areas from the point of view of emerging talent . ” it was also well - represented in the awards with argentina’s pablo trapero taking the best director silver bear for el clan . the film , about the murderous , kidnapping puccio family of the 1980s , has been a box office smash at home for fox international productions which also has u . s .
in a post - ceremony news conference tonight , cuaron rejected a suggestion that his mexican heritage may have been an influence on the outcome of the jury’s deliberations . “i have as much sway as the king or queen of sweden . my role is more representative than anything else . even if i had wanted ( to support latin america ) it would have been a bigger conspiracy and i would have had to share the money , ” he joked .
despite widespread praise throughout the fest , the folks that didn’t get lido callbacks for tonight’s awards ceremony included the danish girl ‘s eddie redmayne and alicia vikander ; along with a bigger splash ‘s ralph fiennes . cuaron said of the jury’s choices in general , “this is not a testament of a universal truth . this is just this decision of this group of people . you know if you put the same films with a different group of people , you would have a different result . an award doesn’t prove much . the only thing that proves something is time and history . ”
it might be worth remembering that birdman and michael keaton left the lido empty - handed last year .
among the popular choices that did take a nod was charlie kaufman and duke johnson’s stop - motion brainteaser anomalisa which scooped the grand jury prize . the existential musing is one of the hot acquisition titles in toronto and scored a huge round of applause from the press corps when its name was called here tonight .
also getting his fair share of applause was abraham attah , the beasts of no nation star who won the best new young actor award . in the film , netflix’s first major feature attempt at awards season glory , attah plays the child soldier recruited by idris elba’s warlord . in a press conference last week he was clearly shy in communicating with reporters . tonight on stage , he seemed far more polished , thanking the festival , the jury , the producers , his fellow actors , elba and netflix .
french veteran fabrice luchini was named best actor for l’hermine , which also took best screenplay . italy’s own valeria golino was best actress for giuseppe gaudino’s per amor vostro , a drama about a neopolitan woman struggling to overcome depression .
a standout in the horizons section was brady corbet’s the childhood of a leader . corbet has been a longtime actor and this is his debut feature as helmer . the drama took the best first film prize as well as best director after falling apart several times in production and leading him to near despair , he said . he’d already been back in upstate new york yesterday when he go the call to come back — looks like the trip was worth it .
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sometimes it depends on your length of your cruise . with us it usually takes 3 to 5 days to totally forget you aren ' t on the ship anymore . have a great next cruise .
* 3rd time is not a charm . . . 5th time is ! *
the effects are different for every person . i get it after every cruise , even with very smooth ocean conditions . i just continue taking dramamine for a week after i return home . it ' s your inner ear readjusting to the lack of motion after having adjusted to the motion of the sea . i ' m the only one in my family who gets it . while some think it ' s not a big deal , it is very bothersome for me , it ' s not fun at all .
i think it also has to do with the length of the cruise . my first 2 cruises were very short ( first one we missed the boat . . . caught up to the boat on the last day of a 3 night cruise 2nd cruise was to nowhere . . only 2 nights . . . . felt fine afterwards . . . 3rd cruise 4 nights to key west and cozumel . . . . was holding on to walls for 3 - 4 days . my children ( who did not go on the cruise ) were getting quite a kick out of me holding on to them for balance . i do agree that when i started planning my next cruise the symptoms seemed to get better
my wife and i have never had this problem , i can never think of a single time whe either of us would stagger on a shore tour , let alone when we get off the ship at the end of a cruise , and , my wife has suffered from ' positional vertigo ' , but it has never been affected by cruising . john
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i thought it funny , when we were waitng in line after our 1st cruise to get our luggage and eveyone was swaying side to side . got a giggle from that .
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it takes me about 3 - 4 days to feel mostly normal . . but for a day or two after that i do feel the occasional sway . i kind of like it though . . i think of it as souvenir .
i actually would love to feel this effect . i find it amusing reading the posts . lol sorry but i was brought up on the water since i was 11 yrs . old , spend 4 years on the water in the coast guard , ran a charter fishing boat for 2 years . i guess if i had it , it was in my younger years . for the posters that take 1 to 4 days to recover , how do you get through the excurrsions ? lol drunk without drinking
for the posters that take 1 to 4 days to recover , how do you get through the excursions ?
. . . we actually started to notice the phenomenon on our first stop in ketchikan , my wife said she felt a bit dizzy and the other couple we were travelling with both said they felt a bit wobbly , after they started talking about it i also noticed i was feeling slightly unsteady . its not something that incapacitates you , its just a strange sensation that you probably get aclimatized to if you work for a living on a ship . it also affects people who travel by train , a girl i know who worked for amtrak for a few years said she had to get used to how it felt walking on solid ground after a week on board the train . . . cheers , the imagineers ncl cruise on the wind - aug 27 / 06 , it was great , i ' ll miss the wind . upcoming oceania cruise on the insignia - apr 28 / 07
after my 2nd cruise , it took me a month to recover from this . since then , i take seasick pills starting the night before cruise ( 1 / 2 a pill in the morning , 1 / 2 in the evening ) and for a couple of days afterwards . since that 2nd cruise , it ' s only taken me about 36 hours to get over the feeling .
after our cruise i was so used to adjusting to the motion of the sea that i couldn ' t take standing in line at the airport . i was actually hoping for turbulence on the plane so we would have some movement to calm me ! i found the bonine helped me not be nervous about the bouncing on the plane . but i still had trouble with the swaying . . .
jennybb we ' re fools whether we dance or not , so we might as well dance . dance first . think later . it ' s the natural order . ~ samuel beckett i don ' t want people who want to dance , i want people who have to dance . ~ george balanchine
it took me a full 2 weeks to recover from a one week cruise last month . since i had the same experience on my first cruise i wasn ' t too freaked out this time . it certainly is disconcerting and people think you ' re nuts or a hypochondriac if you tell them ! next time i ' m going to try what another poster said , continuing with the bonine for a few days after getting home .
it took me a full 2 weeks . i ' ve since learned that if you took bonine for motion sickness , you should continue taking it for at least a week after you return .
it ' s funny . . . i rarely feel motion after leaving the ship . . . that is until i close my eyes to rinse my hair in the shower ; then all the motion comes rushing in . i have nearly fallen once or twice .
how long your brain will take to adjust varies considerably , but the good news is that most people will start to feel better within 24 - 72 hours of boarding the boat or ship . some people will need longer for their symptoms to completely disappear , however . and an unlucky few will never fully adjust to the ship ' s movements . i ' ve read estimates that around 5 % of people are prone to severe and chronic sea sickness . nelson and darwin are both thought to have been chronic sufferers ( although neither can be said to have allowed sea sickness to have stood in their way ! ) .
how can you encourage your brain to adjust and develop tolerance ? well , unfortunately there isn ' t much you can do other than be patient and wait . do keep off alcohol and greasy and fatty foods , and follow the tips on the
pages . you can also experiment with trips on different types of boats and ships to see which you adjust to quickest and most easily . sailing boats , ferries , catamarans , hovercrafts and cruise ships all have different patterns of movement . your brain may well find it easier to adjust to some patterns than others .
see preventing motion sickness : overview of the options for more helpful suggestions on how to alleviate sea sickness , including remedies , treatments and medications .
stephanie , i feel the same way . i just got home from a cruise . it will be one week on tuesday , please tell me you are fine now . thanks !
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“there’s a rich complexity in the nose of this rum : confectioners’ sugar , white pepper , lemon peel , and more . but the hint of lightly smoky pineapple is what makes the aroma so inviting . the palate is no less complex , with more sugar , smoke , and spicy heat . the finish is long with a welcome , balancing heat and an earthy minerality . this is a very fine american light rum that would make an unforgettable daiquiri , but stands on its own neat . ” - reviewed by paul belbusti , urltoken
this rum was made for mixing . we love it in so many ways , year round . try some of our favorites below .
one could say that coquito “cokeeto” is the holiday beverage of choice in puerto rico . it is everywhere and there are many versions with many different ingredients . one thing it always has—silver rum and coconut milk . this is olga’s version of the famous eggnog - like beverage .
put the spices , sugar , and water and boil until reduced to almost half and in a thick syrup . strain the syrup to remove the spices and let cool a little . in a mixer , mix the rest of the ingredients and add rum until you taste a pretty strong drink . ( you might have to make this in batches , the mixer is important because you want to get rid of all the congealed coconut oil and mix it with the other ingredients ) pour it in flip top bottles and refrigerate . the coquito lasts for a couple of months refrigerated . serve in small glasses with a dusting of cinnamon .
note : you can put nutella in the mix , just omit the syrup . you can also put coffee ( one of my favorites ) or cocoa powder .
cola de mono is a holiday drink from chile . very easy to make and very tasty . just as with coquito , it can be stored in the fridge for quite a long time .
scald the milk with the sugar and espresso until the sugar is dissolved . let cool . mix with the other ingredients . put in fliptop bottle and refrigerate . serve with a cinnamon stick .
we are rum drinkers but this is a new discovery for us ! so much flavor ! so good ! totally balanced . like the good old classic it is .
mix all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake vigorously . serve in a martini glass garnished with orange peel .
mix all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake vigorously . serve in a martini glass .
fill a double old fashioned with ice cubes . pour rum and coke to fill glass . squeeze lime wedges .
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help ! i returned from the wonder cruise on 9 / 18 , but i am still feeling the motion ! i don ' t feel sick or anything . i just feel like i ' m still on the ship and feel like i ' m spinning sometimes when i ' m just sitting . how long will this last ? is there anything i can do ? i took some dramamine this morning which seemed to help just a little bit . anyone else have this problem ? thanks !
i had that problem , but it only lasted one or two days . it was the worst when i was lying down to sleep . it does go away though , so don ' t worry about that !
i was on a 7 night cruise and that feeling lasted for several days . unfortunately it sounds like you are at home because i have a
cure
for the motion that you feel in your head . we spent some time at wdw after the cruise and i found that by riding tower of terror that the motion of the ship disappeared for a couple of hours . i should have gotten a doctors note
prescribing
tot so i could have gotten to the front of the line whenever i need another
dose
.
i had this problem for about 2 - 1 / 2 weeks after we returned from our disney cruise in may 2002 . we just sailed on the voyager this past august and never had a problem . hth
and i am also having that problem . that first night was a doozy . . . . i notice it mostly when i ' m standing , casing my mail in the morning , i feel like the whole post office is moving
glad i am not the only one . . . we just got off the magic . . . i thought i was coming down with the flu or something .
last year my family headed home by car , after a week cruise . we got to a
rest stop
on i - 10 . when hubby and i headed up to the rest rooms we were swaying ! lol i thought , i hope a cop doesn ' t see us , he ' ll think we ' re drunk . we were home two days before i felt normal again .
we are also just back from the 9 / 13 magic . i am just starting to feel better today . my husband had to drive me to work since i don ' t even think that my reaction time was very good . if i had been pulled over , the cop would have thought that i had 12 - pack before driving ! thank goodness it is finally going away . i was begining to wonder !
the ground still
moves
but i don ' t feel sick to my stomach . i think the ideal solution though would be to just stay on board . . . .
i feel woozy after each cruise , too . th elast time i took bonine on the trip and afterward as well and it reduced the level of wooziness to almost nil .
stacey - no , i don ' t think it ' s a ' little souvenir ' . . . . . i love that commercial ! especially since i just got engaged on the cruise , i don ' t think i ' m ready for that just yet ! there were a few people ( including my fiance ' s mom ! ) who said they wanted me to bring back that ' little souvenir ' .
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is . these inputs are no longer to be trusted in this regard . so your brain decouples these stimuli .
randyonr3 may sometimes be experiencing a mild form of mal de debarquement syndrome ( mdds , or disembarkment syndrome ) , french for
sickness of disembarkation
.
* the symptoms most frequently reported include : a persistent sensation of motion usually described as rocking , swaying , or bobbing ; difficulty maintaining balance ; extreme fatigue ; difficulty concentrating (
brain fog
) ; dizziness , headaches and / or migraine headaches , confusion , and anxiety . many patients also describe ear symptoms such as hyperacusis , tinnitus ,
fullness
, pain , or even decreased hearing . cognitive impairment (
brain fog
) includes an inability to
words , short term memory loss , and an inability to multi - task .
well that explains it , i am suffering from late onset mdds , must have happened after that first longish trip of a couple of weeks about 20 years back . the symptons are really kicking in lately .
for a few days after returning from a trip of more than a few days .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ all men dream : but not equally . those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity : but the dreamers of the day are dangereous men , for they may act their dreams with open eyes , to make it possible . t . e . lawrence
i get it to . . . sometimes quite strongly . i have found the best cure is to get straight back on board ( in some sunny climb with a gentle breeze blowing and the call of the local birds , whilst a waft of barbeque something sooths my nostrils and . . . . .
i ' ve experienced the same reactions as paul e . i ' ll wake up in the middle of the night in my bed at home , thinking i ' m still on a mooring or an anchor and jump up to check the lines . after sailing through a 4 day low pressure system , i would wake up in bed , thinking the ceiling was the cabin sole . . . weird , but i kind of like it . . . but then , i ' m weird . . . i ' ve woken up from a dead sleep , thinking that my neighbors yellow driveway lights were shore lights and i ' m still on the boat . . . . . . i never get sick , though . . . if anything , upon realizing that i ' m actually home . . . i feel disappointed , wishing i were back on the boat ! ! . . .
trouble sleeping is definitely one of the symptoms . after 2 + years of cruising it took us about a month to get used to a bed that didn ' t move plus no creaking , groaning , wind generator noise , wave slaps , etc .
i still think may have had something to do with the computer screens . we were both fine until looking at them .
it was most certainly the computer screen or rather the visual concentration that brought on your symptoms . the eyes compensate for the over or false stimulation of the inner ear and proprioceptive system and as noted above the brain is trying to create order out of the input signals it is receiving . just as a mild imbalance in our eyes adds to the sensory conflict of motion sickness , ocular input is important for the recovery . ( patching one eye markedly decreases sea sickness ) if you would look up frequently from the screen and stare at the horizon , the effect would be mitigated to a great extent . or if you want to increase the stimulation and motion effect , stare at a rotating drum with stripes on it . ( caution , may induce a fish feeding episode . ) unfortunate student of sea sickness charlie
i have been getting a version of mds lately . it ' s the mal de suds version . same symptoms , room spinning etc . and in severe cases you will end up only
seeing
the ceiling for a brief period before blacking out . usually you ' ll wake up hours later with a thick tongue and bad breath .
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nice to know i ' m not the only one who gets that weird feeling . it usually happens when i ' m back at work after being on the boat all weekend and sit down to work at the computer . also i ' ve noted it happens when i take a shower . standing under the water , with your eyes closed , and i could swear the whole shower is swaying !


osaka elegy ( 浪華悲歌 naniwa erejii ) ( originally naniwa elegy ) is a 1936 japanese film directed by kenji mizoguchi .

mizoguchi considered the film his first serious effort as a director , and it was also his first commercial and critical success in japan .

osaka elegy is often considered a companion piece to mizoguchi 's next film , sisters of the gion , which was released the same year and featured much the same cast and crew .

although not among mizoguchi 's best-known works , osaka elegy continues to be acclaimed by critics .

osaka elegy

isuzu yamada , left , and chiyoko okura in osaka elegy ,  a 1936 film by kenji mizoguchi .
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scharres , barbara .
osaka elegy .
the criterion collection . 5 june 1995 . 21 january 2014 .
i can definitely agree that osaka elegy is genuinely the sort of film that everyone views as mizoguchi ' s norm .
浪華悲歌 ( naniwa ereji ) - osaka elegy ( 1936 ) english subtitles | noir of the orients . . | pinterest | youtube
readings : carole cavanaugh . “unwriting the female persona in osaka elegy and life of oharu” in mizoguchi the master , pp . 64 - 65
blakeslee , david .
a journey through the eclipse series : kenji mizoguchi ' s osaka elegy .
criterioncast . 18 may 2011 . 21 january 2014 .
naniwa elegy , or , as many know it , osaka elegy is often cited as kenji mizoguchi’s first real masterpiece . it won the kinema jumpo in 1936 as japan’s third best film , and marks the first collaboration between mizoguchi and his long time screen writer yoshikata yoda .
a critical and popular triumph , osaka elegy established mizoguchi as one of japan’s major filmmakers . the director ' s often - used leading actress isuzu yamada stars as ayako , a switchboard operator trapped in a compromising , ruinous relationship with her boss to help support her wastrel father . with its fluid cinematography and deft storytelling , osaka elegy ushered in a new era of sound melodrama for mizoguchi .
also offers a satiric view on what mizoguchi viewed as the city of osaka ' s materialistic culture .
kenji mizoguchi departed abruptly from his earlier sentimental films into a world of acute realism with osaka elegy . boldly critiquing the position of women in contemporary japanese society , the film examines a young woman’s victimization and desce…
mizoguchi’s bitter and bleak osaka elegy , shot in only 20 days and with visibly meagre means , was released into the nationalist mood at the height of japanese military success as a stunning affront to the deeply - ingrained patriarchal and capitalist structures of japanese culture . though mizoguchi would direct more acceptable samurai films under government order in the early to mid - 1940s , his country banned all screenings of osaka elegy in 1940 , issuing the claim that the film’s mood tended toward the “decadent” .
though mizoguchi’s camera techniques are more varied than those of his contemporary ozu yasujiro – and to whom he is often inevitably compared – he does favour long shots and compositions in depth in osaka elegy , crushing his characters under the weight of the frame and their surroundings .
osaka elegy / naniwa ereji / 浪華悲歌 . dir . : kenji mizoguchi , sc . : yoshikata yoda ( daiichi eiga japan 1936 ) cas . : isuzu yamada , seiichi takegawa , sd , b & w , 35mm , 6 , 394 feet . archive : jpt .
( 1936 ) is as much about osaka the place as it is about the character of ayako murai . ( the title in japanese ,
blind pianist nobuyuki tsujii cries while playing
elegy for the victims of the tsunami of march 11 , 2011 in japan
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michael kerpan wrote : mizoguchi ' s most genuinely feminist - ish films are probably osaka elegy , uwasa no onna and aien kyo ( straits of love and hate ) - - where male authority is ultimately rather thoroughly blown off . it is too bad aien kyo is unavailable in any decent version ( even unsubbed ) .
for any lover of cinema , naniwa elegy is definitely one to recommend . its narrative will leave you feeling emotionally drained , while its formal construction will leave you captivated .
a few other bits of information i forgot to include : last monday ( may 16 ) was kenji mizoguchi’s birthday , andâ may 28â is the 75th anniversary of osaka elegy’s original release , if you’re looking for a special occasion reason to watch this film . it was also recently added to the ever - growing lineup over at hulu plus !
, refers to naniwa , an archaic name for the city . ) osaka was long one of the main merchant cities in japan and remains an important business center . as the mizoguchi scholar donald kirihara notes , by the 1930s the city had become a boom town thanks to trade with the west , but this
saddled osaka with an image of modernization and westernization undiluted by remnants of ancient traditions .
mizoguchi himself commented ,
people from osaka do not care what others think . they are too busy pursuing self - interest , too shameless to value self - restraint .
in particular ,
in “sisters of the gion , ” made later in 1936 , after “osaka elegy” had proved an unexpected hit , ms . yamada seems to be playing a continuation of the same character , only now she is a geisha in a working - class quarter of kyoto whose determination to take her customers for every last penny shocks even her sister ( yoko umemura ) , a geisha who still sees her job as providing necessary comfort and affection .
as a marker in the career of mizoguchi , osaka elegy is notable for its rarity . though many of his early works have been lost , this film has been preserved but not often screened . this is likely due to the look of the film itself : the images are thoroughly dark and the direction and editing are often choppy . however , many critics assert that 1936 , the year in which mizoguchi also directed the more widely - screened sisters of the gion , saw the initial crystallisation of a set of themes , stylistic tendencies , and methods of production that would evolve over the next 20 years , until the director’s early death in 1956 . osaka elegy marks , for instance , the first collaboration with the screenwriter yoshikata yoda , who would co - write many of mizoguchi’s more famous titles : miss oyu ( 1951 ) , the life of oharu ( 1952 ) , ugetsu monogatari ( 1953 ) , and sansho dayu ( 1954 ) .
in the carnegie hall performance , nobuyuki played “elegy for the victims of the tsunami of march 11 , 2011 in japan” . this was a self - written piece dedicated to the people who had perished when the earthquake and tsunami struck japan .
1936 . directed by mizoguchi kenji . starring yamada isuzu , takegawa sei ' ichi , and okura chiyoko . subtitles in english , brazilian portuguese , and spanish .
kenji mizoguchi departed abruptly from his earlier sentimental films into a world of acute realism with osaka elegy . boldly critiquing the position of women in contemporary japanese society , the film examines a young woman ' s victimization and descent into prostitution . together , mizoguchi ' s direction and isuzu yamada ' s powerful performance create sorrowful , timeless poetry .
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the critic’s choice column on tuesday about new dvds , including a set of four films by the japanese director kenji mizoguchi , misidentified the city in which one of those films , “sisters of the gion , ” is set . it is kyoto , not osaka .
both “osaka elegy” and “sisters of the gion” star isuzu yamada , mizoguchi’s first muse and an actress who would become one of the most enduring personalities of the japanese cinema . ( among ms . yamada’s 100 other roles is the lady macbeth figure of akira kurosawa’s 1957 “throne of blood . ” ) in each of the two films she plays a confident , modern woman — it isn’t hard to imagine bette davis starring in the warner brothers’ versions — whose powerful sense of self - reliance is still not sufficient to rescue her from the web of family obligations and the economic power of men .
nobuyuki had composed his elegy in memory of the people who had lost their lives in what had become known as japan’s largest and most difficult crisis . the young pianist’s masterful playing not only transmitted beautiful melodies to the audience present but also conveyed his deepest emotions associated with the substantial loss of lives .
those who’ve seen osaka elegy are most likely to think , when first prompted , of its final scene , with ayako now cast aside and rejected by her family and the men who once flattered themselves through their purchase of her services . mizoguchi’s coup in bringing this briefly told tragedy to its close is to not take what would have been the obvious route , showing ayako finally broken , tearful , perhaps penitent but in any case pitiful . it would be a natural tendency for any director ; one could not fault him too much for choosing to give the audience what it both expects and enjoys .
“women of the night” is one of the features included in the eclipse box ; the others are his twinned masterpieces of 1936 , “osaka elegy” and “sisters of the gion , ” and his final film , the anomalously bright , harsh “street of shame” ( 1956 ) . all of his major creative phases are covered : the romantic , expressionist - tinged work of the silent and early sound periods ; the politically engaged work of the postwar period , influenced by italian neo - realism ; and the final creative surge of the 1950s , in which a distanced , contemplative tone conveys an infinite solicitude for human suffering , balanced by a sense of its insignificance in the cosmic order .
the film i’ve chosen is the one that authoritative sources , including mizoguchi himself , cite as his breakthrough into artistic maturity , osaka elegy , from 1936 . having perfected his technical chops for over a decade cranking out dozens of short features in japan’s silent film era , mizoguchi found his voice in this story that depicts a modern , independent - minded woman’s struggle with the burdens imposed upon her by cruel and manipulative men . among her exploiters are her own father and brother , oblivious to the sacrificial lengths she goes to in order to enable their security , as well as the corporate bosses who employ her , first as a switchboard operator , and later for their own carnal pleasures .
perhaps osaka elegy introduces these themes in such a personal , universal way because it represents the first instance of one of mizoguchi’s plots coming close to his own autobiography . in the film , ayako , a telephone operator , is bound by the codes of filial piety to sacrifice herself for the needs of the men in her family . her father arranges for her to become a mistress to his boss , asai , and to work towards cancelling the debts he has accumulated in a failed embezzlement scheme . ayako’s earnings also help her brother hiroshi with his school tuition . mizoguchi’s sister suzu was herself sold by their father into prostitution at 14 to cover for a failed business gamble . with the money suzu raised , young kenji was able to enroll in art school .
but rather than serving up ayako’s downfall as a moralistic cautionary tale to warn young women about making the wrong choices at the formative stages of life , mizoguchi has a larger point to make about the society he was a part of and the corruption at the top of the class hierarchy that created the wretched scenario of osaka elegy . and so he begins his story by focusing on a sad and rather repulsive couple , the asais . sonosuke asai is the president of asai pharmaceutical company , a prominent businessman in the industrial city of osaka , who ascended to that highly respectable station in life by marrying his wife sumiko , heiress to her family business and considerable wealth . that crass motivation is about the only thing that holds them together , as we quickly learn over the course of a painful breakfast encounter where they shamelessly quarrel and mock each other in front of their guest , dr . yoko . you can tell that sonosuke is an evil corrupt man by the harsh light that flares off his lenses in the picture above , and the pained expression on dr . yoko’s face as his supposedly respectable hosts do their best to humiliate each other in his presences speaks eloquently as well .
nobuyuki was born blind but that did not stop him from learning to play the classical piano . nobuyuki developed a passion for music at a very young age , having played jingle bells at two and performed with the osaka century symphony when he was twelve . he went on to become the world’s first blind pianist to win the van cliburn international piano competition in 2009 , in a tie with zheng haochen from china .
both osaka elegy and sisters of the gion could have easily slipped into
crime doesn ' t pay moralizing ,
and had these been post - code american movies , they probably would have . what mizoguchi has done is progressive , but he ' s sly about it . the drama is nuanced enough that neither the women nor those who dismiss them are completely right or wrong , and that ' s all the more daring when you think about it . people love absolutes , and they love to be absolved . mizoguchi has taken a chance in confronting these cultural standards head - on and examining them honestly , putting blame where it belongs , including with some who may be watching . it ' s a gamble that pays off . both films continue to be relevant nearly eighty years later , which is a sad commentary all on its own .
instead , mizoguchi has ayako striding purposefully , not so much with confidence as with sheer determination , into a future certainly fraught with risk and with little promise of reward or lasting vindication . but ayako will face it on her terms – her abrupt turn and straight - on gaze into the camera at the end has a 23 - year jump on antoine doinel’s similar move at the conclusion of the 400 blows . ( maybe if mizoguchi had gone with the freeze frame here he’d get more credit ? i dunno . ) audiences of the time probably had little sense of how impressively mizoguchi would build upon this final flourish , or the magnitude of achievements yet to come . for those like me who mainly know him for his later award - winning masterpieces like ugetsu or sansho the bailiff , osaka elegy is an essential re - introduction to a phenomenal cinematic artist .
as the plot grows more complex and ayako becomes ever more entangled in the web of exploitation , mizoguchi throws in other elements that add a touch of fascination to osaka elegy . part of the “luxury” that sonosuke offers to placate ayako , perhaps to obscure the extent that she’s being used , is an evening’s outing to the theater , where she accompanies him in the attire of a respectable married woman . the night’s entertainment is a puppet show , featuring another squabbling couple , with a female manikin poignantly operated by a male puppeteer . tipped off that her husband is out on the town with another woman , sumiko arrives to create a scene aimed at shaming her husband , but once again a crafty man in charge steps up to improvise a false alibi on the spur of the moment , that at least buys sonosuke a bit of time before his house of cards inevitably falls .
gregory - - you are , of course , free to read the film any way you prefer . but i think it is safe to say that both mizoguchi and his intended audience viewed the ending as
good
even if not , strictly speaking ,
happy
. is the ending of traviata
happy
- - of course not . but it is as positive an ending as the poor heroine could have expected . female self sacrifice for problematic males is an operatic staple ( viz . both puccini and wagner , in particular ) . and both mizoguchi and his screenwriter were quite aware of these operatic precedents . mizoguchi ' s most genuinely feminist - ish films are probably osaka elegy , uwasa no onna and aien kyo ( straits of love and hate ) - - where male authority is ultimately rather thoroughly blown off . it is too bad aien kyo is unavailable in any decent version ( even unsubbed ) .
in the osaka films mizoguchi almost seems reluctant to intrude on the privacy of his characters . his camera remains withdrawn , even abashed ; there is no cross - cutting to draw us into the drama , no tearful close - ups to solicit our sympathy . in “street of shame , ” made 20 years later and set in the yoshiwara district of tokyo , mizoguchi’s method has been reversed . even at night , this is a brightly lighted world , flooded with neon .
in “osaka” the delicate , long - faced ms . yamada is a switchboard operator who is forced into an affair with her boss to repay the money embezzled by her worthless father ( a character said to be based on mizoguchi’s own father ) . delicate and retiring at first , she emerges from the film a hardened , ruthless woman . in the famous final shot she strides directly into a confrontational close - up , as if she were about to denounce the public for its complicity in her plight .
in addition to the conniving of her adversaries and the maddening series of desperate compromises to which she resorts in order to rescue her ungrateful family , mizoguchi pulls us into ayako’s dilemma through forebodingly bleak visual compositions . this is indeed one of the darkest films i’ve seen in a long time – not merely thematically in its portrayal of social relationships , but also in the utter absence of light . huge swaths of opaque blackness crowd in around the perimeters of most scenes , with most shots framed at a distance and only a few strategically placed close - ups to bring us near to the perspective of our protagonist . this video clip , an interesting fan edit of “the second film hidden between the moments , ” offers a good sampling of mizoguchi’s technique , sans actors . some of the charcoal haze through which we view osaka elegy is undoubtedly attributable to the effects of time and minimal efforts at film restoration . while a more pristine print would be nice to have at our disposal , this is an instance where one could argue that erosion enhances the atmosphere mizoguchi intended to create .
sonosuke asai ( benkei shiganoya ) is the owner of asai pharmaceuticals , a typical , bossy osaka businessman who prays for his own wealth and health , while finding fault with everyone around him . he badgers his daughters and treats them like servants . he criticizes his wife sumiko ( yôko umemura ) for being independent and remarks there ' s no fun in their marriage anymore . but she calls him out and challenges him to take on a young mistress if he ' s so unhappy , knowing he doesn ' t have the guts .
. filmed in the same year , both movies portray women who use their sexuality to gain power and money . in both films , the main characters are deeply disappointed with the actions of the men they become involved with . the films are deeply similar , with the women challenging why they must suffer for their families , the use of extremely long takes , and many close - ups of the protagonists . mizoguchi once said of the two films ,
it is only since i made naniwa elegy and sisters of gion that i have been able to portray humanity lucidly .
as in most of mizoguchi’s films , women play a special role . more often than not , his films portray the role of women in society as tragic . women in mizoguchi films usually represent the backbone of society — they are expected to be loyal wives , good mothers , obedient daughters , dependant carers and models of purity . such expectations placed upon mizoguchi’s women compel them to seek independence in society , but ultimately they end up succumbing to the hypocrisy of its moral expectations . ayako’s role in naniwa elegy is a prime example of this thematic trait , and is one of cinema’s strongest and most poignant critiques on the problems of patriarchal society .
for mizoguchi “osaka” and “sisters” represented a radical stylistic breakthrough : the relatively conventional editing patterns of his earlier films vanish almost completely , to be replaced by long takes and slow , graceful camera movements . scenes are often illuminated by a single light source that isolates the characters in a pale , luminous pool surrounded by absolute darkness . the frame seems to lose its edges : all that exists is a cone of light at the center of the screen . the influence of german expressionism is apparent , but mizoguchi takes the style one step further . these are not characters threatened by or struggling with an encroaching darkness , but individuals trying to generate some light and warmth in a world that has long gone dead .
ayako murai ( isuzu yamada ) is a young woman working as a telephone operator in 1930s osaka . in order to pay the debts of her father , unemployed and threatened with arrest after embezzling 300 yen , she agrees to become the mistress of her employer mr . asai . after paying her father ' s debts she then continues working as a mistress , this time for another workplace admirer , mr fujino , in an attempt to help pay her brother hiroshi ' s university tuition fees . when she attempts to fool mr fujino into giving her extra money , so she can marry her boyfriend nishimura , he calls the police and she is arrested for soliciting . upon her return home she is ostracised by her family and her boyfriend and forced to leave home .
naniwa elegy is a bitter film . there is no other way to suitably describe it , especially in terms of its narrative effect . the story looks at ayako murai ( played by isuzu yamada ) , a young female telephone switchboard operator whose life progressively spirals downwards through her interaction with society . mizoguchi presents human interaction in the most clinical fashion possible . the relationships presented , especially between ayako and her male acquaintances , lack compassion , and their meetings are treated as a series of transactions , where ayako always seems to get exploited . for example , ayako’s father tries to sell her off to settle his debts , her brother steals her money so that he may attend college , and her fiancé refuses to see her as a suitable partner in society . finally , although she has done as much as possible for her family , she is still scolded as defiant , rebellious and ultimately immoral . as you can see through ayako’s struggles , mizoguchi paints a rather scornful image of the problems with a capitalist patriarchal society .
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( 1936 ) is one of two films that the japanese filmmaker kenji mizoguchi directed for the daiichi eiga studio in kyoto . the other was
( 1936 ) , and both are considered among mizoguchi ' s most accomplished films . through the plight of asako murai , a young switchboard operator who is compelled to become a mistress to her boss in order to pay off her father ' s debts , mizoguchi comments on the precarious status of women in society , a frequently recurring theme in his films .
at this point in his career , mizoguchi had already directed dozens of films - - his first feature was released in 1923 - - but most of them unfortunately do not survive . even so ,
demonstrates the considerable skill he had acquired with long takes and staging in depth . examples of these techniques include the lateral tracking shot that follows asako and her boyfriend nishimura when they walk through the department store , and the meticulously staged scenes when asako ' s boss asai propositions her and when asako finally confesses to nishimura .
was notable its use of kansai regional dialect . mizoguchi ' s scriptwriter yoshikata yoda later commented ,
for the first time in japanese cinema the kansai accent , which up till then had only been used in comedy , became an authentic dramatic language .
kirihara further notes that the character of ayako is an example of a
, a modern and assertive young woman in japan during the 1920s and 1930s , something equivalent to a flapper in the west , thus giving her character a distinct meaning for japanese audiences of that period .
(
new school
) , a genre of stage melodrama in japan that often focused on the sufferings of female characters . although it was influenced by romantic melodramas from the west , the
stage tradition retained elements of kabuki theater , such as having male actors play women ' s roles . considering that mizoguchi himself began his career at the nikkatsu studio directing
films , perhaps it is not surprising that he we would want to collaborate with her . yamada ' s first film with mizoguchi was
( 1934 ) , though that film no longer survives . by the time she made
, she was just nineteen . not only did yamada became mizoguchi ' s favorite actress during this time , but he fell in love with her as he did with several of this other lead actresses throughout his life .
yamada writes about her experiences with mizoguchi in her 1953 autobiography :
mizoguchi - san was always very nice but when work started he became difficult . physically too , the work was extremely strenuous . i am certain it was in the
. in 2000 she received the order of culture from the emperor of japan .
the studio daiichi eiga ( number one film ) started in 1934 with financial support by shochiku and was headed by nagata masakazu , who had come from nikkatsu . mizoguchi ' s scriptwriter yoshikata yoda recalls that this group of men at nikkatsu frequently brawled with each other , even dumping men into the chemical bath for developing film . the studio ultimately made only a handful of films before closing down . masakazu later worked with mizoguchi again at daiei , in the later years of mizoguchi ' s career .
' s ending was too abrupt . during a panel discussion , kotaro yamamoto commented ,
the public is shocked to be so brutally expelled from these stories .
fuyuhiko kitagawa further said ,
ends with a scene in which people are simply walking out of the frame , and i think the public can ' t be satisfied with something so unusual !
even mizoguchi expressed doubts in this regard , although the lengthy close - up of asako ' s ( isuzu yamada ' s ) face as she walks down the street at night seems instead perfectly economical and expressive today . despite these minor reservations ,
cast : isuzu yamada ( ayako murai ) ; seichi takegawa ( junzo murai ) ; chiyoko okura ( sachiko murai ) ; shinpachiro asaka ( hiroshi murai ) ; benkei shiganoya ( sonosuke asai ) ; yoko umemura ( sumiko asai ) ; eitaro shindo ( yoshizo fujino ) ; kensaku hara ( nishimura ) ; kunio tamura ( doctor yoko ) ; takashi shimura ( inspector ) .
translated by brij tankha and edited by aruna vasudev and latika padgaonkar . oxford : berg , 2008 .
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last month , in the course of reviewing hiroshi shimizu’s the masseurs and a woman , i impulsively committed myself to review “next week” another 1930s japanese film by kenji mizoguchi , in order to complete the sampler i’d started with recent articles on yasujiro ozu and mikio naruse from that same era . of course , i followed up on that commitment seven days later with an article on the rise of catherine the great , from the alexander korda’s private lives eclipse set . and then last week i postponed my journey through the eclipse series altogether , opting instead to write a column on ten criterion films for mothers day .
so i didn’t really know which “next week” i was referring to , until now , when it’s finally time to make good on my promise . i guess it’s only fitting , after offering my thoughts on one of the most powerful women who ever lived ( russian empress catherine the great ) , and then turning my attention toward the many moods of motherhood last week , that i complete this informal survey of feminine role models by contemplating a prime example of the subject that helped make mizoguchi famous : women beset by tragedy , scandal and social disgrace , at least in the eyes of a dominant patriarchal establishment . in fact , that archetype is so central to the director’s oeuvre that it’s embedded in the subtitle of this career - bookending box , eclipse series 13 : kenji mizoguchi’s fallen women .
the hostility that has saturated his miserable marriage pushes sonosuke toward some kind of outlet to burn off resentment and reclaim some measure of self - respect . unfortunately for ayako , his path to that flimsy imitation of redemption crosses her own , as she finds herself in a vulnerable position not through any mistakes on her part , but because of her scoundrel of a father , who’s gotten in trouble for petty embezzlement that is beyond his capacity to repay when suspicious company officials come around , offering him a last chance to avoid public exposure of his crime . instead of manning up and taking responsibility for his actions , he flatters himself with excuses and berates his daughter for confronting him ( bluntly , for sure , but deservedly so ) with the truth .
sensing her vulnerability instinctively like the opportunistic vulture that he is , presuming a lack of virtue because of her unapologetic modernity , and clearly recognizing her beauty , sonosuke summons up what little charm he can muster to make a move on ayako , and backs it up with his undeniable advantage : money .
though she bravely thwarts his proposition at first , ayako’s own predicament suddenly gets worse when her father all but kicks her out of the house after an unvarnished exchange of words brings them both to the boiling point . ayako has had enough . she leaves home , giving up her menial job , even disappearing for a short while from her young and genial boyfriend nishimura , in order to take matters into her own hands . she accepts sonosuke’s offer of an exchange : if she resigns herself to the boredom and debasement of being his kept woman , he’ll provide a discreet apartment and resolution of her father’s legal crisis . ayako does this mainly for the sake of her younger sister who has no ability to care for herself , but also because she recognizes that there’s no one else capable of managing the problem any better .
the whirlwind of deceit and hypocrisy continues to pick up speed , to the point where ayako herself gets caught up in the maelstrom , resorting to her own devices of trickery in order to gain a measure of revenge and , if they’re willing to see it , reveal to the manipulative men around her just how depraved they’ve become . turning the tables on fujino , to whom she became a mistress after her arrangement with sonosuke collapsed , ayako thinks she’s achieved the upper hand in her dealings with men , especially now in her newfound confidence that nishimura will take her as his wife .
but that sense of optimism is so very short - lived , as ayako discovers that even the kind - hearted man she had confidence in is no match for the cynical determination of those in authority to crush any challenges to their rule . as fujino brings in the law , supremely assured of its willingness to side with him against a lowly and easily vilified woman in this dispute , whatever feelings of love nishimura once expressed for her quickly whither under the pressure of an investigator’s reprimands . the tough cop , played by a young and only distantly visible takashi shimura ( years before he became a favorite lead actor of akira kurosawa’s ) , demonstrates the pitiless severity of a patriarchal status quo that doesn’t have to exert much effort in order to keep its citizens in line . even those who , like ayako , find it within themselves to rebel against injustice quickly find themselves isolated and without allies , however plain and morally defensible their cause might be .
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ayako becomes the mistress of her boss , mr . asai , so she can pay her father ' s debt , and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement . she also sends money for her brother , hiroshi , to pay his university tuition , but asks her father not to tell him that it is from her . she tricks mr . fujino into giving her money so that she can marry her boyfriend nishimura , but fujino calls in the police .
: you ' re a woman . . . being taken to the police station . . . getting thrown into jail . . . you ' ve done shameful things . you ungrateful child !
: how could you say that ? i never expected that i ' d be treated like this when i came home . this is ridiculous ! i thought you would welcome me with open arms . if i ' d have known this , i never would have come back .
this is the first collaboration between mizoguchi and writer yoshikata yoda , with the actress isuzu yamada in the principal role , as a young telephonist pushed to prostitution to save her ruined family , and then repudiated by them . mizoguchi begins his impressive mastership with the framing and the perspective and , though still far from his masterpieces , is an interesting milestone for the mizoguchi admirers .
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this final view of ayako is the most powerful image in the film , and is often cited as one of the most absorbing images in mizoguchi ' s oeuvre . the image of ayako staring into the camera and walking off , into the unknown , leaves the final outcome of the film open to viewer interpretation . however , one cannot resist the thought that her future will ultimately be bleak .
jason dow
mizoguchi has been dubbed japan ' s first
feminist
director - - the women in his films are central , he sculpts their characters with deep empathy , and he allows them a full range of emotions which give them the breadth of complex humanity , not the one - sidedness of mere martyrs or objects of love . additionally , he directs his leading actresses , especially yamada isuzu , stellar here as the truly unfortunate ayako , to transcendent performances .
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the potent militarist regime of japan was moving west in the 1930s . having already annexed korea two decades earlier , and then adding what was then manchuria to its territory , it withdrew from the league of nations and other treaty obligations . the japanese imperial fighting machine , riding high on a string of conquests , was only one year away from taking beijing .
at home , in order to help monitor public opinion and promote favourable and passive attitudes in its people , the government closely watched its blossoming film industry . under a string of prime ministers , japan’s judicial and cultural leaders worked surreptitiously – “unofficially” – to insure that the majority of films followed comfortable , crowd - pleasing formulas providing melodramas that led to satisfying , expected resolutions . the plots of these films were usually based in the home and rarely referenced the wars outside , except in the simplistic and bloodless terms of honour and glory .
ayako serves as an illustration of the contradictory philosophies that , in mizoguchi’s view , left japanese women few options but a life of ultimate misery . honouring the family led to misery because parents were often unworthy of and ungrateful for the sacrifices made by female family members , using their children as disposable resources , not individual lives . becoming an expressive individual led to misery because no japanese man would take a woman not supported by her family and the group - oriented society would not support an individual , leading to further isolation . as ayako continues to rebel and struggle to maintain dignity in her own way , she is forced out by the men around her – father , brother , boyfriend . these men are disgusted by her actions – even though they arranged and approved of them – while still taking the money and reaping the benefits . by the final exhausting close - up – of ayako staring directly into the camera at the japanese audience – she is severed from her surroundings . in previous long shots these surroundings had overwhelmed her , but now she’s without a family or country , on a bridge , lost in a no - man’s land .
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the new boxed set from the criterion collection’s budget line , eclipse , is titled “ kenji mizoguchi ’s fallen women , ” which is probably a more enticing title than “four randomly chosen films by kenji mizoguchi , ” but is no more meaningful . from his earliest surviving films , like “tokyo march” ( 1929 ) and “the water magician” ( 1933 ) , this great japanese filmmaker showed his dedication to those women driven to the margins of society — actresses , geishas , ordinary prostitutes — by the hypocrisy of men .
in falling , of course , these women often demonstrate more strength , compassion and selflessness than their unappreciative , exploitative lovers have ever shown toward them . in film after film mizoguchi explores this paradox , of the woman who achieves the highest moral standing by descending to the lowest point of the social scale .
although mizoguchi ( 1898 - 1956 ) was not a christian , this is a theme he often drapes in christian imagery : a woodcut of a madonna and child appears under the opening credits of “oyuki the virgin , ” a 1935 story of a geisha ( isuzu yamada ) who offers herself to an army officer to save the lives of a group of ungrateful bourgeois travelers . ( the film is based on the same maupassant story that john ford turned into “stagecoach” ) .
in “women of the night” ( 1948 ) a band of prostitutes gathers in a bombed - out church to administer a brutal beating to fusako ( kinuyo tanaka ) , one of their own who has dared to dream of going straight . these women are not saints or martyrs — for mizoguchi , there is no next world in which they might receive their reward — but , more concretely and more movingly , mere human beings whose strength of character sets them apart , the true aristocrats of a fallen world .
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the principal setting is dreamland , a tatty brothel with half a dozen employees living out the last of its days before prostitution is outlawed in japan . instead of darkness , the characters seem to be surrounded by mirrors , trapped inside multiple , dehumanizing images of themselves . the ruthlessness of the yamada character has been transferred to yasumi ( ayako wakao ) , the most beautiful of the prostitutes , as well as the most heartless . ( she augments her income by making small loans to her co - workers at high interest rates . ) her softer “sister” is now hanae ( michiyo kogure ) , who works to support her invalid husband and young son .
but mizoguchi seems most fascinated by another figure , the flamboyant mickey ( machiko kyo ) . as her permed hair , toreador pants and western name suggest , she represents something new in postwar japan . her blunt , brassy sexuality contradicts the geisha’s world of cultured illusion . yet mizoguchi expresses no nostalgia for the passing of that profession . he seems even to locate an element of hope in mickey’s physicality and candor , which grant no quarter to traditional hypocrisies .
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