★ ＳＨＯＧＵＮ is coming to HULU
or Disney+ on Feb.27, 2024
Shogun, an American TV drama series, will premiere on Feb.27,
on Hulu (U.S.) or Disney+. Yoriko Doguchi is in this drama as the role of
Lady Kiri.
Its premiere date was delayed, but now it's settled.
I'm looking forward to watching Doguchi in this global event
series.
For the filming of Shogun, Yoriko Doguchi stayed in
Vancouber for a year. It was her first visit to Canada and her first
living abroad. She enjoyed living in Canada and became a big fan of
British Columbia. Yoriko Doguchi loves B.C.! Wouldn't it be great if her
movies like Tampopo, The Taxing Woman's Return, CURE, Charisma, License To
Live and The Excitement of The Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl were screened at some film
festival in Vancouver? I dream of it......
(Dec.
3, 2023) |
★ ＳＨＯＧＵＮ
Yoriko Doguchi is cast in the role of Lady Kiri of the FX's
SHOGUN TV series.
James Clavell's novel SHOGUN was made into a TV
miniseries (NBC), and achieved a successful weekly Nielsen ratings in
1980.
The story of SHOGUN is based on the experience of an English
navigator named William Adams, who arrived in 17th century Japan after a
difficult voyage and became an advisor to the shogunate.
This
upcoming SHOGUN is executive produced by Marks, Michaela Clavell, Michael
de Luca and Ed McDonnell. Jonathan van Tulleken (Reprisal) directs the
first two episodes og the whole series.
Cosmo Jarvis strars as the
English samurai. Hiroyuki Sanada is the role of Yoshii, which was acted by
Toshiro Mifune in 1980, and Anna Sawai joins is the role of Mariko, which
was by Yoko Shimada back then. Yoriko Doguchi is cast in the role of Lady
Kiri, a concubine of Yoshii. This role is based on the real person
Acha-no-Tsubone, who is known as a very smart and strong lady.
The new
SHOGUN is shooting in Vancouver now. For further information, see
this HOLLYWOOD
REPORTER's page .
(Oct. 3, 2021) |
★ Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure
Blu-ray released in UK
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (1997), a true masterpice of
psychological horror, was finally released as home video (blu-ray) for the
first time in UK on April 23.
・Limited Edition O-Card (First print run
only)
・1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray, with a progressive
encode on the DVD
・Original Japanese Stereo audio (Uncompressed LPCM on
the Blu-ray)
・Optional English subtitles
・Kiyoshi Kurosawa on Cure
(17 mins) - a new video interview with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
・A new
video interview with critic & author Kim Newman
・An archival
interview with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
・Original theatrical
trailer
・A 24-PAGE booklet featuring an essay by Asian cinema expert
Tom Mes
Visit Eureka Entertainment web site
for this blu-ray's details.
In this film, Yoriko Douguchi acts the role of Dr.Miyajima,
who sees a mysterious man called Mamiya and is hypnotized by him to commit
a murder.
In Cure, Yoriko Douguchi's somnambulistic sense of acting
expresses the lapse of identity, and even brings a nightmarish vision into
the whole body of this film.
You can read Yoriko Douguchi
Biography in English HERE.
(May 6,
2018)
|
★ Tampopo's Atlantic
Crossing
In
May, Juzo Itami's delightful "ramen western" Tampopo is screening in
Washinton D.C. and London.
<Washington
DC>
2pm, May 2, 2018: The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer
auditorium of The Smithsonian Museums (website here
)
<London>
6pm, May 16, 2018:The
Prince Charles Cinema (website here)
IYoriko Douguchi acts the role of the "oyster-fishing
girl", at her age of 20, in the sequence which is often acclaimed as the
best episode of this film.
(Apr.29, 2018) |
★ Silence on
DVD/Blu-ray!
Martin
Scorsese's Silence will make its homeentertainment debut on DVD/ Blu-ray
on March 28. Its Blu-ray combo pack includes a documentary "Martin
Scorsese's Journey Into Silence."
Visit The official homepage of
Silence (http://www.silencemovie.com/).
(Mar.15,
2017) |
★ What does Kichijiro's
mother say while she is burnt alive?
Yoriko Douguchi
wrote an article "Watashi no chinmoku" (My "Silence") for her
web-column "Nora neko mangekyou"(Stray Cat's Kaleidoscope) of the 47 News
web site.(HERE, in Japanese)
In this 3
chaptered column, Douguchi describes how it was going when she was acting
the role of Kichijiro's mother in Scorsese's Silence.
From
the very beginning of " Lisbon" (kind of "code name" of Silence
when it was secretly prepared ) project to the actual
film-shootings in which Douguchi appeared, she vividly depicts the
tense atmospehere of Silence's production.
On
episode is that Douguchi tried an ad-lib while Kichijiro's
mother (Douguchi) was burnt alive due to her denial of apostasy in
Christianity. During the rehearsal for that
scene, Douguchi recited "Eli Eli lama sabachthani?"
("My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?", in Aramaic),
which she quotated from Shusaku Endo's novel Silence.
Scorsese's interpreter ran to her and asked, "What were you speaking?
The director wants to know". Douguchi explained and said, " If he
wouldn't like it, I won't say these words." The
interpreter ran back to Scorsese, and after a while, came back again
to Douguchi, saying "He said OK. " "Really?" "Yes!
He said... Feel free to do that! "
By the way, there's a
podcast "Thelma
Schoonmaker: From “Raging Bull” to “Silence”", an interview with
Scorsese's long time co-working film editor(of course, in Silence, as
well).
In this interview, Schoonmaker talks about Scorsese's editing
technique with examples from Good Fellas, Silence and Raising Bull.
The topic chosen rom Silence is a scene in which Yoriko Douguchi
appears. Schoonmaker says that, iIn this scene, Scorsese uses a
muting effect as good as the most crucial fighting scene of Raising
Bull.
(Feb. 15, 2017) |
★ Original
Soundtrack "Silence"
Martin Scorsese's
Silence should be acclaimed for its original soundtrack composed by
Kathryn & Kim Allen Kluge featuring Francesco Lupica. It is
breathtaking to listen to this soudtrack, a musical achievement that
interweaves the nature sounds, like cicada, rain, ocean, with
the solemn reverb of atomospheric droning tones.
Here is
an interesting article from Indie Wire about Silence
soundtrack.
“We worked off the
book because the film was in a rough cut and we felt the music should grow
as the mist and the rocks and the ocean and the wind and the rain,” added
Kathryn, who didn’t see the movie until it was completed. “He uses them as
leitmotifs throughout the book so Kim and I read them as perhaps the
voice of God speaking through nature to Rodrigues [the Portuguese Jesuit
priest played by Andrew Garfield]. But he couldn’t hear it. ” (Indie
Wire, Dec.16, 2016)
Silence soundtrack is available
on iTunes.
(Feb. 3,
2017) |
★ Tampopo (dandelion)
Blu-ming-ray in the States!
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The Blu-ray
version of Tampopo in its 4K restored edition is going to be
released on April 25 in the States.
According
to the Criterion
Collction web site, it features ;
The Making of “Tampopo,” a ninety-minute documentary
from 1986, narrated by director Juzo Itami
New interview with actor Nobuko Miyamoto
New interviews with ramen scholar Hiroshi Osaki;
food stylist Seiko Ogawa; and American chefs Sam White, Rayneil De Guzman,
Jerry Jaksich, and others
Rubber Band Pistol, Itami’s 1962
debut short film
New video
essay by Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos on the film’s themes of
self-improvement and mastery of a craft
Trailer
New English subtitle
translation
An essay by food and culture writer Willy
Blackmore.
Why don't you see Yoriko Douguchi as oyster
diver in 4K quality!
(Jan.
25, 2017) |
★ Tampopo
(dandelion) spreads again!
Juzo Itami's
'culinary' movie Tampopo (1985) was re-relaesed in its newly-4K-restored
version in the States last October, and in Tokyo last Friday. Recently,
the newest version is showing in many cities of the world, such as Paris,
Berkley, Seattle, Vancouver, Palm Springs and Bergen.
Tampopo, a
tale of two truck drivers who help the widow of a noodle shop owner to
develop the perfect recipe for ramen, features an unforgettable episode
about an oyster and a sea-diver girl, which Yoriko Douguchi acted at her
age of 20.
Tampopo is to be screened at:Forum des Images on January
17.http://www.forumdesimages.fr/les-programmes/manger/tampopo_1
The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkley) on Jan.20,21
and 27 http://www.bampfa.org/event/tampopo-0
Seattle International Film Festival Jan.20-22 http://www.siff.net/cinema/tampopo
The Cinematheque (Vancouver) Jan.26-Feb.2 http://www.thecinematheque.ca/tampopo
★ Scorsese's Interview on
TV
Martin Scorsese talked about his Silence for ABC
program. He briefly talked of his struggle between faith and doubt while
directing the movie.
The 3 minutes' interview can be watched at
here.
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(Jan 14
2017) |
★
Scorsese's "Silence" coming very soon!
Martin Scorsese's Silence will start screening in the States on
January 13, and in Japan on January 21, 2017.
Yoriko Douguchi appears
in this film, Scorsese's passion project.
Adapted from a monumental
novel Chinmoku (silence) by Shuusaku Endou, this film is a story about two
Catholic missionaries visiting Japan in 17th century, to look for thier
dissapearing Father Ferreira. In Japan, it was the time of persecution of
Christians by the Tokugawa shogunate.
Scorsese's Silence has already been acclaimed by
critics;
"Can one’s belief ever be conveyed to another, or is it only
ever between them and the gods they worship? Scorsese has been etching his
beliefs onto celluloid for almost 50 years, and their meanings remain as
evanescent, as mysterious, as ever. Silence is not a film to be solved, or
resolved, but pondered. It’s not a parable. It’s a koan. ” (BBC.com)
Here's
an interesting podcast, an interview with Scorsese.
(Martin
Scorsese & Alexander Payne Talk ‘Silence’ In New 33-Minute Podcast
)
Silence official homepage is here.
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(Jan 8 2017) |
★ Martin Scorsese's
"Silence"
Yoriko Douguchi will appear in Martin Scorses's upcoming
Film "Silence."
It is based on an acclaimed novel by Shusaku Endo, a
story of a Jesuit missionary who is sent to Japan in 17th century, when
Christianity was inhumanely oppressed.
The detail of Yoriko
Douguchi's role is yet unknown except that she went to
Taiwan for its film-shooting.
"Silence" is sceduled to show in
2016.
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(June13 2015)
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★ Fly Dakota Fly in
Canada
Fly Dakota Fly
is showing at Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto on January 29,
2015.
http://jccc.on.ca/event/january-movie-fly-dakota-fly-2/
After
screening at Montreal World Film Festival 2014, this event is going to be
a good occasion to watch Fly Dakota Fly. In 1946. A British military plane
carrying diplomats makes a crash landing on the beach in a small village
on a remote Japanese island. The pilots need help but the locals were
enemies just half a year ago. Yoriko Douguchi acts Toshie,
who waits for her only son to come back from the war.
Undoubtedly, this is one of the finest performance of Douguchi's
career!
(Dec.8
2014)
|
★ Fly! Dakota FLY! @
Montreal World Film Festival2014
MWFF2014(Montreal World Film Festival 2014)
starts from August 21 to September 1. Among the participants, there
is Fly! Dakota Fly! which enters the Focus On World Cinema
section.
In this true-story-based film, Yoriko Douguchi acts a
mother who lost her only son in WWⅡ. Unmistakably, this is her finest
acting in the past several years. PLEASE DO NOT MISS IT. This is
Yoriko Douguchi today.
Fly, Dakota,
Fly! (飛べ! ダコタ / Tobe! Dakota): Japan, 2014,
109 min; Dir.: Seiji Aburatani; Scr.: Kuniho Yasui, Naoyuki Tomomatsu;
Phot.: Shigeru Komatsubara; Prod.: Kiyoshi Mizuno; Cast: Manami Higa,
Masataka Kubota, Akira Emoto, Yoriko Douguchi, Kumi Nakamura, Miyoko
Yoshimoto, Yukijiro Hotaru, Yukiyo Sono, Minoru Sawatari, Mark Chinnery,
Dean Newcombe, Toshiki Ayata, Bengal.
Schedule: Sat 8/30 13:00 QL15; Sat 8/30 21:30 QL15;
Sun 8/31 17:00 QL15.
(Aug.16
2014)
|
★ Fly Dakota to
participate in Montreal World Film Festival
Fly! Dakota (Tobe! Dakota) , a movie
directed by Seiji Aburadani, enters the Focus On World Cinema of the
Montreak World Film Festival 2014. In this true-story-based film,
Yoriko Douguchi acts a mother who lost her only son in
WWⅡ.
Quoting from JAPAN400
(Four Hundredth aniversary of Japan-British Relations) web
site:
Five months after the end of the war, a British airplane lands on
a remote island in Japan, bringing with it something unexpected. An
emotionally charged true story transcending national borders and war
returns to life after 67 years.
January 1946. Only five months after
the end of World War II, a British air force VIP airplane, Dakota, makes
an emergency landing in a small village on Sado island. Villagers are
taken by surprise and perplexed to be faced with British soldiers who were
enemies not too long ago. However, friendship and solidarity grow across
national borders, and they work together to get the Dakota flying
again.
(Apr.8 2014)
|
★ Happy Birthday,
Yoriko!
March 18 is Yoriko Douguchi's birthday.
We
celebrate this day, wishing her good health and art.
★ Cat 'n' Samurai
Yoriko Douguchi appears in a movie
Neko-Zamurai ('neko'='cat' + 'samurai').
Neko-Zamurai was
produced to be released as a TV drama and a movie.
Each one has a different cast except for Kazuki Kitamura, the
title role.
Yoriko Douguchi is in Neko Zamurai, the motion
picture.
(Mar.18
2014)
|
★ Fly, Dakota,
Fly!
Yoriko Douguchi is in a curretly-showing movie Tobe! Dakota
(Fly! Dakota Fly!), directed by Seiji Aburatani.
Since I have not been
able to watch this film yet, I quote a good intereptive
article about it from JAPAN400
(Four Hundredth aniversary of Japan-British Relations) web
site:
Five months after the end of the war, a British airplane lands on
a remote island in Japan, bringing with it something unexpected. An
emotionally charged true story transcending national borders and war
returns to life after 67 years.
January 1946. Only five months after
the end of World War II, a British air force VIP airplane, Dakota, makes
an emergency landing in a small village on Sado island. Villagers are
taken by surprise and perplexed to be faced with British soldiers who were
enemies not too long ago. However, friendship and solidarity grow across
national borders, and they work together to get the Dakota flying
again. This is a true story from 67 years ago.
The film will open in
over 70 theatres in Japan and screening durations differ from one to
another.
(Oct6, 2013)
|
★ Yoriko's mini movie
review
Yoriko Douguchi is writing for the mini movie
review page of The weekly Shukan Bunshun magazine. She is one of the
5 reviewers for the page
When Yoriko Douguchi was a
young actress, back in the '80s and the '90s, she was also known as a
frank and undiplomatic 'film reviewer' on the some
magazines.
Her fans in Japan are really enjoying to read her film
reviewing weekly again!
(July22, 2013)
|
★ To those who have
recently known Yoriko Douguchi
I greceived a friendly message a fan
from Norway, who had recently found a streaming movie of The Excitement of
the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl at some 'hot' kind of
website.
He thought it was a real cool film and wanted
to know about Yoriko Douguchi better.
I guess there may
be more people like him.
As far as I know, the only web
page writing about Yoriko Douguchi's biography in English is YORIKOPEDIA, a part of this here fan
website.
Also, I put her filmography including her TV drama career in
English in this page.
I wrote some articles with some pics of
Do-Re-Mi-Fa materials: poster, chirashi flyers, video package
at a tribute to The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa
Girl page!
As you read in the
biography, Yoriko Douguchi is in a ukulele band named Paititi as a ukulele
payer and singer.
They are in the recording sessions for their
second album!
If you're interested in Paititi's music, you can watch
many of their old videos at Youtube.
What's Paititi?
Watch
Paititi! @ YouTube
click the
camera! |
(May.12 2013)
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★ 3
dramas
3 different TV dramas in which Yoriko Douguchi appears will
start this month.
Lady Joker started on March 3 and is on air
22:00~22:54 every Sunday (@ WOWOW). The Apple of Sodom (Sodomu no ringo)
will start from 22:00, March 23, and will be on air every Saturday
(@WOWOW).
Keishichou Kanshikika Nanbara Kanji no Kantei 3 will be on
air from 21:00 on March 18, Yoriko's birthday (@ TBS).
(Mar.10 2013)
|
★ No chain but bond:
Douguchi works with AKB 48 again
Yoriko Douguchi is in the
newly-released music video for AKB48's "So long !".
This is the
second co-work of Yoriko Douguchi with AKB48 since she acted the role of
evil prison owner in Majisuka Gakuen 3.
While Douguchi enjoyed the
villain, she acts a role of Jurina Matsui's teacher in a very
amicable mood.
The music video was directed by Nobuhiko
Obayashi, known for his acclaimed Lonely Heart (Sabishinbo), Exchange
Student (Tenkousei), Beijing Watermelon and Ashita. Yoriko Douguchi was in
Ashita.
The duration of "So long" video is 64 minutes, which
should be actually labeled as A
MOVIE.
(Feb.22 2013)
|
★ DVD release:
Majisuka Gakuen 3 is "Yoriko Douguchi vs. AKB 48"!
Majisuka Gakuen 3 ("Seriously?" high school) is
a serial TV drama which was broadcasted during the last
summer,
starring the members from AKB48 and SKB48, most popular
girl pop groups in Japan.
In the story set in a young detention, Yoriko
Douguchi plays the role of the head of the detention home.
This drama
is a kind of burlesque of the women-in-prison genre, and Yoriko really
seems enjoying the role.
ON Dec. 14, Majisuka Gakuen
3 was released on DVD as a boxed set of 5 DVDs (with some
good bonus features) .
(Dec.15 2012)
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★ Yoriko Douguchi and
Hidenori Ishida @ Kuroyagi-Shiroyagi gig!
Yoriko Douguchi and Hidenori Ishida
will join Kuroyagi-Shiroyagi (black goat, white goat) , an experimental
bass&drum duo, as a guest singer at Bar Isshee, Shibuya, on
November 21.
Kuroyagi-Shiroyagi are Masami Sakaide and Masaharu Sato.
They are both from Hilkashu, and played with Paititi at some gigs (and Mr.
Sakaide for Paititi's first album).
Nov. 21 (wed) open
19:00 start 20:00
charge 500yen + drink fee (and some donation will be
appreciated!)
It is required to make a reservation @ barisshee@keh.biglobe.ne.jp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIp2d_DHA_g
(Kuroyagi-Shiroyagi featuring Yoriko
Douguchi and dancer Praha, playing Mayumi Kojima's ELEKTRA)
(Nov. 4 2012) |
★ Nudge Nudge, Wink
Wink, Say MORE MORE! Paititi plays the Pythons
Paititi, "alternative ukulele band" by Hidenori Ishida &
Yoriko Douguchi with some great supporting musicians, will play Monty
Python's songs
at Liaison Cafe, Shibuya (http://www.liaison-cafe.com).
The
gig is named Monty Paititi's Flying Marmite. Crazy! isn't
it?
September 28, 2012
open 19:30 /start
20:00
charge 2500(advance)/ 3000(door)
Reservation is required
contact@liaison-cafe.com (or
phone 03-6416-1635).
The musicians are:
Hidenori Ishida
(ukulele)
Yoriko Douguchi (ukulele)
Falcon (guitar)
Yoshimi
Taketomi (jaws harp, coconuts)
Masami Sakaide from
Hikashu (ukulele bass).
Why they play the Pythons? Why
ukulele? Click the below icon and watch the trailer for Paititi's movie @
Youtube. The trailer is spoken in English. You'll see how much they
love British pop culture.
(Sep.
17 2012) |
★ Changing the URL:
Yoriko Douguchi Official Website
(Japanese)
The URL of the official Yoriko Douguchi website has recently
been changed to http://www.yorikodouguchi.com .
While the conent of the site is all written in
Japanese, there are many nice pics of / by Yoriko Douguchi. Most of
them are more snapshots than promotional pics.
If you don't read
Japanese at all, do not worry but go visit the site, and you'll enjoy
her sense of humor which is seldom captured in her
films.
★ Shing Shing Shing (DVD/ with English
subtitles)
Kohei Sanada's movie
Shing Shing Shing (an onomatopoeia of snow falling steadily and silently)
is available as one of the 5DVD set (with English subtitles) via
amazon.com.
The whole DVD set contains 5 films which were
produced as graduate work by students of Tokyo University of the Arts (in
2011).
Despite of its non-commercial productional purpose, Shing Shing
Shing was acclaimed by film critics.
<story>
Tomoyuki was brought up by mountebank family boss
Yoshio. Everyday he helps his foster father at the market in a small and
rustic town. He likes pretty Yuki, who is also alone. After including her
into the group the whole mixed family leaves town to seek better business
elsewhere. This is the beginning of a journey both pleasant and
sorrowful.
*reproduced from http://www.nipponconnection.com/shing-shing-shing-241.html
Yoriko Douguchi is the role of the mountebank's
girlfriend and appears in the first part of the film.
She smiles and
laughs naturally adn casually, and it makes the 'family without blood
relationship' more like a real family and
home.
(August 12 2012) |
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★ CURE at the Japan
Cuts 2012, NY
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's highly acclaimed CURE (1995) will be
screening for JAPAN CUTS, "North America's premiere showcase for Japanese
film" (Firefox News),
at the Japan Society, New York, on July
21.
See http://www.japansociety.org/event/the-cure for detail.
This Yorikolab website contains an
interview with Jerry White, author of THE FILMS OF KIYOSHI KUROSAWA.
Mr. White talks
a lot about Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure and Yoriko Douguchi in that
film!
★ Seriously? Yoriko Douguchi
in an AKB 48 drama
Yoriko Douguchi is in Majisuka
Gakuen ("Seriously?" high school) 3, a newly-started serial TV drama
mainly starring the members from AKB48 and SKB48,
most popular girl
pop groups in Japan.
In the story set in a young detention, Yoriko
Douguchi's role is the head of the detention home.
This drama is a kind
of burlesque of the women-in-prison genre, and Yoriko seems enjoying the
role.
(July 15 2012)
|
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★ 14
juillet!
Following news about the author-reading music event by Yoriko
Douguchi on July 14.
Nora-neko
Shuukai (stary cats' meeting) at Liaison Cafe, Shibuya(http://www.liaison-cafe.com)
by
Yoriko Douguchi with Falcon(guitarist)
July 14, 2012
open 15:00
/start 15:30
charge 2500(advance)/ 3000(door)
Reservation is
required contact@liaison-cafe.com (or
phone 03-6416-1635).
*Nora-neko Shuukai (stray
cats' meeting), Yoriko Douguchi's author-reading & ukulele-playing
event, is going to be held on July 14.
Yoriko's reading her Shikyuu
Kaigi (womb conference) book and probably playing the ukulele at some
small club in Shibuya, Tokyo.
This is a special occasion to see her
outside the screen and TV!
It is also anounced that Paititi will play a small club gig
at BarIsshee in Shibuya on July 14.
This gig is named 'Paititi, 14
juillet(anniversary of the French Revolution)'.
Let's have a ball with
their alternative ukulele music!
Stay there, and be square!
BarIsshee: 33-13-4F,Udagawa-cho,Shibuya-ku,TOKYO,JAPAN
Paititi live "14 juillet"
July 14, 2012
open 19:30
start
20:00
charge 500yen + drink fee (and some donation will be
appreciated!)
Reservation is required @ barisshee@keh.biglobe.ne.jp
phone：080-3289-6913
http://isshee.at.webry.info/
(June 28 2012)
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★ Yoriko Douguchi's
author-reading /music event
Nora-neko Shuukai (stary cats' meeting), Yoriko Douguchi's
author-reading & ukulele-playing event, is going to be held on July
14.
Yoriko's reading her Shikyuu Kaigi (womb conference) book and
probably playing the ukulele at some small club in Shibuya, Tokyo. Details
to be announced soon.
This is a special occasion to see her outseide
the screen and TV!
The same evening, Paititi, "alternative
ukulele band" by Hidenori Ishida & Yoriko Douguchi with some great
supporting musicians, will play a club gig. The details are to be
announced shortly, as well.
(June 23,
2012)
|
★ Antoki no Inochi (Life
Back Then) DVD/blu ray
Antoki no Inochi(Life Back Then),Takahisa Zeze's acclaimed
filme will be released as DVD and blu ray in Japan, May 25.
Yoriko
Douguchi appears as Itsumi, Kyohei's mother.
This film won the
Innovation Award in the 35th Montreal World Film Festival last
year.
For more detail, see Asianwiki: http://asianwiki.com/Life_Back_Then
(May 13, 2012)
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★ Pourquoi? >>> Screening
Cancelled :The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl @ Cinémathèque
Française
The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa
Girl screening at Cinémathèque Française is cancelled.
I can almost
hear "pourquoi?" ("why", in French) from Douguchi fans and Kurosawa fans
in France.
I'm not discussing here about what I'm not sure
of, but am still hoping for another occasion to
come.
Except for the bad news, the Rétrospective Kiyoshi
Kurosawa is a worthwatching special program.
You can't miss Charisma,
License to Live, Cure, 6 episodes of Suit Yourself or Shoot
Yourself !!, and the others. Yoriko Douguchi is breathtaking in these
films.
Cinematheque
francaise HP
(March
27, 2012)
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★ Excitement of
the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl @ Cinémathèque
Française
Rétrospective Kiyoshi Kurosawa will be held at
Cinémathèque française in Paris from Mar 14 to April 19.
Among the
projection list, 12 movies in which Yoriko Douguchi is starred are
included.
The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (screening cancelled !!!
arrrrrrrrgh!)
 Dangerous
Stories
 Guard From the Underground
      6 episodes of Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself !!
 Cure
 License To Live
 Charisma
Visit
the Cinematheque
francaise HP to see what is
happening!
(Mar.14, 2012)
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★ "Merry Merry Paititi
Live"
Paititi (Hidenori Ishida
& Yoriko Douguchi) are playing a small club venue Bar Isshee,
Udagawacho, Shibuya (TEL：080-3289-6913) on Dec 9,
this time
featuring Masami Sakaide (from Hikashu) as guest musician.
Dec 9 (fri) open 19:00 start 20:00
charge 500yen +
drink fee (and some donation will be appreciated!)
It is advisable to
make a reservation @ barisshee@keh.biglobe.ne.jp
On
Dec 10, Ishida & Douguchi will appear at the talk session for
Tony Coleman's MIGHTY UKE at Cinemarise, Shibuya. (map)
The talk session will start after the 17:30
screening finishes.
(Dec.1, 2011)
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★ Paititi's "Dream Of
Dream", a small-club gig in Shibuya
On Nov.11, Hidenori Ishida &
Yoriko Douguchi, both from Paititi, are playing a small-club gig at
Bar Isshee, Udagawacho, Shibuya (TEL：080-3289-6913)
Nov 11 (fri) open 19:00 start 20:00
charge 500yen +
drink fee (and some donation will be appreciated!)
It is advisable to
make a reservation @ barisshee@keh.biglobe.ne.jp
What's Paititi?
Watch
Paititi! @ YouTube
click the
camera! |
(Oct.26, 2011)
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★ Antoki no Inochi
(Life Back Then)
Yoriko Douguchi appears in Antoki no Inochi(Life Back
Then),Takahisa Zeze's upcoming film.
This film won the Innovation
Award in the 35th Montreal World Film Festival this year.
Moreover,
it is to be screened at the 24th Tokyo International Film
Festival(17:30-19:56, Oct.24).
Tokyo International Film Festival Home
Page > http://2011.tiff-jp.net/en/lineup/works.php?id=42
In
theaters in Japan, Antoki no Inochi will be released from Shochiku,
Nov.19.
(Oct.17, 2011)
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★ Itami
Retrospective
   from L to R, Tampopo, A Taxing Woman's Return, Tales of A
Golden Geisha
Tampopo, A Taxing Woman's Return & Tales of A Golden
Geisha, three films by Juzo Itami, will be screened at The 24th Tokyo
International Film Festival, for its special program 'Juzo Itami
Retrospective'.
Yoriko Douguchi is in these three films.
A
Taxing Woman's Return & Tampopo will be screening at Nihonbashi Mitsui
Hall (English map here) ,
A Taxing Woman's return :
13:30- , Oct.22
Tampopo : 10:30- , Oct.23
These two
films will be showing at Nihonbashi Mitsui Hall.
Tales of A Golden
Geisha will be screening at TOHO CINEMAS ROPPONGI HILLS SCREEN7 (English
map here),
part of an all-night screening (starts at
22:00).
(Oct.12, 2011)
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★ Live: discourse
& (dis)sonance???
Yoriko Douguchi's next gig is titled as,
most directly translated into English, "Hyper-Improvisational
Word/Poetry/Chord/Talk 'Out-of-Control' Live".
This says it
all.
Yoriko is going to improvise music with Mr. Masami Sakaide
& Mr. Masaharu Satoh (both from Hikashu) and have a talk session
with Mr. Toshihiko Yahagi, an author .
Yoriko's gigs have been always
unpredictable. I guess this whole evening will be a case of
improvisation, but who knows?
Aug.16 at Koen-dori Classics,
Shibuya (http://www.radio-zipangu.com/koendori/)
open 19:00/
start 19:30
ticket 3800yen (advanced ticket 3500 yen)
reservation is
required at Koen-dori Classics (phone: 03-3462-2701)
or email at noranecotv@gmail.com
(July 30,
2011)
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★ Douguchi &
Ishida, Guest performers
What's going to
happen at LIALEH (http://www.bloc.jp/moti/),
a bar in Futakotamagawa,Tokyo, on June 25
is a gig titled
ZawaZawa Vol.38 by Masaharu Satoh, the drummer of HIKASHU.
Yoriko
Douguchi and Hidenori Ishida, both from Paititi, are performing as guest
performers.
June 25 (sat) open 19:00 start
20:00
charge 1000yen
It is advisable to make a
reservation.
In fact, there's a quite tight connection
between Paititi and Hikashu, one of the biggest influence of Japanese
rock.
Mr. Masaharu Satoh, the drummer and the host of the
upcoming gig, had played with Paititi at some of Paititi's recent
concerts.
Mr. Masami Sakaide, the bassist of Hikashu, has been with
Paititi as a supporting musician these few years.
Mr. Koichi Makigami,
the voice of hikashu, gave an interview for Paititi's movie UKULELE. He
also sang and played the jawharp at a Paititi's concert.
From my
most humble point of view, when these musicians are together,
something happens, and anything goes.
You can watch some of thier live
videos at YouTube.
(Yoriko, Sakaide, Satoh @ Nishiazabu)
( The
fanatic saxphone player is Doctoru Umezu! @ Aoyama)
(ZawaZawa in 2009. Fiery
music!)
(June 15, 2011)
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★ DOOR TO THE
SEA
At the 11th Nippon Connection
Festival in Germany, Reiko Ohashi's Umi
e no Tobira (DOOR TO THE SEA) won the Nippon Visions jury.
In this
film, Yoriko Douguchi plays the role of Ken's mother, who leads an
unrestrained life.
Reiko Ohashi was a graduate of Tokyo University
of the Arts, and directed this film as a 'graduation work'
You can
read a review on this film by Tom Mess @ Midnight
Eye website:
http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/door-to-the-sea.shtml
(May.19, 2011)
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★ YURIKO DO SVIDANYA (an
upcoming movie)
Yoriko Douguchi is in YURIKO, DO SVIDANYA (百合子、ダスヴィダーニヤ),
which is Sachi Hamano's latest movie,
based on a
romantic relationship between two famous female writers (Yuriko
Miyamoto,Yoshiko Yuasa).
Yoriko Douguchi plays the role of Yaeko
Nogami, a writer who introduced the latter to the other.
The
director Sachi Hamano is a forerunner of female "pink"
filmmakers in Japan, and has also diredted non-pink films from a
woman's perspective.
YURIKO, DO SVIDANYA official homapage
(Japanese): http://yycompany.net/
The movie will be showing at first at Milano-za theaterin Shizuoka, where the major parts of the film
shootings were located, from June 18.
In Tokyo, it will show
at Eurospace Shibuya from this Fall.
Moreover, it is announced that the movie will be
programmed for a couple of film festivals in Japan;
Aichi International Women's Film Festival (Sep.7 - 11)
Kansai Queer Fil, Festival (Sep.17 - 19, Osaka / Oct.21 - 23,
Kyoto)
(May.19,
2011)
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★ TV drama
appearance
Yoriko Douguchi will be in the 8th season of OMIYASAN, an
upcoming detective drama (TV ASAHI).
Yoriko and Mo-e Arai are the
guest stars of its first episode (20:00~, April28), casted as
mother and daughter.
Yoriko played the role of Mo-e's (unstable)
mother in GEKIKOI in 2010.
Looking at the OMIYASAN web page (http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/omiyasan/story/01.html), I
expect her new role to be more unstable...
Anyways, take
a glance at the web page, and you'll see Yoriko's real cool look face
;-)
(April.19,
2011)
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★ Thank you for your
messages!
I recieved friendly messages from Yoriko Douguchi's
international fans.
I am shocked badly at the news on the earthquake in Japan. I
keep praying for Doguchi san, her fans and everyone in Japan! (from
Korea)
We all are shocked by the terrible news from Japan.
I
just wanted to send you my very best wishes to overcome the situation.
(from France)
Hope that all of you are OK and the whole Japan can
safely get through this dissaster. (from Hong Kong)
Thank you very much for your
kind words!
I put your messages at Japanese BBS page so that Japanese
fans and Yoriko Douguchi can read them.
We appreciate your
friendship!
If you send a greeting message to her
@ yorikofans@yahoo.co.jp, I
will put it on ths web site.
You also can write a message
@ the web-survey
page of this web
site.
(Mar.18, 2011)
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★ Yoriko's
Birthday!
March 18 is Yoriko Douguchi's birthday!
Here in
Japan, we are still in a serious situation.
However, the better
for it, I would like to celebrate her birthday.
If you
send a greeting message to her @ yorikofans@yahoo.co.jp, I
will put it on ths web site.
You also can write a message
@ the web-survey
page of this web site.
(Mar.18,
2011)
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★ About the earthquake
in Japan
Dear international fans,
as you have probably heard, Japan
is under the influence of M-9.0 earthquake and a massive
tsunami.
The devastation is unbelievable and the state we are in
here has been getting more and more difficult.
Yoriko Douguchi
updated her blog today （Mar.12）, writing that she's still
feeling unpeaceful but she is OK now.
While, she is worried
about some of her relatives who live in Miyagi prefecture
(which suffered a great deal of damage).
The area I live is
Kyoto and was less affected by the earthquake than eastern prefectures of
Japan.
I was going to annouce that Yoriko Douguchi's birthday was
coming soon (March 18) and would prepare for its celebration,
but
I don't think it is the most appropriate thing to do now.
Still, I hope
that we will have been feeling more peaceful by her birthday and will be
able to celebrate it.
Please bolster our spirits. We need your
help.
(Mar. 13, 2011)
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★ Yoriko
Cures England
At this year's Japan Foundation Touring Film
Programme (Feb.4 ~ Mar.28), 7 contemporary
Japanese films including CURE,
a masterpiece of Kiyoshi
Kurosawa, are showing at several theaters in London, Belfast, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Bristol and
Sheffield.
 
In 1997, Yoriko Douguchi improved
significantly in CURE.
She is in only one episode of the haunting
thriller, but her off-kilter sense of acting
expresses vulnerability and the collapse of her identity,
and even brings a sleepwalker's nightmarish vision into
the whole body of the film.
Simply, you just can't miss
this!
About this film: http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/news/2011/01/31/kiyoshi-kurosawas-cure-in-japan-foundation-touring-programme/
Touring
venues:
4 - 13
February ICA Cinema, London
21 - 24 February Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast
4 – 10 March Filmhouse, Edinburgh
11 – 16 March Broadway, Nottingham
18 – 20 March Arnolfini, Bristol
22 – 28 March Showroom Workstation, Sheffield
(Feb. 7, 2011)
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★ Paperback & Live in
Shibuya
Dear
Sir or Madam, will you read her book ... it's written in Japanese,
though.
Shikyu Kaigi (Womb Conference), Yoriko Douguchi's
semi-autobiography, has just been released by Shogakukan
Bunko, finally in paperback.
On Jan. 22, there will be a
celebration party for this paperback release, at club Derori,
Shibuya.
Jan.22（sat） 18:30open
/19:00start
@DERORI （map） 03-5774 -6082
charge:3000yen
（one drink for free）
program: Shikyu Kaigi Reading Sesssion
(reciting the book by Yoriko Douguchi, with guitar accompanied by
Falcon)
Concert: Yoriko Douguchi, Falcon, Masami Sakaide (from
Hikashu) and Masaharu Sato(from Hikashu)
Shikyu Kaigi
(paperback) autographed by Yoriko Douguchi will be sold at
the door.
reservation：  noranecotv@gmail.com |
What is Shikyu
Kaigi?
In 2004, Yoriko was diagnosed with uterine cancer
and had an operation to have her ovaries and womb removed.
She
had married a TV director in 1997 and they were
childless.
Because of Yoriko's brush with death, she
experienced so much depression and despair that she became dependent on
alchol and even attempted suicide.
↑("Shikyuu
Kaigi")
In 2007, Shogakukan published Shikyuu Kaigi
by Yoriko. The title was named after "The Animals' Conference "
by Erich Kästner).
It is a semi-biographical story that deals
with everything from Yoriko's childhood to her struggle against the
uterine cancer.
Despite its saddness, Yoriko's storytelling has a dark
sense of humor and is somewhat influenced by magical realism, which blurs
the boundaries between imagination and documentary
storytelling. It is as unique as Yoriko's cinematic
existence.
"Shikyuu Kaigi" has been acclaimed as a creative and
imaginative book by critics, and is also viewed as
a supportive book by many uterine cancer
patients.
In 2008, she also writes columns for newspapers and
magazines.
In addition to these works, another of her
impotant activities is "Reading Session ".
"Reading
Session" is a reading of her book ("Shikyu Kaigi") with
music, involving a guitarist named Falcon.
(Jan. 8, 2011)
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