Female revenge movie.

[Michael McCaskey]

Here's a little more on Onoda's TV career, to supplement information on his movie work.

It looks as if Onoda went into TV work several decades ago, though this work does not seem to be listed in most movie databases in Japan.

Much of Onoda?s work appears to be serial jidaigeki (period drama/samurai action drama), and much of that is connected with the jidaigeki stories and novels of Ikenami Shotaro (1923-1990). Ikenami wrote great quantities of "samurai" fiction, still popular today, but only there are only a couple of his books available in English translation.

These various Onoda-directed serials are mostly available on quite recent DVDs, for direct purchase from:

http://direct.nagase.co.jp/dvds/DirectList050001.html

I believe there are as many as 60 DVDs--each separate series has the same cover picture on numerous DVDs. These DVDs look nice (on the web pages), but I don't think they have any subtitles, and I don't know whether the Nagase Co. deals with customers outside Japan. I believe they're all Shochiku DVDs, and apparently these series are very popular among general audiences in Japan.

I had not realized that some of the movie databases in Japanese don't include references to a person's TV work--while I think imdb.com usually does. But I guess imdb.com often gets its Japanese data from conventional databases in Japan, and so does not show Onoda's TV work either.

Michael McCaskey

----- Original Message -----
From: "J.sharp" <j.sharp at hpo.net>
Date: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:56 am
Subject: Re: Female revenge movie.

> Just checking from the jmdb, it seems that director Onoda wasn't
> particularly prolific - he made about 14 films for Shintoho in the 
> late 50s
> but his career stalled when the company went bankrupt in 1961. Unlike
> several of his Shintoho contemporaries, he never followed the company
> president Mitsugi Okura into the world of the eroduction, and his next
> feature wasnt until 1995.
> 
> >From his Shintoho films, he made one of the Queen Bee films 
> starring glamour
> girl Michiko Maeda, but for me the most interesting title from his 
> CV is his
> first film, the only one of Shintoho's ama or girl diver films I 
> havent been
> able to see (is it a lost film?), the intriguingly sounding 
> Cannibal Girl
> Diver (Hitogui Ama) from 1958, also with Maeda in it.
> 
> Jasper
> 
> 
> --------- Original Message --------
> From: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-
> state.edu>Subject: Female revenge movie.
> Date: 15/06/06 04:30
> 
> >
> > Anybody seen Onna Doreisen from 1960 (Female Slave Ship) by 
> YoshimotoOnoda with no less than Bunta Sagawara and Tetsuro Tamba. 
> It's probably
> one of the first sexy girl revenge movie. It reminded me of that 
> famousSasori series (Scorpion Female Prisoner with Meiko Kaji) but 
> only 12 years
> earlier.  Not a great film but an interesting one. I was also 
> wonderingif this director made other films, obviously I cannot 
> rely on the good ol'
> IMDB for asian films as usual.
> >  
> > I also got my hands on a copy of Teruo Ishii's notorious Edogawa 
> ranpotaizen: Kyofu kikei ningen  (Horror of a Deformed Man). 
> Thanks to my
> Japanese director friend who is a fan of Ishii's work. Ok my copy 
> didn'thave any subtitles but I wasnt that blown away by the 
> imagery as Tom Mes
> would suggest in his review from Midnight Eye
> (http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/horrmalf.shtml). I think he 
> went over
> the top by saying: " Yet, it is beautiful, haunting and oneiric; 
> it is the
> closest one can come to a dreamlike experience without closing 
> one's eyes."
> Yes it is somehow but it's like watching some modern dance and body
> painting. I think a
> > movie like Holy Mountain would me closer from that description of
> "dreamlike experience without closing one's eyes".
> >  
> > Still, I was happy to see that movie but I dont think it's that much
> incredible as it suggested. If you want a Japanese film with a 
> "dreamlikeexperience without closing one's eyes" I suggest Hausu 
> (House) 1977,
> from Nabuhiko Obayashi. A truly strange film with amazing 
> techniques and
> mood.
> >  
> >  
> > Mathieu St-Pierre
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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