Hanafuda movies

[Deborah Shamoon]

There's a hanafuda scene in Shurayukihime (Lady Snowblood, dir. Fujita
Toshiya). It's a relatively short scene, but images from the cards are
reproduced in the set. I second the recommendation of Summer Wars, the
"koi-koi" battle at the end is great. It should be release on DVD in the US
in the near future.

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Eija Niskanen <eija.niskanen at gmail.com>wrote:

> If a theatrical anime feature is OK, in Summer Wars (dir. Mamoru
> Hosoda) hanafuda plays a central role in the plot.
>
> Eija
>
> 2010/12/28 faith <faithbach at yahoo.co.jp>:
> > HIGHLY RECOMMENDED is Hibotan Bakuto #6: Tekkaba Retsuden (1969 Yamashita
> > Kosaku) which features two nice long interesting hanafuda scenes with
> > visible cards -- in one, Fuji Junko as the Red Peony is literally playing
> > for her life!  (Tsuruta Koji lets her win!, and we can see his
> card-palming
> > clearly.)  It's a great film, more orthodox than Pale Flower, very
> > ritualized yakuza genre.  At present the Red Peony series is coming out
> on
> > Japanese DVD, altho' I'm not sure how far they've gone on it.  You should
> be
> > able to find them on Amazon Japan.  (VTRs are still easy to get on Yahoo
> > Auction.) There is an English-subbed DVD version available thru Ebay
> > with non-native but comprehensible titles.  For more info on latter,
> contact
> > me offlist.  FB
> >
>
>
>
> --
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