April 2001

    No Joke | Ties Talk Update: Ehime Maru | Film: Rohmer's Le Beau Mariage (A Good Marriage) | Battles Without Honor & Humanity: The Films of FUKASAKU Kinji: Okami to buta to ningen (Wolves, Pigs and People) / Hakuchu no buraikan (High Noon For Gansters a.k.a. Villains in Broad Daylight) | "You must be Canadian" | Film: Rohmer's Pauline à la Plage (Pauline at the Beach) | United Devices: Helping With Spare Time | Game On: 2001 NHL Playoffs Round 1 | About Obon Q and A Update | FUKASAKU Kinji 2: Nihon bouryoku-dan: Kumicho (Japan's Violent Gangs -- Boss a.k.a. Sympathy For The Underdog) | Bakuto gaijin butai (Gambler -- Foreign Opposition a.k.a. Gamblers in Okinawa a.k.a. Yakuza Combat Forces) | Film: Rohmer's Le Rayon Vert (Summer a.k.a. The Green Ray) | Yagyû ichizoku no inbô (Shogun's Samurai a.k.a. The Yagyu Conspiracy) | 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle) | Steller! | Game On: 2001 NHL Playoffs Round 2 | Ties Talk Update: Liberation of Dachau | Film: Fukasaku's Omocha (The Geisha House) | Play ball! PGE Park Opens

  • Play Ball! PGE Park Opens
    Tonight was the first game at Portland's newly renovated and upgraded ballpark, home to the Portland Beavers, the Triple A farm team of the MLB San Diego Padres. They are in the Pacific Coast League, so the Edmonton Trappers and Calgary Cannons will be their opponents later in the summer. I will wait until then to take in a game -- right now it is so cool and rainy, only diehard baseball fans would enjoy themselves!

    The facility used to be called Civic Stadium, but it became PGE Park after local utility company Portland General Electric bought the naming rights, following the now continent-wide norm of increasingly overt corporate sponsorship. In the past, signs of a company's involvement in sport were more subtle: the original owners of Toronto's MLB franchise, Canadian brewery Labatt, named their team the Blue Jays, in part because they have a beer called "Blue". Now, rumour has it that the Grizzlies, Vancouver's NBA franchise, are being bought by courier company Federal Express, who will move the team to Memphis TN, change the team colours to its corporate purple and orange, and re-name it The Express! Worldwide, North America is behind the curve on this issue: in Europe, hockey players are skating billboards, and in Japan, teams are known by the company name (e.g. Yomiuri Giants), not the city they call home (Tokyo).

    (30 April 2001)
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  • Omocha (The Geisha House) (Japan 1998; Dir: FUKASAKU Kinji) ****
    The story of Tokiko, a girl whose poverty-stricken family sends her to work as a domestic at a Kyoto geisha house in the late 1950s. She works hard (I was exhausted simply watching her hustle through her chores at the beginning of the film!) but also makes time to learn traditional dance. When she comes of age, the house mother arranges for her to become a maiko (apprentice geisha) under a new professional name: Omocha -- "toy" in Japanese.

    This was the only film in the Fukasaku retrospective that centered on women, but as with the yakuza and samurai of his other works, life in the geisha world is shown as an intricate web of responsibilities and obligations: between patron and geisha, kimono merchant and geisha house, daughter and family, teacher and student. The geisha who provided authour Arthur Golden with background information for his recent North American bestseller Memoirs of a Geisha is reportedly not pleased with the finished product because of what she views as an unbalanced representation of the services provided by geisha. Omocha does not hide the non-artistic side of things, but shows the women as participants with definite goals in mind. Ultimately Omocha is a story of strong-willed women doing what it takes to succeed in a system designed by men.

    Cultural notes

    • Cho-cho (Butterfly) - This Japanese children's song plays over the opening credits and in a minor key over the final scene.
    • Ofuro (bath) - The house mother relaxes with "a hot one" after stressful episodes.
    • Kyoto-ben (Kyoto dialect) - And you thought you could understand Japanese?
    • Loom for weaving obi - Those who work these are considered living cultural treasures.
    • ... and too many more to mention!

    Beautiful shots

    • Responsible for cleaning the geisha's footwear, Tokiko arranges pairs upon pairs of colourful zoori (sandals) around herself like petals of a flower
    • Uchimizu - Tokiko spraying the entryway with water from a hose
    • Tokiko encounters an elderly woman in the street who walks hunched over, her back bent by a hard working life.
    • Omocha's combs, hairpins and ornaments spread out on a table
    • Omocha leaving the house in her colourful maiko's kimono, framed by the dark entryway

    Trivia

    (29 April 2001)
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  • Ties Talk Update: Liberation of Dachau
    There is an update at the Ties Talk Message Archive, including a message about a little-known event that occurred 56 years ago today: the Liberation of Dachau by Japanese American soldiers at the end of World War Two. Also new is a thread on one person's concerns about Asian Eyes, and a thread called Aryan Asians, Japa-nazis, which shows that racism isn't confined to white people.

    (29 April 2001)
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  • Game On: 2001 NHL Playoffs Round 2
    Tonight the surviving teams from Round 1 of the NHL playoffs got back on the (too) long road to the Stanley Cup. The Edmonton Oilers are not among them, having fallen again to the Dallas Stars, this time 4-2. The Oil's lack of depth showed as the injuries started to mount. But some of their young players showed promise, and the owners got the three home gates they had included in their operating budget. Next year!

    Here are my predictions for Round Two (series winners in BOLD), not that I was very accurate last round:

    • Western Conference
      • COLORADO AVALANCHE (Roy, Sakic, Forsberg, Borque, Blake) vs. Los Angeles Kings (Deadmarsh, Potvin)
      • DALLAS STARS (Hull, Modano) vs. St. Louis Blues (Pronger, Turgeon)
      *****
    • Eastern Conference
      • NEW JERSEY DEVILS (Stevens, Brodeur) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (Sundin, Joseph)
      • PITTSBURGH PENGUINS (Lemieux, Jagr) vs. Buffalo Sabres (Gilmour, Hasek)
      *****
    • Stanley Cup Finals
      • New Jersey vs. COLORADO AVALANCHE

    With a quick look around the TVs of The Cheerful Tortoise sports bar at one point in the evening, one could see Japanese players on all the screens showing baseball: Shigetoshi Hasegawa (Anaheim Angels), Hideo Nomo (Boston Red Sox), Ichiro Suzuki (Seattle Mariners). Surreal, but true.

    (26 April 2001)
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  • Steller!
    A couple of distinctive-looking birds have been very busy outside our window over the past few weeks, making numerous trips to one tree with twigs and grass in their beaks -- nest-building, no doubt. Black crest and head and dark blue body, Dorami-chan and I have been wondering what they are called. The crest is like that of a blue jay (which we knew from the logo of Toronto's baseball team), so we checked under "Crows and Jays" in the Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter and found they are Steller's Jays, a bird native to the western United States and Canada. Dorami-chan wanted to send some information about the birds in Japanese to "Gino" and her parents, but didn't know what the everyday name is in Japanese. Luckily, the taxonomic nomenclature (Latin name) is a system of unique concept identifiers for animal species that is common to all languages. Using the name Cyanocitta stelleri, we were able to find this Japanese bird enthusiast's page: Amerika no tori (American Birds), which lists the Japanese name as Suteraa kakesu. In a similar way, the Unified Medical Language System is a way of representing knowledge in such a way that bridges all the different "dialects" used in the medical world.

    (25 April 2001)
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  • 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle) (France 1986; Dir: Eric Rohmer) **
    A country girl and a city girl meet, move in together, then find the traditional values of one are at odds with the urban mores of the other -- juicy topics for plenty of Rohmer-style discussion, presented as four episodes:

    • "The Blue Hour" - Reinette introduces Mirabelle to the Blue Hour, the moment just before dawn, when all is magically still.
    • "The Waiter" - A haughty French waiter at a sidewalk café gives Reinette and Mirabelle a hard time. Mirabelle wants to dine-and-dash, but Reinette feels guilty and returns later to pay the trivial bill, much to the amazement of the café staff.
    • "The Beggar, the Kleptomaniac, the Hustler" - Mirabelle brings home some shoplifted food, which Reinette refuses to eat. Reinette, who advocates helping beggars whenever possible, finds that few others are as kind when she needs to use the pay phone after having been hustled out of the last of her change.
    • "Selling the Picture" - In trying to sell a painting, Reinette finds that sometimes it is best not to say anything -- literally -- especially when around those who love to talk.

    "The Blue Hour" was my favourite, with its rural French setting, discussion over an al fresco meal, and wordless ending. The Paris segments that followed were less satisfying, with overdone humor that threatened to send the film into sketch comedy territory. I kept wondering whether this would turn into Single White Female, with Reinette obsessively turning into Mirabelle. Have I been conditioned by Hollywood?

    Trivia:

    (22 April 2001)
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  • Yagyû ichizoku no inbô (Shogun's Samurai a.k.a. The Yagyu Conspiracy) (Japan 1978; Dir: FUKASAKU Kinji) ***
    This film falls under the Japanese cinematic categories of chambara eiga -- swordfighting films -- and jidai geki -- "historical dramas" set in Japan's rich past. Shogun's Samurai takes place during the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868), a time of relative political stability after the Sengoku Jidai (Warring States Period) (1467-1603). The characters are actual figures from history, but the story is fictional, revolving around the intrigue and conflict over who will succeed Shogun TOKUGAWA Hidetada. Scheming Lord Yagyu manoeuvers his favourite prince Iemitsu into power, but to do so takes plenty of flashy swordplay, beautiful costumes, and over-the-top acting. The all-star cast includes MIFUNE Toshiro and CHIBA Shinichi (Sonny). Seeing some familiar actors from director Fukasaku's yakuza films dressed in samurai costumes made me think of some of the parallels between bushido and the yakuza code.

    (19 April 2001)
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  • Le Rayon Vert (Summer a.k.a. The Green Ray) (France 1986; Dir: Eric Rohmer) ***
    Most would consider Paris, France the most romantic place in the world, but not Delphine, the young secretary who is the focus of the fifth film in Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series. A girlfriend backs out of a planned trip to Greece, leaving Delphine (played by Marie Rivière, Isabelle in 1998's Conte d'automne) to find ways of getting out of the city during her summer holiday. Through the generosity of friends, she gets to visit several beautiful French vacation spots -- Cherbourg in Normandy, La Plagne in the French Alps, Biarritz on the west coast -- but she flees from each, lonely yet self-isolating. Is she a miserable vegetarian flake or just depressed? Those who have ever travelled solo will be able to relate.

    Signs of the Time:

    • Typewriters and telephones with ringing bells - offices are so much quiter today!
    • Daniel Hechter - this French designer's name was everywhere in the 1980s. Where is he now? See his website.

    Trivia:

    (15 April 2001)
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  • The Northwest Film Center's FUKASAKU Kinji retrospective continued tonight:

    • Nihon bouryoku-dan: Kumicho (Japan's Violent Gangs -- Boss a.k.a. Sympathy For The Underdog) (Japan 1969; Dir: FUKASAKU Kinji) **1/21/2
      A pacifist yakuza (TSURUTA Koji) is thrust into the role of kumicho -- boss of his gang -- just as he was planning to leave (shades of Michael Corleone from The Godfather). Rival gangs initially view his non-violent ways with respect. Ultimately expansionist considerations prevail, and his gang is destroyed in an early morning attack. By coincidence he is spared. He can walk away, but his obligation to fallen comrades (SUGAWARA Bunta, ANDO Noboru, WAKAYAMA Tomisaburo) dictates that he exact revenge and pay the ultimate price in a bloody finale. "Once a yakuza, always a yakuza."

      Cultural notes:

      • Shishiodoshi - Originally used like a scarecrow in the fields, this bamboo garden ornament is supported by a fulcrum. As it fills up with water from above, it begins to lean to one side from the weight of the water. When it becomes too heavy, the water spills out, then the bamboo swings back to bang down against a stone below it and makes a sound. When Tsuruta dies, his head strikes the pavement to a similar sound effect.
      • Osoushiki - Japanese funerals
      • Haori and hakama - traditional men's formal wear
      • Japan, Inc. - billboards for Canon, etc. are evidence of the rise of Japanese corporations
      • Japan Air Lines' old flying colors: white, navy, and red -- and no crane
      • In the 1950s and early 1960s, yakuza wore suits and drove American cars; by the late 1960s, the younger gang members are wearing colorful shirts, and Mercedes Benz have become the preferred brand.
      • Kimigayo - members of the yakuza alliance sing this before pledging to fight communism in Japan. This song that has long been used as Japan's national anthem, but has only recently been legally recognized as such, leading to controversy.

    • Bakuto gaijin butai (Gambler -- Foreign Opposition a.k.a. Gamblers in Okinawa a.k.a. Yakuza Combat Forces) (Japan 1971; Dir: FUKASAKU Kinji) **
      A yakuza (TSURUTA Koji) is released from prison to find that he has no place in the now corporate world of organized crime. He gathers up the remaining members of his defunct gang (ANDO Noboru and many familiar faces from other Fukasaku films) and heads to Okinawa, where life is more like it once was on the mainland*. Their city smarts allow them to easily establish themselves on the laid back southern island. Life is good, if somewhat empty, until a large mainland gang arrives with expansionist intentions. With nowhere left to go, they fight back the only way they know how in a bloody finale (is this starting to get repetitive?). The sepia-toned motivating flashback sequence is like that of Gladiator.
      * The Japanese "mainland" is, of course, four large islands.

      Cultural notes:

    (14 April 2001)
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  • About Obon Q and A Update
    I have updated my About Obon Q and A page with answers to a couple of recent questions visitors to the site have sent me, including one about Okinawan (and by extension Chinese) burial practices.

    (12 April 2001)
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  • Game On: 2001 NHL Playoffs Round 1
    Today is the start of the best time of year for every hockey fan: the first day of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. For what it is worth, here are my predictions for Round One (series winners in BOLD):

    • Western Conference
      • COLORADO AVALANCHE (Roy, Sakic, Forsberg, Borque, Blake) vs. Vancouver Canucks (Jovanovski, Bertuzzi)
      • DETROIT RED WINGS (Yzerman) vs. Los Angeles Kings (Potvin)
      • Dallas Stars (Hull, Modano) vs. EDMONTON OILERS (Weight, Salo)
      • St. Louis Blues (Pronger, Turgeon) vs. SAN JOSE SHARKS (Nolan, Selanne)
      *****
    • Eastern Conference
      • NEW JERSEY DEVILS (Brodeur) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (Ozolinsh, Tanabe)
      • OTTAWA SENATORS (Yashin) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (Sundin)
      • Washington Capitals (Bondra) vs. PITTSBURGH PENGUINS (Lemieux, Jagr)
      • Philadelphia Flyers (Recchi) vs. BUFFALO SABRES (Hasek)
      *****
    • Stanley Cup Finals
      • New Jersey vs. COLORADO AVALANCHE

    Like last year, Stefan, my classmate in the OHSU medical informatics program, and I went to our now usual place at The Cheerful Tortoise pub to watch the action unfold. This year we have a vocal third opinion, Dorami-chan. A special treat tonight was being able to watch (by satellite? cable?) the CBC Hockey Night In Canada broadcast of the Edmonton-Dallas game. Seeing the "One Cup, One Dream" interludes, metric units, ads for Canadian Tire and Tim Horton's Donuts, and the familiar faces of Don Cherry and Ron MacLean during Coach's Corner and Peter Mansbridge at the news breaks made my eyes misty.

    Jamie Langenbrunner's goal just 2:08 into sudden-death overtime for a 2-1 Dallas victory caught us halfway through a pitcher of Widmer Hopjack Pale Ale, so we stayed to watch the Fox-TV broadcast of the MLB game between the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics. On several occasions the camera showed the many Japanese fans (a package tour from Japan?) and media who were there to see Japanese stars Ichiro and Sasaki. When Ichiro came up to bat, and when reliever Sasaki came in from the bullpen, their names were displayed in katakana and kanji! They both played major roles in a 3-0 Seattle victory.

    (11 April 2001)
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  • United Devices: Helping With Spare Time
    Like me, you probably want to see the day when cancer is cured. Now there is a way to help scientists get there, and you won't even have to lift a finger. In fact, the less you move your fingers, the more you will help! Intel, the computer processor chip manufacturer, is sponsoring a distributed bioinformatics project called the United Devices Cancer Research Program, which uses peer-to-peer technology to link millions of personal computers around the world into a "virtual supercomputer" that searches for new drugs to treat leukemia. When you sign up, your computer is sent a small package of data, which your CPU works on during spare processing time -- when your computer is on, but not executing any commands, such as when you pause while typing to think of what you want to write next. Once the task is finished, your computer sends the results back and receives another piece of the computing task. Since the time used is that when your CPU would otherwise be idle, your computer's performance is not compromised. Science has never been so easy!

    (10 April 2001)
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  • Pauline à la Plage (Pauline at the Beach) (France 1982; Dir: Eric Rohmer) **
    The third in Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series, after Le Beau Mariage, and similar in structure. This time the silly people are a group of adults in a French beach resort town, who each seek love, but not from those who will reciprocate. Pauline, a teenager there under the care of an older cousin, is the only one who sees things clearly (and the only one who gives a sleazy, predatory male what he deserves). It's lightweight, but saved somewhat by some good dialogue.

    Signs of the Time:

    • Adidas shorts - cut embarassingly high by today's baggy standards
    • Typewriters - impossible to work quietly with these

    (08 April 2001)
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  • "You must be Canadian"
    We saw the Fukasaku films with R&R, friends from Vancouver BC who stopped in Portland OR during their trip down the West Coast. Last night, they couldn't find our place, and stopped to phone us for directions. They went to a convenience store and bought a $1 bottle of water, thinking they would get change for the pay phone. In B.C., something marked $1 actually costs $1.15 because of the provincial and federal sales taxes. But Oregon has no sales tax, so they had to buy an additional item to get change. Only Canadians would be disappointed about not being taxed!

    In the morning, we drove East up the Columbia River Gorge to see Multnomah Falls, and continued on to Hood River OR for lunch at the Big Horse Brew Pub (Big Horse Brew Pub, 115 State Avenue, Hood River, OR 97031, Phone: 541-386-4411 [REVIEW]). Hood River is the windsurfing capital of America. The sunny weather today meant wind was up, but with our commanding view of the river from the pub, we could see that it was still too early in the season for anyone to be out on the water. The pool tables on the ground floor of the pub had Dufferin cues from Canada!

    After the films in the evening, we went to the nearby Virginia Cafe for a beverage. I had an Oregon microbrew, but R&R gave themselves away as foreigners by ordering a Caesar. The waiter said, "You must be Canadian, right?" The vodka drink called a Bloody Caesar (vodka + clamato juice) was invented in Calgary AB in 1969, and is the most popular cocktail among Canadians. Our VC waiter was very thoughtful, and brought the closest thing, a Bloody Mary (vodka + tomato juice), in a glass with a salted rim ("This is how it would be served in Canada, isn't it?"). R&R wouldn't make very good undercover spies for CSIS, the Canadian CIA!

    (07 April 2001)
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  • Battles Without Honor & Humanity: The Films of FUKASAKU Kinji
    The Northwest Film Center's retrospective of rarely seen 1960s and 1970s works by FUKASAKU Kinji continues this month. This Japanese director is known in the West for his science fiction films like The Green Slime and Message From Outer Space, but his main impact in Japan was from his yakuza films. Films like this give me a glimpse of the Japan my parents left and which I missed by growing up in Canada.

    • Okami to buta to ningen (Wolves, Pigs and People) (Japan 1964; Dir: FUKASAKU Kinji) **
      Three brothers who grew up in the slums of post-War Tokyo are brought back together by the plan of one (TAKAKURA Ken) to steal money from the yakuza kumi of the older (MIKUNI Rentaro) by contracting the services of the youngest (KITAOJI Kinya) and his street gang. Things fall apart when greed and survival instincts override familial trust, which was never really there anyway. A comment on the frantic, get-ahead culture of early 1960s Japan? The claustrophobic last half is echoed in later films like Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. Fukasaku makes nice use of the black-and-white medium, such as when the camera lingers to show the fade to black after a light is turned off. The West Side Story-like song during the impromptu riverside "funeral" prompted laughs from many in the audience.

      Cultural notes:

      • Yakuza drive American cars with left-hand steering.
      • Shogi - Japanese chess

      Watching closely:

      • "They killed Akira!" but we see his carotid artery pulsing in the foreground.

    • Hakuchu no buraikan (High Noon For Gansters a.k.a. Villains in Broad Daylight) (Japan 1961; Dir: FUKASAKU Kinji) *
      Planning to rob a bank truck, a mysterious Japanese man (TANBA Tetsuro) assembles a team of ne'er-do-wells for the job: three other Japanese, three Americans, and a Korean. Cheap sets, stilted acting, improbable dialogue. This was one of Fukasaku's first films, and was believed lost until last year. Too bad someone found it! Un(?)intentionally funny -- belongs on the B-movie circuit.

      Cultural notes:

      • Crosswalks - pedestrian crossings are marked with a checkerboard pattern, rather than the stripes used today.
      • Ai no ko ("child of love") - a young woman in the gang is Blackanese, one of the results of, uh, "interaction" between the U.S. Occupation Force and Japanese women.
      • Ghost town - With the departure of the U.S. Occupation Force in 1952, pleasure towns that had sprung up around their bases were abandoned.

      (07 April 2001)
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    • Le Beau Mariage (A Good Marriage) (France 1981; Dir: Eric Rohmer) **
      A 25-year-old antique store clerk decides she must marry and targets an unwitting 35-year-old lawyer as her future husband. "No man can resist me," she tells her friend. Wrong! The title is misleading, in that no wedding takes place, but there is plenty of talk about marriage -- reasons for it, what it means, ways to make it work -- which counterbalances the simplistic, lightweight plot.

      This film is the second in Rohmer's Comedies & Proverbs series, but also pairs nicely with 1998's Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale), a far superior work which also starred Béatrice Romand (I've seen it!). The Northwest Film Center's retrospective In Love With Love: The Films of Eric Rohmer definitely draws a different crowd than the concurrent FUKASAKU Kinji series: mostly people age 40 and over, and many couples.

      Signs of the Time:

      • Skinny ties
      • Tight jeans (how can Sabine manage to walk?)
      • Giorgio Moroder-inspired synthesizer music over the credits (American Gigolo was released in 1980, and its song Call Me was a big hit)
      Timeless:
      • France - the locations probably still look the same today
      Watching Closely:
      • Is the house where the party is held early in Le Beau Mariage the same one used for the wedding party in Conte d'automne?

      (05 April 2001)
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    • Ties Talk Update: Ehime Maru
      There is finally an update at the Ties Talk Message Archive, mainly in the Current (at the time) Events directory, including a thread on the Ehime Maru Incident. I also just realized I did not have a link to the Multimedia directory, so that is now available, along with several new threads. There is also yet another page about JA Affection. After JA Food, this is the most popular topic to have been discussed on the Ties Talk e-mail list.

      (03 April 2001)
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    • No Joke
      Yesterday was April Fool's Day, but the custom is not well known or at all widely followed in Japan, so I could tell this probably was not a practical joke: I got an e-mail in Japanese from a reporter for the Mainichi Shimbun, who was coming to Portland OR today to interview one of the Oregon Health Sciences University researchers who recently made the first genetically modified monkey. She found my website and wondered if I knew somebody who could serve as a Japanese interpreter for the interview. It was on short notice, and I was working today, so Dorami-chan quite capably did the job. Watch for the resulting article later this month!

      (02 April 2001)
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