December 2011
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Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish and the Carrot // OZU MONTH:
#19. daughter and father fight -the daughter leaves and goes to her friend, Baisho’s place
#20. the old part of Tokyo, and the friend has a modest lifestyle
#21. Toshi and Kasa fight -but while the husbands are fighting, the wives meet secretly to discuss about wedding plans
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by David Zweitausend
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“A good book gets lost easily in war. (Of course it gets lost in a much more...”
– Donald Stauffer, ”Shakespeare in the Pacific,” New York Times, July 29, 1945.
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missingozu:
Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish and the Carrot // OZU MONTH:
#18. Tanaka (Toshi’s wife), buys Iwashita (daughter)’s furniture so she could bring that to her marriage -when Toshi looks at this, he says, “what!” -I don’t want my daughter to be married to the son of that guy
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On emotion in cinema:
Get rid of all the dramatics and show a sad character. Without using drama make the audience feel the emotion.
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“The Japanese language is characterized among other things by evocative...”
– Jamie Katz, Sensei and Sensibility
Missing Ozu: Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish... →
missingozu:
Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish and the Carrot // OZU MONTH:
#15. last scene -they both understand where each other is coming from, but yet they still fight
#16. kasa’s son, Yoshida is employed at Toshi’s company -don’t go to that company -I didn’t want my son to be allowed to go there -but I took a test to get into this company
missingozu:
Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish and the Carrot // OZU MONTH:
#12. Radish and carrot -they were in love during childhood -during childhood, both talk badly about their fathers
#13. Nobu’s wake
#14. reunion -Toshi and Kasa all go to a pub together and there get in a fight. The daruma (a Japanese potbelly figure) moves -Toshi holds a beer bottle -slams his hat down and leaves...
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“I just was alerted to this thread now. I can’t speak to how Barzun is...”
– C. Barzun
Missing Ozu: Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish... →
missingozu:
Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish and the Carrot // OZU MONTH:
#6. lazy person -that’s why when you’re told that you don’t have much time to live, you can do good work
#7. during high school, sleeping was the best thing I did
#8. during the war, I rode a boat from Tsuruga, but then I…
Missing Ozu: Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish... →
missingozu:
Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish and the Carrot // OZU MONTH:
#4. Nakamura is asked to be a spokesperson for the wedding (a spokesperson is someone that just represents the bride or the groom) -Kasa and Tokutoshi while they are fighting just talks further about things
#5. Nobu: has…
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missingozu:
Ozu and Noda’s notes for The Radish and the Carrot // OZU MONTH:
#2. the place where the fight took place -Tokutoshi is holding a beer bottle
#3. it’s not a “wild goose” (same word as cancer), it’s a wild duck, a normal duck
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Translated notes for The Radish and the Carrot // OZU MONTH:
#1. surprised at the habitual statements
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“Detection goes with the belief in greatness, intelligence and integrity, with...”
– Jacques Barzun, in Michael Gilbert, ed., Crime in Good Company, quoted in Elizabeth Foxwell, Fostering Mystery History: A Manifesto.
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Missing Ozu: Of course, December is OZU MONTH... →
missingozu:
Of course, December is OZU MONTH (born and died on Dec. 12). Starting today, I’m going to offer scraps from the translated notes of Ozu and Noda – in regard to The Radish and the Carrot, which Ozu was planning to direct before he passed away. These notes were shorthand for Ozu and Noda, who were…