What are you watching?

[Erestor Arcamen]

Finishing up Wandavision on Disney+ tonight, it was excellent.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

My conclusion after watching a couple of episodes: Tove Jansson enjoyed scaring children. 😂

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I was reminded of this movie today, which I saw on TV as a lad. Younger members may have seen it on MST3K:

It's an "Americanized", dubbed version -- with narration by Mike Wallace! -- of a Russian film about Ilya Muromets from 1956. I see the original is also on youtube -- hooray!

Even better, there are captions in both English and Spanish. I'm gonna watch it!

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Edit: OK -- I admit that may be too much culture shock for some people. 😁

But for others, Setsu's mother is performing shigin, an old singing style which uses a technique of multiple notes in a syllable. It probably sounds closest to a pronounced vibrato in Western music, but it's not, really. On the other hand, it may have affected other genres of Japanese singing, as vibrato seems to have been favored in popular music, until recent decades. But I confess to limited experience in the area.

I notice that Suzuhana Yuuko, singer in the Wagakki Band, uses shigen to an extent, which makes sense, as they combine traditional instruments with rock, whereas Maria of Garnidelia doesn't appear to use any vibrato at all. I'd love to hear from anyone who has knowledge of the subject.

 

[Olorgando]

I also watched the Air New Zealand Epic Safety Video that came up as a suggestion (on YouTube, as such suggestions are uniformly redirected to).
A riot! 🤣

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Rope (1948)

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Wave Motion Gun live fire:

 

[Starbrow]

I didn't mean to get sucked into watching all 8 of the Harry Potter movies.

 

[Miguel]

I completely forgot about this, and it's going to be on consoles too

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

We have a Games forum now, you know. 😀

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

This anime series has me tearing up (sniff! 😓)

In the series, Setsu's grandfather was a tsugaru shamisen master.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Looks like we're turning Japanese! 😁

So I'll post more clips from "Mashiro no Oto" -"Those Snow White Notes", the new anime series. Here's the opening title sequence:

And the trailer:

 

[Olorgando]

Looks like we're turning Japanese! 😁

Waddayamean we? 😂

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

We, the (TTF) people, of course.

Or at least, the TTF Watching thread people. 😁

 

[Olorgando]

We, the (TTF) people, of course.
Or at least, the TTF Watching thread people. 😁

Eh? "We, the Squint-eyed Southerner"? Having an attack of pluralis majestatis, or what? Maybe an aspirin tablet could help ... 😁

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

As you may -- or may not -- have noticed, I'm not the only one posting Japanese stuff on this thread.

I'm going with "not".

 

[Olorgando]

As you may -- or may not -- have noticed, I'm not the only one posting Japanese stuff on this thread.
I'm going with "not".

Bingo!

Had to go back to page 7, and a 15 March 2020 post to find EA mentioning a Ghibli movie.

I refused to count the number of clips you linked (of course not all Japanese, Korean and Chinese, too), but perhaps I may be excused having the impression that the posting has been one-sided. Mathematically, EA's post amounts to a small rounding error. 😜

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Had to go back to page 7, and a 15 March 2020 post to find EA

Good work!

Or -- you could have just gone back to his last post. 😂