My Neighbor Totoro
となりのトトロ 1988 1h28m
fastforward: The Totoro gets into a
Cat-Caterpillar い も 虫 Bus. They pick
Studio Ghibli Director: Isao Takahata
vegetables in the neighbouring old lady’s
garden. Mei gets lost trying to bring a cob
of corn トウモロコシの穂軸 to her mother in
the hospital; the Totoro and Magic Bus
take Satsuki to find Mei, and then to the
hospital.
10-year-old Satsuki, 4-year-old Mei, and
their professor father move into an old
house which is haunted 幽霊がよく出る by
dust bunnies ほこりの塊. They laugh away
the spirits. Mei meets a cuddly 抱きしめた
いような furry 柔毛質の giant Totoro sleeping
in a big camphor tree クスノキ. She thinks
her sister and father don’t believe her
story.
Scene 1: Father says she must have met
シュート！ 1h45m
Shoot aka Hit the Goal Shochiku 1994
the Lord of the Forest 森の主 mori no
(dvd Hong Kong Region 3
nushi. They come to the tree, which has a
English & Chinese subtitles)
rope around it to mark that it is sacred 神
SMAP and Kinki Kids
Father says, Long ago, man and trees
were the best of friends. They thank the
tree for taking care of Mei. *note
differences in Japanese and English:
onegai shimasu (=future oriented)
translated as thank you
Shingo Katori, Takuya Kimura
Scene 2: Satsuki and Mei take shelter 避
sempai who died. Flashback: their story.
難 in a roadside shrine. Satsuki prays to
the roadside jizo, お地蔵さま雨やどり
させて下さい
*note differences in Japanese and
English: Mei falls, Satsuki in English
says, “Oh, my God” but in Japanese
doesn’t say anything. In the shrine, Mei
says, メイ泣かない エライ “I’m not crying,
that’s good, isn’t it” which isn’t translated
Sempai (Kimura Takuya) dies from a
in English.
Scene 3: Waiting for their father at the
bus stop, Mei looks into a scary 怖 い
abandoned 見捨てられた fox shrine.
*why a Christian funeral not Buddhist?
聖な.
Ramos Rui - Verdi Kawasaki
A teenager (Nakai Masahiro) uses a pay
telephone at a train platform. Across the
platform he sees the ghost of his soccer
pre-existing heart condition. 10 second
funeral 葬 式 scene; shrouded 埋 葬 布
photograph and priest at altar 祭 壇 ,
mourners 哀 悼 者 sitting facing, shot of
church with cross 受難 on top in the rain
at night. Nothing else religious in the
movie. The team goes on to win the All
Japan tournament.
cool, chic, for young people. doesn’t have
the associations as a Buddhist funeral.
Black Rain 黒い雨 Kuroi Ame (1989)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) 1h33m
Director 今村昌平 Imamura Shohei
aka Tombstone for Fireflies
2h3m
火垂るの墓 Hotaru no Haka
The black rain is the ash 灰, radioactive
Director: Isao Takahata
fallout 放射性降下物 , and water that fell
one or two hours after the atomic bomb
based on a semi-autobiographical novel
in Hiroshima. Based on a novel by
by Nosaka Akiyuki
Masuji Ibuse who gathered information
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/grave/
from interviews and the diaries of bomb
synopsis/Grave_Graydon.txt
victims. The film shows how one family
September 9, 1945. A teenage boy dies in
is affected psychologically 心理学的に and
a train station. When street cleaners
physically. Class Scenes: two funerals.
remove his body, they find a rusted can
Near the end, “the beauty of life shows
and throw it into the grass. As fireflies
itself ever so fleetingly 束の間の when
fly away, the spirit of Seita's little sister
Yasuko goes to the pond and sees a sight
Setsuko stands up. Seita's spirit appears
she has been longing for all her life, the
beside her and puts his hand on her
king carp 鯉 jumping in the water,
shoulder. They smile at each other. Seita
playfully as if to say that beyond despair
picks up the can, which contained lemon
絶望 there is still joy. Sadly we hear on
drop candy. He hands the can to Setsuko,
the radio statements by politicians about
who smiles. She takes him by the hand
using the bomb once again in the Korean
and they walk off-screen as the opening
War. "Human beings learn nothing", says
credits begin.
Shigematsu.
窒 息
Flashback: Seita tries to take care of
themselves. Unjust 不正な peace is better
Setsuko. Kobe 神戸 burns, their mother
than a war of justice. Why can't they
dies, their father is away in the navy 海軍,
see?"”
their relatives 親類 complain that Seita
"They
strangle
doesn't work, they go to live in a shelter
in the woods, Setsuko dies of dysentery
赤痢, Seita cremates 火葬 her. He puts
some of her ashes into the candy tin. The
modern
Tokyo
background.
nightline
is
in
the
Kwaidan 怪談 (1965) 2h44min
erected, the Heike gave less trouble than
Director: Kobayashi Masaki
before; but they continued to do queer
4 tales of the supernatural 超 自 然 の
things at intervals,--proving that they
adapted 脚色 from Lafcadio Hearn (a.k.a.
had not found the perfect peace.
Yakumo Koizumi, 1850-1904)'s adaptions
of Japanese folktales.
Hoichi the Earless 耳なし芳一
THE STORY OF MIMI-NASHI-HOICHI
the subject of the sutra is the Doctrine of
the Emptiness of Forms,--that is to say,
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/kwaidanB.htm
of the unreal character of all phenomena
bilingual translation
or noumena.... "Form is emptiness; and
http://www.happy-partner.com/kenja/kwa
emptiness is form. Emptiness is not
idan/story4.html
different from form; form is not different
from emptiness. What is form--that is
MORE than seven hundred years ago,
emptiness. What is emptiness--that is
{1185} at Dan-no-ura, in the Straits of
form.... Perception, name, concept, and
Shimonoseki, was fought the last battle
knowledge, are also emptiness. There is
of the long contest between the Heike, or
no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and
Taira clan, and the Genji, or Minamoto
mind. ...But when the envelopment of
clan. There the Heike perished utterly,
consciousness has been annihilated, then
with their women and children, and their
he [the seeker] becomes free from all fear,
infant
and beyond the reach of change, enjoying
emperor
likewise--now
remembered as Antoku Tenno. And that
final Nirvana."
sea and shore have been haunted for
Hannya-Shin-Kyo 般若心経
seven hundred years....
Prajna Paramita Sutra
In former years the Heike were much
more restless than they now are. They
http://www.corrieweb.com/japan/glossary.
would rise about ships passing in the
htm
night, and try to sink them; and at all
Hannya-Shin-Kyo
times they would uatch for swimmers, to
Forms." A Buddhist sutra which renders
pull them down. It was in order to
humans invisible to spirits and demons
appease those dead that the Buddhist
temple,
Amidaji,
was
built
at
Akamagaseki. A cemetery also was made
close by, near the beach; and within it
were set up monuments inscribed with
the names of the drowned emperor and of
his great vassals; and Buddhist services
were
regularly
performed
there,
on
behalf of the spirits of them. After the
temple had been built, and the tombs
:
"Emptiness
of
Haunted Junction
HAUNTED じゃんくしょん
Holy Student Council members:
TVTokyo テレビ東京 1997
President: Houjo Haruto, the son of a
23min x 12 episodes
Christian minister 牧師. His great wish
character design: NakajimaAtsuko 中嶋敦
is to have a normal school and a
子 who also did Ranma 1/2 らんま 1/2
normal life without any occult 神秘の
business around. He summons 呼び出す
Saitoh High School is haunted by 7
the school spirit with his seven spirit
spirits:
badges 烙印, shouting “Welcome!” He
The school Chairman. An old man who
exclaims, “Oh my God!” at the end of
explains what is going on.
each episode 挿話.
Nino. A living Ninomiya Nintoku statue.
Asahina Mutsuki, the daughter of a
Schools in the pre-war period often
Shinto priest. She is good at doing
displayed statues of the studious 勉強家
exorcism 悪魔払い. She has a Shouta
の lad 若者 Ninomiya Kinjiro 二宮金次郎
complex, i.e., she likes boys about age
(or Sontoku), reading a book while
11, so she is crazy about Nino, and Red
carrying
Mantle has no effect on her.
firewood
薪
on
his
back.
Apparently most were melted down in
Ryudo Kazumi, the son of a Buddhist
the war for their metal and never
monk. He is easily possessed キツネが
replaced.
つく by various spirits and is girl-crazy
Hanako (aka Toilet Hanako). A seductive
夢中, especially for Hanako.
魅 惑 的 な girl who lives in the boy’s
washroom.
Episode 2: The reason the school has so
Red Mantle. A bishounen (beautiful
much magic about it is because it is in
young man) in a red cape and mask, who
the center of a triangle of power
makes girls swoon 気絶.
between the temple, the shrine, and
Haruo and Bones. An anatomy 解剖 model
the church.
and a skeleton がいこつ in the science
room.
Mirror Girl. A little girl living in a
mirror.
Gym Giant. So big you can only see his
legs.
Amaenaide Yo! あ ま え な い で よ っ !!,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaenaidey
(2005) 13x24min episodesx2seasons
o
TV Tokyo's anime satellite channel, AT-X.
Amaenai de Yo!! 01 - Don't Let Me Come
Based on the manga of the same name by
Amaenai de Yo!! 02 - Don't Play At Night
Sogabe Toshinori (宗我部 としのり). It is
(chinpira at the karaoke bar)
a comedy/ecchi/harem genre of anime
Amaenai de Yo!! 03 - Don't Peek Inside
that is similar in nature to the show
(a spirit panty thief)
Tenchi Muyo. The protagonist of the
Amaenai de Yo!! 04 - Don't be afraid
series is a 16 year old boy 里 中 逸 剛 ,
Amaenai de Yo!! 05 - Don't Cosplay
Satonaka Ikkou, a first year trainee at
Amaenai de Yo!! 06 - Don't change
the Saienji Buddhist Temple. He was
Amaenai de Yo!! 07 - Don't Search!!
sent there by his parents to be trained by
Amaenai de Yo!! 08 - Don't Confess!!
his grandmother, the Saienji Priestess.
Amaenai de Yo!! 09 - Don't Sing!!
At
Amaenai de Yo!! 10 - Don't Get Wet!!
the
temple
surrounded
by
he
finds
himself
beautiful
female
Amaenai de Yo!! 11 - Don't Tease!!
priestesses-in-training. who transforms
Amaenai de Yo!! 12 - Don't Wake Up!!
in to a super-monk (being able to perform
Amaenai de Yo!! 13 - Don't Be Sleepy!!
mass exorcisms) by his lust (Note: In the
(dvd special)
anime, he transforms from seeing a
naked girl). He lives in the Saien Temple
Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!! 01 - Don't Be
as a Buddhist priest in training with six
Tempted!!
other nuns: Haruka Amanogawa, Sumi
Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!! 02 - Don't Fan
Ikuina,
Me!!
Hinata
and
Sakura
Sugai,
Chitose Nambu and Yuuko Atouda, each
Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!! 03 - Don't Come
of whom represents one of the bosatsu of
Back!!
the six lower realms of the traditional
Amaenaideyo!!
Buddhist cosmology. Chitose is the other
Haniwa!!
main
Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!! 05 - Don't Fall!!
character and
has
a strange
Katsu!!
04
-
Don't
relationship with Ikkou; he seems to be
Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!! 06 - Don't Be
in all the wrong places at all the wrong
Perplexed!!
times, but they really care for each other.
Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!! 07 - Don't Mate!!
A side effect of Ikkou using his ultimate
Amaenaideyo!!
power is that immediately afterwards he
Tamago!!
turns into an even bigger pervert that he
Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!! 09 - Don't Cry!!
normally is. The series is about Ikkou's
Amaenaideyo!!
self-destructive power and his attempts
Meddle!!
to
Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!! 11 - Don't Act
control
his
own
super-sensual
Katsu!!
Katsu!!
08
10
-
-
Don't
Don't
sphere/powers.
Spoiled!!
http://www.anime-plaza.nl/index.php?id=
Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!! 12 - Don't End!!
tijdelijk/pages/compleet/amaenaideyo
Amaenaideyo!! Katsu!! 13 - Don't be
Fooled!!
幻想魔伝 最遊記 Gensomaden Saiyuki
youkai, but are confronted by little Yo,
http://www.togenkyo.org/episodes.html
who demands to know how they can kill
Rogue monk Sanjo Genjo is dispatched to
so easily when it goes against all
India prevent the resurrection of the
Buddha's teachings. Sanzo bluntly asks
demon-lord Gyumoah.
how Yo can say that when he sees how
His
3
companions:
chain-smoking
many of his fellow monks are dead, and
womanizer Sha Gojyo; level headed Cho
tells him that the easiest way to get close
Hakkai, and eternally hungry Son Goku.
to Buddha is to die, as they did. Too bad
Episode 3:
for us, adds Gojyo with his slow grin;
Sanzo and company gain permission to
we're still alive.
stay one night in a temple deep in the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cho_Hakkai
mountains.
_(Saiyuki)
In
this
temple
where
everyone has pure lineage and is very
http://www.spookhouse.net/angelynx/othe
pious,
ranime/Saiyuki/saiyuki-ep3.html
they
live
a
lifestyle
that
emphasizes learning and purification
and forbids liquor and tobacco, as such
things are vanity.
Such being the case, the priests at the
temple are shocked at the behavior of
Sanzo and company, as someone is
always smoking or drinking. During this
time, an assassin youkai appears, ready
to attack Sanzo Ikkou. But in this temple,
which has never suffered attack from
youkai or other villains, and which
teaches that taking life is wrong, there is
nothing even resembling a weapon. The
priests are attacked without being able
to fight back.……
As Sanzo expected, that night the head
monks implore him to stay and discourse
on the teachings for them. He bluntly
refuses, saying it's for the same reason
his master would not preach to them on
his visit--they're lazy and selfish, and
won't do anything practical to defend
themselves, placing all their trust in
scriptures.
Meanwhile Kougaiji's next assassin has
arrived and is making chutney out of the
monks, who try chanting against it in
vain. The SI make short work of the