March 18 is Yoriko's birthday.
Why don't we make a web-greeting card for her?
If you have a birthday greeting for Yoriko Douguchi, please send me via e-mail or web-survey of this site by March16 (JPN),
and I'll make a web-greeting card from your message and other Japanese fans.
A message shoud be within 40 letters (alphabet, of course).
Join us now !
(March 1, 2010)
I've got a message from an American fan to the web-survey of this site.
He lives in Japan and watches about a few Japanese films a year.
His favorite film directors are Roman Polanski, Martin Scorcese and Juzo Itami.
The first movie in which he saw Yoriko Douguchi was Itami's TAMPOPO.
Besides, he has watched Itami's A TAXING WOMAN'S RETURN (Marusa no Onna 2),
and his first impression of Yoriko Douguchi was "incredibly beautiful and sexy !".
Dear respondent, I perfectly understand what you mean and completely agree with you.
I put your message to Yoriko "ganbatte kudasai !" on a (Japanese) NEWS page of this site.
It's nice of you to say that in Japanese !
Yoriko Douguchi's biography is available in English @ this site. It's here.
I hope it'll make sense.
By the way, what prefecture of Japan do you live in ?
Maybe I can send you email about upcoming films, TV programs and events of/ by Yoriko Douguchi,
which are pretty accessible to her fans living in Japan.
Thank you, and please feel free to drop me a line. (e-mail)
(Feb. 24, 2010)
Yoriko Douguchi is coming to Osaka as one of the 3 members of the 6th Film Exhibition jury in Osaka from March 1 to March 3.
The rest of the jury are Koji Wakamatsu ( the Godfather of pinku eiga. see Wiki. )
and Yoshihide Otomo (one of the most important musicians of teh world's experimental music. see Wiki) .
This event is organized by CO2 (Cineastes Organization Osaka Exhibition) which supports independent film makers of Japan.
Yoriko will attend a discussion for a panel discussion with Wakamatsu and the on March 3 (16:55~17:45).
CO2 website (Japanese)จhttp://www.co2ex.org/index.html
(Feb. 24, 2010)
One of Yoriko's fans (from Korea) put a message @ the English web-survey of this site.
S/He let me know about a real good site by a VFX fan in Spain.
Visit a page of THE KORVEC FILES จhttp://korvecfiles.blogspot.com/2009/06/mikadoroido-mikadroid-robokill-beneath.html
Yes. It's about Mikadoroid !
Unfortunately, I don't understand Spanish, but no words are needed to feel the enthusiasm !
(Feb. 3, 2010)
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TECHNICOLOR, an upcoming short film starring Yoriko Douguchi (directed by Shinju Funabiki),
will be showing for the MOMO-MATSURI weeks of Euro Space, a movie theater in Shibuya, Tokyo.
MOMO-MATSURI is a two-week special film program by female directors.
MOMOMATSURI will be taken place from March 13 to March 26,
and TECHNICOLOR will start at 21:00 on every evening from March 13th to March 17th.
(Feb. 3, 2010)
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If you'd like to know which of Yoriko Douguchi's movies may be available via Internet,
you can see various sorts of international DVD packages from her filmography @ a special feature page.
Wow! I definitely want this German DVD !!!
(Jan. 7, 2010)
1 full-length film and 1 short film which feature Yoriko Douguchi will be released this spring in Japan.
KENTA TO JUN TO KAYO-CHAN NO KUNI (A Crowd of Three), directed by Tatsushi Omori,
was screening and won acclaim at the Tokyo Filmex Festival in 2009.
Omori is also known as the director of GERUMANIUMU NO YORU (Whispering of the Gods, 2005), his controversial debut film.
The short film is TECHNICOLOR, directed by Shinju Funabiki, a promising director who studied under Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Takeshi Kitano
at the Film School of Tokyo and Tokyo University of the Arts.
She also directed KEITAI KARESHI (Mobile Boyfriend) , her first full-length movie in 2009.
(Jan. 3, 2010)
a path to DOREMIFA GIRL movie files...
A couple of footages from The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa- Girl can be found @ YouTube, though they don't have subtitles.
Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQDNL-LYzlA@(the last sequence) & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1QZ1eqVQo8 (an operetta sequence)
other Yoriko Doguchi movie files @ YouTube
Go to http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E6%B4%9E%E5%8F%A3%E4%BE%9D%E5%AD%90&search_type=&aq=f
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Yoriko Douguchi (English) filmography
(Jan. 3, 2010)
I introduce you a respond from France to the web-survey of this site.
The respondent "recently watched CHARISMA", presumably at 31e Festival des 3 Continents, in Nantes.
Other than CHARISMA, she has ever watched 4 of Yoriko's movies; TAMPOPO, CURE, LICENSE TO LIVE and TOMIE.
Her favorite film directors are Mikio Naruse and Seijun Suzuki. She watches about one Japanese film a month.
When she first saw Yoriko in CURE, she had an impression which was "she's absolutely beyond words. she's cruel but fragile."
"Recently, I watched Charisma and really liked Yoriko Douguchi as much as that movie.
She reminds me a lot of European actresses like Anna Karina, but I have no doubt that she can't be categorized.
Yorikolab is very helpful to learn about Douguchi. We lack even a good profile here!
Thank you very much indeed!"
I want to say Merci beaucoup to you !
(Dec. 9, 2009)
She was just not aware of it, but she was already an actress." (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
On November 14, 2009, Kiyoshi
Kurosawa, the director of Yoriko's masterpieces such as
THE EXCITEMENT
OF THE DO-RE-MI-FA GIRL, DANGEROUS STORIES (2ND EPISODE: THEY ARE COMING
TO GET YOU TONIGHT),
THE GUARD FROM THE UNDERGROUND (Jigoku no
Keibiin), six episodes of SHOOT YOURSELF OR SUIT YOURSELF, CURE,
LICENSE TO LIVE and CHARISMA,
was invited to be present at Cinemavera
Shibuya for Yoriko Doguchi Film Festival, as a special (talk show)
guest.
He had a congenial chat with Yoriko about some episodes
from the backstage of DO-RE-MI-FA,
and on stage was also
Souzou Teruoka, who is a film critic now and appeared
as Teruoka-kun, a student with Brahms record in that movie.
It
was a pleasant evening for us to spend.
Many of us Yoriko's
fans do love Kurosawa's films and really wished them
to be in one frame of time.
A fan of the both later told me, "I was
almost crying !!!", and I really understood what he meant.
Here, I
report on this special event, extracting several interesting topics from
the evening.
@Kiyoshi Kurosawa
reminisced that his first
impression of Yoriko was unlike other
candidates.
"She obviously looked reluctant at the audition",
he looked back with a smile. (Hearing this remark of
Kurosawa, Yoriko and the audience burst into laugher.)
She didn't
put on a forced smile toward the audition judges including Kurosawa, and
it made a rather strong impression on him.
It was a venture
for a young director like Kurosawa to choose a non-actress like
Yoriko, but he made a bet on her.
@Souzou Teruoka
remembered that
Yoriko had already had such a star aura that could make her look
a little aloof .
He also said in jest, "I was afraid that I might be
making her angry someday and she'd give me a slap on the cheek!
"
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
talked
about the first of the whole shootings for DO-RE-MI-FA.
It
was a scene that Yoriko walks across the campus.
At
first, for fear of Yoriko's lack of experience as an actress, Kurosawa
gave her a direction in detail, movement by movement.
It turned
out disappointing. She obvisouly seemed to be moving
along a director's guide, and ultimately looked
awkward.
To Kurosawa, the very first moment of Yoriko's acting
was not satisfactory at all.
He decided to change a method of
mise-en-scène from the first idea to a more sponteneous way of
letting her move as she wants.
Suddenly, everything turned out
right. It was the birth of Yoriko Douguchi as an actress.
In an
interview footage of Tomo-o Haraguchi's latest movie UKULELE, PAITITI THE
MOVIE, a documentary of Douguchi's ukulele band,
Kurosawa
mentioned,
"Then I realized that
Douguchi-san had already been an actress before the shooting for
DO-RE-MI-FA started.
She was just not aware of it, but she
was already an actress."
Yoriko
Douguchi
reminisced about when she sang Brahm's lullaby for the ending
of DO-RE-MI-FA.
"I am not good at singing. I can't sing on key.
When I was hesitating to sing, Kurosawa-san came and told me, 'You
don't need to sing with a skill, but please sing with
confidence',
and I did it."
(Nov.29 2009)
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Yoriko Doguchi Film Festival successfully finished on November 20.
We would like to express our gratitude to those who supported us during this festival.
Especially, we want to thank Midnight Eye for putting the festival into the Calender page.
It was a great cheer to us and we talked about it very often!
Doumo arigatou gozaimashita !!!!
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YORIKO |
I will make a report on the events related to Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Hopefully, it'll have been uploaded @ this site by this weekend.
Why this weekend?
I'm going to tell you about a big film festival which is now taking place in Nantes, France, from Nov. 24 to Dec.1.
It's 31e Festival des 3 Continents (Asia, Africa and Latin America).
Among the non-competition films to be screening, there is Masanori Tominaga's "Pandora's Box" (see trailer @ youtube),
in which Yoriko Douguchi appears as the mother of Hibari the protagonist.
(See the related news page : http://www.3continents.com/the_festival/festival/fiche-film.html?film_id=2118.)
To read an intersting story about Tominaga and Yoriko Douguchi, please go to Special Event page.
Moreover, '3 Continents' festival features a special Hommage (tribute) to Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
It has an incredible and desired (to Kurosawa fans even in Japan) list of his films, including "CURE", "LICENSE TO LIVE" and "CHARISMA",
in which Yoriko Douguchi is breathtakingly brilliant.
(See the related news page : http://www.3continents.com/the_festival/festival/programmation-2009/hommage-kiyoshi-kurosawa.html.)
Since I want to get in touch with anybody who becomes interested in Yoriko by watching one or all of these films,
I will try to update this site this weekend.
Yoriko Douguchi is in Okinawa now to attend a special screening event for "digi+KISHIN, Yoriko Douguchi" on November 27!
(Nov.27 2009)
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Yoriko Doguchi Film Festival is going on now @ Cinemavera Shibuya, Tokyo.
To reach an information page,please click the below underlined "here".
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YORIKO |
Recently, we've linked to Midnight Eye, a real good English site for fans of Japanese cinema.
Thank you very much for introducing this festival!
We've already finished the scheduled 3 special events (see Special Event page).
Kishin Shinoyama's "digi+KISHIN: Yoriko Doguchi" (assemblage of her nudity from 1983 to the present) is amazing.
It's showing on Nov.15 and Nov. 20 (see Schedule page) as well.
I would go so far as to say that it is an experience to see the (literally) naked Yoriko Doguchi by Shinoyama on screen!
The Evening of Tominaga & Yakushimaru was enchanting and as elusive as their films and music.
Well, actually, Tominaga was too busy working on his new film to appear that night.
Instead, he sent us a video-message which had just been taken at a studio, to congratulate and apologize.
The video ran more than 10 minutes long, and his speeches were very friendly making the audiences smile.
Paititi's movie was exciting to watch their live footages and inseterd interviews with Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Kazuyuki Sekiguchi (Southern All Stars).
Today, we'll see a talk show by Kurosawa and Doguchi!
(Nov.14 2009)
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See the article @ "Special Event" page for YDFF.
To reach an information page,please click the below underlined "here".
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YORIKO |
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On November 8, as a special event for YDFF, Yoriko Doguchi will have a talk show with Masanori Tominaga and Etsuko Yakushimaru.
See the article @ "Special Event" page for YDFF.
To reach an information page,please click the below underlined "here".
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YORIKO |
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On November 14, as a special event for YDFF, Yoriko Doguchi will have a talk show with Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
I added an article about it @ "Special Event" page for YDFF.
To reach an information page,please click the below underlined "here".
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YORIKO |
(Oct.24 2009)
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Details for Yoriko Douguchi Film Festival (at Cinemavera Shibuya, a movie theater in Tokyo, from November 7 to November 20) have been announced,
I updated almost all of the English pages for the festival.
The newly-adds are "Schedule"page and "Special Event"page.
The former is a list of the fixed time table, and the latter is a page for my comments upon the special events (to be updated soon).
The guests are:
Kishin Shinoyama,
Masanori Tominaga & Etsuko Yakushimaru (the chanteuse of Soutaiseiriron),
Paititi, ukulele band featuring Doguchi,
and Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
To reach an information page,
please click the below underlined "here".
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YORIKO |
(Oct.19 2009)
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I had a chance to have some "E-mail interview sessions" with Mr. Jerry White, the author of THE FILMS OF KIYOSHI KUROSAWA (Stone Bridge Press).
THE FILMS OF KIYOSHI KUROSAWA ( by Jerry White, Stone Bridge
Press, 2007)I've always been curious how Yoriko Douguchi is recognized outside Japan, and it's a reason I started this English fansite and web-survey page.
Mr. White's remarks answer my long-time questions, and I'm very thankful to him for his kindness and friendliness.
The intervew is here!
(Oct.8 2009)
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A two week long film festival to celebrate the 25 years of Yoriko Douguchi's film career is to be held
at Cinemavera Shibuya, a movie theater in Tokyo, from November 7 to November 20.
To reach an information page for this event,
please click the below underlined "here".
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YORIKO |
Absolutely, this is going to be the biggest event of this year to her fans.
Who are the guests? What is going to happen?
Further details are to be announced at that page. Please wait and see.
I'm sure it's going to be an unforgettable event.
If you can afford a ticket to Japan, November is the right time.
(Oct.3 2009)
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안녕하세요 (Annyeonghaseyo, which
means "Hi" in Korean alphabet), everyone!
I'm excited because I
got a respond from Korea to the web-survey of this
site .
Let me introduce his messages.
When he saw Yoriko Douguchi in "The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl", he thought "She's pretty! Who is she?"
His remarks follow;
"I say she's pretty but I think it is more strange kind of pretty, I'm sorry my English is bad. I want to say she isn't just pretty."
I understand that! What you really mean comes across to me.
You're saying that her beauty is more than skin deep, aren't you?
"Will she come to Korea? I hope she can do.
She loves travelling and there may be a chance taht she visits Korea in the future...
Webmaster, I read your biography of her and now I know her. Arigatogozaimasu!"
My pleasure! I'm glad if it helped.
"Do-Re-Mi-Fa Musume no Chi wa Sawagu" (h~t@บฬอฎ The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl) is Yoriko Douguchi's first film.
In 1984, when Douguchi was 19, her life came to its first turning point when she was starred in a major role in a "roman poruno " (romantic porn) film.
"Roman poruno" is a brand of sex-oriented films by Nikkatsu, the oldest film production company in Japan.
Most of them were low-budget films, featuring obscure young and interesting actresses, actors and filmmakers.
Some of their works won acclaim for their quality in the 70s in particular.
Douguchi's debut film was directed by a young and promising director named Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira Kurosawa).
Its working title was "Joshidaisei Hazukashi Zeminaaru" (A coed taking a seminar on shyness).
Although Douguchi still had some qualms about playing a major role in a roman poruno film, she was also excited to work with young and relaxed people
who were heavily influenced by Godard and Nouvelle Vague as well.
Unfortunately, Nikkatsu, the film company, refused to release the film, due to its not being lascivious enough for a (softcore) porn film.
Despite the efforts of Kurosawa and his supporters to purchase the film back from Nikkatsu,some sexual sequences had to be cut from the original version
to pass the censors as a general (non-porn) movie.
Moreover, to make up for the missing sequences, other new sequences needed to be filmed.
In 1985, when Douguchi's debut film was eventually shown, it had been reborn as a completely new film,
"Doremifa Musume no Chi wa Sawagu"(The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl).
(excerpt from http://www.yorikofan.com/yorikopedia.html )
I'm surprised that Korean people could watch this movie, since this is not available as a video or DVD outside Japan.
Well, I heard that it can be downloaded at some torrent.
(Sep.14/ 2009)
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Let me introduce his messages.
When he saw Yoriko Douguchi in "The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl", he thought "She's pretty! Who is she?"
His remarks follow;
"I say she's pretty but I think it is more strange kind of pretty, I'm sorry my English is bad. I want to say she isn't just pretty."
I understand that! What you really mean comes across to me.
You're saying that her beauty is more than skin deep, aren't you?
"Will she come to Korea? I hope she can do.
She loves travelling and there may be a chance taht she visits Korea in the future...
Webmaster, I read your biography of her and now I know her. Arigatogozaimasu!"
My pleasure! I'm glad if it helped.
"Do-Re-Mi-Fa Musume no Chi wa Sawagu" (h~t@บฬอฎ The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl) is Yoriko Douguchi's first film.
In 1984, when Douguchi was 19, her life came to its first turning point when she was starred in a major role in a "roman poruno " (romantic porn) film.
"Roman poruno" is a brand of sex-oriented films by Nikkatsu, the oldest film production company in Japan.
Most of them were low-budget films, featuring obscure young and interesting actresses, actors and filmmakers.
Some of their works won acclaim for their quality in the 70s in particular.
Douguchi's debut film was directed by a young and promising director named Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira Kurosawa).
Its working title was "Joshidaisei Hazukashi Zeminaaru" (A coed taking a seminar on shyness).
Although Douguchi still had some qualms about playing a major role in a roman poruno film, she was also excited to work with young and relaxed people
who were heavily influenced by Godard and Nouvelle Vague as well.
Unfortunately, Nikkatsu, the film company, refused to release the film, due to its not being lascivious enough for a (softcore) porn film.
Despite the efforts of Kurosawa and his supporters to purchase the film back from Nikkatsu,some sexual sequences had to be cut from the original version
to pass the censors as a general (non-porn) movie.
Moreover, to make up for the missing sequences, other new sequences needed to be filmed.
In 1985, when Douguchi's debut film was eventually shown, it had been reborn as a completely new film,
"Doremifa Musume no Chi wa Sawagu"(The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl).
(excerpt from http://www.yorikofan.com/yorikopedia.html )
I'm surprised that Korean people could watch this movie, since this is not available as a video or DVD outside Japan.
Well, I heard that it can be downloaded at some torrent.
(Sep.14/ 2009)
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Yoriko Douguchi is in an upcoming movie "Pandora no Hako" (phฬธ@Pandora's Box). She appears as the mother of Hibari, the leading character.
Based on the same-titled novel by Osamu Dazai (พษก), a prominent author of modern Japan ( wiki) and whose best-known work is "Ningen Shikkaku"
(lิธi@No Longer Human),
this movie is directed by Masanori Tominaga (yiนh), who was acclaimed for his quirky and off-beat movie "Pabirion Sanshouuo"
(prIRฃ Pavilion Salamandre) in 2006.
In 2008, while making "Pandora's Box", Tominaga also directed a music video of Soutaiseiriron (ฮซ_@The Theory of Relativity), "the Smiths meet lolita" like band which is increasingly popular among indie-rock fans now. (the clip for "Jigoku Sensei" (nๆถ@Hell+Teacher) @ youtube)
In this clip, Yoriko is starred as the mysterious nurse with a cigarrette. Check it out and be enchanted.
"Pandora's Box" -- movie due Oct 10 in Japan
I believe this movie will soon be travelling over the world.
"Pandora's Box" trailer @ youtube
"Pandora's Box" official site (Japanese)
(Sep.2/ 2009) @
I received a friendly respond from Belgium to the web-survey of this site .
He is a fan of film directors like Kiyoshi Kurosawa (๒ด@wiki) and Shinya Tsukamoto (ห{W็@wiki), and likes watching contemporary Japanese films.
According to his messages, he watched "Charisma" and "Cure" in France, and it was the first time that he knew Yoriko Douguchi.
"She's not like any of other Japanese actresses. " was his first impression of Yoriko.
To him, Yoriko Douguchi "has been a mystery, since her biography and filmography were hard to find, and I don't read Japanese. "
He questions, "Which role is she for in Itami's Tampopo? I watched it long ago and liked it but didn't know she was in there. "
Well, would you believe? She's the pearl-diver girl who offers the raw oysters to the man in white, in the seashore sequence.
I hope you'll watch that movie again and point her out this time for sure !
Thank you for your respond!
(Sep.2/ 2009)
