びっくり。1位は中島哲也監督の「嫌われ松子の一生」、3位は園子温監督「愛のむきだし」。でもそれ以外は知らない映画ばかりで、それもびっくり。／海外サイトから”あなたが観ていないかもしれない21世紀の最高の映画”第一位は、日本の作品
This film, directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, is truly one unique piece of cinema. At first it may look like the stereotypical Japanese extravaganza, but nothing could be further from the truth. “Memories of Matsuko” will be leaving you without breath, without tears and without laughter, because you will be doing all those things during all the film’s run time.
“Memories of Matsuko” is exciting, funny, intelligent, fanciful and essential. The story tells the life of Matsuko, a 53-year-old woman found dead in a park near her home. His nephew will be in charge of discovering his life alongside continuous flashbacks that will tell us her life.
It might look that “Memories of Matsuko” is a strong drama; we are witness to the life of a bitter woman, mistreated by all men and left for misfortune. The point of difference here is that Nakashima manages to animate these misfortunes a little by using unique imagery. Among all this, we also find very animated musical numbers and surrealistic scenes.
The construction of the characters is magnificent. The performances, emphasized in the one by Miki Nakatani playing Matsuko, is excellent. She is capable of breaking us into tears, able to give us some smiles, and she sings with a really beautiful voice.
What really is sad is that a film like this in Hollywood would have conquered all the Oscars and achieved records, like, for example, “La La Land”. Sadly, this film comes from Japan and its distribution is limited. It helps a little that the director directed one of the most known Japanese films in recent years, “Confessions”, but that wasn’t enough to introduce this masterpiece to worldwide acclaim.
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The Auschwitz BROTHEL where non-Jewish prisoners were 'rewarded' with sex sessions as Nazi guards watched through peep-holes to ensure they only used the missionary position
76 years ago this month Nazi Heinrich Himmler ordered brothels to be set up in concentration camps
The diabolical scheme was aimed at encouraging inmates to work harder in return for a 'reward'
Women would be tricked into volunteering for the sex work with extra rations and better conditions
The women would have to spend 15 minutes with up to 20 men per day, watched by a Nazi guard
By ED WIGHT IN POLAND FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:17 BST, 13 October 2017 | UPDATED: 15:49 BST, 13 October 2017
Set just behind the notorious Work Makes You Free gate at Auschwitz concentration camp lies one of the lesser-known horrors of WWII - a brothel for prisoners.
In a diabolical scheme aimed at encouraging inmates to work harder, 76 years ago this month Gestapo monster Heinrich Himmler ordered brothels to be set up in concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe.
The twisted plan conceived in October 1941, was aimed at increasing prisoners' productivity by offering the starved and tortured inmates a bonus system - if they worked hard enough they would be 'rewarded' with a visit to the camp brothel.
The first 'Dolls' House', as they were known, was set up a year later in 1942, behind barred windows at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
This was followed by more in Ravensbruk, Buchenwald, Dachau and Flossenburg, among others. In total there were ten death camp brothels.
Two of the largest were in Auschwitz, in Nazi-occupied Poland, with the main brothel nicknamed 'Puff' sitting just behind the sinister Arbeit Macht Frei entrance in Block 24.
Non-Jewish women were lured into volunteering with promises of better living conditions and better food rations.
Mainly in their 20s, the women were made to have sex with an average of 6-8 men every night between 8 and 10pm. They also had to 'work' on Sunday afternoons.
As many as 21 women prisoners worked in the Auschwitz brothels which were known as Sonderbauten (special buildings). The final brothel was opened in 1945, the year the Second World War ended.
Emaciated prisoners chosen for the brothels were given a humiliating medical check and had disinfectant cream smeared over their genitals.
Their names were called out in public role calls and they were force-marched into the brothel.
The women were given a warm place to live, each of them had their own room with nice furniture.
'They were given additional food from the SS kitchen, luxurious clothes and underwear coming from the warehouses of the goods stolen from the people who were killed in the gas chambers.
'They were given all the medical care they might need. All of that made surviving the camp much easier.'
She added: 'The brothels were opened every day in the evening, after the main evening roll-call, when other prisoners were sometimes still coming back to the camp after a day of tough work - there was a huge contrast between the women, and the other prisoners.
It was built to humiliate people. It was just another example of German cynicism and cruelty. The brothels were nothing unusual. They were just another crime of German national socialism
Survivor Zofia Bator-Stepien recalled how one girl was driven to working in the brothel out of desperation for a slice of bread.
She said: 'When they announced they were looking for volunteers for very light labour, she volunteered. She didn't know the kind of work she was supposed to do.
'When the doctor finished checking her he asked her if she had any idea where she would be going. She said she didn't but that she'd been told it would be easy and she'd get a lot of bread.
'So he kept telling her: 'This work means you will have contact with men, and then I will perform a small operation on you to make sure you will never get pregnant.
The Polish women were prettier. The German women were fat and blonde. The Polish were thin and attractive.'
It wasn't only the prisoners who had access to the women.
Although SS guards and officers were banned from sleeping with non-Germans, many took advantage of the brothel.
Iga Bunalska from the Auschwitz Study Group said: 'It was forbidden for the Germans to use it due to the racial laws implemented by the Third Reich.
'However, we know for a fact that there were soldiers stationed in Auschwitz using the brothels - German soldiers, but not only as there were a lot of people who came from different countries serving in the SS, Ukrainians, Belorussians and such.
A feeling of dread indicating that something bad has happened or is about to happen
[通例 the eve] 〔重要事件などの〕直前
もう1つ大きな問題。アメリカやヨーロッパの国々では選挙になると保守とリベラルが政権の座を争う。アメリカで言えば共和党が保守で、民主党がリベラル。保守は経済の面では自由競争。そして政府は社会のことにあまり介入しない、小さな政府。しかしそれをやっていると、貧富の格差がどんどん大きくなる。競争の負けて生活が苦しくなった人たちがどんどん増える。そこで次の選挙ではリベラルが勝つ。リベラルは生活が苦しくなった人々を救うために、社会保障、福祉、がんがん、これに金を投入する。すると財政が悪化する。そこで次の選挙では保守が勝つ。保守がいいか、リベラルがいいかということではなくて、言ってみりゃ保守とリベラが代わり番こに政権についている。これが世界の状況。
そこで、日本では自民党は保守党です。ところが自民党が経済面ではリベラル。ばらまき政策。だから1,000兆も借金ができた。さらに民主党の野田政権のときに、消費税を10％にすると約束した。ところが自民党の安倍政権は、それを先延ばし、先延ばしにしてきた。つまり自民党は世界で言えばリベラル。今回その安倍首相が、2％消費税を上げると言う。すると希望の党の小池さんはじめ全野党が反対。つまり、日本には保守はない。保守党がない。
さらに問題はこの日本を訪ねたあとにトランプさんは中国で習近平主席と会談する。いろんな情報がある。一番極端な情報は、もしかするとアメリカが北朝鮮に武力行使をする可能性がある。そのとき中国は黙って見ててくれ。いずれにしても今年の年末から来年にかけてアメリカと北朝鮮の間で、火を噴く危険性がある。防衛省の幹部も外務省の幹部も私にそう言っている。安倍首相も側近にそれが大変心配だと言っている。もしそういうことが起きれば日本にミサイルが飛んでくる可能性がある。
Nothing makes women so old as trying hard to desperately look young
日本には具体的政治圧力はないと思っています。なぜならば、わたくしは3人総理大臣を失脚させています。でも私は逮捕もされていない。で、政治圧力はないんだけども、実は、ほとんど新聞社やテレビ局の幹部が自主規制をするんです。こういうことをすると、政府ににらまれるんじゃないか、と。で、９９％新聞社やテレビ局の自主規制だと思います。
もしも総理大臣や官房長官が具体的な圧力をかけたとすれば、わたしくはとんでもないことする、やめろ、といいます。で、総理大臣を失脚させます。
I think in the case of Japan there is no such thing as political pressure on the media. I had myself personally criticized and as a result ousted three prime ministers in the past but I have never been arrested and from this example I think you can understand there is no such things as political pressure on the media.However what exists is, be it newspapers or television stations, it is the executives of the media who exercise self-regulation so they think if they report such and such things, the government will be upset with them and therefore in many of the cases where the media opt not for report certain things in 99% of the cases this is voluntary regulation or restraint where newspapers or TV make their decision on their own not to report .
It there were to be cases where either prime minister or chief cabinet secretary were to put pressure on me or the media then I would immediately tell either prime minister or the chief cabinet secretary to stop and I would immediately take action to ask them out of office.
