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MemberNoobOct-17-2013 6:50 AM[center][/center]Throughout BR, and in the [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ17UsZ0DEQ]Billboard[/url]/Blimp scenes, you hear clip-selections of a Japanese biwa song called [url=http://www.komuso.com/pieces/pieces.pl?piece=2435]Ogi No Mato[/url]. In English, this is translated to: "The Folding Fan as a Target". The music is produced by plucking on what is called a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biwa]biwa[/url] (a traditional Japanese instrument). A song cycle/epic somewhat reminiscent of Shakespeare's [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet]Romeo and Juliet[/url], and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell#The_legend]The Legend of William Tell[/url]. Presented here, is the bit of Japanese history it is based on:
[center][b]Lit. The Fan Target[/b][/center]
A famous incident from the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yashima]Battle of Yashima[/url], and according to the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Heike]Tale of the Heike[/url]. On the evening of February 18th, 1185, from among the clan [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taira_clan]Taira[/url] ships, which had earlier fled the beach, a small boat rowed toward shore. An elegant young woman wearing red n' white emerged, and held aloft a red fan decorated with gold sun mounted on a pole.
The rival clan [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_clan]Minamoto[/url], and it's General [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune]Yoshitsune[/url], accepting the challenge, summoned his best archer [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasu_no_Yoichi]Nasu Yoichi[/url] to shoot at the fan target. Riding into the surf, and with both Taira and Minamoto armies watching, Yoichi let fly an arrow that knocked the fan from it's perch. :O
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In detail (pg. 114-117): [url=http://books.google.com/books?id=gyqN0PRuoeUC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114#v=onepage&q&f=true]A Brief History of the Samurai[/url] by Jonathan Clements
[img]http://s12.postimg.org/g1629vdhp/target.gif[/img][/center]
Bonus links:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVXUk1zoUJw]The Battle of Yashima: Animated[/url] and [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqfPL8AS8nU](2)[/url]
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7aO1Q0UIMs]Ogi No Mato (The Folding Fan as a Target) FULL[/url]
[url=http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/60012948#fullscreen]The Battle of Yashima @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art[/url]
[url=http://www.komuso.com/albums/albums.pl?album=662]Ensemble Nipponia: Japan Traditional Vocal and Instrumental Music (1976)[/url]
[url=http://www.amazon.com/The-Tale-Heike-Helen-McCullough/dp/0804718032]The prayer translation of "Ogi No Mato" on pg. 368 in "The Tale of Hieke" (1988)[/url]
[center][b]Geisha #2[/b][/center]
Geisha woman #2 is listed as [url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2bb07b892d]Horiko Kimuri[/url] (some sites as Horilo). If I were to guess at what it should be (in Japanese): Hiroko Kimura. Although, before I believed that this person would be a Japanese-American actress (since a US production), maybe not after-all. The woman I suspect is somewhat well-known, for doing ads on Japanese TV, and was active until the late 1970s:
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[url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/580195|0/Horilo-Kimuri-Horilo-Kimuri-/]Horilo Kimuri[/url] = Hiroko Kimura = Chikage Oogi "??"
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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikage_Oogi]Chikage Oogi[/url] (born: Hiroko Kimura)
Ref. links:
[url=http://promide.com/page.php?s=1326]Photos 1[/url]
[url=http://face5.blog.fc2.com/?mode=m&no=550&photo=true]Photos 2[/url]
[url=http://film.club.ne.jp/topics/ogi.html]Photos 3[/url][/center]
It is my thinking there are three Geisha women in the B-roll. Alexis (aka Susan) Rhee, then both seen in the final blimp [url=http://s15.postimg.org/ez820f8wb/finalblimpcap.jpg]appearance[/url]: Horiko Kimura, and the one upside-down (or pouring beer in the B-roll) is completely unknown. It is also very possible that I've over-examined this, and am totally wrong. And who I believe is Horiko is actually Alexis (again), and the beer Geisha is Horiko. However, the Geisha in question really doesn't look enough like Alexis to me.
Whatever the answer may really be is something I would like to know. And if I am correct, then I would like to know who played the beer pouring Geisha, someday. Anyway, this is simply an estimate, but still an observation for careful consideration. And of course, thanks to [url=http://www.bladerunner2-movie.com/community/forums/topic/327]Jason Eaton[/url] for making this footage available on YT. :)
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Geisha "Blade Runner Pin-up" by [url=http://jewbee.deviantart.com/gallery/]Jewbee[/url][/center]
Bonus links 2:
[url=http://nonstop80s.blogspot.com/2011/11/where-are-they-now-billboard-geisha.html]Alexis Rhee (Geisha #1)[/url]
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF9M3eiazKs]Alexis Rhee interviewed on CNN[/url]
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFF292zjDQk]The B-roll preview for Jason's replica[/url]
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxHmIYLNjig]Off World/Geisha B-roll from Jason's replica[/url]
[url=http://www.icollector.com/Original-animation-artwork-for-Spinners-other-vehicles-used-in-backgrounds-in-Blade-Runner_i10030674]Original animation artwork listing (Jason purchased?)[/url]
[url=http://vimeo.com/61945095]Koshoku Ichidai Otoko remixed (ft. The Same Old Scene)[/url]
S:) [img]http://s9.postimg.org/dbjz6fuvv/blushinggeisha.gif[/img]
