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Ningen (人間, which translates as 'human') is a 2013 Japanese-Turkish drama film written and directed by Guillaume Giovanetti and Cagla Zencirci. The story is a "modern parable of a kitsune and tanuki" involving a Japanese CEO. [1] It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. [1] [2]
Consistent with Japanese folklore, the tanuki (Japanese raccoon dogs, Nyctereutes procyonoides) are portrayed as a highly sociable, mischievous species, which are able to use "illusion science" to transform into almost anything, but too fun-loving and too fond of tasty treats to be a real threat – unlike the kitsune (foxes) and other shape ...
View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
In modern-day Kyoto, humans live in the city while tanuki roam the earth and tengu roam the sky. The story surrounds a family of tanuki, the Shimogamo family. They have the ability to transform into anything they wish, from humans to any animate/inanimate object. The third son, Yasaburō, enjoys a bustling daily life.
1. "A Touching Story of Love and Life for the Revival of Post-War Japan/ A Miracle Between Dogs and Mankind that occurred 56 Years Ago, the Story Begins to Rotate" During the era in Japan known as the Shōwa era or post-war, the people of Japan were struggling to recover from the destruction of World War II.
As Hozuki feels new employees are too lazy on their work of torture, he takes them on a tour across the Hell. After the tour, Hozuki tell them the Kachi-kachi Yama story, in which a rabbit kills a tanuki, avenging an old woman who was killed by the tanuki. The rabbit of the story appears as asked by Hozuki to show some torture methods.
An English-subtitled version was simulcasted on the streaming service Crunchyroll, which describes the main plot as following: "Like in any culture, Japanese kids grow up listening to the stories repeatedly told by their parents and grandparents. The boy born from a peach; the princess from the moon who is discovered inside a bamboo; the old ...
Hakuzōsu. The moment the creature is in the process of transforming from the priest into the wild fox. Woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.. Hakuzōsu (白蔵主), also written Hakuzosu and Hakuzousu, is the name of a popular kitsune character who pretended to be a priest in Japanese folklore.