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setsuledI discovered Prime Video Japan has a lot of classic American movies but only if you search for them by their Japanese titles.
They're all hard-subbed, which means you can't turn off the Japanese subtitles, but that's a small price to pay for such a treasure trove. I was watching Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film Notorious last night, which used to be a movie that I watched repeatedly. Watching those conversations between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in the first part of the film felt like coming home.
His performance in this film is often cited as the best in his long career. He's so restrained but you can see what he's holding in. And she's at the end of a long tunnel of despair. I could watch these two talk for days.
The Japanese title of the film is 汚名, "omei", which Google translates as stigma or infamy. It's funny, I've asked a few teachers if there's a word for "infamy" in Japanese, or an opposite of fame, and I've been told no. It's hard to know anything for sure these days. This fog gets me.
They're all hard-subbed, which means you can't turn off the Japanese subtitles, but that's a small price to pay for such a treasure trove. I was watching Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film Notorious last night, which used to be a movie that I watched repeatedly. Watching those conversations between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in the first part of the film felt like coming home.
His performance in this film is often cited as the best in his long career. He's so restrained but you can see what he's holding in. And she's at the end of a long tunnel of despair. I could watch these two talk for days.
The Japanese title of the film is 汚名, "omei", which Google translates as stigma or infamy. It's funny, I've asked a few teachers if there's a word for "infamy" in Japanese, or an opposite of fame, and I've been told no. It's hard to know anything for sure these days. This fog gets me.
