User:Doctor Sunshine
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For a seering vision into my character and inner workings, look to your right; for a mind altering journey beyond explanation, look below.
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These are some articles I've worked on.
- Seijun Suzuki
This is really the first article I started with. I'm learning Japanese, spoken and written simultaneously, and I decided to try learning kanji characters from Japanese filmmakers and films I enjoy and Wikipedia's the best place to find them. I started editing here when I found articles without kanji names or titles. Suzuki's a favourite director of mine and I began working on this as, when you're reading about or researching something or someone, it's nice to have something physical to show for it afterwards. And I was curious to see how well or if Wikipedia could disseminate information into the public consciousness, specifically for specialized interests like this dude.
- Branded to Kill (
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Suzuki hasn't been written about a great deal in the English language and what information is available can be a little non-specific. So, I switched over to specific films to ensure the generalities meshed. And what better place to start than his best known and my favourite film. The film's not exactly conducive to analysis so no great works have been written about it but there's a lot more information available that I thought there'd be. I saw the track list copied on a blog somewhere, so some dissemination has occurred. At a price though. Look how dispassionately I'm writing about such an incredible film. This is the cost of encyclopedic writing.
- Zigeunerweisen (film) ()
Another Suzuki film but one I'm not really so crazy about. It's got great things in it, like all of his films, but it drags. It's definitely an important film in his oeuvre but I probably wouldn't have got to it so soon if one or two of the people from the classical music wikiproject hadn't been so snide when discussing disambiguating the page. And, really, I can't think of a better reason to work on an article than spite. Yeah, how's that Sarasate article looking now, boys? Not-too-good! I kid.
- Kanto Wanderer ()
Part of my ongoing effort to fill out Suzuki's articles. Selected because I have some good, rare production information. However, it reads almost exactly like Branded to Kill, except for the controversy there, which brings out the production line aspect of his Nikkatsu years. There's less and less information the further back in his filmography you go but I take some comfort knowing they'd all be near identical anyway. Would still like to be able to read some of the Japanese books on and by him. I expanded this and the Joe Shishido article in quick succession in hopes that someone might click around and end up on Branded to Kill's FAC. Did not pan out. I will assume that I have written a perfect article except for where I spelled "rifle" wrong twice. Can't even claim it was a typo...
- Fighting Elegy
If I had to pick a number two favourite Suzuki, this would probably be it. Japanese film scholar kings Richie and Tadao love it and it has been billed as an prototype for the American Pie school of films. But don't hold any of that against it. I have not done much with the article. I think it was the first actual content I provided.
- Joe Shishido ()
This is the first article I created, I believe. "How could such a hilarious guy not have an article?", I thought. Again, not a great deal of information written on him in the English language but on the plus side I have all the references I could ever want describing him as looking like a chipmunk. Thank you, Internets.
- I.K.U. ()
This film I did not like at all. It's terrible, actually. But it does have an absurdist streak that appeals to me and I read up on some of the back story which turned out to be pretty hilarious. I had more fun working on the article than watching the film, most definitely.
- Dillinger Is Dead ()
Here's a film I haven't even seen. It created a small stir at the Telluride Film Festival and it sounds great. I know I won't be able to track it down for a while so I read up on it and wrote the article. Fortunately, these art house–type films can't easily be spoiled by reading about the ending—and extensive analysis of film and ending. However, it's unlikely I'll make a habit of writing on films unseen.
- 2007 Toronto International Film Festival ()
I missed the festival this year so I thought I'd try experiencing it vicariously by inputting and disambiguating about a thousand film titles and names. Weeeeeeeee!
- Genjiro Arato
I actually only wrote this because I thought I should have his name linked in the Zigeunerweisen Did you know? fact. Turns out he was a pretty influential figure in the Japanese independent film distribution, so I may return to the article at some point. Not a priority however.
