It's been a looooong work week, so here are some Setsuko Hara photos

I haven't even had a chance to think about wrangling up an ephemera post yet this week, which was week #2 of a fortnight of holding down the fort while my boss was on vacation. 

So here's something delightful that I stumbled upon. I was made aware for the first time of a 1948 Japanese film titled Taifuken no onna (The Woman in the Typhoon Area), in which Setsuko Hara, Japan's cinema sweetheart, plays the villain. What?!? It's described very loosely as a Japanese version of Key Largo, which came out the same year. I don't want to know anything more about it, because I'll be watching it soon enough. But here are some photos of Hara in Taifuken no onna from the outstanding blog Japan on Film, which also reviews the obscure movie.

Bonus: Here's a shelfie this week I took as part of a work project. The final version ended up being much better and way less cluttered.