Eigasuki

Eigasuki is a private archive of stills from the Japanese studio era — Shōchiku, Tōhō, Daiei, Nikkatsu — kept by hand and looked at often. It is a place to gather images that have stayed with their viewer longer than the films around them.

The plates are presented as a working catalogue rather than a finished history. Each entry carries the apparatus of its making — studio, format, aspect, runtime — alongside a short editorial note. Stills are added as they are found.

The directors most frequently cited here include Yasujirō Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, and Shōhei Imamura — five very different attentions, sharing only a country and a century.

The site is set in Fraunces for display, EB Garamond for the body, and Noto Serif JP for the Japanese. The accent is a vermillion taken from the cinnabar seal — 朱印 — traditionally used to mark a thing as one's own.