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Film Series This two-part film was made during the beginning of the war in the Pacific when Japanese authorities encouraged filmmakers to glorify the samurai values of loyalty and self-sacrifice. This film secured Mizoguchi's international reputation as a filmmaker and won him the Best Director Award at the 1952 Venice Film Festival. This film is based on the well-known, true story about a group of forty-seven samurai who avenged their leader's death and ended their own lives in a ritual suicide. www.umich.edu /~iinet/cjs/events/film.html

agree2disagree Not always the star of his films, he played secondary roles with the same enthusiasm and intensity, and was clearly well-loved by both the Japanese film community and the cinema-going public. His career in Japanese cinema began in 1935 and spanned nearly 50 years, during which he appeared in 175 films, including many directed by Kurosawa films, such as Stray Dog, The Bad Sleep Well, High and Low, Yojimbo, The Hidden Fortress& The Seven Samurai, all of which also star Toshiro Mifune. In yesterday's blog, I mentioned the filmIkiru [To Live] by Akira Kurosawa (1952), which stars one of Japan's greatest actors, Takashi Shimura. agree2disagree.blogspot.com /2004_02_01_agree2disagree_archive.html   (12880 words)

Akira Kurosawa - MSN Encarta Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Japanese motion-picture director, known worldwide for the variety and visual beauty of his films. Kurosawa also directed motion pictures with contemporary settings, such as Ikiru (1952; To Live, 1960) and Akahige (Red Beard, 1965), but his historical films, including Shichinin o samurai (1954; The Seven Samurai, 1956), Yojimbo (1961; The Bodyguard, 1962), and Sanjuro (1962), attracted his largest following. Deeply rooted in the Japanese samurai code of behavior, which extols working for the good of others and the subordination of selfish desires, Kurosawa's motion pictures were thought to possess universal appeal, and European and American filmmakers openly imitated them. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568412/Akira_Kurosawa.html   (473 words)

Akira Kurosawa Donald Richie, in his essay A Definition of the Japanese Film (collected in his book of essays A Lateral View), compares the two films: "Though Kurosawa is not considered by the Japanese to be particularly representative of Japanese culture, compare his The Lower Depths (Donzoko) with that of Jean Renoir (Les Basfonds). Japanese filmmakers are at least as widely known outside Japan as its authors: just as Tanizaki, Kawabata and Oe have been celebrated abroad for their writing (with each of them winning the Nobel prize), so Ozu, Oshima and Kitano have given Japan’s faces, its landscapes and its history to the rest of the world. You can even argue that some of his greatest successes (Rashomon, Ikiru [1952], Seven Samurai [1954]) were enormous risks for Kurosawa’s career — the ones that did pay off. www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/kurosawa.html   (1794 words)

AMCTV.com SHOW - Film Actress Tanaka made 14 films with the demanding Mizoguchi; this docudrama ends with her triumphant performance in his The Life of Oharu (1952). This biographical study of Japanese actress/director Kinuyo Tanaka (Sayuri Yoshinaga) also functions as a brief history of Japanese cinema, since Tanaka began in silent films and remained active until the 1970s. Often referred to as the Lillian Gish of Japan, Tanaka started her career as an ingenue supporting her family, became a star, moved through several marriages and eventually teamed with some of Japan's greatest directors, including Ozu, Gosho, and Mizoguchi (splendidly played by Bunta Sugawara). www.amctv.com /show/detail/0,,58476-1-EST,00.html   (149 words)

AMCTV.com SHOW - Film Actress Tanaka made 14 films with the demanding Mizoguchi; this docudrama ends with her triumphant performance in his The Life of Oharu (1952). This biographical study of Japanese actress/director Kinuyo Tanaka (Sayuri Yoshinaga) also functions as a brief history of Japanese cinema, since Tanaka began in silent films and remained active until the 1970s. Often referred to as the Lillian Gish of Japan, Tanaka started her career as an ingenue supporting her family, became a star, moved through several marriages and eventually teamed with some of Japan's greatest directors, including Ozu, Gosho, and Mizoguchi (splendidly played by Bunta Sugawara). www.amctv.com /show/detail/0,,58476-1-1,00.html   (149 words)

Midnight Eye index of Book Reviews Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii Mr Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Film Under the American Occupation, 1945-1952 Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era Through Hiroshima www.midnighteye.com /books/index.shtml   (149 words)

Kamatari Fujiwara - free-definition Born in Tokyo, he was a long-time member of director Akira Kurosawa's stock company, making his first appearance alongside Takashi Shimura in 1952's Ikiru. Fujiwara Kamatari (藤原釜足) (January 1, 1905-January 1, 1985) was a Japanese actor. Fujiwara no Kamatari (614–669 A.D.) was the founder of the Fujiwara clan. www.free-definition.com /Kamatari-Fujiwara.html   (149 words)

Pierre Boulle French writer whose best-known novels are LE PONT DE LA RIVIÈRE KWAI (1952, The Bridge over the River Kwai), a story of a foolish pride, and LA PLANÈTE DES SINGES (1963, Planet of the Apes), both of which were adapted into highly successful films. However, The Bridge Over the River Kwai and the movie based on it, are both fictitious and Boulle was never a prisoner of the Japanese. The Bridge on the River Kwai was nominated for eight Academy Awards. www.kirjasto.sci.fi /boulle.htm   (1798 words)

International Silents Established in 1952, Matsuda is dedicated to the restoration and archival of Japanese silent films. Since sound did not arrive until the late '30s, China was still producing silent films throughout the decade. A (very) brief history of Argentinian filmmaking in the silent era. www.welcometosilentmovies.com /atthemovies/intl.htm   (194 words)

Japan Focus Article In 1953, Tanaka Tomoyuki, a young film producer working for the Toho Film Studio, was assigned to produce a film entitled In the Shadow of Honor, a Japanese –Indonesian co-production. Influenced by the popular success in 1952 of the re-release of the 1933 classic film King Kong, Tanaka set out to film a giant monster film like The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, the 1953 American film. The same production team produced a sequence of 22 Godzilla films between 1954 and 1995, and six more films were created in the years 1995 to 2004 by a different production team. www.japanfocus.org /article.asp?id=300   (4464 words)

World Cinema: Directors -- Kenji Mizoguchi In a career that spanned 34 years, Mizoguchi made more than 80 films, many of which rank among the finest in Japanese cinema. Two of these, The Life of Oharu (1952) and Ugetsu Monogatari / Ugetsu (1953), are acknowledged masterpieces of world cinema. Mizoguchi approached his films with the eye of a painter and the soul of a poet. www.geocities.com /Paris/Metro/9384/directors/mizoguchi.htm   (4464 words)

horror_films.txt The Monogram Checklist: The Films Of Monogram Pictures Corporation, 1931-1952. Japanese Science Ficiton, Fantasy, And Horror Films: A Critical Analysis And Filmography Of 97 Features Released In The United States, 1950-1992. Types of sources excluded are novels, novelizations, scripts, plays, anthologies, special effects oriented books, how- to books, solely science fiction books, letters or microfiche materials, books under 40 pages and books dealing with individuals who have limited association with macabre cinema or who are more known for other genres. filmtv.eserver.org /horror_films.txt   (9368 words)

Fantasy Encyclopedia Updates, I to L Thus, there is even a direct family linkage between the US films and the Japanese films. (1957), Haredevil Hare (1948), One Froggy Evening (1956), Duck Amuck (1953), Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 th Century (1953), Rabbit Fire (1951), Frigid Hare (1949), Rabbit Seasoning (1952), The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950), For Scent-imental Reasons (1949), and Hare-Raising Hare (1946). In fact, the origin of the first movie was a Willis O'Brien proposal for a movie entitled King Kong vs. Frankenstein; but the US producer he approached couldn't get financing and took the project to Japan, where Godzilla got involved. www.dcs.gla.ac.uk /SF-Archives/Misc/fec_i2l.html   (4144 words)

The Hidden Fortress The change from 'standard' to wide format did not surprise Japanese moviegoers when Japanese studios began producing their own widescreen films, as there was already a handful of theaters converted to show 'Scope productions from overseas, and these were very popular attractions. This is, of course, five years after the first American CinemaScope production, The Robe (Henry Koster, 1953), and six years after the introduction of Cinerama (with the lucrative technology-spectacle film, This is Cinerama [Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, and Michael Todd, Jr., 1952]). It is, truly, this director's lightest work, but on the other hand I don't think it's too left-handed a compliment to say that it's among his “lesser masterpieces,” for that places it on a very high plane indeed. www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/02/22/fortress.html   (4144 words)

Greg Smith, Greg M. Smith: Critical Reception of Rashomon in the West But Rashomon differs from almost all the Japanese films which would follow it in the 1950s because it was distributed by a major, not a small independent. In the Rashomon case study, the mimetic hypothesis is particularly strong, leading critics to make claims based on commonsensical understandings of general human nature or of Japanese society in particular. Doris Arden, "Rashomon," Chicago Sun-Times, Mar. 6, 1952: sect. www.gsu.edu /~jougms/Rashomon.htm   (4144 words)

Japan, Tokyo, Hakone, Hiroshima, Kyoto. Over 100,000 photographs and images of every aspect of Japanese culture on-line for the news media. This includes Japan ( Nippon, Nipon, Japon) photos, photo's, foto, fotos, foto's images, pictures of akihabara,Fran It should be of great interest to all documentary makers, tv stations, feature film researchers, producers of feature films, scholars and others. U.S. occupation ended the following year (1952), though a limited number of American troops continue to be stationed on Japan to this day (2004). Contact us regarding this treasure trove of historic Japanese news reels. www.didik.com /nycinpictures/japan   (2711 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Person : Kamatari Fujiwara : Biography Fujiwara was a member of director Akira Kurosawa's stock company, first appearing in this capacity as the assistant to dying bureaucrat Takashi Shimura in Ikiru (1952). Japanese actor Kamatari Fujiwara was not the sort of performer who'd make the fan magazines or gossip columns, but still he enjoyed a stellar reputation among international art-film enthusiasts. In most of his films, the very able Kamatari Fujiwara tended to be overshadowed by more charismatic actors like Shimura and Toshiro Mifune, but he was always dedicated and unwaveringly professional. www.vh1.com /movies/person/22270/bio.jhtml   (2711 words)

[ RaroVideo.com ] visioni:underground The conquest of the western market by Japanese film came in the fifties (thanks to the success of Rashomon produced by Daiei) and was also the period of Mizoguchi’s own recognition on the international scene. During these years, some of his most famous masterpieces circulated, regularly invited to the Venice Film Festival, where he won the Silver Lion with Saikaku Ichidai Onna in 1952, Ugetsu Monogatari in 1953 (the year of his first trip to Europe) and Sansho Dayu in 1954. Mizoguchi left Nikkatsu in 1932 after making no less than 47 films (unfortunately only 2 have been preserved). www.rarovideo.com /eng/directors/mizoguchi.htm   (2711 words)

Japan, Tokyo, Hakone, Hiroshima, Kyoto. Over 100,000 photographs and images of every aspect of Japanese culture on-line for the news media. This includes Japan ( Nippon, Nipon, Japon) photos, photo's, foto, fotos, foto's images, pictures of akihabara,Fran It should be of great interest to all documentary makers, tv stations, feature film researchers, producers of feature films, scholars and others. U.S. occupation ended the following year (1952), though a limited number of American troops continue to be stationed on Japan to this day (2004). Contact us regarding this treasure trove of historic Japanese news reels. www.didik.com /nycinpictures/japan   (2711 words)

:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: Ikiru (xhtml) Ahead was his popular classic "The Seven Samurai" (1954) and other samurai films like "The Hidden Fortress" (1960), the film that inspired the characters R2D2 and C3PO in "Star Wars." The film was not released internationally until 1960, maybe because it was thought "too Japanese," but in fact it is universal. This moment comes near the center point of "Ikiru," Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film about a bureaucrat who works for 30 years at Tokyo City Hall and never accomplishes anything. His voice is soft and he scarcely moves his lips, but the bar falls silent, the party girls and the drunken salary men drawn for a moment into a reverie about the shortness of their own lives. rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960929/REVIEWS08/401010329/1023   (1162 words)

1957 Academy Awards® Winners and History Platinum blonde actress Lana Turner, with a film career of nearly twenty years in length, received her first and only Oscar nomination in 1957, although she had more exceptional, un-nominated roles in earlier films including The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). The war-time film centered on a battle of wills between an obsessed and rigid British colonel and a Japanese POW camp commander within a prison camp deep in an Asian jungle - with the theme of the folly of war. "The Bridge On The River Kwai", Marlon Brando in "Sayonara", Anthony Franciosa in "A Hatful of Rain", Charles Laughton in "Witness for the Prosecution", Anthony Quinn in "Wild Is the Wind" www.filmsite.org /aa57.html   (1162 words)

village voice > nycguide 'Early Autumn: Masterworks of Japanese Cinema From the National Film Center, Tokyo' An L.A.–based avant-gardist, Fisher maintained his position in the belly of the beast by emphasizing, with considerable wit and a distinctive mode of deadpan mock-pedantic humor, the material nature of film.... every important film directed since the theater opened in 1952... www.villagevoice.com /nycguide/index.php?sid=5   (733 words)

Biography for Takashi Shimura Japanese character actor, one of the finest film actors of the Twentieth Century and a leading member of the "stock company" of master director Akira Kurosawa. Shimura was, to be sure, even a finer actor than Bond, and his range was enormous, from Ikiru's diffident clerk to the leader of the Seven Samurai in Kurosawa's 'Shichinin no samurai (1954)'. Shimura's finest triumph was his unforgettable performance as a dying bureacrat in Kurosawa's 'Ikiru (1952)'. www.imdb.com /name/nm0793766/bio   (447 words)

Victory at Sea PopMatters Television Review In Victory at Sea's endless parade of war machines and human faces, we're granted a peek at an attitude that in 1952-'53 was still unafraid to wave its enemies' bloodied head on a pole. Leonard Graves' narration is spare, pompous, and poetic, such that Victory at Sea has more in common with 1920s Soviet propaganda films, Disney's Fantasia (1942), or the work of Leni Riefenstahl than it does later documentaries like World at War or more recent pieces on the History Channel. While Victory at Sea tries in its way to avoid racism (the Japanese for example, are depicted as a decent people whose devotion to tradition led them astray), it is stridently nationalist. www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/v/victory-at-sea.shtml   (1174 words)

Toshiro Mifune OTHER FILMS INCLUDE: 1952: The Life of Oharu 1962: High and Low 1965: Red Beard 1975: Paper Tiger 1976: Midway 1979: Winter Kills 1982: The Challenge 1993: Shadow of the Wolf In 1951, Akira Kurosawa (1910 — 1998) single-handedly introduced the Occident to Japanese cinema, and throughout the West has remained the most famous director from the Land of the Rising Sun. www.movietreasures.com /main/Toshiro_Mifune/toshiro_mifune.html   (1174 words)

An Introduction to Korean Cinema Lee also discusses a later tendency of allegorical filmmaking under stricter Japanese control, where violence wasn't tolerated; films of "enlightenment," where typically a person would leave his/her home, often a village, and return, to teach others to be better people. Following the new directions of Im Kwon-Taek and Lee Chang-ho, critics have dubbed the period of resurgance in the late 1980s as the "Korean New Wave." The two key directors are Jang Sun-Woo (born 1952) and Park Kwang-Su (born 1955). I watched Lee Chang-Ho's A Man with Three Coffins (1987), a strange tale of contact with Shamanism, which is narrated through a fascinating, convoluted structure. www.horschamp.qc.ca /9810/offscreen_essays/korean.html   (2914 words)

Robert Mitchum: Actor Profile/Brian W. Fairbanks-Writer As a U.S. Marine stranded with a nun (Deborah Kerr) on an island surrounded by hostile Japanese soldiers, Mitchum showed a tenderness that surprised his critics, although some of them could still be snide even in their praise. For both films, he was named best actor of the year by the National Board of Review. "This is a ridiculous and humiliating profession," Robert Mitchum said of his career as an actor in 1952. www.angelfire.com /oh2/writer/robertmitchum.html   (2914 words)

welcome to lorenjavier.com: welcome to my community: asian american: history: notable asian pacific americans: a and b A Korean-American, Ahn has actually more roles starring as Chinese or Japanese villains in films such as Back to Bataan (1945), Halls of Montezuma (1952) and Battle Hymn (1956). Philip Ahn has the recognition of being the first Asian-American to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Ahn Trio is a classical music group made up of three Korean-American sisters. www.lorenjavier.com /asian/apanotable-ab.html   (995 words)

Ozu Collection 2 (Box Set) - Films on DVD and Video - MovieMail UK Features two more films from the masterful Japanese director, Record of a Tenement Gentleman and Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice. The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) presents Taeko (Michiyo Kogure), a middle-class woman who finds she is drifting away emotionally from her husband. The first is a comedic tale of a young boy abandoned to poverty by his father and his grwoing relationship with a local widower, the second a tale of rekindled love between a couple bored with their arranged marriage. www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/14287   (995 words)

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