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Nihon Eiga (Japanese Film) His films centered around the "average" Japanese family, and his focus was the dissolution of that family as Japan underwent its process of modernization. While by no means representative of standard films in his time, Ozu was able to take Western film techniques and blend them with Japanese asthetics in an original and ground-breaking way. In the 1960's, he came under the knife of sharp criticism of his films, and in 1971, failed in his attempt to commit suicide. www2.hawaii.edu /~dfukushi/NihonEiga.html   (610 words)

The Howard Summers Cinema Website-National Filmographies-Asian Cinema Here is a listing of books, websites etc. containing the complete output of films from each country. Vol.5: 1960-1964 by Kwok Ching-Ling 2005 ISBN 962-8050-31-1 Contains information on over 1,200 films. Japanese Movie Database (In Japanese) / CJS - Japan on Film / www.rosland.freeserve.co.uk /filmbooks5.htm   (1157 words)

Zap2it.com MOVIES MOVIE NEWS STORY Fri, May 03, 2002, 03:05 PM PT HOLLYWOOD (Zap2it.com) - Cowboy Pictures partners Noah Cowan and John Vanco and Janus Films' Peter Becker announced that their recently formed alliance will continue this summer with the theatrical re-release of what is considered to be the most acclaimed of Akira Kurosawa's films, The re-release will feature the first new prints of the full-length feature in decades, including completely new subtitles by renowned Japanese film authority and translator Linda Hoaglund. After Kurosawa's Rashomon won the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951 and launched him to the forefront of the world film scene, he went on to win three Academy Awards®, including a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1990, recognizing his extraordinary body of work. www.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---12194,00.html   (1157 words)

Japan Resources: Video Cassettes:   Feature Films This video is a "dubbed-in-English" version of the 1960 Japanese film by the same title. Footage from this film representing the events of December 7, 1941 have often been reproduced in documentaries implying that Ford's actors and sets are the real thing. Like JVf-319, this film depicts the story of Asano, a lord in feudal Japan who is convicted of a petty offense and sentenced to suicide, and the 47 samurai who eventually avenge their lord's honor. www.smith.edu /fcceas/japan/jvf.htm   (1157 words)

Home > Arts and Cultural Exchange > Topics > Movie > The Japan Foundation Film Series Part 3 The first such effort resulted in "The Masters of Japanese Cinema" held in June 2004, which was followed up by "When Masters were Young-1960's" in March 2005. The Japan Foundation has been showing Japanese films with subtitles overseas as part of its efforts to introduce Japanese culture to the world. Our third venture is jointly presented with Kinema Club, a group of film scholars, artists and fans from all over the world. www.jpf.go.jp /e/culture/topics/movie/fsp3.html   (238 words)

Film Notes: Movie series at W&J to explore several legal issues Now in its third year, the series features films about legal systems and the legal profession, accompanied by a lawyer, judge or law professor who serves as host and discusses his or her experience with the subject matter. The next film in the series, screening Feb. 26, is the 1951 Japanese classic "Rashomon," directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film is introduced by Duquesne University law professor Bruce Ledewitz. www.post-gazette.com /movies/20030218filmnotes0218p6.asp   (353 words)

Horror film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Psychological horror films would continue to appear sporadically, with 1991's The Silence of the Lambs a later highlight of the subgenre (although these films can also be considered crime films or thrillers). Other advances in horror were in Japanese animation (for example the gruesome 'guro' animation), as Japanese culture reached new heights of popularity in the West (although the first horror-themed anime had begun appearing in the West by the late 1980s). In the 1960s the genre moved towards "psychological horror", with thrillers such as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) using all-too-human monsters rather than supernatural ones to scare the audience; Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) was a notable example of this. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horror_film   (2806 words)

Final Project for bibliography For instance, in the section of the 1960's and the 1970's, he discusses the porn films (pinku eiga), a genre that most film histories ignore. While thus challenging various notions of "Japanese film," Yomota nevertheless employs a conventional style of film history, dividing the entire history into periods and discussing representative directors and films from each period. Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten: Senzen hen [Complete Dictionary of Japanese Movies from 1896 to 1945 August]. www.columbia.edu /~hds2/BIB95/00cinema_inano.htm   (2130 words)

The Cruel Beauty of Masumura Yasuzo at Watershed Sat 3 Dec - Sun 18 Dec Not only did Masumura trigger the 1960’s Japanese New Wave, but almost half a century on Masumura’s potent films have lost none of their capacity to shock and inspire. Never before distributed in the UK, six rarely seen feature films will be screened encompassing a breathtaking range of eroticism, satire, war, crime, capitalism and gender politics from one of the main founders of modern Japanese Cinema. This December, Watershed will host The Cruel Beauty of Masumura Yasuzo, the first major season of work from Japanese director Masumura Yasuzo. www.watershed.co.uk /cgi-bin/WebObjects/Watershed.woa/wa/news?object=46   (424 words)

Writer's Choice (Aug 23, 2005) Films will be organized this fall around four themes: global vision; the films of Japanese director Mikio Naruse, whose work is largely unfamiliar to Western audiences; early Hollywood talkies; and the Taiwanese "New Movement." With Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi, Naruse is considered among the greatest Japanese directors of his generation. Audiences can find out what happens "When A Woman Ascends the Stairs," part of Cinematheque's semester-long tribute to Japanese director Mikio Naruse. www.news.wisc.edu /11431.html   (424 words)

The Fall of Daiei Despite a good run in the early 1960's for many of the film studios, the "Golden Age of Japanese Cinema" was already starting to show signs of weakening as Shintoho, a company comprised of ex-Toho employees in 1947 who literally called themselves "the New Toho," filed for bankruptcy in 1961. The "Golden Age of Japanese Cinema," a glorious period from the 1950's through the 1960's when Japanese studio output was substantial and attendance sizes were even larger. In July of 2002, Daiei would finally be bought out by the Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Company, as Kadokawa stated that they will take over production and distribution of Daiei films under the name Kadokawa-Daiei Pictures. www.tohokingdom.com /web_pages/articles/art_01.htm   (424 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)

The Asian Reporter - Special A.C.E Section Even the titles of his films from this era were related, such as Late Spring (1950), Early Summer (1951), Early Spring (1956), Late Autumn (1960), Early Autumn (End of Summer) (1961), and An Autumn Afternoon (1962), all using seasons as metaphors for the varying stages of adult life. The silent films are particularly difficult to screen because of the cost of finding live accompaniment, compounded by the lack of original scores. Originally filmed in 1953, the movie is now widely recognized by critics as Ozu’s seminal masterpiece and one of the finest films ever made. www.asianreporter.com /arts/05-05filmfest.htm   (473 words)

AllRefer.com - Toshiro Mifune (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia After he broke with Kurosawa in 1965, he appeared occasionally in American films, most notably the television miniseries Shogun (1980), and continued to appear in Japanese films, most successfully as the wandering samurai Yojimbo, first introduced in the 1960 Kurosawa film of that name. He appeared in more than a dozen films for director Akira Kurosawa, including Stray Dog (1949), Rashomon (1950), and Throne of Blood (1957). Mifune was a versatile actor, noted for a wide range of roles in more than 120 films. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Mifune-T.html   (473 words)

Bio for Toshiro Mifune on MSN Movies The first internationally popular Japanese film star since Sessue Hayakawa, Mifune was held in as high esteem by the film industry as he was by the public, winning Venice Film Festival awards for his performances in Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1960) and Red Beard (1965). Beginning in 1963, Mifune produced theatrical and TV films through his own company, and, in 1964, made his first (and only) attempt at directing with The Legacy of the 500,000. Mifune's ability to shift from macho to subtle sensitivity was very similar to the work of Clint Eastwood, who, ironically, played the Mifune-character role in A Fistful of Dollars, the 1964 remake of Yojimbo. entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=362327   (306 words)

japan media title Produced by NHK (the Japanese National Broadcasting Company) in cooperation with the Center for the Teaching of Japanese, the National Language Institute. Videorecording of the 1960 feature film by Shintoho. Four differing versions of the murder of a husband and the rape of the wife by a bandit illustrate the elusive nature of truth. lark.cc.ku.edu /~eastasia/media/mediatitle.html   (306 words)

World Cinema: Directors -- Nagisa Oshima Nagisa Oshima's career extends from the initiation of the "Nuberu bagu" (New Wave) movement in Japanese cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s, to the contemporary use of cinema and television to express paradoxes in modern society. Many of Oshima's earlier films, such as Ai To Kibo No Machi / A Town of Love and Hope (1959) and Taiyo No Hakaba / The Sun's Burial (1960), feature rebellious, underprivileged youths in anti-heroic roles. Oshima has been primarily concerned with depicting the contradictions and tensions of postwar Japanese society. www.geocities.com /Paris/Metro/9384/directors/oshima.htm   (363 words)

GreenCine Japanese Cinema to 1960 Gosho's subsequent films of note include The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1931), the first all-sound Japanese film, and the excellent postwar drama Where Chimneys Are Seen (1954). Others of her films include Gosho's The Neighbor's Wife and Mine and Where Chimneys Are Seen, Naruse's Mother and Flowing, and Mizoguchi's masterpieces Utamaro and His Five Women (1946), My Love Has Been Burning (1949), Miss Oyu (1951), The Life of Oharu, Ugetsu Monogatari and Sansho the Bailiff. The enormous popularity of Josef von Sternberg's Morocco in 1930 set the stage for Japan's first all-talking film (Heinosuke Gosho's The Neighbor's Wife and Mine) in 1931, but lingering resistance from benshi and from audiences delayed sound's complete triumph for several years. www.greencine.com /static/primers/japan-60-1.jsp   (2081 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Person : Juzo Itami : Biography Itami's second film is widely considered to be his best and to be one of the finest Japanese films of the 1980s; Tampopo lampoons Japan's obsessive search for the proper way of doing mundane tasks, while exploring the subversive and erotic qualities of food. This film crafts a dizzying kaleidoscope of references from Shane (1953) to À Bout de Souffle (1960), from the literary works of Yukio Mishima to the later works of Luis Bunuel, into lighthearted satire about the perfect bowl of ramen noodles. At the age of 50, Itami directed his first film, The Funeral (1985), a darkly funny yet surprisingly moving film satirizing Japanese culture and the way it buries its dead. www.vh1.com /movies/person/84412/bio.jhtml   (2081 words)

DVD review of Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition & Torture - DVD Town To counter the continued decline in cinema attendance throughout the 1960’s due to the rapidly emerging popularity of television, some independent Japanese film studios decided to create a new genre of film that they hoped would help jumpstart the industry. Introduced sometime in the early 60’s, these films became known as pinku eiga or pink films, a form of softcore pornographic films. In the early 1970’s, Toei Studios came up with a sub-genre of pinku eiga that has become known as “Pinky Violence”. www.dvdtown.com /review/femaleyakuzataleinquisitionand/17218/3263   (1924 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Person : Sessue Hayakawa : Biography He returned to Hollywood in the late '40s and reestablished himself as a character actor in such films as Three Came Home (1950) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960). Sessue Hayakawa was one of the first Japanese actors to have a successful Hollywood career. Hayakawa broke into films in 1914 after producer Thomas Ince, the father of the studio system, saw Hayakawa perform and signed him to a film contract. www.vh1.com /movies/person/27507/bio.jhtml   (1924 words)

Japanese History Through Film CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (Seishun zankoku monogatari, 1960). THE STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM (Zangiku monogatari, 1939). Kurosawa Akira based on two short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke Dist. by Films Inc. library.kcc.hawaii.edu /external/asdp/biblio/film/easian/japan/jpfilm.html   (1924 words)

HENSHIN!ONLINE: EASTERN FRONT ARCHIVES Nakagawa created some of Japan's most famous ghost films such as BLACK CAT MANSION (Borei Kaibyo Yashiki, 1958), GHOST OF YATSUYA (Tokaido Yatsuya Kaidan, 1959), and HELL (Jigoku, 1960). Nobuo Nakagawa depicts hell according to the Japanese traditional narrative and visual arts, and dramatizes the destinies of the sinful souls and their salvation in an eye-poppingly kitschy style. Following the events of the controversial 2000 hit, Battle Royale survivors Shuya Nananhara (Tatsuya Fujiwara) and Noriko Nakagawa (Aki Maeda) have become members of Wild Seven, an anti-government terrorist group. www.henshinonline.com /front_archive.html   (1924 words)

Koji Wakamatsu (1936 - ) Koji Wakamatsu is one of the more important directors to have worked in the pink film (pinku eiga), a genre of softcore, dramatically charged films which were dominant on the Japanese domestic scene in the 1960’s and 1970’s (the roman porn were a more radical and explicit subset of the pink film). Koji Wakamatsu (born in 1936) is Japan's most notorious underground filmmaker, a combination of Godard, Gregg Araki, and Jesus Franco. Wakamatsu has made all the films available to me - mixed in the present day locations. www.jahsonic.com /WakamatsuKoji.html   (868 words)

japanese4 We’ve also scheduled two very rare 1960’s gems by maestro Kinji Fukasaku, BLACK ROSE MANSION and IF YOU WERE YOUNG, which will soon be released on DVD by American Cinematheque and Vitagraph Films, as well as an encore presentation of two of our most popular titles from our 2 A closely-knit group of poor young men pool their resources to buy a truck, but are soon torn apart in a chaos of class turmoil and youthful indiscretion in one of director Kinji Fukasasku’s (BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR and HUMANITY) grittiest and most hardhitting portraits of post-war Japanese society. If only I was there!"), a well-endowed sumo wrestler and his underage girlfriend, and a whole host of karaoke-style musical numbers inspired by 1970’s Japanese TV shows. www.americancinematheque.com /archive1999/2002/japanese4.htm   (868 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. 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. 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. rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960929/REVIEWS08/401010329/1023   (1162 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Person : Tsuru Aoki : Biography The only Japanese actress to star in American silent films, the dainty Tsuru Aoki preceded her more famous husband Sessue Hayakawa's ascent onto theater screens. Aoki and Hayakawa would appear in 20 more films together, including Hell to Eternity(1960), Aoki's only sound film, but beginning with The Cheat (1915), in which she did not appear, Hayakawa became the top breadwinner in the household. Sadly, the name Tsuru Aoki barely registers today, whereas her husband remains a movie legend. www.vh1.com /movies/person/1760/bio.jhtml   (144 words)

Guardian Unlimited Film News Remakes fail to inspire public imagination An all too familiar tale, perhaps, until you remember that the 1959 version of Ben-Hur, which won 11 Oscars, was a remake of earlier 1907 and 1925 films, or that the legendary 1960 western The Magnificent Seven was a reworking of the 1954 Japanese classic The Seven Samurai. "This poll is an indication that remakes can't compare with films which were classics of their time." The worst, according to the survey, was the remake in 2000 of Get Carter, for which Michael Caine was replaced by Sylvester Stallone and the action relocated from Newcastle in the 60s to modern-day Seattle. film.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,12589,1340726,00.html   (452 words)

Rogue Cinema - Takashi Miike: The Mad Dog of Japanese Cinema - By Josh Samford Many of his films screened at international festivals tend to have the cinematic elitists waffling in their seats before marching out of the theater in disgust, mainly because his films press the buttons of those who normally would pretend nothing shocks them. Rogue Cinema is always on the lookout for new writers to join our regular staff of volunteers. In the year 1960, two very important events took place. www.roguecinema.com /article9.html   (452 words)

MTV.com - Movies - Masaki Kobayashi Masaki Kobayashi is considered one of the great cinematic masters of the Japanese immediate post-war era, a generation overshadowed by the towering presence of Akira Kurosawa. Kobayashi switched back and forth between the Kinoshita style of domestic dramas and the darker socially minded works until he garnered international acclaim and a prestigious San Giorgio prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1960 for his Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1958), the first installment of sweeping trilogy about the war. Just as many of Kurosawa's films were defined by the macho-presence of Toshio Mifune, so were Kobayashi's films brought to life by the masterful performances of Nakadai in such Kobayashi classics as Harakiri (1962), Kwaidan (1964), and Rebellion (1967). www.mtv.com /movies/person/86355/bio.jhtml   (702 words)

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