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	King Rat
		KING RAT, based on the novel by James Clavell, deals with the captivity of a group of allied prisoners in the infamous Japanese-run Changi prisoner-of-war camp in Singapore, during World War II.
		In Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Ewan McGregor leads a clone army to fight a robotic army.
		There, an American corporal (George Segal) does whatever he can, including bribing his captors, to live as comfortably as possible, even at the expense of his fellow Allies.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/king_rat?show=all

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : King Rat : Main
		Bryan Forbes' film version stars George Segal as the mastermind of all black market operations in a Japanese prison camp.
		Although movies had previously dealt with prisoner-of-war (POW) camps (e.g., Stalag 17), most of these films focused on the efforts of the men trapped inside to escape.
		He is called "King Rat" because of his breeding of rodents to serve as food for his emaciated fellow prisoners;...
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	Amazon.co.uk: Video: King Rat [1965]
		This is one of the best and most compelling war films I have ever seen, with a darker, more realistic view on the Second World War and people's mercenary nature.
		Life in a Japanese prisonor of war camp in Singapore, towards the end of World War Two.
		Although the film is incredible, you absolutely MUST read the James Clavell novel it is based on, one of the best books I've ever read.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RU0U/imdb-uk

	The DVD Journal Quick Reviews: King Rat
		Available subtitles include Japanese and English, and trailers for Bridge on the River Kwai, From Here to Eternity, and The Guns of Navarone also are on board.
		Comparisons will be made to Bridge on the River Kwai and even Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (in which John Malkovich played a character similar to Segal's Cpl. King), but King Rat easily ranks among the best of all prisoner-of-war films.
		King befriends Brit officer Peter Marlowe (James Fox), who speaks the local language and can translate for King when he sells off watches and jewelry for other desperate prisoners (for a sizable fee, of course).
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/k/kingrat.q.shtml

	DVD Savant Review: King Rat
		The black and white is suitably ugly under the glaring sun of the camp, which looks to have been shot in the same disused quarries seen in innumberable Hammer films, with a few limp palm trees added.
		King's demoralizing influence is felt throughout the entire camp, which functions as a city of the dead instead of an organized unit.
		King claims his ultimate aim is to be rich enough, when the time comes, to buy his life from his captors, for he fears the Japanese may execute them all rather than surrender to the allies.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s788rat.html

	Cinema of the Spirit - ParabolaFocusAward
		It was while married to him that she began to use a camera, and in 1965 she filmed a documentary on Japanese meditation that was to launch her career as a filmmaker.
		One of his best-known films, Sukhavati: Place of Bliss, a journey with Joseph Campbell into the world of mythical and personal symbology, was shown at the Cinema of the Spirit Festival at Saratoga Springs, New York in 2002.
		Through his films and his company, Mystic Fire Video, Sheldon Rochlin sought to promote the timeless teachings of spiritual leaders such as Joseph Campbell and the Dalai Lama, and artists such as John Cage and jazz pianist Cecil Taylor.
	www.charityadvantage.com /cinemaofthespirit/ParabolaFocusAward.asp (567 words)

	yakuza irezumi
		Irezumi Ichidai), (Nikkatsu/Toho/Vitagraph Films/American Cinematheque, 1965) Both of these films were directed by that auteur of the yakuza...
		Irezumi tattoos cover a large portion of the body's surface and the stylistic designs have many traditional Japanese motifs.
		The Japanese tattoo art of Irezumi is rich with tradition.
	www.logoi.com /links/tattoo/yakuza_irezumi.html (1193 words)

	King Hu - Famous Chinese People - Chinese
		Blending Japanese samurai film traditions with Western editing techniques and Chinese aethestic philosophy borrowed from Chinese music and Chinese_operaoperatics, Hu began the trend of a new school of wuxia swordplay films and his perpetual use of a female heroine as the central protagonist.
		Hu's first film as a full-fledged director was Sons of the Good Earth (1965), a film set during the Sino-Japanese War_(1937-1945)War of Resistance against Japan, but Hu is better remembered for his next film, Come Drink With Me (1966).
		Also a noted screenwriterscriptwriter and set designer, it was his films Come Drink With Me (大醉侠, 1966) and Dragon Gate Inn (&;, 1967) which inaugurated a generation of wuxia films in the late 1960s.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/King_Hu (573 words)

	Akira Kurosawa
		Akira Kurosawa is the best known Japanese director outside of Japan, and his films have been the inspiration for several movies around the world such as The Magnificent Seven and Star Wars.
		His films have won many awards over the years, including academy awards, as he opened the world of Japanese cinema up to many movie goers of the west.
		Toho, however, never let him touch the franchise because they feared the type of money it would require to bring his vision to the big screen, considering the costs of his films through the 50's and 60's were already much higher than most of Toho's other efforts at the time.
	www.tohokingdom.com /web_pages/staff/akira_kurosawa.htm (396 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)

	AllRefer.com - Akira Kurosawa (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		His 29 other films range freely through history, often adapting classics of Western literature, including several of Shakespeare's plays, to Japanese settings and attitudes.
		See his autobiography (1982); studies by D. Richie (1965, 1970); S. Galbraith 4th, The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune (2002).
		Akira Kurosawa[AkE´rA kOOrO´sAwA] Pronunciation Key, 1910–98, Japanese film director, scriptwriter, and producer, b.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kurosawa.html (236 words)

	DaiKaijuEiga Mailing List Web Site ::: FAQs
		The first fifteen Godzilla films ('54 to '75) are referred to as the "Showa" era films, in honor of the Emperor Hirohito.
		The Godzilla films produced since 1984 are referred to as the "Heisei" era films, in honor of the current emperor, Akihito.
		For this reason the movie is generally considered part of the Heisei series, even though it was actually produced and released during the Showa era.
	www.clubtokyo.org /DKE/faq/index2.php (1002 words)

	DaiKaijuEiga Mailing List Web Site ::: FAQs
		The Godzilla films produced since 1984 are referred to as the "Heisei" era films, in honor of the current emperor, Akihito.
		The first fifteen Godzilla films ('54 to '75) are referred to as the "Showa" era films, in honor of the Emperor Hirohito.
		For this reason the movie is generally considered part of the Heisei series, even though it was actually produced and released during the Showa era.
	www.clubtokyo.org /DKE/faq/index2.php (1002 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 (1002 words)

	Toshiro Mifune
		Although he had originally planned to work in films as an assistant cameraman, Toshiro Mifune was auditioned as an actor instead, a fortuitous career shift which helped change the course of Japanese cinematic history.
		He has appeared in many of the great post-war Japanese films, most notably those of director Akira Kurosawa.
		Collaborations between Kurosawa and Mifune began with the film "Drunken Angel" (1948) and continued with such notable works as "Rashomon" (1950), "Seven Samurai" (1954), "Throne of Blood" (1957), "Yojimbo" (1961) and "Red Beard" (1965)....
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/id/196404 (583 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)

	Esperanto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In one study (Williams 1965), a group of European high school students studied Esperanto for one year, then French for three years, and ended up with a significantly better command of French than a control group, who studied French for all four years.
		Similar results were found when the second language was Japanese, or when the course of study was reduced to two years, of which six months was spent learning Esperanto.
		The films were Angoroj in 1964 and Incubus starring William Shatner in 1965.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Esperanto (3564 words)

	Toshiro Mifune
		A personal rift during the filming of Akahige (1965) ended the Mifune-Kurosawa collaboration, but Mifune continued to perform leading roles in major films both in Japan and in foreign countries.
		Beginning with Yoidore Tenshi (1948), Mifune appeared in sixteen of Kurosawa's films, most of which have become world-renowned classics.
		In Kurosawa's pictures, especially Rashomon (1950), Mifune would become most famous Japanese actor in the world.
	www.movietreasures.com /main/Toshiro_Mifune/toshiro_mifune.html (3564 words)

	: iens ultra cinis mediocris :
		Daiei studios, who had presented several of Akira Kurosawa's early films as well as many other period epics, had unleashed its own giant monster franchise in 1965 with DAIKAIJU GAMERA.
		Both of these packages (ADV and Daiei's) are highly worth picking up, though the Japanese DVD prints are superior to those that ADV utilized (the ADV prints are still nice, though they do have some notable damage).
		Daiei has, however, released the ultimate special editions for these films in a DVD box set similar to those that have been made from the old and new GAMERA films.
	www.wtf-film.com /reviews/daimajin_1966.html (3564 words)

	Kon Ichikawa @ Filmbug
		Many of his films are literary adaptations, works including Tanizaki Junichiro's The Key (1959) and The Makioka Sisters (1983), Natsume Soseki's Kokoro (1955) and I Am a Cat (1965), and Mishima Yukio's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (as Enjo (1958))
		His films were often screen-written by his wife, Natto Wada, and when she ceased this activity at the end of the 1960s it marked a change in his films.
		Kon Ichikawa (born November 20, 1915, Mie Prefecture, Japan) is one of the better known Japanese film directors and one of the most unpredictable.
	www.filmbug.com /db/344347 (3564 words)

	The History Of Gamera
		We have from 2 to 5 tracks from each of the Gamera films "Gamera" 1965 through "Gamera vs. Zigra" 1971.
		Gamera Transforms into the Devil From: Gamera vs. Guiron (Released 1969) (Japanese Title: Gamera Tai Daiakuju Giron) 16.
		Gamera vs. Gaos From: Gamera vs. Viras (Released 1968) (Japanese Title: Gamera Tai Uchu Kaiju Bairasu) 13.
	www.godzillamonstermusic.com /G5130.htm (241 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Kamatari Fujiwara : Biography
		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.
		One American admirer of his work, director Arthur Penn, cast Fujiwara as the Artist in the Chicago-filmed Warren Beatty vehicle Mickey One (1965).
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/22270/bio.jhtml (241 words)

	Kamatari Fujiwara - free-definition
		Arthur Penn, an American fan of Fujiwara, cast him in as the Artist in the 1965 Warren Beatty film Mickey One.
		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 (241 words)

	Fantasy Encyclopedia Updates, I to L
		Thus, there is even a direct family linkage between the US films and the Japanese films.
		As chairman of Chuck Jones Productions, a division of Chuck Jones Enterprises, CJ has also developed new theatrical properties including Chariots of Fur (1994), Superior Duck (1996), Pullet Surprise (1997), Father of the Bird (1997) and two unreleased shorts, «Another Froggy Evening» and «From Hare To Eternity», plus the animated sequences for the live-action movies
		CJ has received three Academy Awards, two for best animated shorts (For Scent-imental Reasons in 1950, The Dot and the Line in 1965), and one for best documentary short subject (So Much for So Little in 1950).
	www.dcs.gla.ac.uk /SF-Archives/Misc/fec_i2l.html (4144 words)

	Movies of Frankenstein
		Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), Frankenstein Conquers the World (1964; a Japanese horror film in which a young man eats Frankenstein's radioactive heart and grows to fifty feet), and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1965).
		In 1957, Terence Fisher directed the first Frankenstein adaptation for Hammer Films, The Curse of Frankenstein, starring Peter Cushing; it was followed by a long string of successful movie versions.
		Rhino Video's Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1990) includes the trailers of dozens of movies based on Frankenstein, including all the Universal and Hammer films.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Pop/movies.html (383 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Olivia Hussey : Biography
		Romeo and Juliet; in point of fact, she had been in films from 1965, though never in any sort of starring capacity.
		Few of her subsequent films were on the same artistic or box-office level as Romeo and Juliet, though Hussey was a most fetching damsel in distress in 1978's Death on the Nile and a competent "femme fatale" in 1980's The Man With Bogart's Face.
		Olivia Hussey has been married to actor/tennis player Dean Paul Martin and Japanese recording artist Akira Fuse, respectively.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/30185/bio.jhtml (204 words)

	Nemuri Kyoshiro 5: Enjo-ken (1965)
		from Bronx, NY SWORD OF FIRE (1965), from the Sleepy Eyes of Death (aka Son of the Black Mass) Japanese samurai series, is notable for its assured direction by Kenji Misumi, lively screenplay by Seiji Hoshikawa, and expert swordplay which showcases the lead character's celebrated "Full Moon Cut" technique.
		At the end of this film, Nemuri echoes his private eye predecessors' distaste for authority and cements his loner status by delivering a stinging rebuke to the head of the clan.
		While the film is not as bloody or over-the-top as Misumi's later works, most notably the Lone Wolf and Cub/Baby Cart films starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, it has a formal beauty that's less evident in those films.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0148936 (669 words)

	U.S. deserter denies being propaganda tool - Boston.com - Asia - News
		Jenkins, a native of Rich Square, N.C., was a 24-year-old sergeant with the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division when he left the squad he was leading on patrol in the Demilitarized Zone and walked into North Korea on July 5, 1965.
		Jenkins, who spent nearly 40 years in North Korea after fleeing his unit along the Demilitarized Zone, said Thursday he was outraged by a report North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has called him a Japanese propaganda tool.
		But when he has spoken, he has been sharply critical of North Korea.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/21/us_army_deserter_angry_with_kim_jong_il (760 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Mischa Auer : Biography
		The screen's foremost "Mad Russian" (though he was more dour than demented in most of his movie appearances), Mischa Auer was the son of a Russian navy officer who died in the Russo-Japanese war.
		Among Mischa Auer's last professional engagements was a 1964-1965 revival of The Merry Widow -- one of his few successful stage ventures.
		During his first nine years in films, the tall, foreboding Auer was typecast as sinister foreigners, often playing villainous Hindu priests, Arab chieftains, and feverish anarchists.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/2515/bio.jhtml (760 words)

	CBS News Alleged Deserter Arrives In Japan July 19, 2004 10:14:31
		Charles Jenkins, who vanished from his platoon in 1965 and later played devilish American characters in communist propaganda films, faces possible U.S. military prosecution on desertion and other charges in Japan, although American officials suggest they will delay taking him into custody.
		Jenkins' arrival, broadcast live by Japanese TV networks, came amid a wave of public sympathy in Japan over the plight of his Japanese wife, Hitomi Soga, who married him after she was kidnapped in Japan by North Korean agents in 1978 and taken to the communist country.
		The reunion of the Soga family was a potential boost to the beleaguered government of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, battered by elections last week for the upper house of Parliament in which the opposition Democratic Party made impressive gains.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/07/19/world/main630457.shtml (760 words)

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