Word: akira
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...DIED. AKIRA KUROSAWA, 88, cinematic visionary whose visceral and visually compelling films integrated Japanese culture into the global movie idiom and inspired a generation of Western directors; in Tokyo. Rashomon (1950), the tale of a murder seen four ways, first brought him fame outside Japan, its title now a byword for the fragility of truth. Even as his samurai epics like Throne of Blood (1957) and Ran (1985) borrowed from the West, particularly Shakespeare, movies outside Japan borrowed from him: The Seven Samurai is at the heart of The Magnificent Seven; The Hidden Fortress is concealed in Star Wars...
...conference will kick off tonight with a Keynote speech by Professor Akira Iriye, after which conference goers can watch the film "A Taxing Woman Returns" while eating green tea ice-cream...
DIED. TOSHIRO MIFUNE, 77, rugged actor in epic Japanese films; in Mitaka, Japan. In his 16-film collaboration with director Akira Kurosawa, Mifune came to embody the heroic, archetypical loner with his rough features and angry intensity. America had cowboys; Japan had Mifune, wielding a sword and his trademark glare in the Oscar-winning Rashomon, The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Although Mifune often played the Pacific enemy in American films like Midway (1976), his menace needed no translation. It was his Japanese films that stuck with audiences, inspiring such imitators as Clint Eastwood and even Jim Belushi...
...Some anime exports, such as Astroboy, Star Blazers and Transformers, have come to the West in the form of television programs and have been around since the 1960s. The mass exportation of anime, however, is very much a mid-to late-80s phenomenon, marked by the apocalyptic 1988 movie "Akira...
...year-old trader--whose nicknames were "Tosh" and "Toshy"--had acted alone or with the help of friends in high places at the bank. It was noted that nearly two months passed between the time Iguchi blew the whistle on himself in a July 13 letter to bank president Akira Fujita and the time Daiwa informed authorities on Sept. 18--despite the fact that U.S. state and federal regulations require banks to give immediate notification of criminal behavior. And although Daiwa relieved Iguchi of his responsibilities in July, it did not get around to firing him until Sept...