Word: akira
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...destroyed every one of 240 feature films made in Korea before the mid-1940s and most of those made during the 1950s as well. Young South Korean directors like edgy stories of violence and sex. Im is of a more mature school, preferring graceful period pieces, produced with Akira Kurosawa-style attention to costume and scenery and marked by a peculiarly Korean form of sadness called han. Shaped by countless foreign invasions and Korea's ensuing sense of rage and helplessness, han permeates Im's movies. The protagonist in Chihwaseon is a painter who realizes he can only create masterpieces...
...During the U.S. occupation of Japan, Anderson read and heard about silent films, but was unable to view one. When Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon won the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951 and opened in New York to critical acclaim, Anderson hoped it would spur interest in its silent predecessors. It did. Cineasts found some films in katsu kichi, private salons showing silent films held in private collections. The groups were organized by Shunsui Matsuda, a benshi who died in 1987. The clubs re-created the original conditions of silent screenings. Last fall, the Pordenone festival invited...
...intents and purposes, she was the director, for she knew so much more than I about the institute’s history, budget, staff and programs,” said Warren Professor of American History Akira Iriye, who presided over the Institute from...
...When we contact the parents, they're often surprised to hear from us," says Akira Fumoto, a 30-year veteran officer of youth crimes who runs the center. "Ten years ago, if a child hadn't returned home for two or three days, parents filed a missing child report. Today, parents believe they're not missing if they can reach them on their cell phones." Indeed, of the 2,000 or so runaways Tokyo police apprehended last year, only 1,200 had been reported missing...
...next day, Phillips received a call on her cell phone from a man who spoke in a thick accent and identified himself as Akira Takagi. He told her: "Lucie has joined a newly risen cult. She is safe and training in a hut in Chiba...