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directed by Akira Kurosawa...
...BRIGHT-EYED 14-YEAR-OLD, AKIRA OGASAWARA JOINED THE JAPANESE army, partly because the recruiters promised him a ride in an airplane. Instead of getting his flight, he was assigned to a secret medical unit that performed experiments on prisoners in Manchuria. Now 65 and a construction worker, he is still tormented by the memory of his two years with Unit 731 as it worked on developing a "germ bomb," which Tokyo hoped would help win World War II. "I myself did not put any prisoner under the knife," he tells a mostly middle-aged audience of about 50 people...
...Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, arguably Japan's greatest director and actor, teamed up once again to make the mystery High and Low, which stands out even among their many classics. Thirty years old, the film remains a revelation for lovers of cinema...
directed by Akira Kurosawa...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. Akira Kurosawa's classics include "Throne of Blood" at 3:45 and 7:55 p.m. and "Yojimbo" at 5:50 and 9:55 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 30. Cary Grant stars in "Indiscreet" at 5:55 and 10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 1, "Notorious" at 3:30 and 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2, and "An Affair to Remember" at 3:45 p.m. and 7:55 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 1 and at 1:15, 5:30 and 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2. Greta Garbo stars in "Anna...