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There is little room left in the local market for HSA to expand its 11 agencies, says Akira Hirai '89, who recently ended his term as sales manager for the extremely successful Let's Go travel guides as well as the Unofficial Guide to Student Life at Harvard. Hirai points to this fact as an explanation for the decline in innovation...
Petric said Imamura's films "aim in cinema toreflect the mentality of the Japanese people,"adding that Imamura's focus on his native culturehas contributed to his fame as a director. Petricsaid Imamura is "the most important director inJapanese cinema, together with [Akira] Kurowsawa."Kurowsawa's most recent film...
...Akira Kurosawa...
...While Akira Kurosawa was waiting around for international moneymen to cough up the money for his ultimate production--an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear--he sketched and painted scenes, a practice called "storyboarding." Though Kurosawa's eyesight is failing, he still managed to create dramatically posed illustrations that assault the eyes like a rabid ronin...
...AKIRA ONOZUKA, 35, has spent the past 13 years at the Miyake Design Studio, whence he was recently dispatched to Cannon Mills in North Carolina on a textile project. "I met the president of Cannon, and he looked at me kind of funny," Onozuka remembers. "Then I went into the factory and I saw why. All the workers were dressed like me." Onozuka's Odds On line, now in its first season, shows not only his affection for well-worn American work wear but also a witty and idiosyncratic eye for fabrication and shaping that make his clothes look...