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...about Akira Kurosawa's Best Director nomination for Ran. Didn't anyone see Kagemusha and realize that the man has done what is essentially a remake of one of his own movies...
Some of the most encouraging results have been in children with a rare and extreme version of FH. Yuko, 11, of Osaka, Japan, has been treated for nine years by Dr. Akira Yamamoto of the National Cardiovascular Center, earlier with a crude version of cholesterol filtering and more recently with a process similar to that used at Rogosin. Racked by angina at age two, she can now climb a flight of stairs without stopping. What is even more impressive to scientists is that X-ray studies show that her disease has actually regressed. "Atherosclerosis of her renal artery has completely...
...mythic birth and noble retelling, and we are far from the inert reverence of the typical movie adaptation of a classic. Indeed, in Ran (which means "chaos" in Japanese) we venture into a territory where the very word adaptation distorts and diminishes both intention and accomplishment. For what Akira Kurosawa has done is to reimagine Lear in terms of his own philosophy, which blends strains of Western existentialism with a sort of elegiac Buddhism, and the imperatives of the movies. If Shakespeare's poetry enters the mind through the ear, Kurosawa's enters it through the eye. But the imagery...
...1950s Japan could boast not only a robust film industry but also a vibrant national cinema, with three directors-Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa-who could be counted among the handful of film-making giants. Mizoguchi died in 1956, Ozu in 1963, and no younger director has since achieved nearly their stature. As for Kurosawa, he has been able to realize only three films since 1965-all outside the studio system-and in 1971, frustrated by the industry's intransigence, attempted suicide. His latest project, a retelling of King Lear set in medieval Japan, was recently postponed...
...military-war adventures. In recent years, manga have grown into a billion-dollar publishing venture. Doraemon, an atomic-powered robot cat, makes Garfield look like something the human dragged in. Created in 1970, Doraemon has now appeared in a 26-volume collection with sales of $50 million. In 1980 Akira Toriyama sold 15 million copies of his 17-volume sci-fi comic Dr. Slump. There is even a manga temple outside Tokyo where, above the central altar, a legend is inscribed: THE IDEAL PRIEST...