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CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: Yuzuru Abe, Nippon Steel Corp.; Tadashi Arita, The Fuji Bank, Ltd.; Tatsuro Goto, Mitsui & Co., Ltd.; Nobuya Hagura, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank; Akira Harada, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.; Shoji Kambara, Ricoh Co., Ltd.; Kiyoshi Kawashima, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.; Kaoru Kobayashi, Institute of Business Administration and Management; Kazutoyo Komatsu, Trio Electronics, Inc.; Tatsuya Komatsu, Simul International, Inc.; Masao Kunihiro, Kokusai Shoka College; Teiji Makikawa, Fujitsu Ltd.; Isao Makino, Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd.; Jiro Mayekawa, Teijin Ltd.; Yohei Mimura, Mitsubishi Corp.; Masafumi Misu, Hitachi, Ltd.; Rihei Nagano, Kubota, Ltd.; Yoshio Narita, Yamaichi Securities Co., Ltd.; Yoshiro...
SATURDAY: Yojimbo (1961). Akira Kurosawa's masterful samurai drama about an unemployed mercenary facing evil on its own terms. Toshiro Mifune won best actor honors at the Venice Film Festival...
Throne of Blood. Akira Kurosawa's film transports the Macbeth story to medieval Japan. An effective stylization that draws on techniques from the Japanese Noh theater, though at times the Samurai sensationalism flattens both the characters and the tragedy...
...economics of this process are impressive. Shipyard Manager Akira Takeuchi says materials and interest on loans add up to 80% of the yard's total production costs; labor costs account for 20%. In Western yards, labor costs run as high as 30% or more...
...American horse opera. There is the wandering, homeless hero, the isolated town being destroyed by rival factions, a beautiful woman in distress and finally, a showdown--Japanese style. However, Yojimbo goes beyond all this and so avoids the mediocrity of a morass of cliches. Akira Kurosawa, the director, who focused world attention on Japanese cinema with Rashoman and Seven Samurai, succeeds in Yojimbo without resorting to either didacticism or melodrama. Violence accompanies comedy and through this incongruity. Kurosawa states that even in its evilest moments, the human animal is funny. Perhaps, Kurosawa believes that only then is man funny...