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From the dinky little salvage vessel Daiei Maru (a misnomer, for it means Great Prosperity), Oyama plunged into Nagasaki Bay in hopes of salvaging enough scrap iron to make it worth the effort and risk. Four times he went down 192 ft. with nothing untoward. Raised to the Daiei Maru's deck after his fifth, hour-long descent, he collapsed in pain. His shipmates, unversed in medicine but with a well-grounded fear of the bends, slapped Oyama's helmet back on him, stuffed his diving suit with lead weights, and dumped him back over the side-down...
...three hours they raised him only 60 ft. Then the wind changed and freshened: the Daiei Maru had to seek more sheltered waters. And so began one of the most amazing treatments in the history of medicine. Oyama was hoisted up, the ship moved to calmer waters, and he was promptly dunked again in 72 ft. After twelve hours of sitting there on an iron bar, Oyama signaled frantically to be raised: he was chilled to the marrow and had lost the use of his legs. His shipmates took him ashore, put him in a trough used for boiling seaweed...
Yang Kwei Fei (Daiei; Buena Vista). Once upon a time, a thousand years ago. there lived a lonely emperor in old Cathay. His wife had died in the bloom of her youth, and he was inconsolable. In the morning when his ministers brought him the leading questions of the day, in the evening when they brought him the fairest maidens of the realm, the emperor only sighed and sent them away. Only in his music could he find surcease, and with his lute he whiled the sorrowing hours away. Aha. thought an ambitious general, if I can find the woman...
Golden Demon (Daiei; Harrison). The Japanese soul has been described as a lotus bud stitched up to look like a big-league baseball. In it, the traditional Eastern longing for a spiritual flowering is crudely merged with the modern Western urge to get to first base. Golden Demon, except for Hiroshima the only postwar picture from Japan in which the U.S. moviegoer can learn anything specific about 20th century Japanese life, tells a story of how this broken culture broke two lovers' hearts...
...Bosoms. The man who capitalized most on the foreign imports and touched off the real postwar revival in Japanese moviemaking was Masaichi Nagata, 48, boss of the Daiei studios, who was purged for his World War II propaganda films, but soon after was taken off the purge list. Nagata studied foreign imports to find out what gave them their appeal, then applied what he could to his own products. For Japanese audiences, he decided, the romance of French movies would not do, nor would the sexiness of Italian films. "Unfortunately," says Nagata, "we don't have the bosoms...