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...LAST EMPEROR (Virgin). Ryuicihi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su collaborate on a big, bold score for a big, bold movie...
...Japan went through the third week of its death watch over the failing 87- year-old Emperor Hirohito, government leaders canceled trips and local authorities called off annual festivals. Pop concerts and weddings were postponed. Television comedies were hastily rewritten to scrub out profanity and undue frivolity. Newscasters abandoned their designer clothes for unobtrusive gray suits to match the country's somber mood. The Japanese call this jishuku (self-restraint), and they mean...
Misty autumn rains fell on Tokyo late last week as millions of Japanese waited anxiously for news of their most important cultural symbol. Emperor Hirohito, 87, the world's longest-reigning monarch and the last surviving head of state of the World War II era, lay gravely ill, and at week's end was running a fever...
...Japanese had known for 18 months that the Emperor's health was failing. Nevertheless, the news that Hirohito had vomited blood and was experiencing internal bleeding came as a jolt to many of his subjects. The Emperor's doctors diagnosed his condition as "obstructive jaundice" and said the bleeding was related to a swelling of the pancreas and an internal blockage for which the Emperor had undergone an intestinal-bypass operation a year ago. They acknowledged for the first time the presence of a tumor in the Emperor's pancreas. For four days, as he received a series of blood...
...1980s have surely been the decade of empire revivalism. From the masterful televison adaptation of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet to an inept film of E.M. Forster's A Pasage to India--even Bertolucci's The Last Emperor--films about imperialism, and particularly its demise, have become hits here and in Europe. Offering torrid plots set in tropical lands, films about empire have the perfect formula for success--glory, romance, violence and politics...