Word: kendo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dark Habits: a chanteuse brings her boyfriend to her Madrid apartment, where he ODs on heroin and dies. What Have I Done to Deserve This?: an illiterate woman has quickie sex with a muscular student in the shower stall of the kendo academy where she scrubs floors. Matador: a beyond-gorgeous woman picks up a stranger, makes violent love, then stabs him to death with her hatpin. Law of Desire: a young stud is directed through some steamy autoeroticism by an unseen older man. Shock the bourgeoisie? The opening scenes in Pedro Almodovar's films seem designed to shock...
Other performers include Joshua P. Bogen '88 and Charlotte M. McKee '86 who will demonstraic kendo, a Japanese martial art similar to competitive fencing...
...eight-week-long, 40-film retrospective of his work. He surprised his New York audience by appearing at the gala opening in the costume yabusame, a centuries-old ceremonial riding and archery exercise that he has practiced for 40 years. The actor, who is also adept at judo and kendo, seems to have aquired some of the humility of a Buddhist monk as well. Says he: "I'm not always in great pictures, but I'm always true to the Japanese spirit...