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...Kenji Osano, one of the most powerful and controversial Japanese entrepreneurs, the results of December's national elections were bittersweet. As a close friend of, and chief political fund-raiser for, Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, Osano, 55, could bask in reflected glory. But as a free-wheeling entrepreneur who has done remarkably well under the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party, he had cause for concern about its losses in the Diet. He could also ponder the gains of Communists and Socialists, who intend to push harder their charges that he uses his personal and business relationship with Tanaka...
Special Emissary Kenji Fukunaga arrived from Tokyo bearing an offer of $ 1,500,000 compensation from his government, amounting to roughly $5,000 per injured survivor of the Lod massacre and $10,000 each for the families of the dead. Meanwhile, in a poignant letter to Israeli Premier Golda Meir, the former schoolteacher father of the surviving gunman, Kozo Okamoto, pleaded that "my son be executed as soon as possible after he is given relentless investigation...
...strange to us. Until recently either a woman married or retired to maiden aunthood, or she became a prostitute. The prostitutes were often women or great culture and provided men with the only intelligent female conversation around, for wives were generally little more than child-bearers and tea-servers. Kenji Mizoguchi, director of Utamaro and His Five--Women, (1946), is regarded as the women's champion among Japanese film directors, yet even he takes what in another context would be an extremely sexist attitude towards them. "He doesn't love me," says one of Utamaro's five women. "He loves...
...Kenji Mizoguchi's reputation is, like all tremendous artistic reputations, tremendous for off-base reasons. Mizoguchi was "discovered" by a critical school that lionized masters of the long take. Andre Bazin and his followers supposed that sequences accomplished in a single shot, and shots lasting minutes without a cut, gave an impression of greater objectivity than a style based on cutting could achieve. Events that appear within the same shot have to take place at the same time. Therefore a long-take style like Mizoguchi's must show things as they actually occur, instead of faking events...
...WITHOUT mercy a man is like a beast... All men are created equal... Everyone is entitled to happiness." There is the progress of Kenji Mizoguchi's great tragedy Sansho Day?. The film perfectly embodies the themes of his career: the struggles of the oppressed, the enslavement of women. But it goes beyond these themes to describe the desolation of a family torn apart...