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Though the chairman of Japan's Communist Party, Sanzo Nosaka, dates his friendship to Mao Tse-tung back to Mao's struggle in Yenan during the '305, the powerful Secretary-General, Kenji Miyamoto, is a devoted follower of the Kremlin. While Peking issues a trickle of invitations to Japanese leftists, the Soviet Union maintains a steady cultural offensive by welcoming Japanese singers, scientists. Kabuki dancer-actors...
Daiei, a serious company that also made Gate of Hell, Ugetsu, and Rashomon, is trying to do something more than ring the box-office gong. Scores of Buddhist monks and scholars have been hired to guide Director Kenji Misumi through the life of the young Indian prince who, in the 6th century B.C., turned away from worldly pleasure to seek enlightenment of the soul. The advisers are trying to keep the sex in balance with the substance, the taste with the tasty; and Buddha himself -played by 23-year-old Rising Son Kojiro Hongo-will only appear in the flesh...
...free showing of the film has been arranged by Kenji Kanesaka, of the Shochiku Co., Ltd., a member of the International Seminar...
...Michiko Kamba during the assault on the Diet building (in fact, Miss Kamba was trampled to death by her own fleeing comrades). Roaring with outrage, 200 Zengakuren members assaulted the Reds' Tokyo headquarters, began a brawl that ended with one Communist in the hospital. Explained Communist Party Secretary Kenji Miyamoto later: "The Trotskyite students of Zengakuren are tools of the American State Department, which, as everyone knows, is financing Zengakuren activities...
Street of Shame (Japanese). A study of prostitution in Japan, made by the late Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu) in a mood that merges Dickens and documentary...