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Street of Shame (Daiei; Harrison), the last picture completed by the late Kenji (Ugetsu) Mizoguchi, perhaps the most gifted of recent Japanese moviemakers, is a Dickensian diatribe against prostitution. At the time the movie was released, Japan had some 500,000 "flowery-willowy" girls, and the picture is said to have swayed millions to support the stop-prostitution bill that was passed in 1956. In the U.S., where prostitution has seldom been seriously discussed on the screen, audiences will no doubt be stunned by the film's unblinking realism. But they will probably not be startled by the scriptwriter...
...reverberations of the culminating symbol: the tree of life that bears the fruit of death, a death whose other name is love. For Western movie goers, the reading of such symbolic language is apt to be as tiresome as the study of Chinese script; but fortunately, Director Kenji Mizoguchi (who also made Ugetsu) has provided the picture with physical as well as spiritual beauties. It has colors that are often exquisite; and it has Machiko Kyo, the heroine of almost every important Japanese film of recent years, who is surely one of the loveliest women ever seen on the screen...
...team of 22 American civilians and SAC airmen who thought they knew something about judo, Japan's "soft art," took a painful trouncing from some Hokkaido University students at Sapporo, Japan. George F. Geisenhoff, 200-lb. SAC strongman, was tossed out of the ring and broke his collarbone; Kenji Honda, 130-Ib. American of Japanese ancestry, was all but smothered by his opponent and wound up with several broken ribs...
Ugetsu. A Japanese version of the Lilith legend; with Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (TIME, Sept...
...seven were: Hideki Tojo, wartime Premier of Japan; General Kenji Doihara, who had engineered the Mukden Incident in 1931; General Heitaro Kimura, former commander in Manchuria; General Iwane Matsui, responsible for the rape of Nanking; General Akira Muto, former chief of staff in the Philippines; ex-Premier (1936-37) Koki Hirota; ex-War Minister Seishiro Itagaki...