Word: kenji
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...someone who sees most of the movies that most interest him in venues other than traditional theaters, I can't disagree. I plunder the treasures at Kim's, a Manhattan video chain that embraces both the ineffable and the unspeakable - Kenji Mizoguchi and Jesus Franco. And I scan the Internet for films other people may think of as obscure, and I call essential. Who knows what the Essential Art House movies of the next 50 years will be? Nobody knows. But we can be pretty sure that we won't see them in theaters like the Brattle or the 55th...
...home town, where he reunites with his former lover and their now grown son. Bittersweet misery ensues. In 1959, when Ozu's reserved style was fully formed, he remade the story as two-hour color film photographed by the great Kazuo Miyagawa, the cinematographer of Kurosawa's Rashomon and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu. The audio commentary on the later film is by Roger Ebert. Donald Richie, the dean of American film scholars of Japanese film, provided the improved subtitles for both...
Still, while most Japanese may not care for the meat, many object to calls to stop whaling. "I couldn't care less if I don't eat another whale until the day I die," says Kenji Yamashiro, 35, a systems engineer in Tokyo. "But I don't like to be told what I can or can't eat by anyone other than my doctor...
Sources: Brian Atwater, U.S. Geological Survey; Kenji Satake, AIST, Geological Survey of Japan; Vasily Titov, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Natural Resources Canada; LandScan/UT-Battelle...
...find much about the enormous impact ukiyo-e had on Western artists, especially France's own Impressionists, or even on present-day Japanese comic-strip art forms manga and anim?. And a more adventuresome exhibition might even have added some footage from ukiyo-e-inspired films like Kenji Mizoguchi's masterful 1947 biopic Utamaro and his Five Women. But that's quibbling. Better simply to enjoy the bounty of color and line, to relish the beauty of women and nature, on display in this extraordinary monument to a very special world. Better just to float...