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Downtown on the Ginza, a big department store was doing a hotcakes business in a $3,000 "bride's special" -wedding kimono, TV set, gas range, refrigerator, washing machine, furniture, trousseau and a supply of salad dressing -while the enterprising hotelkeepers of Atami, Japan's Niagara Falls, offered special rates on honeymoon suites with "a bathtub just big enough for two." November is Japan's traditional wedding season,* and with 700,000 couples either wed or affianced, this year's season promises to be perhaps the biggest since World...
...feet, something [the shock wave] threw me down harder and blew me several yards. I blacked out. I don't know for how long. When I came to, it was no longer bright sunshine but dark like dusk, gradually changing to smoky red. My kimono from the waist up was in shreds...
Japan's No. 1 cinemactress, dove-necked Machiko Kyo, the rape victim of Rashomon and mincing dispenser of love in Ugetsu, arrived in Manhattan for her first trip outside Japan, was given such a whirl of interviews, screenings, photographic sessions, business appointments and kimono changes (she was equipped with ten sets) that she had little time even for window shopping. At week's end she left for Hollywood to discuss MGM's prize offer: that she play the role of Lotus Blossom opposite Marlon Brando in the film version of Broadway's Teahouse of the August...
Actor Ryan is smooth and businesslike, and Stack is competent. Next to the view, though, the biggest delight is Japan's picture-book beauty Shirley Yamaguchi, who plays Stack's "kimono" (i.e., moll); she has all the fluid rhythm of a ripple in a pond...
Gate of Hell. A Japanese legend of quaint war and fatal lust, wrapped in a rich kimono of colors (TIME...