Word: kuroda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever happened to Chopsticks'? In Tokyo, Japanese jazzmen fell in line to jam with Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, 49, packing them in on a five-week barnstorm tour of Japan. His regular cats augmented with local talent-including a belting new gal vocalist, Mayumi Kuroda, 21-Hamp gave the customers "integrated music" stomped out by an "Asiatic Harlem" band. "The more I travel," says he, "the more I'm convinced that jazz isn't native to the States. These boys can read the flyspecks off wallpaper...
When any action intrudes upon the sequence, the change is welcome indeed. Here writer Kaneto Kuroda begins to preach, against the evil landlord, the indifferent doctor, the unsympathetic fishmonger. But the constant struggle is the link as well as the main subject of the film. Each variant scene lies apart like an independent engraving, showing only its momentary effect on the couple's lives...
...Even so, The Island is an impressive work of artifice, surely one of the best movies ever made for less than $20,000. Purists will praise Director Kaneto Shindo (Children of Hiroshima) for his skill at telling a story without words, and everybody will be grateful to Cameraman Kiyoshi Kuroda. As he sees them, the gorgeous shore-scapes of the Inland Sea, like all worlds in the Oriental sense of things, dissolve and reel away into visionary vastness, into the pure space of pure spirit...