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TOKYO: For Masaichi and Mieko Hattori, the 15 minutes with President Clinton were necessary to ensure that their son had not died in vain. Most Japanese were outraged and bewildered in 1992 after a homeowner in Louisiana shot Yoshihiro, a 16-year-old exchange student; the man who did it was acquitted of manslaughter. The Hattoris pinned a Coalition to Stop Gun Violence sticker on Clinton. Public sentiment in Japan strongly supports the couple...
Japanese Moviemaker Masaichi Nagata takes a ride down the old De Mille stream and soon finds himself up Spectacular Creek without a paddle. This footless, episodic epic on the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha tries to crowd everything in Buddhist literature into one elephantine moving picture. The parallels between Japan's first bid for a slice of the supermovie market and the Biblical pageantry of Samuel Bronston and Dino de Laurentiis are numbing: skyscraper temples to sinister gods, unseen choirs zum-zumming on the sound track, corps of nimble nautch dancers in every other reel. And when...
...Bosoms. The man who capitalized most on the foreign imports and touched off the real postwar revival in Japanese moviemaking was Masaichi Nagata, 48, boss of the Daiei studios, who was purged for his World War II propaganda films, but soon after was taken off the purge list. Nagata studied foreign imports to find out what gave them their appeal, then applied what he could to his own products. For Japanese audiences, he decided, the romance of French movies would not do, nor would the sexiness of Italian films. "Unfortunately," says Nagata, "we don't have the bosoms...
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