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Word: masaichi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Sword Swingers | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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