Word: masayuki
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...opportunity to boost morale--and upped the advertising budget. "I felt if we could kick the other studios' asses after they had told everybody in town that we were going to get murdered, that would be a major message and create a sense of empowerment here," he says. Masayuki Nozoe, Tokyo's man on the Sony campus, says Calley discussed the increase in spending with him, admonishing "This is the last chance for you [Sony] and the first chance...
...right, it's summer. You want a foreign-language film that doesn't play like a final exam in Comparative Cultures. So try Shall We Dance?, which Miramax Films has cannily positioned as successor to its easygoing humanist hits Like Water for Chocolate and Il Postino. Masayuki Suo's romantic comedy, the winner of 13 Japanese Academy Awards, at times teeters dangerously close to the excesses of another Miramax crowd pleaser, Strictly Ballroom. The film has such a weakness for the easy incongruity (short men dancing with tall women--isn't that hilarious?) that it could almost be Australian...
...Japanese electronics giant hired United Artists' president John Calley as president and chief operating officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which includes the Columbia and TriStar studios, and reassigned executive Jeff Sagansky to be Calley's co-president. For the first time, a Japanese will join the studios' management team: Masayuki Nozoe, a Sony executive with a marketing background, will become executive vice president of the entertainment division...
...that they were not influenced by kabuki, as so many facilely claimed, but, rather, by silent films, which Kurosawa greatly admired. Toshiro Mifune's feral performance as the bandit is legendary, and Machiko Kyo brings off the task of presenting what are in reality four different women. Masayuki Mori as the husband is excellent; his serpent-like look of contempt is unforgettable. Takashi Shimura as the woodcutter is the quiet core of strength and humanity in the film, almost the movie's moral center. The music, which was written to resemble Maurice Ravel's "Bolero," is notoriously distracting, but this...
Berklee Recital Hall. Alternative hard rock concerrt by keyboardist Ed Green and his band and a traditional and contemporary jazz concert by Markus Hauck and his band on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 4 p.m. Jazz concert by percussionist Masayuki Shigihara and his band on Friday, Oct. 23 at 4 p.m. Berklee, 1140 Boylston St., Boston. Free. Call 266-1400 for more information...