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...Sonatine he's Murakawa, a big-timer, the ceo of evil?and he's "worn out," ready to retire. A yakuza gathering is like afternoon at a retirement club, each man alone in regret and anxiety. Sonatine, which secured Kitano's reputation in the West, plays like a gangster King Lear as rewritten by Samuel Beckett. The soliloquies are bloody battles, illuminated by the sheet-lightning pyrotechnics of automatic gunfire; but the rest is Kitano walking, sitting, staring. Till he blows his brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unbeaten | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...year-old Miwo Murakawa, the "square American dance" was the biggest thing to hit Nagasaki since the atom bomb (which missed Miwo by just a mile). She quoted a farm woman: "Why have we had to wait for Americans to teach us such pleasures? Why have not the Japanese taught us such things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Do-se-do | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

HARVARD KEIO Burns. c.f. c.f., Kajine Chase, 2b. 2b., Mitani Donaghy, s.s. 1b., Machida Lord, c. r.f., Yamashita Prior, 1b. l.f., Fukushima Hardie, l.f. 3b., Murakawa Nugent, 3b. s.s., Kato Jones, r.f. e, Okada Whitmore, p. p., Migatake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIPPONESE TEAM TO FACE CRIMSON | 5/22/1928 | See Source »

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