Word: nagata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...minutes and 46 seconds past 110n the morning of Sept. 1, 1923, Mayor Hidejiro Nagata of Tokyo noticed that the electric light that hung from his ceiling had begun to swing from side to side. "Ah," said the mayor, "earthquake...