Word: nakada
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they religiously follow such requirements as separating bottles from cans and burnables like paper from nonburnables such as glass and hard plastic. People who want quick disposal of old refrigerators or TV sets need only make a phone call to the sanitation department for a special pickup. Observes Yumimaru Nakada, a senior official in Tokyo's public sanitation bureau: "Living in a crowded situation, the Japanese have come to learn that garbage recycling is no laughing matter...
...four other freshmen receiving probationuntil next year are H. Glen Abel, Paul T. Nakada,Eddy J. Rogers III, and Kevin W. Ryter...
KAGEMUSHA begins with a simple tableau: a Japanese feudal lord, Shingen (Tatsya Nakada), sits in the center of the screen: on the left is his brother (Tsutomu Yamakazi); in the lower right corner is a thief (Tatsuya Nakada), whom the brother has plucked from a crucifix because he bears a strong resemblance to Shingen. An austere composition, the lord virtually immobile, the camera immobile, the long scene played out in one shot. Later, after the lord. Shingen, has been assassinated, we learn that he was called the Moutain, that the Moutain did not move, and therein was his strength...
Kagemusha is magnificently served by Tatsuya Nakada as Shingen and his double, the thief. Nakada has white, puffed-out sideburns, and capacious sacks beneath his beautiful liquid eyes. As Shingen they convey warehouses of wisdom; as the thief they are the befuddled eyes of a clown. Eventually the two personas merge; so powerful is Shingen's spirit that merely by acting naturally the thief begins to duplicate his actions, almost to think his thoughts. When Shingen's son, Katsuyori, eager to assume his dead father's power by exposing the double, challenges the compulsorily silent double at a large meeting...
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