Word: okada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brainchild of Chase Manhattan's personable president, David Rockefeller, 45, the new building unmistakably bears the Rockefeller touch. To decorate it, Rockefeller sparked the purchase of $500,000 worth of art, ranging from African primitives to a rectangle of muted colors by Abstractionist Kenzo Okada. In Rockefeller's private washroom hangs a color lithograph by Cezanne...
Resnais has not allowed the dominant pacifist theme to obscure the nature of the characters themselves, and he builds the character of the girl with especial care, using a series of deft, slightly uncanny flashbacks. Both of the actors, Emmanuele Riva and Eiji Okada, perform excellently--she with an old woman's weariness--he with a solid diffidence which is never completely penetrated. Both as piece of cinematic fiction and as a document of the war, Hiroshima Mon Amour has outstanding merit. Every-one should see it at least once--more often if at all possible...
Amid all the sake-gay festivity, the monks of Mount Sanjogatake were glum. Said 75-year-old Abbot Kaigyoku Okada: "Can a man meditate on the Buddha in the midst of passing geishas? That is why we sought mountain solitude. But now girls are to be allowed on our mountain, presumably with their boy friends. If one of my priests doing a cliff exercise happens to see a young couple, he may lose his balance and be killed." The abbot may have been thinking of a line popular with the mountain priests: "Woman is the root of disaster that even...
...SHIZUE OKADA...
...first quarter of the film, Director Resnais states his theme with great power; in the second he develops it in an allegro of relationship between the hero (Eiji Okada), a Japanese architect, and the heroine (Emmanuelle Riva), a French actress. Later, in a passage of gloomy elegy that evokes the heroine's "amour impossible" with a German soldier during World War II, the film begins to lose a little of its immediacy and drive. And in the long, obscure, lugubriously beautiful finale the theme is lost in sententious variations...