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Two pictures from Japan outweighed, in many reviewers' scales, the rest of the world's product put together. Ugetsu, perhaps the finest film to be seen during 1954, was a descent into the grey and moaning hell of an Oriental soul. Gate of Hell, its title to the...
Splotched Fantasies. From that point forward, Klee produced a frosty torrent of little dream pictures (there are some 900 in U.S. collections alone). By catching his dreams on the wing, and being quite satisfied with just a feather, he was able to produce an almost endless variety. Some of his...
Out in Hong Kong, where he is starring in a movie called Soldier of Fortune, adventurous Cinemactor Clark Gable, a handsome 53, bumped into some pretty Oriental competition, Li Li-Hwa, durable top queen of the Chinese film world. They started the usual flurry of Gable fables by taking a...
No Bosoms. The man who capitalized most on the foreign imports and touched off the real postwar revival in Japanese moviemaking was Masaichi Nagata, 48, boss of the Daiei studios, who was purged for his World War II propaganda films, but soon after was taken off the purge list. Nagata...
Ugetsu. A weird and lovely Japanese film; in an Oriental spirit, the camera meditates the eye of a hurricane in a human soul (TIME, Sept. 20).