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...surprise to all of us," said Ken T. Oshima '88, a three year veteran of the singing group. "The director [Frusztajer] and Bentley's room-mate [Thomas A. Shields '89] were the only other Kroks who knew about it," Oshima said...
...which, he has written, "the body enters a state of perfect balance. Buto belongs both to life and to death. It is a realization of the distance between a human being and the unknown." Like other artists working from within a conception of Japanese modernism-the film director Nagisa Oshima, the designer Issey Miyake-Amagatsu is obsessed with redefinition. Buto, at its point of origin in the social and artistic turmoil of the '60s, was brooding, even brutal, full of images of apocalypse. It was revolutionary, but by the time Amagatsu began his work with Sankai Juku...
MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE Directed by Nagisa Oshima Written by Nagisa Oshima and Paul Mayersberg
...superb erotic melodrama In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Japanese Writer-Director Nagisa Oshima is portraying-for Western viewers and his own Westernized countrymen-the social compulsions that once made Japan unique, and uniquely feared. In the earlier film, a prostitute and the husband of a brothel owner become casual lovers and then, following the logic of exclusive devotion, swoon into a passion whose fulfillment is violent death. In Merry Christmas, the viewer is thrown al once into the sadomasochistic excess of Oriental machismo. Here, every gesture of discipline, compassion, rage and honor is expressed by the blade...
...performances are tense and knowing, including that of Ryuichi Sakamoto, who plays the young captain (he also composed the film's haunting score). But the Merry Christmas catalogue of atrocities finally becomes numbing, even udicrous. Oshima describes the wartime Japanese as ''a nation of anxious people who could do nothing individually-so they went mad en masse." Alas, he does not explain that madness; he only puts it on horrific display. -By Richard Corliss