Word: osugi
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...series of meetings, he reviews the journals and explains what he wants to his staff. They chart out a script. He shoots his films sequentially, and usually takes just one shot per scene. "The movie changes as we go along," says Mori. In the film Sonatine, the actor Ren Osugi's character was supposed to die in one of the first scenes. But Beat liked his performance so much, he kept him in the film until the end. "Everyday, I thought, OK, today I am going to die," says Osugi. "I never knew what my character was going...
...chaotic days following the great Japanese earthquake of 1923 a young police captain, Masahiko Amakasu, held in his custody a Socialist leader, Sakai Osugi. Amakasu was a member of a group of young Japanese firebrands who vehemently denounced internationalism, who were then seriously beginning a successful struggle to make the army master of the Japanese Government. In cold blood, with his own hands, Captain Amakasu strangled his internationally-minded prisoner. He deputed to a subordinate the less important job of garroting Osugi's wife and 10-year...
Brought to trial, Captain Amakasu had a good defense: he had gained nothing by Osugi's death; his was a purely patriotic murder. He was given only seven years and he was out in a little more than two. When the Japanese Army entered Manchuria and set up the so-called state of Manchukuo, Amakasu went over to help occupy, was presently active in Manchukuo's "General Affairs Bureau." Naturally he was appointed vice-chairman of a Manchukuoan Good Will and Economic Mission of 26 members which recently set out for a tour of Italy, the Vatican City...
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