Word: samurai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research. He wants every piece of material extant about the film-the original book, biographies of the performers, reports from correspondents on the making and makers of the picture, even handouts. Thus, when he wondered how some Japanese film makers got the effect of blood gushing from a samurai victim's chest, a report from the Tokyo bureau enabled him to write in his review of The Idiot (May 17): "Mifume's sword trips a valve concealed beneath his opponent's kimono and opens a tank containing a gallon of vegetable oil, iron oxide, water and chocolate...
...Kyushu, he idly picked up a stone. With the age-old Japanese reverence for the texture and shape of stone, he felt it in his hand and found an overwhelming sense of tranquility, an "odd composure" at a time when squadron after squadron of his buddies, with ceremonial samurai swords stowed in the cockpits of their Zeroes, roared off on one-way missions to Okinawa. From then on, he always carried a stone with him. Stones have led him to a charmed life: World War II ended before his name came up for a suicide sortie...
...Nosedive." A Kyoto banker's son, Nagare was so brash from the beginning that his father packed him off to a Zen temple to meditate. While there, Nagare was entranced by an aging master swordsmith, who ritualistically tempered keen blades for samurai swords, as good for beholding as for beheading. For four years, Nagare took classes at night in order to devote days as an apprentice to the old swordsmith, learning lessons about the taut contours and precision polish that eventually cropped up in his sculpture...
...galleries. And the images on the screen were not the sort one sees at the average alhambra. No Tammy, no Debbie, no winning of the West. Instead, a bear roamed and roared in a Mexican mansion and a regiment of French actors fought the American Civil War and a samurai disemboweled himself right there in front of everybody...
...while loitering around a railroad station, he is adopted by two abandoned children. He snarls like a bee-stung samurai, he sulks like a spoiled geisha, but the kids tag along. And so Junpei has two kids, a sweetheart on the lam, and no yen except to do right by the youngsters and to get Komako (and his money) back...