Word: samurai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JAPAN displays ancient arts and modern crafts, consumer products ranging from TV sets and cameras to microscopes and automobiles. All this is assembled in a complex of buildings circling a many-leveled courtyard, featuring samurai duelers, Kabuki (and other) dancers, judo wrestlers...
...mero Uno; its collection of great paintings in an exquisite building proved so popular that the pavilion had to start charging 250 admission just to control the crush inside. The elegant Japanese pavilion is another hit, with a beautifully balanced display of new products and ancient crafts, samurai dueling, judo wrestling and Kabuki dancing. With a few notable exceptions such as Illinois and its electronic Abe, a number of state and foreign pavilions are in trouble. The New England pavilion expects to end at least...
...that grisly, excruciatingly detailed study of a samurai's ritual suicide, Japanese Director Masaki Kobayashi sets the theme of a 17th century tragedy on honor in death-and the death of honor. The victims are two ronin, or unemployed samurai left to starve when their lordly masters are disfranchised following a civil...
...samurai code of honor breaks down when they present themselves in turn at the household of one Lord lyi, begging for "a corner of the porch" on which to commit harakiri-a sham heroism often used by ronin to draw out an offer of a job. After the first young warrior's ignoble death is forced upon him, largely as a diversion for the courtly company, a seasoned old fighter Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives seeking vegeance. The Tragedy unfolds austerely in flashbacks framed by Tsugumo's rather wordy debate with Lord Iyi's chief retainer, whose ridgid...
...JAPAN. Fairgoers can dine in traditional Japanese fashion - shoeless, seated on tatami mats - or at regular tables and chairs. The food, in any case, is tempura and sukiyaki, cooked on the table. A stage show stars some of Japan's best dancers. In the colorful costumes of samurai, geisha and fishermen, they are adept at everything from kabuki to the twist...