Word: samurais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tupamaro discipline stresses indoctrination as well as military and physical training. A captured document exhorts members to be "complete Samurai, with muscles of steel, an alert mind, instant reflexes, resistance to pain and a thorough knowledge of weapons." Although there have been a number of successful weapons raids on government arsenals, there has been little gunplay. Perhaps the Tupamaros want to avoid hurting innocent bystanders and tarnishing their Robin Hood reputation...
With his celebrated samurai style, Mifune creates a character of such sympathy that the American comes to trust his adversary. So much so that when he comes upon him in the jungle the Marine lowers his guard and mutters, "I thought you were a Jap." Marvin's unshaven, malarial soldier is a credible reflection of his own war experiences; he lends substance to a part with few lines and less motivation. Unfortunately, he was not content to get by with soul. Marvin likes to claim credit for the non-ending of the film. The non-meaning goes with...
Even the modest projects of Japan's Akira Kurosawa are conceived and executed on a grand scale. Whether his subject is history (Seven Samurai), social commentary (The Bad Sleep Well), classic drama (The Lower Depths) or thriller (High and Low), Kurosawa invests each film with the breadth of an epic vision. Taken together, his films are like a single, vivid morality play, often heroic and sometimes cynical, celebrating the triumph of man over circumstance...
...Capitol Hill Melvin Laird has long borne the aura of power, carefully contained but ready for instant application. His close-cropped skull and impassive features give him the forbidding countenance of a Japanese war lord. His steely mind and stinging tongue deepen the impression of a political samurai. Though he is in fact one of the nation's wiliest politicians, in private life he is a puckish, convivial figure...
...most important in Japan. They agreed to act the roles of wartime admirals and diplomats in the movie, to be released worldwide by 20th Century-Fox about a year from now. But why put businessmen in those parts? For a very practical reason, says Director Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon, Seven Samurai), who is handling the Japanese portion of the co-production with U.S. moviemakers: there were few if any professional actors available who looked and acted like the nail-hard World War II militarists of Japan. Then Kurosawa figured that running the Imperial Japanese war machine was not so different from...