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...samurai-turned-sakebrewer, Sato was born in the somnolent town of Tabuse, on Honshu's far eastern coast, just 100 miles from the Straits of Tsushima, where in Sato's fifth year Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroyed the Russian fleet. That was the year of Japan's greatest military success, but little of it rubbed off on Eisaku. Sato's older brother, Nobusuke Kishi,* was the star of the family, graduated second in his class at Tokyo University law school (Sato was much lower). In 1941, Kishi became one of the youngest Cabinet ministers in Japanese history...
There was a time in Japanese history when the merest hint of personal dishonor would set a samurai to sharpening his hara-kari sword. Not so in postwar Japan, where the old concept of face has taken on a new pragmatic wrinkle. Last week Premier Eisaku Sato, 65, whose Liberal Democratic government lies wreathed in a "black mist" of Cabinet-level scandal (TIME, Nov. 4) went on television and told a nationwide audience: "It is regrettable that my administration and party have invited public distrust for lack of moral standards. The main thing is that I, as the responsible person...
...built this chapel to atone for 80 years of sins," says Foujita. He certainly gave himself opportunities to accumulate them. Descendant of a warlike samurai family, the Foujiwara (meaning "wild fields of wisteria"), the painter hobnobbed with Picasso, Apollinaire, Isadora Duncan and the catlike artists' model Kiki. Alexander Calder once exhibited his miniature circus at Foujita's soirees...
When World War II broke out in Europe, Foujita fled back to Japan only to find more of it. There he did military paintings from photographs. After Japan's defeat, his samurai cousins, a marshal and a count, were held to be war criminals; but the artist was found blameless, and he rushed back to Paris. He is still exuberant, worked ten hours a day on his Reims chapel for the champagne growers. But he did not indulge in their product. Says he dryly: "I never touch a drop of alcohol...
...urges, and a couple of the gunmen frankly prefer fooling around with women. Gradually it becomes clear that Seven is a ludicrous reprise of The Magnificent Seven (1960), which, in turn, was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's magnificent, often profound 1954 drama about a septet of chivalrous samurai in late feudal Japan. Only holdover from Hollywood's previous Seven is Brynner, repeating his role as ringleader with the bald-faced boredom of an hombre who knows he has strapped his saddle to a dead horse. The movie can claim one minuscule distinction: it provides the first serious...