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...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...
HOUSE OF JAPAN. Shoeless, seated at a low table, the happy diner is served hot sake, then a kimonoed doll of a waitress kneels and cooks sukiyaki. Meanwhile, entertainers in the colorful costumes of samurai, geisha and fishermen dance every thing from kabuki to the twist, and an Oriental chanteuse, Momotaro Akasaka, sings sonorous torch songs...
HIGH AND LOW. Without a samurai in sight, Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa sets the screen crackling with excitement as his camera trails a vicious kidnaper through the Yokohama underworld...
HIGH AND LOW. Without a samurai in sight, Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa sets the screen crackling with excitement as his camera trails a vicious kidnaper through the Yokohama underworld...
...Kurosawa is an eclectic film genius who has borrowed plots from such classic sources as Shakespeare, Gorky and the Hollywood western. This time, he takes a routine American thriller by Ed McBain (pseudonym for Evan Hunter, author of The Blackboard Jungle) and proves that he needs neither sex nor samurai to set the screen crackling with excitement. Basically hackneyed, and at times impausible, High and Low is a Kurosawa triumph of man over matter...