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...film to close the series and the last film that Ozu made before his death in 1987, An Autumn Afternoon (Samma no Aji) will screen on May 11. The film will be introduced by Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda, whose wife, Shima Iwashita, plays the role of the wife in Autumn Afternoon. The year it was made, the film won the Kinema Jumpo prize in Japan, an honor roughly analogous to the best picture Oscar in America...
...always murenai," observes political commentator Nobuhiko Shima, "outside the group. He always went his own way. Now, in Japan, outsiders are respected. It's a big change." Entrepreneurial tycoon Masayoshi Son is Korean; Nissan fix-it man Carlos Ghosn is Brazilian. Both have successfully challenged the traditional rules of Japanese business. "It is the time for the outsiders in Japan," says Shima...
...Salaryman Kintaro series features a former gang leader who takes a desk job, pummels evil rivals, talks trash to his elders and scores with the ladies. Another popular series, Division Chief Kosaku Shima, is more realistic. It follows the evolution of a junior manager into a savvy world beater, as he confronts cost-cutting pressures and political corruption. Similarly, the hero of Shuhei Nozaki: Bank Auditor roots out venality at Blue Sky Bank with his superpower--a keen eye for bad loans...
Keiichi Makino, a manga expert at Kyoto Seika University, praises the comics' "complex story lines, characters, sophisticated dialogue and drawings. The amount of information is astonishing." In the U.S., Japanese bookstores such as Kinokuniya in New York City carry a bilingual version of Division Chief Kosaku Shima. A book about the comics, with samples, is called Bringing Home the Sushi, available at Amazon.com...
DIED. HIDEO SHIMA, 96, a whizbang designer of Japan's 1960s bullet train, which, while not faster than a speeding bullet, still transported passengers at breakneck speeds, allowing rural folk much desired access to cities; in Tokyo...