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...Japanese filmmaker Kaze Shindo's first film Love/Juice, an am-I-or-aren't-I lesbian story that won her Rookie of the Festival award in Berlin three weeks ago. Interesting territory even for Japan: two roommates, lesbian photographer Chinatsu (Okuno Mika) and friend Kyoko (Chika Fujimura), do drugs, sleep and brush teeth together. Chinatsu quickly falls in love with Kyoko. They kiss and touch one another - Chinatsu shows the uninitiated Kyoko how to masturbate - but the latter recoils from physical love. A stronger movie would have started where this one leaves off, but it's a compact, spare tale...
...Butterfly without a Butterfly is hopelessly disabled: matters were not helped any by Thomas Hayward's inelegant Pinkerton and Umeko Shindo's wobbly Suzuki. Only John Reardon, the Sharpless, did full justice to his music: he sang with richness and strength, and his diction was a lesson to the rest of the cast, though it occasionally uncovered in the English translation such painful bits as: "Oh joyous, happy days of carefree youth...
...film is not natural. It strains for greatness in every frame-the strain shows but the greatness doesn't. Even so, The Island is an impressive work of artifice, surely one of the best movies ever made for less than $20,000. Purists will praise Director Kaneto Shindo (Children of Hiroshima) for his skill at telling a story without words, and everybody will be grateful to Cameraman Kiyoshi Kuroda. As he sees them, the gorgeous shore-scapes of the Inland Sea, like all worlds in the Oriental sense of things, dissolve and reel away into visionary vastness, into...
Working through the powerful Shindo Remmei society, the swindlers had sparked fanatics into a homicidal campaign against all Japs "who did not behave like patriots and deny the lie of Japan's defeat." A gang, rounded up outside a small town in the state of Sâo Paulo, was typical. "It is an honor," shouted one gunman, ". . . [to murder] our defeatist countrymen!" For showing "defeatism," 70 Japs have met death in the past five months...
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