Word: shindo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
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