Word: shohei
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...saying "I have never seen or even touched the stuff," while Hakurozan promised that a further test would clear their names. Bad idea. In the second test, this time administrated by the only Japanese facility recognized by the World Anti-Doping Agency, samples from both brothers tested positive. Professor Shohei Onishi of Keio University said last week that the tests had found five times the standard amount in Roho's sample, and double that in Hakurozan's, adding that that the only explanation would be directly smoking the substance. "Second-hand smoke or medicine are 100% out of the question...
...DIED. Shohei Imamura, 79, influential director of post-World War II Japan's new wave, who told haunting, often surreal tales of prostitutes, pimps and working-class heroes; in Tokyo. Rejecting the idealized, selfless protagonists of classical Japanese film, he depicted resilient men and women who guard their dignity even amid brutal conditions. In 1983's The Ballad of Narayama, one of two Imamura films to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, residents of a mythic 19th century village struggle with an edict requiring them to abandon their elders to die on a mountain. "I want...
...attack to schoolkids who think the worst calamity is when the village well overflows. In Burkina Faso (the director is Idrissa Ouedraogo), some boys spot a man who looks just like Osama bin Laden and scramble to capture him for the $25 million ransom. The Japanese episode (from Shohei Imamura) ends with the words: "There is no such thing as a Holy...