Word: toho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since then, they have put over such unlikely packages as a Christmas series of four different versions of Handel's Messiah, a "Japan Week" featuring the Toho String Orchestra (with Japanese buffet served at intermissions) and a satiric program of baroque music, P.D.Q. Bach (TIME, Jan. 7), which was so successful that it came back twice to full houses, P.D.Q...
...Lower Depths (Toho) is a fascinating minor work by a continually amazing major artist: Japan's Akira Kurosawa. Filmed in 1957, Depths is presented simply as a Japanization of Maxim Gorky's classic proletarian comedy, but in fact the film has a hissing demonic energy and a vast life-welcoming humor that are unmistakably Kurosawa...
Throne of Blood (Toho; Brandon...
...Ikiru (Toho; Thomas J. Brandon), made in 1952 but only recently pried out of a Tokyo film vault by an enterprising U.S. distributor, has long been acclaimed by film buffs as perhaps the finest achievement of Japan's most vigorously gifted moviemaker: Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa. The judgment is difficult to dispute. Despite heroic defects-and partly because of them-Ikiru ("To Live") is a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism: the step-by-step, lash-by-Iash, nail-by-nail examination of the Calvary of a common...