Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are two films which might have made this list if I have seen them Tokyo Story and The Rulong Class. And a couple of others should be cited as intelligent entertainment--Sam Peckinpah's Bonner, hampered slightly by unbelievable dialogue but far superior in his latest piece of backwork (The Getaway) and Slaughterhouse-Five George Roy Hill's skilled adaptation of Vonnegut's novel...
...Director Thomas P. Moving, struggling to defend the clandestine sale of the Metropolitan Museum's major Rousseau, The Tropics, which-together with a Van Gogh-went out the back door to a dealer for a rumored total of $1.5 million. He might have tried Japan first. Last week Tokyo Art Dealer Tokushichi Hasegawa took delivery of the Rousseau, which he had bought from Marlborough Fine Art in London and resold to an Osaka businessman (anonymous, for "tax reasons") for $2,000,000. Said Hasegawa who, at 33, is vice president of Nichido Gallery, Japan's largest art shop...
...some of them outright fakes, routinely go for 20% to 2,000% above their New York or London prices. About 500 galleries have mushroomed in Japan, and especially along the Ginza, in the past few years. Says Dealer Yoko Fukushima: "The mad Japanese buying abroad has long turned Tokyo into the world's best market for second-rate works by first-rate artists. Japanese buy names, not quality." Even the patriarchal trading houses of Japan are in on the act -sometimes with depressing results, as when the huge Marubeni Corp. added art to its "general trading" department (along with...
These holdings pale beside his other operations. His parent company, Kokusai Kogyo (International Enterprises), was started in Tokyo in 1947 with a fleet of dilapidated charcoal-burning buses, and now embraces 38 subsidiaries, including ski areas and bowling alleys, restaurants, taxi and bus companies, and trading houses that import everything from American cars to golf clubs. Last year the company earned $26 million on revenues of $330 million. Osano is also the biggest private shareholder in Japan Air Lines, the state-operated flag carrier, and a major investor in All Nippon Airways, the domestic carrier...
Tanaka and Osano first met in Tokyo during the immediate postwar period when both were scrambling for the top. Their durable friendship is largely based on their strikingly similar personalities. Both are blunt, decisive men of peasant stock in a society that has raised silken circumspection to an ethic. For all his swashbuckling, Osano's greatest assets are a prodigious capacity for work and an instinct for the well-timed business deal. For example, he was early in spotting his countrymen's wanderlust, and even before Japanese tourists began rushing to Hawaii, he invested in hotels there...