Word: toshiro
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first year in Japan, the open, young American met, by chance, both Yasunari Kawabata, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great Zen scholar, D.T. Suzuki; and a little afterward he found himself on a set where Akira Kurosawa was directing Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel. Very soon, every foreigner who landed in Tokyo?Somerset Maugham, Tom Wolfe, Richard Avedon, Philip Johnson?was calling on him to be shown around. Richie's shrewd, but forgiving, fascination with human quirks there gives us Truman Capote buying an "imitation geisha wig" and Kurosawa taking in a Fellini film without...
...March, it too has the potential to set an industry precedent. More and more doctors are also speaking out. Between 1994 and 2000, Narita's Morio saw 21 patients with DVT. All survived, but Morio says: "There must be more who died before they reached here." Narita clinic head Toshiro Makino confirms that suspicion. He treats up to 60 people a year for DVT, and says 25 patients died from pulmonary embolism between 1992 and 2000. Of the 13 deaths on arrival in 2000, he put eight down to DVT. Other doctors say Makino did not prove...
...windswept Miura coast is called the Blue Sea. The palm tree in front is lashed down with ropes to keep it from blowing over. But the views of the sailboat marina and rugged coastline are spectacular. It's a tony area: Japan's best-known actor of the 1960s, Toshiro Mifune, lived a few hundred meters down the coast until he died a few years ago. It takes no more than 60 seconds to walk from the front lobby of the Blue Sea to the spot where Lucie's remains were discovered...