Word: toshiro
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...consider themselves Asiatics?" Aurally at least, the answer seems to be no. In the elevators of Tokyo's hotels, the canned music is not the koto, but usually Chopin or Bach. Traditional Japanese music survives in the Kabuki and No theaters but in few other places. To Composer Toshiro Mayuzumi, Western music has become a symbol of Japanese learning and culture. "The visit of the Met is another step in their education," he says. The Met seems to have learned something too. The 1966 Paris trip was an artistic flop because of questionable repertory and eccentric casting. This time...
...examines four people's subjective accounts of a murder. After that Park Square is showing Yojimbo (which Kurowasa made because he was so pissed off that the Americans copied Seven Samurai when they made The Magnificent Seven--so it's a parody). With it is another film starring Toshiro Mifune, Throne of Blood (a version of Macbeth...
SATURDAY: Yojimbo (1961). Akira Kurosawa's masterful samurai drama about an unemployed mercenary facing evil on its own terms. Toshiro Mifune won best actor honors at the Venice Film Festival...
...entrance corridor. Almost vacant except for a few dying trees and some sofas on either side of the information booth, one is left with the distinct feeling that the entrance space was not designed but simply left over after the auditorium, studio, and library had been designed Toshiro Katayama's hangings, although bright, have become a hackneyed attempt at enlivening a dead space where perhaps student projects would be better exhibited...
...OCCURS SOMETIME during the 1860's, just after the samurai warrior class has lost its privileged position in Japanese society. As the credits cease rolling, the camera focuses on an unshaven samurai (Toshiro Mifune) standing alone in the middle of a crossroads. He dispassionately scratches his back then tosses his walking stick. And, without a backward glance he follows the road it indicates...