Word: toshiro
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...greatest film makers, and in this deceptively simple story about the spiritual growth of a young doctor, he has made one of his greatest films. Kurosawa's canvas is the whole range of human experience. His techniques are impeccable, and his actors-especially the justly famed Toshiro Mifune-are among the most accomplished ever to appear on screen...
...from quitting altogether. "This place is terrible," a fellow intern tells the young man. "The patients are all slum people; they're full of fleas - they even smell bad. Being here makes you wonder why you ever wanted to be come a doctor." It is through Red Beard (Toshiro Mifune) that the young doctor learns not only why but what, in a full metaphorical sense, being a doctor of medicine really means...
...work of three excellent artists is brought together at the top of the Carpenter ramp; we see a very good designer mediating between two great ones. Exhibition designer Toshiro Katayama ties together the chairs of Michael Thonet with the hall of Le Corbusier, and the product is aptly called "Form from Process...
...Carpenter Center, which is actively dedicated to education of the eye in all its aspects. But as impressive as Thonet and his chairs are, the greatness of this exhibit depends mostly on the relationship wrought between the industrial designer and Carpenter's architect. This relationship is welded by Toshiro Katayama...
...violent and funny: Toshiro Mifune massacres scores of villains, while having to outthink not only bad men but also the clan of bungling innocents whom he is trying to protect, and who keep spoiling his stratagems in their eagerness. It has most of Kurosawa's stylistic tricks: tangles of shrubbery set between you and the action; shots of different people running, connected by fast cutting; omission or understatement of the climax of a comic episode, leaving you to assume that what was going to happen, happened...