Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:Japan’
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The Damned Days of August: 6th and 9th
06 Aug 2018Today is August 6, 73 years after the first use of a nuclear explosion in a war in human…
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Black Rain, Two Movies — Hiroshima After the Bomb
23 May 2018The enormous, instantaneous destructive power of atomic weapons is the first, and sometimes the only, image that comes to mind…
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Japan, After the War, Two Widows, Two Movies
03 Jun 2017In nineteen forty-seven, a year and a half after the end of WWII, Japanese film makers were still facing war-time shortages,…
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More Post-War Movies: Three from Japan
30 May 2017It is of continuing interest to me how people in all their cultural wrappings respond to portrayals of themselves as…
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Japan’s WW II Cinema: Bucking Up the Home Front
28 Apr 2017Watching Japanese films from the 1940s and 50s is difficult for many. No big sword fights,no clothing shed in intimate love affairs.…
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The Human Condition: What Is A Man to Do? Japan in Defeat
06 Feb 2013Masaki Kobayashi’s war time epic, The Human Condition, at 9 hours and 45 minutes, in black and white, with subtitles…
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Hula Girls: Coal Miners’ Daughters in Japan — a Movie
09 Sep 2011Around our house there are two streams of movie selections: dark, meaningful films, preferably by “auteurs,” about people overcoming terrible…
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The Road — Taken
02 Dec 2009Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, translated into film, opened in scattered theaters this week. In the Bay Area only two houses…
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The Burmese Harp: Fires on the Plain: Two Films
24 Oct 2009When Kon Ichikawa‘s name is mentioned, ears don’t perk up in recognition. Even if “film maker” is added as…
