Career Profiles: Film Director
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Amazon.com: "salaryman comedies": Key Phrase page
The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune by Stuart Galbraith IV See all pages with references to "salaryman comedies". Excerpt - on Page 168 : " ... By the 1960s, half of Toho's output would be these salaryman comedies , and Morishige, virtually unknown outside Japan, became a Toho star whose popularity was rivaled only by Mifune's. In Love in ... " Key Phrases : United States , Los Angeles , Takashi Shimura , Toshiro Mifune , New York , Akira Kurosawa , salaryman comedies , swordplay choreography , chief assistant director , magnetic stereophonic sound , laserdisc release , roadshow version (see more) Key Phrases : United States , Los Angeles , Takashi Shimura , Toshiro Mifune , New York , Akira Kurosawa , Sanshiro Sugata , Throne of Blood , Dersu Uzala , Kurosawa Production , Donald Richie , The Hidden Fortress , The Lower Depths , Kevin Thomas , Pearl Harbor , Ishiro Honda , Hiroshi Inagaki , Mike Inoue , Snow Trail , Best Ten , Hideo Oguni , Grand Prix , Kyoko Kagawa , Senkichi Taniguchi , Eiji Tsuburaya , salaryman comedies , swordplay choreography , chief assistant director , magnetic stereophonic sound , laserdisc release , roadshow version , drunken angel , hidden fortress , samurai saga , biggest money earner , third assistant director , seven samurai , remake rights , unit production manager , bad sleep , home video version , script supervisor , assistant art director , assistant cameraman , rickshaw man , second assistant director , best foreign film , second unit director (see less)
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hackwriters.com -David Quinlans' Directors - Review Alex Grant
JOHN PAYNE NOT JOHN WAYNE A BOOK REVIEW OF DAVID QUINLANS "DIRECTORS" second edition Alex Grant Though almost 4 years "old" British film scholar David Quinlans 2nd edition of his DIRECTORS {1999} serves as a fascinating contrast to the 4th edition of David Thomsons THE NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF FILM { 2002 }which gives most emphasis to directors world-wide. Quinlans first edition was published in 1983 and in the past two decades the role of film-director has been adversely downsized in the U. S. Most new features are directed by total tyros wet behind the ears and bullied non-stop by producers of every strip U.S. film was often a producers medium in the post-war years, but the excessive influence of agents-cum-producers in Hollywood in the 80s and thereafter has curbed the artistic ambitions of most established and up-&-coming direct Like so many British experts in the compilation of film dictionaries and encyclopaedias Quinlan is a conservative and a puritan with a deep-seated nostalgia for the various Golden Eras of international film. Leslie Halliwell was the arch-exponent of this very destructive ideology, a man with no patience for contemporary films, by which he meant ones made since 1960. Not that such Golden Ages exist only in the imagination, of course. Much such nostalgia depends wholly upon when the individual thrived on films as a teenager and a young adult, quite naturally, as those formative years as a "critic" are vitally important. I feasted on American movies in Britain in the Fifties Fuller, Karlson, Mann (Anthony),Sturges (John) and Walsh and I matured" amidst the various European "New Waves" of the Sixties Bergman (Ingmar), Forman, Losey and Truffaut. David Thomson likewise I can assure you.
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Japanese film director Kon Ichikawa dies - 02/13/2008 - MiamiHerald.com
Japanese film director Kon Ichikawa dies Posted on Wed, Feb. 13, 2008 h1:first'). text ())+'&bodytext='+encodeURIComponent ($('#storyBody > p:first'). text ()); return false">Digg h1:first'). text ()), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=700,height=400'); return false;">del.icio.us AIM print email By CARL FREIRE Associated Press Writer TOKYO -- Kon Ichikawa, the Japanese director who married artistic technique with humanistic spirit in such films as the Oscar-nominated "Harp of Burma" and "Tokyo Olympiad," has died. He was 92. Ichikawa died of pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 13, said Chizuko Wagatsuma, a spokeswoman with Toho Co., the company that released "The Makioka Sisters" and many of his other films over a long directing career that began in 1945. He had been hospitalized since late January, she said. Known for his artistic technique and the wide range of genres in which he worked, Ichikawa won a jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960 for his movie, "Kagi." He also received a lifetime achievement award in 2001 from the World Film Festival of Montreal. "Ichikawa surely stands alongside Akira Kurosawa and Keisuke Miyashita as one of Japan's great directors," said noted Japanese film critic Tadao Sato. "He made not just art films, but also melodramas, documentaries, mysteries and others ... and he brought to all of them a technique and craft that showed he took the works seriously no matter the subject," Sato said. "Even his light entertainments had class." Ichikawa first attracted attention outside of Japan with the Oscar-nominated 1956 drama, "Harp of Burma." Based on a novel, the film told the story of Japanese soldier at the end of World War II who, overwhelmed by the sight of his dead comrades in arms, vows to live a life of prayer and bury the dead. "Humanism was at the core of all of Ichikawa's movies. He thought it was important to show that there was good in everyone, but to show that in a war movie, too, made it unique," Sato said.
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