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Overall Rank: 3492
Average Rating: 3/4
# of Ratings: 8
Theatrical Release Date: 04/30/1950
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku, Eitarô Ozawa, Takashi Shimura
Plot: A Japanese industrialist is so obsessed by fear of a nuclear attack that he plots to give up everything he has built and relocate his family to Brazil. A study of postwar upheaval in Japan - cultural, generational, ideological.
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"Scandal" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 04/16/2012
Another of Kurosawa's early films, it features his usual morality message this time aimed at the media. A free-spirited artist and a famous singer are photographed together by the paparazzi who fabricate a scandalous affair to sell their paper. It's basically an attack on the gutter press and it's insistence on invading the privacy of the famous to pander to the public's base fascination with celebrity gossip. Being an early example of his work, he hasn't quite honed his skills and a little too often the story veers into sentimentality and melodrama, particularly towards the end. It does have a nice light touch early on in the film though, tempering the more saccharine soaked moments with gentle humour and Toshiro Mifune and Yoshiko Yamaguchi make a couple to rival the glamour of their …
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