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Throne of Blood, 1957
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Chieko Naniwa in Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957) Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Minoru Chiaki, Takamaru Sazaki, Chieko Naniwa. Screenplay: Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, based on a play by William Shakespeare. Cinematography: Asakazu Nakai. Production design: Yoshiro Muraki. Music: Masaru Sato. To call Throne of Blood the best film version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, as some have done, does a disservice to those filmmakers who have wrangled with the difficult beauty of Shakespeare's language, like Orson Welles in 1948 or Justin Kurzel (who pretty much threw the language out of consideration) in 2015 or Joel Coen in 2021. But it also distorts Akira Kurosawa's achievement, which is not to provide us with a kind of Japanese analog to Macbeth, but to grasp the essence of Shakespeare's tormented vision of ambition and the limits of civilization. Moving the action from medieval Scotland to medieval Japan could be just as gimmicky as staging Shakespeare's play in the Old West or outer space, which some avant-garde directors have probably already done, except that Kurosawa has the skill to make Throne of Blood stand on its own, even for those who have no knowledge of Shakespeare. It's an action film, a ghost story, and a portrait of a marriage -- the contrast of the blustering Washizu and his icy spouse is beautifully handled by Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada. And the final assault on Washizu is one of the most exciting -- and dangerous -- stunts ever pulled off by a director and a movie star, involving sharpshooting archers and careful choreography as Mifune battles his way through a forest of real arrows. We miss the language, of course -- Macbeth contains some of Shakespeare's most gorgeous speeches -- but Kurosawa gives us many compensations. 
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Throne of Blood (1957) | dir. Akira Kurosawa
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The End of Summer (Yasujirō Ozu, 1961)
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Equinox Flower / Higanbana (1958, Yasujirō Ozu)
彼岸花 (小津安二郎)
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Throne of Blood | Akira Kurosawa | 1956
Chieko Naniwa, Toshirô Mifune
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蜘蛛巣城 (1957) · Akira Kurosawa
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Throne of Blood, 1957
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Throne of Blood, 1957
Dir. Akira Kurosawa
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Ineko Arima, Fujiko Yamamoto, and Yoshiko Kuga in Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu, 1958)
Cast: Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada, Teiji Takahashi, Miyuki Kuwano, Chishu Ryu, Chieko Naniwa, Fujiko Yamamoto. Screenplay: Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda, based on a story by Ton Satomi. Cinematography: Yuharu Atsuta. Art direction: Tatsuo Hamada. Film editing: Yoshiyasu Hamamura. Music: Takanobu Saito.
Equinox Flower is Yasujiro Ozu's first color film. Once again he lagged behind film industry trends -- the first color film in Japan was made in 1951 -- and managed to anger the Japanese film industry by using the German-made Agfa color process instead of Fuji film because he thought the reds in Agfa film were truer. American viewers may be struck by how the movie often seems to be a Japanese translation of the American family comedy: think Father of the Bride (Vincente Minnelli, 1950). It centers on Wataru Hirayama (Shin Saburi), who finds his wife and daughters scheming against him when he insists on arranging the marriage of his elder daughter, Setsuko (Ineko Arima). When a young man he has never met before, Masahiko Taniguchi (Keiji Sada), comes to his office one day to ask for Setsuko's hand, Hirayama is furious, and not only forbids the marriage but also insists that Setsuko, who has met Taniguchi at the place where she works, be confined to home. Eventually, things work out for the young couple, but not before Hirayama has learned a lesson about the way the roles of the sexes have changed in Japan. In fact, when we first see Hirayama, he is giving a speech at a wedding, indicating his preference for parental approval and noting that even though their own marriage had been arranged, he and his wife, Kiyoko (Kinuyo Tanaka), who is sitting silently beside him, made a go of it. We will soon learn that Kiyoko is not quite so submissive as she seems. The bite that underlies this quite charming comedy lies in its portrayal of the post-war Japanese male, the warrior turned salaryman, most effectively seen in an episode in which Hirayama, after reluctantly attending the wedding of Setsuko and Taniguchi, goes to a reunion of his old classmates, who sing songs about the glory of the Japanese warrior though their own lives consist of office work and golf.
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彼岸花 / Equinox Flower Yasujirô Ozu. 1958
Hospital St. Luke’s International University Japan, 〒104-0044 Tōkyō-to, Chūō-ku, Akashichō, 10−1 See in map
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Films watched in 2020.
182: The End of Summer (Yasujirō Ozu, 1961)
★★★★★★★★☆☆
“We humans can’t come to terms with death until it’s too late.“
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