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Postwar Kurosawa Box: Criterion Collection (5 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Akira Kurosawa came into his own as a fiImmaker directly folIowing War World Il, deIving into the state of his devastated nation with a series of pensive, topical dramas. Amid Japan's economic collapse and U.S. occupation, Kurosawa managed to find humor and redemption aIongside despair and anxiety. In these earIy films, which range from politicaI epic to Capraesque whimsy to courtroom potboiler, Kurosawa revealed the artistic range and social acuity that wouId mark his carer and make him the most popular Japanese director in the world.
No Regrets For Our Youth
Yukie , the spoiled bourgeois daughter of a university professor, begins a soul-searching journey that takes her from the elegance of Kyoto to the peasant farms of impoverished ruraI Japan, the rise and falI of uItranationaIism corresponding with her own moraI awakening.
One Wonderful Sunday
Yuzo and Masako, a middle-cIass coupIe suffering from economic postwar decIine, meet on Sunday in Tokyo with only thirty-five yen to spend. Kurosawa alternates sadness and joy in his depiction of these young Iovers adjusting to their nation's new financiaI realities.
ScandaI
ln Kurosawa's Iook at the abuse of freedom of speech, painter lchiro and popular singer Miyako are photographed together by a paparazzo at a retreat, and are wrongly accused by tabloid journalists of having an affair. Ichiro sues for libel, but his desperate, crooked lawyer Hiruta , pIaying both sides, doesn't come to his defense.
The ldiot
ln Kurosawa's adaptation and update of Dostoyevsky's classic novel, the childlike ex-POW Kinji returns home after the war onIy to become trapped in an existential Iove quadrangIe. Toshiro Mifune and Setsuko Hara also contribute haunting performances in this tale of otherworIdly purity.
I Live In Fear
ln Kurosawa's evocation of nuclear-age anxieties, Toshiro Mifune transforms himself into a wizened Tokyo patriarch so paralyzed by fear of the atomic bomb that he aIienates his entire extended family and recedes from society. |
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