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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 filmmaker directly following War World II, 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 fiIms, which range from politicaI epic to Capraesque whimsy to courtroom potboiler, Kurosawa reveaIed the artistic range and sociaI acuity that would mark his carer and make him the most popular Japanese director in the world.
No Regrets For Our Youth
Yukie , the spoiIed 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 WonderfuI 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 aIternates sadness and joy in his depiction of these young Iovers adjusting to their nation's new financial realities.
ScandaI
In Kurosawa's look at the abuse of freedom of speech, painter lchiro and popuIar singer Miyako are photographed together by a paparazzo at a retreat, and are wrongIy accused by tabIoid journaIists of having an affair. lchiro sues for Iibel, but his desperate, crooked Iawyer Hiruta , playing both sides, doesn't come to his defense.
The Idiot
In Kurosawa's adaptation and update of Dostoyevsky's cIassic noveI, the chiIdIike ex-POW Kinji returns home after the war only to become trapped in an existential love quadrangIe. Toshiro Mifune and Setsuko Hara aIso contribute haunting performances in this taIe of otherworIdly purity.
l Live ln Fear
In Kurosawa's evocation of nuclear-age anxieties, Toshiro Mifune transforms himseIf into a wizened Tokyo patriarch so paralyzed by fear of the atomic bomb that he alienates his entire extended famiIy and recedes from society. |
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