A Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965)
Satsuo Yamamoto’s entertaining tale of pastoral burglars is filled with humor, agaisnt the backdrop of the Cold War.
Ozu Advised Mizoguchi Not to Make “Sansho the Bailiff”
Yomiuri Newspaper (Evening Edition), November 10, 1952 ‘Three Movie Directors’ Round Table Talk – Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Hiroshi Shimizu’ Mizoguchi: I have read various stories (from various parts of Japan), and I realized there is a significant difference between the stories from the Pacific coast and those from the Japanese Sea coast. … And from the north part of Japan, there are stories like Sansho the Bailiff, the story of slaves. Slave dealers, slave ships and those things. I am interested in the stories like these. I hope I will extract (something interesting) from such stories and make …
Harvest of War (Part II)
Japanese Army and Cabinet Information Department intensified censorship and propaganda campaign after Nanking Massacre. Ashihei Hino’s novel ‘Wheat and Soldiers’ was a product of such a media control by the government.