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47 RONIN
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To further celebrate this Japanese national legend, Toho Studios hired the great filmmaker Kon Ichikawa to direct this stylized version of the venerable story of the 47 Ronin. A group of legendary samurai unite to avenge the death of their feudal lord in an epic tale of war and honor. Starring Ken Takakura. In Japanese with English subtitles. Kon Ichikawa---Japan---1994---129 mins.
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BURMESE HARP (CRITERION)
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A Japanese army private in Burma is so revolted by the carnage of war that hrefuses to return home. Dressed as a Buddhist monk, he remains to bury the dead. The first Japanese film to stress pacifism, Burmese Harp is remarkable for its pulsating black-and-white images and its humanist fervor. In Japanese with English subtitles. Kon Ichikawa---Japan---1956---116 mins.
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DORA - HEITA
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In 1969, Akira Kurosawa, Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, and Masaki Kobayashi wrote the script for Dora-Heita, or Alley Cat, a story about a samurai with a bad reputation who is given the role of magistrate in the most corrupt district of Japan. After three decades, Ichikawa was finally able bring the screenplay to life. The simultaneously comic and magnetic Koji Yakusho (Memoirs of a Geisha) takes on the role of the sly warrior who perpetuates a debauched playboy persona in order to infiltrate the township government and weed out criminals. Based on a novel by Shugoro Yamamoto. In Kon Ichikawa---Japan---2000---111 mins.
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FIRES ON THE PLAIN
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Ichikawa's powerful, nightmarish depiction of the inhumanity of war and a passionate cry for sanity. A soldier, part of the retreating Japanese army, is forced to hide in the Philippine jungle, where he finds disease, death, and cannibalism. Minimal dialog and intense images build to a work of immense power. In Japanese with English subtitles. Kon Ichikawa---Japan---1959---104 mins.
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INUGAMI FAMILY, THE (ICHIKAWA)
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Kon Ichikawa directs the first film version of Seishi Yokomizo's mystery/horror novel. A wealthy man dies and leaves a will that reveals the twisted relationships between his family members and sets in motion a series of murders. This was followed by three sequels, and Ichikawa remade his own film in 2006. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Kon Ichikawa---Japan---1976---147 min.
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KON ICHIKAWA STORY ( FILMFUL L
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Also known as Filmful Life, this fond portrait of master director Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Odd Obsession) chronicles the filmmaker as he works on the 2006 remake of his own Murder of the Inugami Clan (1977). Inchikawa's full biography--from his early life to his introduction to film to his marriage to Natto Wada up through the present--is detailed here with a combination of interviews, archival photographs, and text. A clip show, this is not. In Japanese with English subtitles. Shunji Iwai---Japan---2006---83 mins.
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MAKIOKA SISTERS, THE
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The Makioka Sisters chronicles the life and affairs of four sisters in late '30s Japan. An older, conservative sister tries to continue family traditions and pretensions to status, while the younger sisters discover the new freedoms becoming available to them. "This Kon Ichikawa film has a triumphant simplicity about it. You don't just watch the film--you coast on its rhythms and glide past the precipitous spots" (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker). The cast includes Juzo Itami, who would later emerge as a prominent director with The Funeral, Tampopo and A Taxing Woman. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Kon Ichikawa---Japan---1983---140 mins.
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REVENGE OF A KABUKI ACTOR
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A female impersonator in the Kabuki tradition seeks revenge against the villains who caused his parent's death. This complex tale, set in 19th-century Japan, involves numerous plot twists as it blurs the distinctions between illusion and reality. "Brilliant, violent, sophisticated, flashy...a tour-de-force" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). Also known as Yukinojo Henge and An Actor's Revenge. In Japanese with English subtitles. Kon Ichikawa---Japan---1963---113 mins.
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SHIJUSHICHININ NO SHIKAKU
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To further celebrate this Japanese national legend, Toho Studios hired the great filmmaker Kon Ichikawa to direct this stylized version of the venerable story of the 47 Ronin. A group of legendary samurai unite to avenge the death of their feudal lord in an epic tale of war and honor. Starring Ken Takakura. In Japanese with English subtitles. Kon Ichikawa---Japan---1994---129 mins.
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