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Japan's New Film iTermed Big LiftTc Snduslry TherefitiS(TOKYO UP. —Japan's xoremo t | motion picture diiecto: thinks the i National Eoard of Review award *■ “Rasho-mon as tho best foreign a film of 1951 may revolutionize Japane.se movie making.Akira Kurosawa 41. who directed the picture, said he hoped the current showing of “Rasho-mon at Now York.s Little Carnegie Theater would start a “dollarmaking trend that would raise the quality of Japanese films.fiacinccalto50“Rasho-mon is the first Japanese movie to be shown in a NewYork theatre in 15 years. It won the grand prix at the 1951 international film festival in Venice. Sees Same ProblemsNdein'fei55$5coutpadrCO’selt;m;arshiI]paf'r“Japanese producers have the same problems as American jto-ducers“ Kurosawa said. “Its a , constant battle between trying to make artistically good movies and making money. Japanese studios need dollars for new equipment.The Japanese government needs dollars.“If a Japanese production is good enough by western standards to earn dollars—well, we vvil try to make more movies like it“Kurowasa who was singled out ; bv the National Review Board as Je the year's best foreign director ad 931 mitted “Rasho-mon was no box lt;2‘ office smash until it was re-issued an' Daiei Studios, which produced it . is an offshoot of the defunct Hiku- ( atsu Studios, which used to spec- (Jlv ialize in old-style blood and l!u thunder Samurai movies. the equivalent of American westerns. in TREATMENT IS ORIGIN ALL Ch“Rasho-mon's claim to distinction comes from its original treat-25^S9. Iment of a murder and ravishment 1*10,as told by four people—the mur-mdered man, his wife, the murderer$78 195 iand a witness.Kurowasa, who speaks no English attends all the foreign movies he can get to see but for enjoy- 813 ment. he said, not instruction. an^“American movies are far ahead 192 of Japanese movies when it comes 529 to technique. he said. “If we tried 1195 to copy your technique we couldonly turn out pale copies of American movies. In fact that is what many Japanese movies are. If we intend to be first rate we must develop a 'school' of our own.stai R
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Lovington Leader
Lovington, New Mexico, US
Fri, May 09, 1952
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