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Japan's Hew FilmTermed Big Liftad- ? g l i Vi 1ex-Tc Industrytart- TOKYO UP. —Japan's .oremc : An- motion picture diiectoi thinks the ent National Board of Re\ie\v award are “Rasho-rron as the best foreignffic film of 1951 may revolutionize ape ! Japane.se movie making, rhe Akira Kurosawa 41. who direct-ave ed the picture, said he hoped the current showing- of “Rasho-mon“1 at New York.s Little Carnegie Theater would start a “dollar making trend that would raise the quality of Japanese films.“Rasho-mon is the first Japanese movie to be shown in a New'meithYork theatre in 15 years. It won the grand prix at the 1951 inter-red national film festival in Venice.Sees Same Problemsof“Japanese producers have the ns same problems as American {ro-ducers Kurosawa said. “Its a •ed constant battle between trying to to make artistically good movies and be making money. Japanese studios iai need dollars for new equipment.The Japanese government needs ird 1 dollars.ire “If a Japanese production is •ed good enough by western standards to earn dollars—well, we wil try to make more movies like it Kurowasa who was singled out by the National Review Board as the year's best foreign director ad mitted “Rasho-mon‘‘ was no box office smash until it was re-issued Daiei Studios, which produced it is an offshoot of the defunct Hiku-atsu Studios, which used to spee-noirelidul-toahe)Wasan ialize in old-style blood andag- thunder Samurai movies. thest equivalent of American westerns.TREATMENT IS ORIGIN ALE j “Rasho-mon's claim to distinct-Df ion comes from its original treat-?n ment of a murder and ravishment in as told by four people—the mur-or dered man, his wife, the murderer n_ and a witness.Kurowasa, who speaks no Eng-jg lish attends all the foreign movies k | he can get to see but for enjoy-r_ ment. he said, not instruction. of “American movies are far ahead jy of Japanese movies when it comes ^ to technique he said. “If we tried !d | to c°Py your technique we couldonly turn out pale copies of American movies. In fact that is what many Japanese movies are. If we t_ intend to be first rate we must develop a ‘school* of our own.Idl-
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Lovington Leader
Lovington, New Mexico, US
Fri, May 09, 1952
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