Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 8, 2018 0:41:34 GMT
Tragically director Yuzo Kawashima died suddenly at the young age of 45 in 1963. From his youth Kawashima suffered from a paralysis that affected his right leg and arm, a reclusive personality, he was known for his acidic urban comedies and satires. These films were very popular in Japan, sadly however the majority of Kawashima's films have been rarely seen or discussed in the west. The 2013 international release of his 1957 film Bakumatsu Taiyo-den , Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate marked the first time that any of Kawashima's films have been released with an official dvd disc outside of Japan. The outstanding film is incredibly entertaining, filled with marvellous performances, it is a biting satire focusing on the different social classes not only of the Bakumatsu Era in which the film is nominally set, but mirrors the situation in contemporary modern Japan. Up there with the best classics, Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate was voted the fifth best Japanese film of all time in Kinema Junpō's poll of 140 film critics and filmmakers in 1999 ..
Kawashima also worked with lovely, talented Ayako Wakao , full of playful visual surprises and sharp social commentary, confined in a small apartment setting Shitoyakana kedamono , The Graceful Brute (1962) is a sensational dark satire. The melodramatic gem, Gan no tera , The Temple of Wild Geese (1962) was adapted from the autobiographical novel Gan no tera, from Tsutomu Mizukami which won the Naoki Prize in 1961...
Kawashima also worked with lovely, talented Ayako Wakao , full of playful visual surprises and sharp social commentary, confined in a small apartment setting Shitoyakana kedamono , The Graceful Brute (1962) is a sensational dark satire. The melodramatic gem, Gan no tera , The Temple of Wild Geese (1962) was adapted from the autobiographical novel Gan no tera, from Tsutomu Mizukami which won the Naoki Prize in 1961...