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Mikio Naruse

Posted on January 9, 2011April 2, 2022 by Kenneth George Godwin

In her January 1 post, the Self-Styled Siren pays homage to the Japanese actress Hideko Takamine, who died December 28 at age 86. The Siren’s warm comments immediately sent me off to watch When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), which Takamine stars in as the bar hostess Keiko. I’m slightly embarrassed to say that […]

DVD (actually Blu-Ray) of the Week: Battle Royale (2000)

Posted on December 27, 2010December 8, 2022 by Kenneth George Godwin

It was unfortunate that until the very end of his career, the Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku was known in North America mostly for his worst film: The Green Slime. This was an “international” production, shot in Japanese studios with an American and European cast, a very bad script and even worse special effects. But even […]

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