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| 28/12 - | To avoid bankruptcy, Nikkatsu, one of the country’s oldest production companies begins producing a series of romantic-pornographic films. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Japan 1971: Other Films of Note |
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Gishiki (The Ceremony) (Nagisa Oshima) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sho o suteyo machi e deyou (Throw Away Your Books, Let’s Go into the Streets) (Shuji Terayama) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Tomato Kecchappu Kôtei (Emperor Tomato Ketchup) (Shuji Terayama) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Natsu no imoto (Dear Summer Story) (Nagisa Oshima) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1973 | ||||
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Kedgeree (Coup d’etat) (Yoshishige Yoshida) [MORE] [ADD} |
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Matatabli (The Wanderers) (Kon Ichikawa) [MORE] [ADD} |
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Den-en ni shisu (Pastoral Hide and Seek) (Shuji Terayama) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2/8 - | Akira Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala, his first film since a failed suicide attempt, is released. Maxim Munzuk plays Uzala, a 19th-century Siberian guide employed by Yuri Solomin’s Russian scientist. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Japan 1975: Other Films of Note |
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Bullet Train (Junya Sato) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Nagisa Oshima’s Ai no corrida is released. Based on a true story, it tells of a married man and a married geisha who withdraw from the real world into one in which they act out their basest sexual fantasies. The film is released in a heavily censored version. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The new economic policy of taisaku-shugi (betting on blockbusters) is evident with the release by Kon Ichikawa’s The Inugami Family, a screen adaptation of the best-seller published by the Kadokawa Publishing Company. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Japan 1976: Other Films of Note |
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Murderer of Youth (Kasujiko Hasegawa) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1977 | ||||
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Following the publication of his book containing extracts from his film Ai no corrida (In the Realm of the Senses), director Nagisa Oshima is charged with publishing licentious material. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Shigeyuki Yumane’s Wani to oum to ottosei, starring Hiromi Gô, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Japan 1977: Other Films of Note |
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The Boxer (Shuji Terayama) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Life of Chikuzan (Kaneto Shindo) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 30/1 - |
Director Mu-jih Yuan, one of the leaders of the Popular Liberation Army's revolutionary cinema, dies at the age of 68. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Nagisa Oshima wins the best director award at Cannes for his Empire of Passion. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha is released. At US$6m, it is the most expensive movie ever produced in Japan, and the first to be invested in and financed by a foreign company. [MORE] [ADD} |