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Akira Kurosawa
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: Not Rated
: Criterion
: Foreign, Japan, War, WWII, Criterion Collection
: 86 min.
: Japanese
: English
Recently Rented By greyotter
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This portrait of female volunteer workers at an optics plant during World War II, shot on location at the Nippon Kogaku factory, was created with a patriotic agenda. Yet thanks to Akira Kurosawa's groundbreaking semidocumentary approach, The Most Beautiful is a revealing look at Japanese women of the era and anticipates the aesthetics of Japanese cinema's postwar social realism.
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by RMorris
April 18, 2007 - 10:02 PM PDT
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| Even fans of Kurosawa will be disappointed, although the most extreme fans will want to see it once for completeness. No depth in character development, a single story theme told in a propagantistic style (enduring emotional hardship while singing and be productive) To top it off, the quality of the print was bad and the English subtitles were mostly not coherent. |
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Coming soon: Seven Samurai 3-Disc SE, remasters of Sanjuro and Yojimbo. Wish list: Criterion editions of Dodes'ka-den, The Idiot, I Live in Fear, and Scandal, and an anamorphic remaster of High and Low. |
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