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A politician who disliked foreigners but pro-immigration, won Japan’s top literary prize at 23, was involved in over 40 films, chased the Loch Ness monster ...

A decade of dazzling debuts, from The Night of the Hunter to The 400 Blows.

Ishihara Shintaro, the former Tokyo governor who first became known as the chronicler of...

The Outsiders (Mori to Mizuumi no Matsuri, 1958) Japan’s sparsely inhabited northern island of Hokkaido is a land of rugged, majestic landscapes with an icy winter climate. Its frontier status has made it a natural setting for such man-against-the-elements action movies as the Kurosawa Akira-scripted Jakoman and Tetsu (1949), in which a heroic member of a fishing outpost rallies his co-workers against the gang of a one-eyed outlaw. Fukasaku Kinji remade the film in 1964 with Takakura Ken, the ‘Clint Eastwood of Japan’, replacing Mifune Toshiro as the titular Tetsu. Takakura...