<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>> Have you looked at Kinugasa? Apparently he went to Russia in 1928 to contact and study<br>> with Eisenstein.<div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>I guess the lessons didn't "take". ;~{<br><br>If there is a more uniformly disappointing big-name Japanese director of the era, I have yet to encounter him.<br></div></div></div><br>Leaving aside "Kurutta ippeji", which seems to have been a lucky fluke, did he make any truly worthwhile films. I've seen "Jujiro" (1928), Yukinojo henge (1935) and "Uta andon" (1960) -- and have been massively unimpressed.<br><br>MEK<br>Boston<br>
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