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<p class="MsoNormal">This being reported much less than it should be- Kurosawa was probably one of the three or four single most influential people for the course of Japanese cinema since the 1970s. He was at the center of several immensely consequential shifts
within the industry, Kadokawa and V-Cinema (which he basically co-created) maybe the most visible ones. I requested an interview once and was immediately denied because I had mentioned Kadokawa as one possible topic… A real missed opportunity. I know that
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of Gerow Aaron <aaron.gerow@yale.edu><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, November 30, 2018 at 13:28<br>
<b>To: </b>Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[KineJapan] Kurosawa Mitsuru<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The film and TV producer Kurosawa Mitsuru died on the 30th at age 85. He started out at Nikkatsu in 1955 as a theater manager, but later moved to producing, and produced a number of Roman Porno films. He left Nikkatsu in 1977 and went on
to produce a number of films for Toei and Kadokawa, including Mottomo kiken na yugi, W no higeki, B-Bop Highschool, the Dead or Alive trilogy, etc. He is particularly famous for producing the Abunai deka series for TV and film.
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