Inquiry Concerning Japanese Remakes of American Films

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In a message dated 8/25/05 5:37:18 PM, desser at uiuc.edu writes:


> >I will be giving a comparative lecture on American remakes of Japanese
> >films soon, and am writing it up now. I have quite a lot of information on
> >this subject, from the present and the past, but as a comparison I tried to
> >think of significant Japanese remakes of American films, and came up with
> >little.
> 

An odd one that we came across while doing our Age of Exploration series. 
Kurosawa says that he based Mifune's character in Rashomon on the lions in Martin 
and Osa Johnson's SIMBA (1927). Not significant, but fun.





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