Kinugasa (was: eisenstein & montage in prole cinema)

[Michael Kerpan]

>  Have you looked at Kinugasa? Apparently he went to Russia in 1928 to contact and study
>   with Eisenstein.

I guess the lessons didn't "take".  ;~{

If there is a more uniformly disappointing big-name Japanese director of the era, I have yet to encounter him.




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.

MEK
Boston
    
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