Morishige Hisaya

[Michael Kerpan]

What an amazing man -- but he only rates a paragraph or two at the Japan Times site. ;~}

For all his many accomplishments, I always _first_ think of him in connection with his flamethrower/lighter at the beginning of Ozu's Autumn of the Kohayagawa Family (End of Summer).

MEK

--- On Tue, 11/10/09, Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:

> On the top of the front page of this
> Asahi this morning was the article reporting the death of
> Morishige Hisaya, one of the most important performers of
> the postwar era. He died on November 10 of old age; he was
> 96.