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“I used up all of my love and affection on that man. The fire inside my heart is gone now. What remains is only some smoke of sadness. That’s who I am.” - Hara Setsuko お嬢さん乾杯！1949 

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Takamine Hideko in Karumen junjōsu (Carmen's Innocent Love) 1952

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On December 5, 2012 Kinoshita Keisuke would have turned 100 years old. Shociku has planned a huge celebration spanning from screenings, exhibitions, lectures, dvd remasters, blu-ray releases and more. I myself don't live in Japan and will be missing out on a lot of the celebration, but their website has a lot of nice pages on Kinoshita and his films, I highly recommend anyone who has been watching his films on Hulu or any other way check this out.  I'm working on translating the myself but my Japanese is beginners at best. Regardless Kinoshita is a grossly under appreciated director outside of his homeland and deserves in my humble opinion a very nice English subtitled DVD collection.

Just as a reminder. Hulu Plus members have access to over 240 Japanese films through the Criterion Collection. As a lover of Japanese film it might very well be the best investment I ever made.

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Hide a stone among stones and a man among men. 

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Sanjuro

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Toshirō Mifune in A Wife’s Heart/妻の心/Tsuma no kokoro (Mikio Naruse - 1956)

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For the low price of $7.99 (same as Netflix) you can buy a subscription to Hulu plus and gain access to hundreds of films. Criterion has teamed up with the site, and provided hundreds of some of Japan's finest films streaming online.

Directors include Kurosawa Akira, Yasujiro Ozu, Naruse Mikio, Mizoguchi Kenji, Imamura Shohei, Kinoshita Keisuke, Oshima Nagisa, Sato Hajime, Kobayashi Masaki and many others.

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TOSHIRO MIFUNE

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Takamine Hideko 高峰 秀子 & Naruse Mikio 成瀬 巳喜男 on set

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See Two Pairs of Aces.

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Rikugun aka The Army 1944 directed by Kinoshita Keisuke