Rash0m0n

[GeneChing]

What? No thread on one of my fav movies here? Maybe there is and because our forum censor censors h0m0, it won't pop out of of the search engine. :o

If anyone finds a previous one, post here and I'll merge.


Cannes: Taiwan's Alice Wang to Remake Akira Kurosawa's 'Ras****n' (Exclusive) (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-taiwans-alice-wang-remake-893748)
11:14 AM PDT 5/13/2016 by Patrick Brzeski

http://cdn4.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/portrait_300x450/2016/05/Ras****n_Still.jpg
Courtesy of Photofest

Wang's start-up film company, Datang International Entertainment, has signed additional deals in Cannes to produce two Chinese co-productions.

Taiwanese producer-director Alice Wang will helm a remake of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa's classic Ras****n.

Wang's start-up production and distribution company Datang International Entertainment will co-produce the picture with Japanese entertainment company DLE Japan.

Datang also closed deals in Cannes to co-produce two Chinese co-productions: action-comedy Fish Sword and musical romance Veteran and the Beauty. For Fish Sword Datang is partnering with producer Chun Han; the film will star Candy Wang and Junior Han. Veteran and the Beauty will also star Wang, along with Gary Tsao. Taiwan's John Su will produce.

In November, Datang entered into a strategic partnership with U.S.-based DesertRock Entertainment for a $100 million fund supporting a slate of six films for the global marketplace. Currently in pre-production through this partnership is the WWII action/adventure Six Days, based on the epic true story of U.S. Navy veteran Bill Harrison. Alice Wang and Mike Wech are producing with Tim Lowry directing.

“These strategic partnerships with DLE and DesertRock allow Datang to duplicate our successful business model in Taiwan on a global scale and expand our ability to become an international entertainment studio," said Wang.

Good luck with this, Ms. Wang. I am EXTREMELY skeptical that the original can be bested. :rolleyes:

[GeneChing]

Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Ras****n’ In Works At TV Series From Amblin (https://deadline.com/2018/12/ras****n-tv-series-amblin-1202522159/)
by Patrick Hipes
December 18, 2018 10:02am

https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/Ras****n.jpg?w=446&h=299&crop=1
Snap/Shutterstock

Amblin Television has optioned the rights to Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Ras****n to turn into a dramatic mystery thriller series. The plan it to make each 10-episode season focus on a singular event told from multiple points of view. The differing characters’ perspectives will allow the audience to come away with the truth behind each mystery.

The series will be executive produced by Amblin TV’s co-presidents Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, with Atmosphere’s Mark Canton and David Hopwood and Opus 7’s Leigh Ann Burton.

“We couldn’t be more excited to adapt this extraordinary film as the foundation for a new dramatic mystery thriller series,” said Frank and Falvey in a statement. “It will explore the boundaries of truth and how different perspectives don’t often reveal the same reality. We also couldn’t be happier to be in business with Mark, Leigh Ann, and David who are great producers and partners.”

The movie, which starred Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo and Masayuki Mori, revolved around the rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband. The incident is recalled from the perspectives of different characters, from the bride and a thief to the murdered samurai’s ghost.

“We can’t wait to dig in with Justin and Darryl and everyone at Amblin as we adapt this iconic title for television,” said Canton, whose company Atmosphere is behind the Starz series Power. “We feel this storytelling approach and the way it explores truth and reality is especially timely in today’s world.”

The potential series joins an Amblin TV slate that already includes the adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House for Netflix and Amazing Stories at Apple, along with the CW’s upcoming Roswell, New Mexico; current series like CBS’ Bull; and the just-wrapped The Americans for FX.

If it's just the original short story, that would be hard to pad out for 10 eps. Ras****n (the film) actually combined elements of two of Akutagawa's stories. He wrote more too, so if they tapped all of it, they might have something. The original is like comparing The Sentinel to 2001.

The KFM forum censors '****'. I could turn that off, but I find it rather funny.

[GeneChing]

Machiko Kyo, Star of Akira Kurosawa's 'Ras****n,' Dies at 95 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/machiko-kyo-dead-star-akira-kurosawas-ras****n-was-95-1210433)
4:50 AM PDT 5/14/2019 by Gavin J. Blair

https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/landscape_928x523/2018/12/ras****n_1950_05_copy.jpg
Machiko Kyo in 'Ras****n'

The actress appeared in numerous Japanese classics of the 1950s, including Teinosuke Kinugasa's 'Gate of Hell,' which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1954.
Machiko Kyo, star of films by many of Japan's legendary directors, including Akira Kurosawa, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa and Yasujiro Ozu, has died. She was 95.

Born Motoko Yano in Osaka in 1924, she died Sunday of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital, according to studio Toho.

Kyo began her career as a dancer and showgirl at the now defunct Daiei Co. in 1949, where her charms caught the eye of its president and producer Masaichi Nagata, who groomed her for stardom.

Nagata, with whom she became romantically involved, produced Kurosawa's Ras****n (1950) in which Kyo starred as the wife of Toshiro Mifune's bandit. Ras****n went on to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival the next year, helping to introduce Japanese cinema to a global audience.

In his 1982 memoir Something Like an Autobiography, Kurosawa wrote that "during the rehearsals before the shooting, I was left virtually speechless by [Kyo's] dedication. She came in to where I was still sleeping in the morning and sat down with the script in her hand. 'Please teach me what to do,'" she requested, and I lay there amazed."

Kyo starred in another Daiei/Nagata film, Mizoguchi's Ugetsu, which won the director the Silver Lion at Venice in 1953 and is regarded as one of the defining pieces of the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema.

Nagata was also behind Teinosuke Kinugasa's Gate of Hell (1953), which starred Kyo and was the first color Japanese film to be screened internationally. It captured the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1954 and the following year an honorary Academy Award. (The official foreign-language category had yet to be established.)

The number of awards won by Kyo's films overseas saw her nicknamed the "grand prix actress" in Japan.

In 1956, she starred opposite Marlon Brando, who appeared as a Okinawan local in "yellowface," as a geisha in the Hollywood comedy The Teahouse of the August Moon.

Kyo also appeared in Ichikawa's Odd Obsession and Ozu's Floating Weeds, both in 1959. Although less active in later decades, she continued to act into her 80s, appearing in public broadcaster NHK's television drama Haregi Koko Ichiban in 2000.

In 2017, Kyo was given a lifetime achievement award at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.

Rhett Bartlett contributed to this report.

THREADS
RIP Machiko Kyo (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?71304-RIP-Machiko-Kyo)
Rash0m0n (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?69513-Rash0m0n)

[GeneChing]

One of the greatest swordfights ever captured on film.


Hollywood Flashback: 'Ras****n' Won an Oscar and Broke Records in 1952 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-flashback-ras****n-won-an-oscar-broke-records-1952-1265764)
10:30 AM PST 1/11/2020 by Bill Higgins

https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/landscape_928x523/2019/12/ras****n_-_photofest_-_h_2019_.jpg
Daiei Studios/Photofest

Toshirô Mifune played a bandit, Tajômaru, and Machiko Kyô portrayed a samurai’s wife, Masako, in Akira Kurosawa’s classic Ras****n.

Akira Kurosawa's movie, which told conflicting versions of four eyewitness accounts of a murder and rape in 8th century Japan, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and an honorary Academy Award for best foreign-language film.

In 1951, William R. Wilkerson himself, The Hollywood Reporter's editor and founder, took a break from his rabid campaign of exposing entertainment industry communists to attend the Venice Film Festival. He was not impressed.

"Most of those sitting in on the awards may have been bought for a bottle of Chianti," he wrote in his Trade Views opinion column.

Besides having nothing good to say about the festival, Wilkerson made no mention of Japan's Ras****n winning the Golden Lion. Akira Kurosawa's film, which told conflicting versions of four eyewitness accounts of a murder and a rape in 8th century Japan, had shaken the festival.

Six months after Venice, in March 1952, Kurosawa's masterpiece began playing at the Beverly Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills. THR had a look, and wrote in its review, "An intriguing film, both from academic and entertainment viewpoints, Ras****n is an amusingly ironic tale of ancient Japan, beautifully photographed and capably acted."

Not exactly wildly enthusiastic, but 10 days after the review was published, the film was given an honorary Oscar for best foreign-language film. (In those days, the Academy's board decided on honorary winners the night before the ceremony, and Kurosawa did not attend.)

With that award putting it on the map, Ras****n went on to set box office records for a subtitled film.

This story first appeared in a January stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

THREADS
Rash0m0n (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?69513-Rash0m0n)
The Academy Awards (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?20798-The-Academy-Awards)