Bando tamasaburo biography of michael jordan
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(Masahiro Shinoda, Japan, 1979, 124 minutes)
Demon Pond is the kind of film that could get by strictly on aesthetic terms.
It's such a feast for the eyes and ears, it almost wouldn't matter if there wasn't much story or if the story didn't make much sense.
On the contrary, it makes perfect sense, not least since Pale Flower director Masahiro Shinoda treats the text like a poem. There are certain concepts and phrases that are repeated so often they become incantations of a kind, and not in an irritating way, but in a rhythmic, hypnotic way, specifically "demon pond," "dragon god," and the necessity of ringing a bell to keep the god complacent and the pond under control.
I wouldn't have expected an adaptation of a 1913 Kabuki play to prove so coherent—particularly to those, like myself, who don't know much about Japanese folklore or Kabuki theater--let alone to have much in common with an American neo-noir from 1974 or a British sci-fi film from 1976, but the 1970s, throughout the industrialized world, were marked by high unemployment, rising food and energy costs, and battles over natural resources, particularly oil and steel. It's not completely surprising that cinema across the globe
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Yo-Yo Ma's Journeys
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Mikhail Baryshnikov Deposit
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