Its golden age of cinema had been largely built on the refined, pastoral calm of Mizoguchi Kenji and Ozu Yasujiro.

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The format, says Naoto Mizoguchi, Mitsubishi's head of strategic planning, could eventually be applied to industries such as textiles and chemicals.

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The film is as politically sophisticated as those of John Ford and Kenji Mizoguchi and makes plain the material necessities that underlie local ways.

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