Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Tulane University’s production of Storm Still, written in 2015 by Gabrielle Reisman, ran from Wednesday, November 9th through Sunday, November 13th. Directed by Jessica Podewell, the play offered a glimpse into the lives of three young women as they manage their father’s estate after his death. As the women sort through their father’s belongings, they remember that as children, they often acted out Shakespeare’s King Lear, and they decide to revisit the game. While the play is mainly a moment…

Living with Metal Disabilities wasn’t easy growing up, ask Michal. We both grew up in the same part of town on the west side of Virginia. We both knew the difficulties with taking medicine while other kids are free, but I never let that put me down, I always smile although I can’t say the same for Michal. He never understood how to be happy when kids used to call him names, which is understandable. Being his best friend I always tried to cheer him up from his own demons, this story starts out on…

Jimmy At 3:00 in the morning (haunting hour) I heard screaming downstairs and I went to go see what it was, but I kept getting stuck in all those blankets that I had on my bed. When I finally got out of bed and went down the stairs. It was to dark to see so I had to struggle to find the light switches,but when I did I found my parents dead on the ground with their heads dangling from the celing and their eyes rolling back. I also saw a bloody knife on the ground next to them. I had no time to…

The teacher walked by each table and personally handed us the multicolored papers. I turned my head to keep my eyes locked with the teacher’s swift hands. As I peered, I saw many emotions running throughout the classroom. Common ones include anticipation, despair, and embarrassment. One thing was common: the hand of the teacher had power. Those hands had the power to make or break your day, and the power to change the emotion on your face. Coincidentally, my table group was the last one she…

Akira Kurosawa was born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan on March 23, 1910 and died September 6, 1998 at the age of 88 of a stroke. Kurosawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who to this day is regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa began his journey in the Japanese film industry in 1936, after a brief pursuit of painting. Kurosawa debut as a directer after many years of working on films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, with his…

The two movies are very interesting in the various ways that they handle the same overarching story and plot. While on the surface the movies seem to be extremely similar to each other, if you examine them closely you can see how the different cultures affect the movies and are reflected therein. The various methodologies and specifics used to represent their progress in learning to dance reflect the Do spirit of japan. The way that the two movies handle the side characters is a reflection of…

Similarly to Stagecoach (Ford, 1939), Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961) also features the lone entrance of its main protagonist, Kuwabatake Sanjuro. However, unlike in Stagecoach (Ford, 1939), which features the Ringo Kid’s rather abrupt entrance well into the film, Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961) starts right off the bat with its main protagonist. The opening shots of Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961) also begin with a closeup of the back of Sanjuro, as he walks down the path to the town. This initial scene already…

the Shiga-like toxins that are present in E. coli and generally takes between two and 14 days from exposure to develop. The name Shiga toxins is derived from Shigella dysenteriae which is “dysentery causing bacteria” and were first discovered by Kiyoshi Shiga in 1898 (Basu, D. & Tumer, N., 2015). Shiga toxins are ribosome inactivating proteins that cause injury to the microvascular endothelial cells contained within the kidneys, brain and other organs (Bauwens, A., Bielaszewska, M., Kemper, B.,…

During the last two decades, Hirokazu Koreeda has emerged as the contemporary master of Japanese family drama, with films like Nobody Knows, Still Walking, Like Father, Like Son and many more. After the Storm continues his legacy in the genre. Ryota, an ex prize-winning novelist has fallen on hard times. He has stopped writing and currently works in a PI agency. However, he spends the money he earns (with shady tactics) on gambling, and is constantly broke. His wife, Kyoko has divorced him, and…

Filmic interpretations of the apocalypse often focus on the anxiety between progress and destruction, because the way we see different technologies is intimately tied to how we see ourselves. Technology is shown alternately as our savior in trying times, a testament to our intelligence, or a testament to our mastery, but also as an accident waiting to happen, an isolating force, or a feeble attempt to raise ourselves to the level of deities. The stories we tell about technology, (especially…