Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-04-05 | Page 13 | Top Japanese Film Slated for Presentation in S. L.

r rp p r rM p Fh vI 7 s J d J r k kr r Cd 1 k r d iki ib ei eiS S t im J 4 Machiko Kyo is one of the stars in the international internationally acclaimed film which will open in Salt Lake City at the Studio Top Japanese Javanese Film Slated 1 For Presentation in S. S L. L HOLLYWOOD Climaxed by its selection as the best foreign picture of the year for year for which it won an Academy Award tho Japanese film now being released released released re re- re- re leased nationally by R K 0 O- Radio has earned an international international international reputation Judges of the International Film Festival in Venice last year passed over the best that Europe and America had to offer to give first prize to the Japanese pro pro- The story of oC is based on the theory that truth is primarily in the eye of the beholder An incident that of an attack by a bandit upon a samurai and his wife results in the death of the samurai the violation of the wife and the subsequent arrest of the bandit Ample Puzzle The tragedy as revealed by bythe bythe bythe the bandit the wife the spirit of the samurai as told through a medium and an impartial witness remains identical only in so far as the basic attack is concerned The facts vary so in each report that it is impossible impossible impossible im im- im- im possible to determine whether the husband was murdered in cold blood killed in a fit of passion or committed suicide Each narrator seeing the oc- oc from his own own point of view unwittingly sees only his own beliefs projected in the situation With such a story line Director Director Director Di Di- rector Akira Kurosawa who in collaboration with Shinobu Hashimoto is credited with the I screenplay has endowed each of the sequences with distinctive distinctive distinctive tive characteristics Oddly Poetic Quality Gradations of light a varied pace different types of or music as well as personalized camera angles are changed in the different different different dif dif- ferent versions The result is isa isa isa a film with an oddly poetic quality