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    An Inlet of Muddy Water (Japanese: にごりえ, romanized: Nigorie), also titled Muddy Waters, is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Tadashi Imai. Based...
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    Tadashi Imai (category Directors of Golden Bear winners)
    informed by a left-wing perspective. His most noted films include An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) and Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963). Although leaning towards...
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  • ISBN 978-4-309-40732-6. "にごりえ (An Inlet of Muddy Water)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 February 2021. "Festival de Cannes: An Inlet of Muddy Water". festival-cannes...
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    Heinosuke Gosho 1953: The Wild Geese, dir. Shirō Toyoda 1953: An Inlet of Muddy Water, dir. Tadashi Imai 1960: Night and Fog in Japan, dir. Nagisa Ōshima...
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    Kazuo Kitamura (category Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class)
    In 1953, he made his film debut with An Inlet of Muddy Water directed by Tadashi Imai. An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) as Rickshaw man Anyakôro (1959)...
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  • Hisako Tanaka and again in 1981 by Robert Lyons Danly. An anthology film, An Inlet of Muddy Water, was made in 1953 by Tadashi Imai, based on Higuchi's...
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    Ikiru (category Films based on The Death of Ivan Ilyich)
    an "indictment of Japanese bureaucracy." In Japan after World War II, it was expected that the salaryman would work predictably in accordance with an...
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  • of 16 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.50/10. The film has a score of 4.2/5 on Eiga.com, based on 41 reviews, with 56% of reviewers...
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  • of water production. The film's final shot is of a police report stating that Junpei has been missing for seven years. Eiji Okada as Niki Junpei, an amateur...
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    Kyōko Kishida (category Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon)
    Kishida gave her film debut with a small role in Tadashi Imai's An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953). Her first leading film roles were in Hiroshi Teshigahara's...
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  • My Neighbor Totoro (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from March 2024)
    month was taken to create the tadpoles, which included four colors; the water for it was also blurred.: 154  The music for My Neighbor Totoro was composed...
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    Haruko Sugimura (category Persons of Cultural Merit)
    (1953) Tokyo Story (1953) – Shige Kaneko Life of a Woman (1953) – Tamae, Shintaro's mother An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) – O-Hatsu (story 3) Geisha Konatsu...
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    the Rumor), Yasujirō Ozu (Equinox Flower), and Tadashi Imai (An Inlet of Muddy Water). In 1954, she co-founded the film production company Ninjin Club...
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  • Zeniba. She confronts an engorged No-Face and feeds him the rest of the dumpling to regurgitate the workers. No-Face follows Sen out of the bathhouse, and...
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  • Kagemusha (category Cultural depictions of Takeda Shingen)
    his wounds in the water where his body is carried away by the current. George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola are credited at the end of the film as executive...
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  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (category World War II prisoner of war films)
    confronts him. The two argue over their withholding of information from one another before an enraged Yonoi orders the whole camp to form up outside...
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  • The Twilight Samurai (category Picture of the Year Japan Academy Prize winners)
    life with his daughters and his mother, who has dementia. Through an unfortunate turn of events, the turbulent times conspire against him. The film was inspired...
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  • on the veranda of the apartment, planting seeds from wildflowers inside instant noodle cups. Eventually the electricity, gas, and water in the apartment...
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    Seiji Miyaguchi (category Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon)
    Boss 1953: The Last Embrace – Gangster 1953: Senkan Yamato 1953: An Inlet of Muddy Water – Gen Shichi (Story 3) 1954: Seven Samurai – Kyuzo, the master...
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  • Godzilla Minus One (category Cultural depictions of Douglas MacArthur)
    Nojima, who composes computer-generated water at home as a hobby, presented Yamazaki with some of his water simulations, inspiring the director to rewrite...
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    notable for being the first of sixteen film collaborations between director Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Sanada is an alcoholic doctor (the titular...
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    Shigeru Kōyama (category Imperial Japanese Navy personnel of World War II)
    directorial assistant and then as an actor. He made his film debut in 1953 in Tadashi Imai's An Inlet of Muddy Water. He left Bungakuza in 1963 and participated...
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  • Jaime N. Christley of Slant Magazine gave the film a perfect four star rating. David Stratton of The Movie Show called Hana-bi "an unclassifiable film"...
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  • Shall We Dance? (1996 film) (category Picture of the Year Japan Academy Prize winners)
    daughter, Chikage (Ayano Nakamura), and works as an accountant for a firm in Tokyo. Despite these external signs of success, however, Sugiyama begins to feel...
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  • Drive My Car (film) (category National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film winners)
    Kōji's lack of self-control is a personal weakness but a strength as an actor. After Kōji slips away to confront a man taking photos of him, Misaki drives...
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    So Yamamura (category Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class)
    (1953) - Koichi Hirayama An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) – Asanosuke (episode 3 "Troubled Waters") Nihon yaburezu (1954) Sound of the Mountain (1954) - Ogata...
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  • Ran (film) (category National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film winners)
    includes segments based on legends of the daimyō Mōri Motonari. The film stars Tatsuya Nakadai as Hidetora Ichimonji, an aging Sengoku-period warlord who...
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  • death before an audience of samurai. The film continues to receive critical acclaim, often considered one of the greatest Japanese films of all time. The...
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  • Princess Mononoke (category Picture of the Year Japan Academy Prize winners)
    of Iron Town, led by Lady Eboshi, and repel an attack by a wolf pack led by the wolf goddess Moro, whom Eboshi wounds with a gunshot. Riding one of the...
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  • Shinichi was kept prisoner. The bodies of the kidnapper's two accomplices are found there, killed by an overdose of heroin. The police surmise that the kidnapper...
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