![]() ![]() Kurosawa was born on March 23, 1910, in Ōimachi in the Ōmori district of Tokyo. His career has been honored by many retrospectives, critical studies and biographies in both print and video, and by releases in many consumer media.īiography Childhood to war years (1910–1945) Childhood and youth (1910–1935) Posthumously, he was named " Asian of the Century" in the "Arts, Literature, and Culture" category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited there as being among the five people who most prominently contributed to the improvement of Asia in the 20th century. In 1990, he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. After the 1960s he became much less prolific even so, his later work-including two of his final films, Kagemusha code: jpn promoted to code: ja (1980) and Ran code: jpn promoted to code: ja (1985)-continued to receive great acclaim. Kurosawa directed approximately one film per year throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, including a number of highly regarded (and often adapted) films, such as Ikiru code: jpn promoted to code: ja (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), Yojimbo (1961) and High and Low (1963). The commercial and critical success of that film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers. Rashomon (1950), which premiered in Tokyo, became the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival. The two men would go on to collaborate on another fifteen films. After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel (1948), in which Kurosawa cast the then little-known actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dynamic style, strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it he was involved with all aspects of film production. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. And everyone needs it to work.Akira Kurosawa ( Japanese: 黒 澤 明, Hepburn: Kurosawa Akira, March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed 30 films in a career spanning over five decades. So keep this big theme in mind: Central banks remain involved, but the baton has been passed from a central bank–driven recovery to a fiscal stimulus-driven recovery. The SNB is the world's eighth biggest public investor. stocks! That's a 29% bigger stake than they had at the end of 2016. Switzerland's central bank has more freshly printed money to put to work every quarter, and has been increasing their allocation to equities dramatically–$80 billion of which is now (as of the end of the first quarter) in U.S. As I said above, don't forget there are still central banks deeply entrenched in QE and, beyond local government bonds, are buying foreign assets (in large amounts). ![]() ![]() 3) a trillion–dollar infrastructure spend that, regardless of how difficult it may be to legislate, should happen in one form or another.Īmong the reports on portfolio holdings yesterday, we heard from the Swiss National Bank. 2) a repatriation tax holiday that will bring back trillions of dollars onshore, to be paid back to shareholders and put to work in the economy through investment and projects. Not surprisingly, which stocks have been leading the way in the climb in the indicies? The ones that make a lot of money (Apple, Microsoft, Google). It has been clear that the biggest and best, embrace this big theme, and have been aggressively positioning to take advantage of the very bullish proposed policy tailwinds for stocks, which are: 1) a corporate tax rate cut, which will go right to the bottom line for profitable companies. ![]() Yesterday we got a look under the hood of the portfolios of the biggest money managers in the world, via their 13F filings (required quarterly portfolio disclosures to the SEC). ![]()
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