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The Funeral: At a Loss
Juzo Itami’s tragicomic directorial debut has scandalous fun with the Japanese traditions governing death.
The Hero: Depths and Surfaces
Bengali cinema icon Uttam Kumar stars as a matinee idol on the brink of failure in this deeply introspective meditation on art and fame.
Ikiru Many Autumns Later
Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film about one man’s mortality offers a study in postwar Japan, Kurosawa vs. Ozu, and the realization that knowing how to die requires learning how to be alive.
Monsoon Wedding: A Marigold Tapestry
So many worlds stream in from every direction in Monsoon Wedding that it comes to seem as if the whole globe is converging on a single family home in New Delhi: relatives from Houston, from Australia, from Dubai (“Muscat, actually”); worker…