A Century Of Japanese Cinema - Scandal (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3
Shimura Takashi (Actor)
| Lee Heung Lan (Actor)
| Mifune Toshiro
| Kurosawa Akira (Director)
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| Product Title: | A Century Of Japanese Cinema - Scandal (Hong Kong Version) 日本映畫百年史：醜聞 (香港版) 日本映画百年史：丑闻 (香港版) A Century Of Japanese Cinema - Scandal (Overseas Version) A Century Of Japanese Cinema - Scandal (Hong Kong Version) |
| Artist Name(s): | Shimura Takashi (Actor) | Lee Heung Lan (Actor) | Mifune Toshiro 志村喬 (Actor) | 李香蘭 (Actor) | 三船敏郎 志村乔 (Actor) | 李香兰 (Actor) | 叁船敏郎 志村喬 (Actor) | 李香蘭（リ・コウラン） (Actor) | 三船敏郎 Shimura Takashi (Actor) | Lee Heung Lan (Actor) | Mifune Toshiro |
| Director: | Kurosawa Akira 黑澤明 黑泽明 黒沢明 Kurosawa Akira |
| Release Date: | 2003-04-28 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese |
| Country of Origin: | Hong Kong, Japan |
| Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
| Color Information: | Black & White |
| Sound Information: | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it? |
| Duration: | 104 (mins) |
| Publisher: | Shu Kei Creative Work (HK) |
| Package Weight: | 110 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1002784898 |
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導演：黑澤明
Director: Akira Kurosawa
做虛作假，不擇手段！
窮追猛打，炒作煽情！
一場為正義而戰的硬仗；
黑澤明創作生涯中最具爆炸性的電影！
《醜聞》是黑澤明在《羅生門》之前拍攝的作品。故事以一個無能而又品質惡劣的辯護律師，和委托他對損壞名譽案件做辯護的年輕優秀畫家為中心展開。但律師背叛了畫家，給被告收買，最後他在法庭上坦白了自己被收買的事實。影片不論在主題或處理上都顯示出黑澤明極受他青年時代十分喜愛的《罪與罰》的影響。
志村喬飾演的律師生動而深刻。山口淑子（李香蘭）的表現則造型勝於演技，尤其有趣的在片中大唱英文歌，包括「友誼萬歲」和「平安夜」。壓軸的一場法庭戲差不多長達十五分鐘，鏡頭沉實、劇力迫人，是黑澤明的另一經典場面。
A young painter and a popular singer meet very politely by chance at a resort hotel, and scandal-mongering journalists blow it up into a secret romance. The two decide to fight the press in court, and an impoverished old lawyer takes it upon himself to help. The win their case when the old lawyer finally admits the editor bribed him to lose. Criticizing irresponsible, sensationalistic journalism, Kurosawa's film is, at one level, a soap opera from which every last tear is shamelessly wrung by his established cast. Look closely, however, and you'll detect a caustic parody of the genre it appears to ape and a satire on the Japanese willingness to accept the alien culture thrust upon them by America.
黑白影片
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Kevin Kennedy
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January 25, 2008
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January 25, 2008
Kurosawa made this?!?
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The year 1954 saw director Kurosawa Akira create two timeless classics, "Rashomon" and "Seven Samurai". Wedged in between those great films, Kurosawa also found time to direct "Scandal". Watching this strange little melodrama is a disturbing experience, like discovering that Leo Tolstoy paid the bills by writing cheesy romance novels in between producing "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace". Of course, Tolstoy did no such thing, but the undeniably great Kurosawa really did helm this trifle. The film starts with a timely premise: Paparazzi take a photo of a famous singer and a well-known artist together at a resort. A gossip magazine then turns the photo into an entirely fictitious story of a romantic tryst. When the artist complains, the magazine publisher refuses to apologize. The artist decides to take the publisher to court. So far, so good. The film goes off the rails when the artist hires a dissolute shyster to handle his case. The disreputable lawyer just happens to have an adorable, but terminally ill, daughter; the film plays up this side story for all the bathos that can be soaked from it. The lawyer then is bribed by the publisher to lose the case intentionally. The film ends with a ludicrous courtroom scene. Will the artist win his case or will the publisher get away with his libel? One thing you can count on -- it will be a very sappy ending. "Scandal" is an interesting curiousity for serious fans of Kurosawa, but be aware that, as presented on this DVD, the English subtitles are lousy and the second half of the film suffers from dreadfully bad sound synchronization. The description of this film shown above on this page calls it a parody. The parodic elements entirely escaped me; perhaps they might be more apparent with better subtitles and less disruptive sound problems. |
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