"Don't Go Near the Water (film) Don't Go Near the Water is a 1957 comedy film about a U.S. Navy public relations unit stationed on an island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. It is an adaptation of the 1956 novel of the same name by William Brinkley. Glenn Ford and Gia Scala star. This is the first of several service comedies that Ford appeared in after the huge success of ""Teahouse of the August Moon"". The movie was very successful and further solidified Ford's reputation as an adept comedic actor. Lieutenant (j.g.) Max Siegel (Glenn Ford) and"
"Sayonara Sayonara is a 1957 Technicolor American film starring Marlon Brando in Technirama. The picture tells the story of an American Air Force flier who was an ace fighter pilot during the Korean War (1950–1953). ""Sayonara"" won four Academy Awards, including acting honors for co-stars Red Buttons and Miyoshi Umeki. The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the 1954 novel of the same name by James Michener, and was produced by William Goetz and directed by Joshua Logan. Unlike most 1950s romantic dramas, ""Sayonara"" deals squarely with racism and prejudice. The supporting cast also features Patricia Owens, James"
"Stopover Tokyo Stopover Tokyo is a 1957 American espionage drama directed by Richard L. Breen and starring Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien and Ken Scott. Filmed in Japan in CinemaScope, the film is set in Tokyo and follows a US counterintelligence agent working to foil a communist assassination plot. The film is based very loosely on the final Mr. Moto novel by John P. Marquand. The biggest change is that Mr. Moto is entirely cut from the film. It was the sole feature film directed by Breen, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter. US Intelligence Agent Mark Fannon (Robert Wagner) is"
"1956 came in a time after Allied occupation of Japan following World War II. Moreover, following World War II “the Allied occupation restricted films promoting feudal values, putting the kibosh on this most Japanese of action genres”. After the Allies left Japan in 1952, “the way was clear for the golden age of the samurai film”. World War II, the Allied occupation of Japan and then the Allies leaving certainly influenced Japanese film. Additionally, the film’s character Musashi Miyamoto was an actual person who lived from 1584-1645 and was “famed for his two-handed fighting technique and his delicate touch with"
"The 1954 Japanese cut is shot like a classic film noir, and the buildup to Tokyo's inevitable thrashing is quite slow by today's standards. The echoes of World War II are very strong, and the devastation wrought by Godzilla (played by Haruo Nakajima) is not sugar-coated; it eerily mirrors that of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the deaths and injuries are dwelt upon. The monster himself is not fully revealed for quite a while, and even when he finally shows up, he's a malevolent black predator with glistening skin, who stays mostly in the shadows, many times more fearsome than the"
"as ""lotus blossom, geisha girl, china doll, or Suzie Wong"". ""Sayonara"" won multiple Academy Awards for It was also nominated for The film is also recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Sayonara Sayonara is a 1957 Technicolor American film starring Marlon Brando in Technirama. The picture tells the story of an American Air Force flier who was an ace fighter pilot during the Korean War (1950–1953). ""Sayonara"" won four Academy Awards, including acting honors for co-stars Red Buttons and Miyoshi Umeki. The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the 1954 novel of the same name by"
"Morituri (1965 film) Morituri (also known as The Saboteur: Code Name Morituri) is a 1965 film about the Allied sabotage during World War II of a German merchant ship carrying rubber, a critical product during the war. The film stars Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Janet Margolin, and Wally Cox. It was directed by Bernhard Wicki. Robert Crain (Marlon Brando) is a German pacifist living in India during World War II. He is blackmailed by the Allies into using his engineering experience to disable the scuttling charges of a German merchant ship carrying rubber from Japan. The Allies hope"
"agreed on compensation of 2 million dollars for the contaminated fishery, with the surviving 22 crew men receiving about ¥ 2 million each, ($5,556 in 1954, $ in 2019) The surviving crew members, and their family, would later experience prejudice and discrimination, as local people thought that radiation was contagious. The Castle Bravo test and the new fears of radioactive fallout inspired a new direction in art and cinema. The Godzilla films, beginning with Ishirō Honda's landmark 1954 film ""Gojira"", are strong metaphors for post-war radiophobia. The opening scene of Gojira echoes the story of the Daigo Fukuryū Maru, from"
"(1960) (which also stars Mifune). Several action scenes, including the one where an Mitsubishi A6M Zero slams into 's bridge, were taken from ""Away All Boats"" (1956); scenes of Doolittle's Tokyo raid at the beginning of the film are from ""Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo"" (1944). In addition, most dogfight sequences come from wartime gun camera footage or from the film ""Battle of Britain"" (1969). Cast member Henry Fonda (Admiral Nimitz) had been one of the narrators of the 1942 John Ford documentary ""The Battle of Midway"", some footage from which was used in the 1976 film. The only actress with"
"Torpedo Run Torpedo Run is a 1958 American war film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Glenn Ford as a World War II submarine commander in the Pacific who is obsessed with sinking a particular Japanese aircraft carrier. It was filmed in Metrocolor CinemaScope. A. Arnold Gillespie and Harold Humbrock were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. The American submarine ""Grayfish"", under Lieutenant Commander/Commander Barney Doyle (Glenn Ford), searches for the ""Shinaru"", one of the Japanese aircraft carriers that led the attack on Pearl Harbor. Doyle receives word that the target has an escort, including a transport"
"The Barbarian and the Geisha The Barbarian and the Geisha (working titles The Townsend Harris Story and The Barbarian) is a 1958 American biographical film drama in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color from 20th Century Fox. It was produced by Eugene Frenke, directed by John Huston, and stars John Wayne, Sam Jaffe, and Japanese actress Eiko Ando. The film was shot primarily on location in Japan. Townsend Harris is appointed the first Consul General to Japan. Upon his arrival, Harris discovers that the Japanese thoroughly mistrust all foreigners, despite a two-year old treaty between Japan and the United States. Harris slowly"
"also Earth-based subjects, such as ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1954) and ""When Worlds Collide"" (1951). Companies such as American International Pictures, Japan's Toho, and Britain's Hammer Film Productions were created to solely produce films of the ""fantastique"" genres. Japanese films included ""Godzilla"" (1954), ""Godzilla Raids Again"" (1955), and ""Rodan"" (1956), ""The Mysterians"" (1957), ""Varan the Unbelievable"" (1958), and ""Battle in Outer Space"" (1959). With the difficulties of World War II now in the past, the decade also gave birth to what might be referred to as ""the suburban dream"" (the typical 1950s housewife would eventually become a universally recognised"
"Blood"", and ""The Hidden Fortress"". Other distinguished Japanese directors of the period were Yasujirō Ozu whose masterpiece ""Tokyo Story"" was released in 1953 and Kenji Mizoguchi whose 1954 ""Sansho the Bailiff"" was one of his most highly revered films. The films of Japan were also influenced by and influential on American cinema. Comic book audiences grew during and after World War II. Charles Schulz's ""Peanuts"" appeared for the first time on October 2, 1950, in seven US newspapers. This and comic strips such as ""Hi & Lois"" and ""Dennis the Menace"" marked a revival of humor strips, a genre that"
"documentary premiered at the New York Film Festival in 1966. Since then, it has aired on French television but was not shown in its entirety in the United States until Fandor made it available on November 15, 2013. Morituri (1965 film) Morituri (also known as The Saboteur: Code Name Morituri) is a 1965 film about the Allied sabotage during World War II of a German merchant ship carrying rubber, a critical product during the war. The film stars Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Janet Margolin, and Wally Cox. It was directed by Bernhard Wicki. Robert Crain (Marlon Brando) is"
"Imitation General Imitation General is a 1958 CinemaScope war comedy film starring Glenn Ford, Red Buttons and Taina Elg. The film was based on a short story of the same name by William Chamberlain. In the aftermath of a big battle during World War II, Brigadier General Charles Lane (Kent Smith), Master Sergeant Murphy ""Murph"" Savage (Glenn Ford) and Corporal Chan Derby (Red Buttons) find themselves cut off. The general takes over a farmhouse belonging to annoyed Frenchwoman Simone (Taina Elg). Lane determines that there is a gap in the lines and decides to organize a defense from whatever stragglers"
"they were making sixty five pictures a year. Now they're lucky if they make thirty. There was a chance to get some training in B pictures. Then TV struck. Everything went big and they started sticking me into Cinemascope spectacles. One day, smiling Joe Juvenile with no talent was doing a role intended for John Wayne. That was in a dog called ""Stopover Tokyo"". I've really had to work to keep up. Stopover Tokyo Stopover Tokyo is a 1957 American espionage drama directed by Richard L. Breen and starring Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien and Ken Scott. Filmed in"
"army maneuver and the court-martial held in its wake"", contrasting it with the ""classic"" ""All Quiet on the Western Front""'s story of an innocent ""unstrung by the horrors of war"". Comedy gave scope for satire, and post-war film-makers merged comedy and anti-war sentiment in films as varied as ""Stalag 17"" (1953) and ""Dr Strangelove"" (1964). Black comedies like Mike Nichols's ""Catch-22"" (1970), based on Joseph Heller's satirical novel about the Second World War, and Robert Altman's ""MASH"" (1970), set in Korea, reflected the attitudes of an increasingly sceptical public during the Vietnam War. Other genres were combined in Franklin J."
"... it is also played in a highly hackneyed fashion and often faked with preposterous miniatures."" According to MGM records, the film made $1,145,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $1,435,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $195,000. The film has been released on VHS and DVD, the latter in Warner's Archive Collection. Torpedo Run Torpedo Run is a 1958 American war film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Glenn Ford as a World War II submarine commander in the Pacific who is obsessed with sinking a particular Japanese aircraft carrier. It was filmed in Metrocolor CinemaScope. A. Arnold Gillespie"
"the cause of the war"". In the decades immediately after the Second World War, Japanese films often focused on human tragedy rather than combat, such as ""The Burmese Harp"" (1956), Fires on the Plain, (1959). From the late 1990s, films started to take a positive view of the war and of Japanese actions. These nationalistic films, including ""Pride"" (1998), ""Merdeka 17805"" (2001), and ""The Truth about Nanjing"" (2007), have emphasized positive traits of the Japanese military and contended that the Japanese were victims of post-war vindictiveness and viciousness. Such films have, however, drawn protest for revisionism. ""The Eternal Zero"" (2013)"
"chapter provides a historical, political and social background of the post-World War II parallel universe Japan. Therefore the building of the Tokyo Tower (1957~1958) as well as the communist students and activists-led (Zengakuren) anti Japan-US Security Treaty protests in front of the National Diet Building (1960) - replaced by fictitious anti Weimar Establishment movement - were both removed from the English adaptation. The Prologue was replaced by a single page synopsis without any illustration nor actual reference to Japan (known as """"the country"""") and its military occupation (1945~1952) by Germany (replacing the United States). William Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar"" quote """"Cry"
"example of successful American-led democratization. This leads to Colonel Purdy's regretting his actions and to reassembling the teahouse. Playing the role of an Okinawan villager was to prove an interesting challenge for Marlon Brando's method acting techniques. He spent two months studying local culture, speech, and gestures and, for the actual shooting, spent two hours daily having make-up applied to make him appear Asian. The role of Colonel Wainwright Purdy III was to have been played by Louis Calhern, but he died suddenly in Nara during production and was replaced by Paul Ford. Ford had played the part more than"
"second billed in ""Hero's Island"" (1962) and had a key role in ""That Darn Cat!"" (1965). Brand co-starred with George Takei in ""The Encounter"", an episode of the original ""Twilight Zone"" series. Brand, a genuine decorated veteran, portrays a phony war hero, a coward who obtained his prize trophy (a Japanese soldier's sword) by murdering a Japanese officer after he had surrendered. Brand was given the star role in a TV series, ""Laredo"" (1965–67) which ran for 56 episodes. Brand played a heartwarming character who was brain damaged and misunderstood in an episode of the television series ""Daniel Boone"". He"
"Karloff) as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son. The cast includes Inga Swenson and Eartha Kitt. The most famous adaptation is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 motion picture ""Apocalypse Now"" based on the screenplay by John Milius, which moves the story from the Congo to Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War. In ""Apocalypse Now"", Martin Sheen plays Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a US Army Captain assigned to ""terminate the command"" of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. Marlon Brando played Kurtz, in one of his most famous roles. A production documentary of the"
"bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In an interview in 1985 Tanaka summed up the symbolism of Godzilla: In those days, Japanese had a real horror of radiation, and that horror is what made Godzilla so huge. From the beginning he has symbolized nature's revenge on mankind. The classic 1954 film ""Godzilla"" (1954; released in the U.S. in 1956 as ""Godzilla, King of the Monsters!"") would spawn a series of sequels, adding up to 28 films by 2004. Tanaka produced every Toho monster movie. He often worked with the other three members of the Godzilla team: Honda, Tsuburaya, and composer Akira"
"and they drafted a new constitution as well as demilitarizing the country, leaving it to only a small self-defense force. The occupation officially ended in 1952, but American military bases remained and became an object of protest. The 1957 Girard Incident, in which a Japanese woman was shot on an American military base, spurred further protest. In 1960, one year prior to the making of the film, Japanese Prime Minister Kishi Nobusuke pushed through a renewed US-Japan Security Treaty, effectively ending the protests. The American occupation lead to a resurgence of the Yakuza in Japan. US Military Intelligence aided the"
"The Ugly American (film) The Ugly American is a 1963 American adventure film directed by George Englund, written by Stewart Stern, and starring Marlon Brando, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Pat Hingle, Judson Pratt and Arthur Hill. It is based on the 1958 novel ""The Ugly American"" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer. The film was released on April 2, 1963, by Universal Pictures. American ambassador Harrison MacWhite (Marlon Brando) travels to a Southeast Asian country beleaguered by rival factions but MacWhite views the political situation only in the simplest terms: as a struggle between communism and democracy. By the time"
"the most popular and most paranoid films from the golden age of American sci-fi cinema. Japan's experience with Hiroshima and Nagasaki bore the well-known ""Godzilla"" (1954) and its many sequels, featuring mutation from the effects of nuclear radiation. This kickstarted the tokusatsu trend known as Kaiju films, a Japanese film genre that features giant monsters, usually attacking major cities and engaging the military and other monsters in battle. Other films in this genre that isn't about Godzilla include ""Rodan"" (1956) and ""The Mysterians"" (1957). Besides Kaiju films, Japan was also into ghost cat/feline ghost movies in the 50's. These include"
"Gung Ho (film) Gung Ho (released in Australia as Working Class Man) is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton. The story portrayed the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation (although the title is an Americanized Chinese expression, for ""work"" and ""together""). Most of the movie was filmed on location in the Pittsburgh area with additional scenes shot in Tokyo and Argentina. The local auto plant in fictional Hadleyville, Pennsylvania, which supplied most of the town's jobs, has been closed for nine months. The former foreman Hunt Stevenson goes to"
"time with them. ""Seven Samurai"" (1954), by Kurosawa, tells the story of a farming village that hires seven master-less samurais to combat bandits. ""Fires on the Plain"" (1959), by Kon Ichikawa, explores the Japanese experience in World War II by depicting a sick Japanese soldier struggling to stay alive. ""Ugetsu"" (1953), by Kenji Mizoguchi, is a ghost story set in the late 16th century, which tells the story of peasants whose village is in the path of an advancing army. A year later, Mizoguchi directed ""Sansho the Bailiff"" (1954), which tells the story of two aristocratic children sold into slavery;"
"(1952), ""Seven Samurai"" (1954) and ""Throne of Blood"" (1957). During Japanese cinema's 'Golden Age' of the 1950s, successful films included ""Rashomon"" (1950), ""Seven Samurai"" (1954) and ""The Hidden Fortress"" (1958) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's ""Tokyo Story"" (1953) and Ishirō Honda's ""Godzilla"" (1954). These films have had a profound influence on world cinema. In particular, Kurosawa's ""Seven Samurai"" has been remade several times as Western films, such as ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960) and ""Battle Beyond the Stars"" (1980), and has also inspired several Bollywood films, such as ""Sholay"" (1975) and ""China Gate"" (1998). ""Rashomon"" was also remade"
"His Nuong"" (1939) and ""That Mario"" (1941). She served in World War II with the Red Cross, spending five years in New Caledonia, Guadalcanal, the Philippines, Japan, and Korea. Of the nine books she wrote and illustrated, several reflect her life during and after the war. ""The Magnificent Bastards"" (1953), her best-known book, was about her experiences with the U.S. Marine Corps, while ""Popcorn on the Ginza"" (1949) was about her time in occupied Japan. ""The Magnificent Bastards"" was made into a 1956 film starring William Holden and Deborah Kerr under the title ""The Proud and Profane"". After the war,"
"None but the Brave None but the Brave, also known as in Japan, is a 1965 war film with Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tommy Sands and Brad Dexter. This is the only film directed by Frank Sinatra, and the first Japanese-American co-production, Narrated in English by a Japanese officer named Kuroki (in the form of a journal he is writing for his wife), a platoon of 16 Japanese soldiers is stranded on an island in the Pacific with no means of communicating with the outside world. Lieutenant Kuroki keeps his men firmly in hand and is supervising the"
"is knocked out by shrapnel, allowing him to ""die"" and resume his real identity with no one the wiser. According to MGM records the film earned $1,915,000 in the US and Canada and $1,250,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $1,095,000. Imitation General Imitation General is a 1958 CinemaScope war comedy film starring Glenn Ford, Red Buttons and Taina Elg. The film was based on a short story of the same name by William Chamberlain. In the aftermath of a big battle during World War II, Brigadier General Charles Lane (Kent Smith), Master Sergeant Murphy ""Murph"" Savage (Glenn Ford) and"