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Scandal (1950)

Name: Scandal
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Genre: drama film
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 7.2

Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Music by Fumio Hayasaka · 104 min

How it was made

After the Toho strikes and the subsequent Red Purge, Kurosawa joined other filmmakers to form the independent Society of Film Artists production company to help get his films made.
Kurosawa used music contrapuntally for psychological tension, scoring dramatic scenes with the upbeat popular hit 'Happy Tokyo' and using fanfares to accompany a character's death.
Kurosawa based the pivotal character Hiruta on a man he had once overheard at a bar praising his bedridden daughter while listing his own faults, a connection he only recognised about eighteen months after the film's release.
Shooting overlapped with actor Toshiro Mifune's wedding and with Kurosawa simultaneously developing several other projects, including location-scouting in Kyoto and Nara for the gate structure in his next film, Rashomon.
The film marked the first of five collaborations between Toshiro Mifune and co-star Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Elsewhere

More by Akira Kurosawa

Horse — 1940
Sanshiro Sugata — 1943
The Most Beautiful — 1944
Sanshiro Sugata Part II — 1945
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail — 1945
No Regrets for Our Youth — 1946
Those Who Make Tomorrow — 1946
One Wonderful Sunday — 1947
Drunken Angel — 1948
The Quiet Duel — 1949
Stray Dog — 1949
Rashomon — 1950
The Idiot — 1951
Ikiru — 1952
Seven Samurai — 1954
I Live in Fear — 1955
Throne of Blood — 1957
The Lower Depths — 1957
The Hidden Fortress — 1958
The Bad Sleep Well — 1960
Yojimbo — 1961
Sanjuro — 1962
High and Low — 1963
Red Beard — 1965
Dodes'ka-den — 1970
Dersu Uzala — 1976
Kagemusha — 1980
Ran — 1985
Dreams — 1990
Rhapsody in August — 1991

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