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Fred Taomae

Fred Taomae's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Hidden Fortress (1958) 96% EDIT “[The Hidden Fortress] is overlong and drawn out in the beginning but once it gets moving, is filled with interest, suspense, action and comedy. I enjoyed it immensely.” – Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Jun 28, 2022 Full Review Yojimbo (1961) 96% EDIT “Kurosawa combines his genius with Toshiro Mifune's Venice Film Festival's "best actor'' performance to come up with a film as suspenseful as [High Noon,] in which Gary Cooper dispatched his foes in the early 1950's American western.” – Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Feb 7, 2020 Full Review I Bombed Pearl Harbor (1961) EDIT “It was a fair recounting of the attack.” – Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Feb 7, 2020 Full Review Hell to Eternity (1960) 83% EDIT “Although the film ran for two hours and twelve minutes, it did not seem that long as suspense was carried throughout.” – Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Feb 7, 2020 Full Review EDIT “Full of tenderness and melodrama, Till Tomorrow Comes is a reversion to the movies our parents used to like.” – Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Dec 18, 2019 Full Review Stray Dog (1949) 100% EDIT “I enjoyed it very much, although not as much as some of the [other Kurosawa films].” – Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Nov 22, 2019 Full Review EDIT “The film was fast moving, and some of the Eastman color scenes were truly superb.” – Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Jul 11, 2019 Full Review EDIT “The plot is weak, but the humor, lightness, fast pace, and color carry it off in fine style.” – Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Jul 3, 2019 Full Review The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) 73% EDIT “Even with a noble motive, the manner in which the picture was carried out offended my sense of justice.” – Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Jun 28, 2019 Full Review Muhomatsu, the Rikshaw Man (1958) EDIT “Mifune, of course, is superb. There was a touch of comedy, and yet pity in his role.” – Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Jun 19, 2019 Full Review Sanjuro (1962) 100% EDIT “I was afraid the same plot of Toshiro Mifune as the unwashed vagabond who cleans up the town wgs becoming monotonous... But director Akira Kurosawa added something new in the incongruous humor injected.” – Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Jun 19, 2019 Full Review Sayonara (1957) 82% EDIT “I especially enjoyed the theater fantaculars and thrilled that Japan's culture was so outstandingly portrayed.” – Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Jun 19, 2019 Full Review
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