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<\/a><\/p>\nI saw several documentaries at this festival\u00a0 and Ken San\u00a0 was one of my top favorites.\u00a0 I met Yuichi Hibi, the film director of the documentary of\u00a0 Ken San at one of our Q & A’s at the Santa Ynez Valley Lounge during our 2017 Santa Barbara International film festival.<\/p>\n
I was impressed with Yuichi Hibi and what I felt a sense of nobleness and purpose to tell the story of his hero.\u00a0 Hibi’s\u00a0 admiration for this legendary Japanese actor, Ken Takakura (as shown above) was what drew me to see the documentary.\u00a0 The abiding and deep respect and love offered to Takakura from Hibi was indeed special.\u00a0 I knew immediately I had to see this documentary and I fell in love with it too.\u00a0 I wanted more than the 90 minutes shown. It was the winner of Best Documentary at Montreal Film Festival.\u00a0 Ken Takakura was known as Japan’s greatest and last real movie star.\u00a0 Ken was\u00a0 the tough-guy\u00a0 actor known for his stoic, brooding and honorable style. He had done over 200 films and died at 83.\u00a0 The documentary reveals the love and high regard many people had for Takakura but not only love but great respect.<\/p>\n
This documentary was a US premiere – subtitled with film clips and interviews from Michael Douglas, Martin Scorsese, John Woo, filmmakers, actors, family and friends.\u00a0 One of my favorite interviews was with Michael Douglas who obviously cared for this man and shared his stories how he was impacted by Takakura.\u00a0 Douglas shares clips from their movie “Black Rain from 1989, directed by Ridley Scott.\u00a0 You were moved by Ken Takakura and Michael Douglas’s interaction in this movie.\u00a0 This is a movie I want to see again.\u00a0 (look up Black Rain www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096933\/<\/cite>) But back to the documentary and Yuichi\u00a0 Hibi who felt he had many people against him and all he wanted to do as his job was to let\u00a0 you have an inside look at Ken Takakura.\u00a0 Hibi was able to do that and in an interesting\u00a0 and informative way giving this great Japanese actor his final due.\u00a0 The film was beautifully directed and rightfully so as Yuichi created a love story of his hero who was fondly loved and respected by so many in the industry as well as family and friends.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviewed by C. Zangi Angeli at Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2017 I saw several documentaries at this festival\u00a0 and Ken San\u00a0 was one of my top favorites.\u00a0 I met Yuichi Hibi, the film director of the documentary of\u00a0 Ken San at one of our Q & A’s at the Santa Ynez Valley Lounge during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/135193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}