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Brett Alan Dewing
Feb 05, 2023
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My favorite films by famed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa are not his historical epics or Shakespeare adaptations but those set in his present-day Japan, especially High and Low and Ikiru. So when I heard that Nobel-winning writer Kazuo Ishiguro was adapting the latter into a film set in 1950s London, I had high expectations. After the new film, Living

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