Shōhei Imamura on working as an assistant to Yasujirō Ozu:
"I was an assistant on three of his films. There were five assistants in all, and I was the fifth and least of them. I was basically just a clapper boy, and Ozu barely acknowledged my existence. The first time he called me by name was towards the end of the filming of Early Summer.
My mother died of a cerebral haemorrhage while I was working on Ozu's Tokyo Story. When I got back from her funeral, I found Ozu in the sound studio, dubbing the scene in which the grandmother [played by Chieko Higashiyama] is dying, also from a cerebral hemorrhage. I could not stand watching the scene over and over again—it reminded me so vividly of my mother's death—and so I ran out of the dubbing theatre and into the toilet, almost in tears. But Ozu followed me and came to urinate next to me. "Mr. Imamura," he asked, "is that what a cerebral haemorrhage looks like? Have I got it right?" At the time I thought him incredibly cruel, but I later realized that a great filmmaker sometimes has to behave like that.
Obviously, Ozu was very different from Kurosawa. He was always calm, placid and well dressed. But I can't say I ever cared for his style of filmmaking. Many years later, on Black Rain, I was working with the cinematographer Takashi Kawamata, who had been an assistant cameraman on Ozu films. We had to keep telling each other not to shoot Black Rain like an Ozu film. On the other hand, after working on three films I came away with the conviction that Ozu was a great director. It was while working for him that I learned most of the basics of filmmaking, and I'm sure that everything I learned is reflected in the films I've made."
— Shōhei Imamura, interviewed by Toichi Nakata, edited by Tony Rayns, reprinted in Shōhei Imamura, edited by James Quandt (Toronto International Film Festival Group, 1997)
In 1995 Nvidia failed to deliver the chip Sega paid for.
Jensen Huang flew to Tokyo, admitted he picked the wrong architecture, and asked Sega to convert the $5M owed into equity.
He told them the money would probably be lost. Sega said yes anyway.
That $5M funded the RIVA 128. Yesterday Huang went back to the same Akihabara arcade to thank Irimajiri in person, 30 years later.
Nvidia survives, goes public. Sega sells early.
Held to today, that stake would be worth about $1 trillion.
🚨 #ULTIMAHORA preocupación por el estado de salud mental de Edward Norton. Se le ha visto desorientado hablando solo durante el USA-Turquía en el estadio de los Ángeles.