Akiria Kurosawa’s The Most Beautiful opens not with an image of beauty, but with a brutal command: “Attack and Destroy the Enemy!” This command is followed by the totalitarian declaration that this is “An Information Bureau Movie for the People,” before the familiar Toho Studios logo even appears on screen. This is the disorienting introduction … Continue reading "Akira Kurosawa’s The Most Beautiful (1944): A Study in Propaganda"
