THE CAm'AL JOUKXAL Oapan Movies FREE STORE-SIDE PARKING FOR OVER 1,000 CARS 59 Years Old, Very Popular flint It Still Takes Half Hour for the Hero to Clobber Villain By HARMAN W. NICHOLS 'iiUrd Prcsi Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) Japan as come a long ways in making i'ckcrs. but it still lakes a half ntir for the hero to clobber the illam. Harry Keith, chief of the U.S. nformation Agency's Japanese in section, told me a thing or ,vo about Nippon's movie indus- Salem, Oregon, Monday, December 10, 1956 n n nWn 1 nl a a j i . a a -mi m m Harry himself is a flat-nosed, td-bitten character who grew Bp in Manhattan, was used to al- fights, and still looks as tjiough he could take care of him aflf against a regiment of Marlon frandos. ,He said the flicker deal over there has been running along for 58 years. Today, six companies Wake 90 per cent of the feature jfjlms, wilh 70-odd independents sharing the rest of the business. I Harry, who has learned a bit 0( the Japanese tongue, ripped off (icw, until he lost me. Shochiku, two, daici, and sounds like that. "According to Harry, the Japan eje have, wonderful writers and wonderful directors but they "do not seem to get the actors to get off their haunches fast enough." Movie costs run up fast when the actors stall. i' There is a certain code of de cency when it comes to woman hood," my new friend told me. "There is very little of the show ing above the garters." A good bit of the movies show an all-male cast, with huskies playing the parts of women. But in a publication of the Japanese industry, which I have at hand, there is a picture of a lovely Jap anese actress with a bare calf and somebody balancing a glass of something or other on her knee. Japanese are avid moviegoers, now that they have adjusted their eyes to the flickers. There are a lot of films that go back to the knights of old, with the foot sol diers coming in to rescue the fair lady from the old lords. "The knight always wins," Har ry said. "There would be may hem among the audience if he didn't." Keith quoted figures to show that Japan has more than 5,000 rMnilil Vinltrna nf mUii! TA Ann) play up Japanese films. .- Annual attendance, he said, Is calculated at 885 million meaning that every man, woman and Joungun in Japan sits in the mov ie house an average of 10 times a year. i Gross income during '55 was (185 million. 6 n CanbyManGets Turkey Award MCMINNV1LLE (UP) Charles C. Lamb of Canby was awarded the Hamilton - Lyons - Mitchell . award for contributing the most 'to the Oregon turkey industry in liifi as a hion'1-'-' of the Turkey -show in McMinnville. Lamb is a ., r member of the Oregon State College experi mental station where he special bed in poultry husbandry. The grand champion torn was an adult bronze weighing 29 pounds owned by D. R. 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