A Fugitive From the PastConsidered the magnum opus of the five decades long career of Tomu Uchida (Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, The Mad Fox), the epic crime drama A Fugitive from the Past was voted third in the prestigious Kinema Junpo magazine's 1999 poll of the Top Japanese Films of the 20th Century. In 1947, a freak typhoon sends a passenger ferry running between Hokkaido and mainland Japan plunging to the ocean depths, with hundreds of lives lost. During the chaos, three

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He is far too classy and refined a musician to indulge in superficial virtuosic display

more forgotten graves are being added every day

Nick Lowe reminds us that there was life before punk and Pere Ubu point to post-punk before it's hardly started

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The archive comprises a collection of jazz recordings amassed during the 1950s and 1960s by broadcaster Ken Ackerman