After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director in 1943, during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata ( a. k. a. Judo Saga ).

A story, probably apocryphal but popular at the time, is that the appointment caused Montgomery to remark that " After having an easy war, things have now got much more difficult.

After the end of the official celebration, the day ended in a huge four-day popular feast and people celebrated with fireworks, as well as fine wine and running naked through the streets in order to display their great freedom.

After 1950 radio stations began to increasingly specialize in one form or another of commercially popular music.

After reading popular conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, participants in this study correctly estimated how much their peers ' attitudes had changed, but significantly underestimated how much their own attitudes had changed to become more in favor of the conspiracy theories.

After Gibson's popular debut novel, Count Zero ( 1986 ) and Mona Lisa Overdrive ( 1988 ) followed.

After it proved popular in the clubs, this Coldcut " Seven Minutes of Madness " remix ended up being promoted as the single in the UK.

After the French Revolution it was popular in part due to its central ethic that individuals can be right while society is quite wrong and seen as disenchanting — not comic at all.

After more than 800 commercials, it was clear that Thomas played a major role in Wendy ’ s status as the country's third most popular burger restaurant.

After a faltering start, British films began to make increasing use of documentary techniques and former documentary film-makers to make more realistic films, many of which helped to shape the popular image of the nation at war.

After Frontline they moved into feature films, making several popular Australian movies including The Castle and The Dish, and hosted The Panel for several years, before moving on to Thank God You're Here.

After two years at FC Barcelona, Hagi signed for Galatasaray S. K .. At Galatasaray, he was both successful and highly popular among the Turkish supporters.

After the popularity of Adam Bede, she continued to write popular novels for the next fifteen years.

After that, much of Indian Pop music comes from the Indian Film Industry, and until the 1990s, few singers like Usha Uthup, Sharon Prabhakar, and Peenaz Masani outside it were popular.

After the Second World War, Okinawa became an important United States military site and karate became popular among servicemen stationed there.

After becoming popular in Japan, karaoke spread to East and Southeast Asia during the 1980s and subsequently to other parts of the world.

After Brezhnev's death in November 1982, there was speculation the position of General Secretary would fall to Chernenko, however he was unable to rally enough popular support for his candidacy within the Party, and the posting fell to former KGB chief Yuri Andropov.

After the crisis, a new government was formed, led by the popular former general Fuad Chehab.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the Eastern side of the Wall became also a popular “ canvas ” for many mural and graffiti artists.

After some instability during the first two decades of communist rule in Mongolia, there was no significant popular unrest until December 1989.

After the generally primitivistic / irrationalist aspect of pre-World War I Modernism, which for many modernists precluded any attachment to merely political solutions, and the neoclassicism of the 1920s, as represented most famously by T. S. Eliot and Igor Stravinsky — which rejected popular solutions to modern problems — the rise of Fascism, the Great Depression, and the march to war helped to radicalise a generation.

After having persuaded himself that Amidism was not the true Buddhist doctrine, he passed to the study of Zen Buddhism, which had become popular in Kamakura and Kyōto.

After Mistral's Félibrige movement in the 19th century, Provençal achieved the greatest literary recognition and so became the most popular term for the Occitan language.

After conferring with veteran teammate Gene Tenace, Smith went ahead with the backflip, and it proved to be wildly popular.

After the waterfall the river enters a gorge where there is very fast whitewater with class-4 rapids ; it is often used for whitewater rafting although it is not considered to be of the same quality as the Tena River and is therefore less popular for the sport.

After a communist uprising took control over Bavaria in the years following World War I, the state government fled to Bamberg and stayed there for almost two years before the Bavarian capital of Munich was retaken by Freikorps units ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ).

After the failure of the last uprising, the nation preserved its identity through educational uplift and the program called " organic work " to modernize the economy and society.

After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.

After an unsuccessful pro-Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd, Trotsky was arrested on 7 August 1917, but was released 40 days later in the aftermath of the failed counter-revolutionary uprising by Lavr Kornilov.

After the success of the uprising on 7 – 8 November, Trotsky led the efforts to repel a counter-attack by Cossacks under General Pyotr Krasnov and other troops still loyal to the overthrown Provisional Government at Gatchina.

After the military uprising of May 14 – 15, which brought independence, Francia became a member of the ruling junta.

After a failed uprising at Grahamstown in 1819, the fifth of the Xhosa Wars, the British colonial government sentenced African leader Makanda Nxele to life imprisonment on the island.

After the Bolshevik Party gained power in Moscow, the Jadidists split between supporters of Russian communism and supporters of a widespread uprising that became known as the Basmachi Rebellion.

After the uprising, all civil liberties were withdrawn, and use of the Polish and Lithuanian languages was banned.

*** Second Intifada ( 2000 – 2005 ) – After the signing of the Oslo Accords failed to bring about a Palestinian state, in September 2000 the Second Intifada ( uprising ) broke out, a period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence, which has been taking place until the present day.

After a number of indecisive skirmishes with a Polish army sent to pacify the region, the Treaty of Pereiaslav is signed, ending the uprising.

After Philip's death, Demosthenes played a leading part in his city's uprising against the new King of Macedonia, Alexander the Great.

After being re-elected in 2006, Ravalomanana's government was dissolved in March 2009, in a militarily-backed uprising led by Andry Rajoelina.

After Ussher lost his home and income through the Irish uprising of 1641, Parliament voted him a pension of £ 400 while the King awarded him the income and property of the vacant See of Carlisle.

After a short period the Profil group went separate routes, as authors such as Dag Solstad, Espen Haavardsholm, and Tor Obrestad turned to the newly formed party Workers ' Communist Party ( Arbeidernes kommunistparti or AKP ), and become involved in formulating a new political program that based on the view that literature should serve the working people and their uprising against capitalism.

After suppressing Vietminh political cadres who were legally campaigning between 1955 and 1959 for the promised elections, Diem faced a growing communist-led uprising that intensified by 1961, headed by the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam ( NLF or, derogatively, Viet Cong ).

After abortive attempted raids in the south, the Danes joined forces with a new Northumbrian uprising, which was also joined by Edgar, Gospatric and the other exiles from Scotland as well as Earl Waltheof.

After some hesitation the King refused to sign it, citing doubts about the ability of the Army to contain the uprising.

After his unsuccessful uprising against the queen in London, he is executed.

After the Emperor's death Prime Minister Li Si, who accompanied him, became extremely worried that the news of his death could trigger a general uprising in the Empire.

After two weeks in Leipzig, Kościuszko set off for Paris, where he tried to gain French support of the planned uprising in Poland.

After the outbreak of the uprising in 1846 in Kraków by Edward Dembowski, who became Secretary to Jan Tyssowski, the dictator of the revolution, the miners seized power in the Wieliczka salt mine.

After the uprising of African slaves in the north of Saint-Domingue in 1791, Boyer joined with the French Commissioners and went there to fight against the grand blancs ( plantation owners ) and royalists.