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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I got to see this film at Planet plus One in
Osaka on Sunday and was tremendously impressed with its strongly feminist and
anti-authoritarian stance. Why isn't this better known? I looked it up in Richie
and Anderson and thought that they probably had not seen it, since the
description didn't match well on a couple of key points.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>A couple of questions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The film depicts a style of "manzai" I
have never seen before, which featured not only the punning cross-talk usually
associated with manzai but also a lot of song snippets and a melodrama-farce.
How typical is this? In Ise Mairi (?), for example, Miss Wakana and company only
do the cross-talk style (Abbott and Costello are American manzai, for
comparison.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Why isn't this more prominent in the Mizoguchi
canon? A 1937 film with these themes should be better known....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>David Hopkins</FONT></DIV>
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