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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I guess this reception gap is an interesting
phenomenon - that's maybe why Shiota's talk at Nippon Connection was so utterly
pointless: the films he wanted to introduce were exactly those shown at the
festival (Ichi the Killer, City of Lost Souls, Blue Spring etc.). The audience
was extremely young - and ignorant, one could guess, rather of traditional
Japanese movies - and Shiota, confronted with that fact, turned out
to have absolutely nothing to say, except that those directors (their films and
their origins) werde different. Which made me want to ask those who know: is
Shiota really an accepted critic in Japan? Is his writing better than the
performance of mumbling of names and titles he gave in Frankfurt?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ekkehard</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jump Cut Magazin</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To those who read German: My article on Nippon
Connection can be found at:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <A
href="http://www.jump-cut.de/festival-nipponconnection2002.html">http://www.jump-cut.de/festival-nipponconnection2002.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<A href="mailto:svenkoerber@gmx.de" title=svenkoerber@gmx.de>Sven Koerber</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:26
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Shiota Tokitoshi lecture in
Munich</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hello film fans</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Yesterday Japanese ( independent- ) film
critic</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>and part-time actor Shiota Tokitoshi held a lecture
<BR>about the modern </FONT><FONT face=Arial>independent Japanese film
in</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Munich.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The main goal of his lecture was to show to the
German</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>audience that there also are other movies than
the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>ones made by Kurosawa Akira and Ozu, so he
introduced</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>films of Miike ( Dead or Alive 2 ), Tsukamoto ( Tetsuo )
and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>other young film makers. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Half of the audience were young students, who really
enjoyed</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>the films and lecture.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>But it seemed to me that the other half of the audience
was not ...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>ahm ... "prepared" for this kind of movies.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Originally this lecture was part-sponsored by the
"German-</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Japanese Society of Bavaria", where mostly 50-70
years</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>old Ikebana- and Kimono-loving Germans are
members.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>So in the discussion with Shiota there came </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>questions like:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>"Aren't there any serious movies in modern Japan
?"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>"Which type of people do watch those movies ?" and so
on.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I don't know how it is in other countires, but here in
Munich</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>especially for the quite "aged" audience Japanese film
still</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>means Samurai and Geishas, or storyless
family-dramas.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The independent film only has succes with the young
ones</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>here.... sadly enough.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sven Koerber</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Univ. of Munich, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Japanese Studies</FONT></DIV>
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