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<DIV>Hi all </DIV>
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<DIV>After having spent some time lurking on this list, I've decided to approach
you all with a question.</DIV>
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<DIV>I imagine that you're all used to this kind of question, since it
could be considered the "billion yen" question, but I need to have
your opinion on this matter.</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm preparing a proposal to organize a festival of contemporary
japanese films, and I was wondering if you could share your impressions on
the japanese feature films listed bellow. </DIV>
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<DIV>The objective of this festival is solely to give a glimpse of the films
(maximum 20) that were done in the last 4 years by young directors in Japan, and
not some sort of competition with the purpose of exhibiting the
best films of all. So if you find that the list is biased or that some other
significant film was excluded please let me know.</DIV>
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<DIV>Hope you can share your thoughts.</DIV>
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<DIV>Joao</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Canon on Tuesday/Kazama Shiori; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>The happiness of the Katakuris/Takashi Miike; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>A forest with no name/Shinji Aoyama; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Dark Water/Hideo Nakata; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>A painful pair/Hisashi Saito; </FONT></DIV>
<DIV></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Agitator/Takashi Miike;
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>All about Lily Chou-chou/Shunji Iwai;
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Hanako/Makoto Sato; </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Inugami/Masato Harada; </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Kairo/Kiyoshi Kurosawa; </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Eureka/Shinji Aoyama; </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Avalon/Mamoru Oshii; </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Hole in the Sky/Kazuoshi Kumakari;
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Film Noir/Masahiro Kobayashi;
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Monday/Sabu; </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Moonlight Whispers/Akihiko Shiota;
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Minazuki/Rokuro Mochizuki; </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Timeless Melody/Hiroshi Okuhara;
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>Wait and see/Shinji
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