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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=urj7@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu
href="mailto:urj7@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu">joseph murphy</A> </DIV>
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<DIV>>The larger point is that, as much as I like Okaeri, it's another story
about a sick wife, who begins with a modicum of financial and personal
independence,is reduced to helplessness by mental illness and ends judged before
doctors and collapsed into her husbands arms, who cradles her in his arms and
tells her to shush.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>How common is this in recent
film? This may be a little different, but what was that drama a few
years back with Kimutaku as some kind of audio/light technician for concerts (?)
with a wheelchair-bound girlfriend? My memory is hazy, but I remember
reading comments on the series that praised the show for featuring a relatively
independent disabled character, but the few episodes I watched seemed to be
looking at the issue a different way. There was another drama 3 or 4 years
ago that I remember even less clearly, featuring a mentally disabled young woman
character. As far as I watched that too tried to find her disability as
"adorable" or something. I was curious about the wives in Kurosawa
Kiyoshi's Korei and especially Cure as well, but in those cases the husbands
don't seem so thrilled about caring for their adorably sick women. I
supppose something like Hanako (the documentary, not the horror story) may also
be something of a contrast to those examples.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>Did anyone else see Hama Maiku last week,
by the way? Again, pretty disappointing. </FONT><FONT
face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>If I'm not mistaken Aoyama Shinji's episode is going
to be aired a week from tomorrow. Speaking of which, I picked up the
Japanese DVD of "Roji e" and will write up my comments as soon as I get the time
to see the whole thing. At first glance the DVD looked great, and it does
have English subtitles.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>Michael Arnold</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>