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<DIV><FONT size=2>Does anyone know whether there were any female Benshi at the
beginning of Silent Cinema in Japan? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2> I was watching Ozu's "I was Born But....." with English
intertitles and was wondering whether there would actually have been any
intertitles at all or whether the story was told by the Benshi alone? In
one place when it says "the following day" the sub-titles are written over
Japanese writing whereas there are no intertitles in Japanese at
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