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<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Jasper:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Thank
you for reminding Kine-Japaners of your interview with Midori
Sawato.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It is
excellent!! </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>And I
urge everyone interested in Japanese silent film -- especially those in New
England who will be seeing Midori Sawato in action at several venues between
April 21 and 24 -- to go back and read itl Once again, the interview
is available at </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><A
href="http://www.midnighteye.com/features/silentfilm_pt2.shtml">http://www.midnighteye.com/features/silentfilm_pt2.shtml</A></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>How
often these days do we have a chance to encounter a real<EM> benshi </EM>in
action??</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks
to the collaboration of Bill Burton at Tufts University, Blanche Milligan of
Northeast Cultural Cooperative, Sarah Frederick at Boston University, Ted Barron
at the Harvard Film Archive, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at
Harvard, and the Japan Society of Boston, Midori Sawato -- Japan's most
active <EM>benshi </EM>-- will soon make a number of live appearances in Boston,
Cambridge, Medford, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Her schedule of
performances is:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>April
21, 7:00pm -- The Music Hall Theater, (28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth NH ) -- Ms.
Sawato will narrate Ozu's <EM>I Was Born But....
</EM>(1932)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>April
22, 6:00pm -- Boston Univ. College of Communications (640 Commonwealth Ave.,
Boston; Rm B-05 -- Sawato will narrate Futagawa's <EM>Orochi
</EM>(1925)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>April
23, 7:00pm -- Tufts Univ. Medford (Tisch Library Media Center, Rm. 304) --
Sawato will narrate Mizoguchi's -- <EM>The Water Magician
</EM>(1933)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004></SPAN><SPAN
class=766144403-15042004> <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>This screening follows a symposium on Japanese silent film at Tufts Univ.
(Olin Center, Rm. 12), with presentations by William Burton, Aaron Gerow,
Charles Inoue,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004> <FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (3:00-6:00pm)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>April
24, 8:00pm -- Harvard Film Archive, Harvard Univ. (24 Quincy St., Cambridge) --
Ms. Sawato will narrate Ozu's <EM>I Was Born But...
</EM>(1925)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>This
program is a special event of the Centennial Celebration of The Japan Society of
Boston. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>For additional information, please visit the Society's
website at: </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.us-japan.org/boston">http://www.us-japan.org/boston</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Peter
Grilli</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>- - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Peter
M. Grilli</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>President, Japan Society of Boston</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>One
Milk Street, Boston, MA 02109</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Tel: (617) 451-0726</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Fax:
(617) 451-1191</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>E-mail: <A
href="mailto:grilli@us-japan.org">grilli@us-japan.org</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=766144403-15042004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
owner-KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:owner-KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>J.sharp<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:41 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Benshi in Boston,
Performances and Symposium<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>This might be a good time to
remind everyone about the interview I did with Sawato Midori, along with Mike
Arnold, about two years ago. She's a very bubbly and nice person, and shed a
lot of light onto the early days of Japanese cinema for us.<BR><A
href="http://www.midnighteye.com/features/silentfilm_pt2.shtml">http://www.midnighteye.com/features/silentfilm_pt2.shtml</A><BR><BR>Jasper
Sharp<BR><A
href="http://www.midnighteye.com">www.midnighteye.com</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR>To:
"KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu"
<KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu><BR>Subject: Benshi in Boston,
Performances and Symposium<BR>Date: 14/04/04 15:36<BR><BR>
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<DIV>Please see the attached flyer for complete information about the
symposium on silent film at to be held at Tufts next Friday. The
symposium will be followed by a screening of Mizoguchi's The Water Magician
with live benshi narration by Sawato Midori. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>The symposium is held in conjunction with a series of performances by
Ms. Sawato in the New England area next week (4/21 Portsmouth, NH; 4/22
Boston University; 4/23 Tufts; 4/24 Harvard Film Archive). The full
schedule with contact information can be found at:<FONT face="Courier New"
color=#000000 size=+3> http://www.us-japan.org/boston/</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000 size=+3><B>SYMPOSIUM "Far From
Silent: The Social and Artistic Influence of Early Japanese
Film"</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000 size=+3><B>APRIL 23/3-6PM At
Tufts University, Olin Center (Rm. 12)</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000 size=+3><B><BR></B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=+2>William Burton ­ Onoe
Matsunosuke, The First Great Star of Japanese Film</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=+2><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=+2>Aaron Gerow ­ The Benshi at
the Border: Narrating the Conflict over National Cinema</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=+2><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=+2>Charles Inoue ­
Understanding the Water Magician: Why Must this Woman
Suffer?</FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=+2></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=+2>Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -
Embodying the Modern Girl on the Japanese Silent Screen</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=+2><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000 size=+2>For information contact
William Burton,<U> William.burton@tufts.edu</U></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial
color=#000000 size=+2></FONT></DIV><X-SIGSEP><PRE>--
</PRE></X-SIGSEP>
<DIV>Sarah Frederick<BR>Assistant Professor of Japanese</DIV>
<DIV>Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures</DIV>
<DIV>Boston
University</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>________________________________________________<BR>Message
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