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<DIV>My colleague Roger Garcia of the Udine Far East Film festival is curating a
section for next year's edition on Asian musicals, primarily from the 1950s
and 1960s. I'm helping him with Japan by screening the films of the
usual suspects (Takamine Mieko, Takamine Hideko, Misora Hibari, Kayama
Yuzo, The Crazy Cats, Frankie Sakai, Ishihara Yujiro, etc.), but I'm
wondering if there are any good books or articles out there, in Japanese or
English, I should be mining. There is plenty of writing on
music in Japanese films, but I'm more interested in the musical genre per
se, or rather the local interpretation of it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Mark Schilling</DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:schill@gol.com">schill@gol.com</A></DIV>
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