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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>>most people seem to know the film
"where the girl saws off the guys leg..."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>well, here in russia many people keep the same feeling from Audition
:)</DIV>
<DIV>Miike is quite popular director here, especially from teenagers, students
and other young 'intellectuals' of art-house/independent films. i'm a long time
journalist and Japanese culture (especially experimental sound and movies) is a
very special theme of my interests_ if you read in russian I can re-send you my
article about 'strange' art of Takashi Miike (not about girls saws off... :-) I
wrote a couple years ago here in media (sorry, I had not a special idea to
translate it in English because the main idea of my essay was to give more first
info and impressions about Miike for local audience and my readers_also some
years ago I helped to my friends who have a cinema house here in my homeplace
presented a first film of Miike here - "The city of lost souls" (earlier before
it we had his films just only on TV - Audition and first part of DOA, but not on
big screen); we presented that film for special first time festival of art-house
films 'Art_ery' where also were presented later a works of Kitano, Nakata,
Miyatsaki, </DIV>
<DIV>yes, One Missed Call and Three extremes also were here on big screen as
well as one moscow company released on VHS/DVD Miike' "Katakuri...' Visitor
Q', DOA-III', Izo', Gozu'... I'm very interested in all aspects of experimental
art, so summer last year I created a special all night long open-air avantgard
and experimental film festival with works of one of my favourite director Shinya
Tsukamoto - as I know it was first free open presentation of Tsukamo films here
(except "Snake of June" on TV some months ago)_ in February this year
Moscow planing to finally make a big retrospective for Tsukamoto works - sorry
for this off topic here</DIV>
<DIV>also about situation with Japanese films here, every year we have a special
festival from Ambassy of Japan in Russia' archive_ classic films
in general </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ps. sorry for long off topic message_I'm here on
the list long time already but much to my regret didn't have a possibility to
present yourself and say you all Hello_ for me it's a big honour to be
here_Aaron, Tom and all, sincerely thank you for your work and info and thoughts
and comments here_and pls, sorry for my poor English :)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Igor Vaganov</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>journalist, Rostov-on-Don/Russia</FONT></DIV>
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incredible strange culture :<BR>a c h t
u n g b a b y
!<BR><A
href="http://drugie.here.ru/achtung">http://drugie.here.ru/achtung</A><BR><A
href="http://drugie.here.ru/achtung/svoi_chuzhie/">http://drugie.here.ru/achtung/svoi_chuzhie/</A><BR>:
incredible strange films
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ten years of madness (behind the iron curtain) :<BR></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=tim.stone@film.vic.gov.au href="mailto:tim.stone@film.vic.gov.au">Tim
Stone</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:45
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: looking for articles on
Miike</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=992322223-11012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2><EM>Audition</EM> has shown on SBS television in Australia, SBS is the
free-to-air multicultural broadcaster in Australia. Their charter is to show
foreign films catering to the many different language groups
prevalent here - while also attracting more viewers in general; they regularly
show Japanese films. I agree with Jim, next to Hideo Nakata's films, most
people seem to know the film "where the girl saws off the guys
leg..."</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=992322223-11012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Miike appears to have a strong fan base here. His films either
sell out or are well attended at the Melbourne Film Festival - which
unfortunately is usually the only time you get to see a film print version. We
usually get two films a year. 2005 - it was Izo and Three
Extremes, 2004 - Graveyard of Honour and One Missed
Call.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jim Harper
[mailto:jimharper666@yahoo.co.uk] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, 12 January 2006
1:57 AM<BR><B>To:</B> KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B>
Re: looking for articles on Miike<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>In the UK over the past 3-4 years it's been shown on digital/satellite
subscription channels (Sky Movies, FilmFour), 'free' digital/satellite
channels (Sci-Fi) and one of the five basic terrestrial channels. Next to
Ring, it's probably the most widely shown of all the 'extreme' Asian films
that have made it to television (and there are quite a few now). The fact
that three separate 'networks' have picked it up is a testament to its
popularity over here.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jim.<BR><BR><B><I>drainer@mpinet.net</I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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the U.S. it has been shown on subscription movie channels; I've been back
<BR>here for the past 3 months and I've noticed quite a few Japanese
movies <BR>being played lately, mostly on Starz.<BR><BR>-d<BR><BR>-----
Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Jim Harper"
<JIMHARPER666@YAHOO.CO.UK><BR>To: <KINEJAPAN@LISTS.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU><!
BR>Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:20 AM<BR>Subject: Re: looking for
articles on Miike<BR><BR><BR>> Just out of interest, aside from the UK,
where has Audition been shown on <BR>> television?<BR>><BR>>
Jim.<BR>><BR>> Mark Nornes
<AMNORNES@UMICH.EDU>wrote:<BR>><BR>> On Jan 10, 2006, at 8:43 AM,
Aaron Gerow wrote:<BR>><BR>>> I don't know if it "proves" his
violence is not gratuitous, but I do<BR>>> have an old article that
makes a case for his thematic importance:<BR>>><BR>><BR>> OK,
so what I was obliquely trying to suggest is that standard<BR>>
definitions of "gratuitous" won't work so well for Miike. Thanks to
the<BR>> irony and self-conscious, "light" approach to everything he
does, the<BR>> very "gratuitousness" of the violence is in its own way
"thematic." I'd<BR>> be very impressed if you could get Audition on
television without<BR>> censorship, though. Go for it.<BR>><BR>>
Markus<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>
http://www.flipsidemovies.com<BR>>
http://jimharper.blogspot.com<BR>><BR>>
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