Aaron-<br>
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That sounds like a great doc. I'll try to check it out. Shindo-san is
really amazing, still going strong at 94! We can safely say he is the
grand old man of Japanese film at this point.<br>
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Thanks for the heads up.<br>
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rob schwartz</span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Aaron Gerow</b> <<a href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you thought that the current boom in romantic melodramas was<br>restricted to fictions before the camera, then you might want to check<br>out the Nippon TV drama tonight at 9pm: "The Story of the World's Most<br>Loved Wife: Otowa Nobuko and Shindo Kaneto" (Sekaiichi no aisai
<br>monogatari). It is basically a dramatic retelling of the long<br>relationship between the director Shindo Kaneto (Onibaba, The Island)<br>and the actress Otowa Nobuko, which began while Shindo was still<br>married and had to wait 27 years until they were finally married.
<br><br>Katahira Nagisa plays Otowa and Terawaki Yasufumi plays Shindo. The<br>real Shindo is now 94 and still making films, while Otowa died in 1994<br>of cancer after making Gogo no yuigonjo.<br><br>Aaron Gerow<br>KineJapan owner
<br><br>Assistant Professor<br>Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures<br>Yale University<br>
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