<html><div style='background-color:'><P class=RTE><FONT face="Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=2>Itami's "Tampopo" for its humor and superb introduction to the Japanese's fascination for food as well as manners in the 1980s, Miyazaki's "Totoro" as representative of his art, Otomo's "Akira" and Hideaki's "Neon Genesis Evangelion" as examples of influential anime, and Kore-eda's "Distance" for its sensitive reflection on Japanese and religions would be on my list of important films from the last twenty years. I think some of them will qualify as classics even twenty years from now.</FONT><BR> Best,<BR><BR>Christian M. Hermansen </P>
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