<div>Thanks Michael. So, you are saying that it's actually not futile - the land is hers, and she will keep the profits from the rice she's ploughing at the end.</div> <div><BR>ALEX<BR><BR><BR><B><I>"kerpan@attglobal.net" <kerpan@attglobal.net></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">As I understand this -- under the new land laws, the senior member of the <BR>family no longer had the right to control land belonging to junior members<BR>of <BR>the family. Chikage Awashima owns part of the land (perhaps on behalf of<BR>her <BR>son), which she inherited from her late husband. Her eldest brother in law <BR>(Ganjiro Nakamura) has only sold his own land (not sure he sold all of it <BR>though).<BR><BR>Ironically, she (the city girl who has yearned to return there) is more <BR>committed (more tied) to the land than the country folk themselves.<BR><BR>MEK<BR><BR>On Monday 15 January 2007
08:46, Alexander Jacoby wrote:<BR><BR>> Dear All,<BR>><BR>> Wonder if anyone has seen Summer Clouds / Iwashigumo recently and can<BR>> tell me how they interpret the splendid final scene?<BR><BR>***<BR><BR>> A few scenes after this, all the rest of the family go to the station,<BR>> but not the heroine, who is ploughing the fields. My question is - is she<BR>> ploughing the land that's already been sold? In which case it would truly<BR>> be fruitless. Or is this the "moitie" of land that might hypothetically<BR>> have been retained? In which case it might not.<BR>><BR>> Any advice gratefully received!<BR><BR><BR>--------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>mail2web - Check your email from the web at<BR>http://mail2web.com/ .<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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