<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 27, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Bruce Baird wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">I haven't seen all of these films, but generally the directors use the dancers when they want to depict someone who is crazed or out of the ordinary, and considering the predilections of the dancers, this is no surprise. </FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">One more example along these lines: Hijikata rendered the dark insanity of a man living with a Kannon statue in Ogawa's (documentary) <I>Sundial Carved With a Thousand Years of Notches,</I> playing against none other than Nikkatsu Roman Porno star Miyashita Junko. It's a fascinating sequence marked by time slips and a crazy performance climaxing with an unscripted plunge into a mountain stream.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I once spoke to one of his deshis about it, and she said it was among her favorite performances. She sensed a self-consciousness about his impending death. So it could be a document of far more than that Magino story. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>markus</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>