<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B><I>Japan Focus</I> has an article by Kim Do-hyeong entitled, "The Kamikaze in Japanse and International Film." A quote: </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Trebuchet MS; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Here in Tokyo, I saw two movies last week. One was a feature, and the other was a documentary. Both were about Japan’s Kamikaze pilots in World War II.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Trebuchet MS; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">"I wanted to convey the corps’ beauty to young people today." So writes Tokyo mayor Ishihara Shintaro at the start of "For Those We Love," (Ore wa kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku the feature film. Ishihara is the film’s executive producer and scriptwriter.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Trebuchet MS; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Ishihara’s ability to move audiences by having them discover the "beauty" of the Kamikaze pilots instead of any "madness" on their part, the beauty of their glorious self-sacrifice, was far more skilled and clever than I thought it could be.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">For the entire article: <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><A href="http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2431">http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2431</A></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">In <I>Variety, </I>Mark Schilling reported that it was one of the top grossing films. Has anyone seen this? </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Markus</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>