<div>I fear nobody has answered it at all! Maybe it is Top Secret...<BR><BR>ALEX</div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Eija Niskanen <eija.niskanen@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I am also curious...<BR><BR>On 6/11/07, Thomas Vincent <THOMASWVINCENT@HOTMAIL.COM>wrote:<BR>> Hi<BR>><BR>><BR>> I am wondering if this was answered off-list. If so, any chance I could find<BR>> out more too...?<BR>><BR>><BR>> Thanks in advance,<BR>><BR>><BR>> Tom.<BR>><BR>><BR>> >From: Alexander Jacoby <A_P_JACOBY@YAHOO.CO.UK><BR>> >Reply-To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR>> >To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR>> >Subject: Changes at Toho<BR>> >Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:38:46 +0100 (BST)<BR>> ><BR>> >Dear All,<BR>> ><BR>> > Anyone have any news on internal studio politics? I spoke to Donald<BR>>
>Richie last night and he told me that there appears to have been some kind<BR>> >of internal coup at Toho in which some of the older and more conservative<BR>> >bosses have been nudged into retirement. He didn't have many details,<BR>> >though, as he'd only heard it on the grapevine. Does anyone know anything<BR>> >more specific about this story? Is it going to become easier for the rest<BR>> >of us to work with Toho in the future?<BR>> ><BR>> > ALEX<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> >Aaron Gerow <AARON.GEROW@YALE.EDU>wrote:<BR>> > To add to the list of summer events that I and others have sent, let me<BR>> >note that the Tsubouchi Memorial Theater Museum at Waseda University is<BR>> >currently holding an exhibit on Furukawa Roppa and his involvement in<BR>> >musical revues. Roppa was one of Japan's great comedians who appeared<BR>> >in many many films in addition to being central
in stage comedy and<BR>> >musical revues. The son of an aristocrat, he actually started out as a<BR>> >film reporter and magazine editor and is also famous as a diarist. The<BR>> >exhibit includes a lot about Roppa, including his relation to film, as<BR>> >well as related phenomena such as Asakusa Opera and postwar strip shows.<BR>> ><BR>> >The exhibition will run until July 31, but one of the jewels of the<BR>> >event is the rare screening of a Roppa musical comedy entitled Harakiri<BR>> >Boy (PCL, 1937) on June 28.<BR>> ><BR>> >http://www.waseda.jp/enpaku/special/2007roppa.html<BR>> ><BR>> >Aaron Gerow<BR>> >KineJapan owner<BR>> ><BR>> >Assistant Professor<BR>> >Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures<BR>> >Yale University<BR>> ><BR>> >For list commands, send "information kinejapan" to<BR>> >listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR>>
>Kinema Club: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> >---------------------------------<BR>> > Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign<BR>> >up for your freeaccount today.<BR>><BR>> _________________________________________________________________<BR>> Could you be the guest MSN Movies presenter? Click Here to Audition<BR>> http://www.lightscameraaudition.co.uk<BR>><BR>><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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