<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>John Junkerman, one of the best documentary filmmakers in Japan, interviews the director of <i>Yasukuni.</i> </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2712">http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2712</a></div><div><br></div><div>It would be interesting to hear from those who have seen this, or are seeing it at Nippon Connection. I'm very curious what sort of ideological stance is built into the film itself. The defensive rhetoric around the film is that it looks at a multitude of positions vis a vis the shrine, but this sounds a bit like journalism's "balance" canard. Where exactly is the film coming from (bracketing the intentions expressed in this interview). Where is it's "documentary voice?"</div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>A. M. Nornes</div><div>Professor</div><div>Department of Screen Arts & Cultures</div><div>Department of Asian Languages & Cultures</div><div>University of Michigan</div><div>Department of Asian Languages and Cultures</div><div>Suite 6111, 202 South Thayer Street</div><div>Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608 </div><div>Phone: (734) 647-2094; FAX: x0157</div><div>Homepage: <a href="http://www.umich.edu/~amnornes">www.umich.edu/~amnornes</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>