<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><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; "><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; ">That's too bad. That means that Hashiguchi Ryosuke's wonderful new film, "Gururi no koto," which was in the running until the last round, didn't make it. It'll open in Tokyo in June.</span></span></div><div><br></div><div>John</div><br><div><div>On Apr 24, 2008, at 12:54 AM, Mark Nornes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">It's a thin year for Japanese cinema at Cannes. The only film showing, and out of competition in Un Certain Regard, is Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata.<div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><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></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>