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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>I forgot to mention another of my favorite Japanese train scenes:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>The sequence of train-cars repeatedly coupling – beautifully shot
by <span class=SpellE>Miyagawa</span> Kazuo – as a cutaway shot following
one of the many sex scenes in Ichikawa <span class=SpellE>Kon’s</span>
film version of <span class=SpellE>Tanizaki</span> <span class=SpellE>Jun’ichiro’s</span>
novel <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Kagi</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'> (“The Key.”<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span></i>The
film is titled, in the </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'>U.S.</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'>, as <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>“Odd <span
class=SpellE>Obsesson</span>.”)<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></p>
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color:navy'>Peter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Peter Grilli
[mailto:grilli@us-japan.org] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><st1:date
Month="9" Day="12" Year="2008"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Friday, September 12, 2008</span></font></st1:date><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><st1:time
Hour="2" Minute="57"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>2:57 AM</span></font></st1:time><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> grilli@us-japan.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Japanese train films</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>One of the alltime greatest
train sequences in the history of movies is the ransom-money drop from the
Shinkansen in Kurosawa's </span></font></b></strong><em><b><i><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua";font-weight:bold'>Tengoku
to Jigoku </span></font></i></b></em><strong><b><font face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>("High & Low" ).</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>For a station scene, I love the tense scene
near the end of Kurosawa's <em><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Nora Inu </span></font></i></em>("Stray
Dog"), in which detective Mifune Toshiro suspiciously eyes all the people
in the waiting room of a little suburban station, desperately trying to
identify which one is the killer.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>There are so many trains in Japanese movies
one doesn't know where to begin. Others have already mentioned many train
scenes.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>One rarely seen film that is full of trains
is <em><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Tooi
ippon no michi ("The </span></font></i></em></span></font><st1:Street><st1:address><em><i><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Far Road</span></font></i></em></st1:address></st1:Street><em><i><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>") -- </span></font></i></em><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>actress Hidari
Sachiko's 1977 debut film as a director in a narrative about a stationmaster's
family.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Speaking of Hidari, I recall train scenes in
her 1955 film for Tasaka Tomotaka <em><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Jochukko ("The Maid's Kid")</span></font></i></em></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>And then there's Ichikawa's 1957 <em><i><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Mannin
Densha ("A Full-Up Train") </span></font></i></em>and the
unforgettable train scene at the beginning of the various different film
versions of Kawabata Yasunari's novel <em><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Yukiguni ("Snow Country"), </span></font></i></em>and
the long journey in Yamada Yoji's <em><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Kazoku ("Family").</span></font></i></em></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Just about every Japanese film with the word
<em><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>"furusato"
(hometown) </span></font></i></em>in the title has a train journey in it and a
nostalgic journey home.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Some other memorable Japanese train
stations appear in Imamura Shohei's 1955 <em><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Nishi-Ginza Eki-mae ("In Front of
Nishiginza Station") </span></font></i></em>and Toyoda Shiro's 1955 <em><i><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Mugi-bue
("Grass Whistle") </span></font></i></em></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Not exactly a station, but the final scenes
of Shinoda Masahiro's beautiful 1977 film <em><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Hanare-goze Orin ("Banished Orin"
or "Melody in Gray") </span></font></i></em>show railroad track being
laid in a steep mountain pass (and I also recall several trains-in-the
landscape scenes in that film as Orin travels through Tsuruga and Ura-Nippon.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>There's also a powerful train scene at the
end of Kobayashi's great (but rarely seen) 1968 film <em><i><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Nihon no
seishun ("Youth of </span></font></i></em></span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><em><i><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Japan</span></font></i></em></st1:place></st1:country-region><em><i><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>" </span></font></i></em><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>or <em><i><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>"Diary of a
Tired Man").</span></font></i></em></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>One odd sequence involving train stations is
the party scene in Kurosawa's 1993 film <em><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Maada-dayo ("Not Yet"), </span></font></i></em>at
which a drunken partygoer takes it upon himself to recite the names of every
train station on the main train line from the north of Hokkaido to the very
south of Kagoshima.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>And don't forget Kurosawa's script <em><i><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Runaway Train, </span></font></i></em>which
was finally made into a movie of the same name in 1985, directed by Andrei
Konchalovsky and starring Jon Voight.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>It's hard to know where to stop listing
train scenes in Japanese films. There are many, many, many more.....!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Peter Grilli</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>From: "Brian Ruh" <</span></font><a
href="mailto:brianruh@yahoo.com"><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>brianruh@yahoo.com</span></font></a><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>To: "KineJapan" <</span></font><a
href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu"><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>kinejapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</span></font></a><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sent: </span></font><st1:date Month="9" Day="11" Year="2008"><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thursday,
September 11, 2008</span></font></st1:date><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><st1:time Hour="21"
Minute="27"><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Subject: Japanese train films</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>> Since reading this article [1] in the Japan Times, I've
been thinking about Japanese trains. (I love things like subway cars and
trains. I think it stems from growing up in a place where there wasn't anything
like that.) Can anyone recommend any good Japanese films that prominently
feature trains, stations, etc.? (When I try a Google search on the subject, I'm
inundated with results for Densha Otoko.)<br>
> <br>
> Any time period or genre would be great. (I particularly like the train
scenes in Shinkai Makoto's "5 Centimeters Per Second" even though
they're animated.) Thanks in advance!<br>
> <br>
> [1] </span></font><a
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080909jk.html</span></font></a><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>> <br>
> Best,<br>
> Brian<br>
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