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Dear All,<div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">I enjoyed Paul's posting a week or so ago. Smoking was not always glamor, it could also be a cultural weapon. Perhaps most memorable is the image of Ayako spitting out her cigarette when she's returned home at the end of Mizoguchi's <i>Osaka Elegy</i>.</span></div><div><br></div><div>The best writing in English on the Japan tobacco monopoly and health industry in English is work by Roddey Reid, a literature and science studies scholar at UC San Diego.</div><div>I recommend his wonderful <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><i>Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan</i>. In addition to the cultural studies and policy analyses in the book, Reid also spent a lot of time looking at historical representations of smoking especially in film; I helped him with that work when I was a grad student in Tokyo. It was fascinating to construct, as we did informally, a short history of smoking in Japanese cinema. I bet there's a great article waiting to be written there ...</span></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">With best wishes to all,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Jonathan</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">UC Irvine</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><div>On 26 Sep 2008, at 09:59, Anne Ishii wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">could this have simply to do with japanese tobacco being a state-run monopoly through the 80s?<div>and if it's film of the 40s, the very same government was tightly monitoring film content for militarist incongruence, right?</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>On Sep 26, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Paul Roquet wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have been thinking about cigarettes in Japanese film as well, after watching Shina no Yoru (China Nights, 1940) earlier this week. Every time Hasegawa and Ri Koran look all ready to kiss, out comes the box of cigarettes instead, with Ri seductively striking a match and lighting her man's tobacco. I'm not sure if they were sponsored to light up, but it certainly seems like an effective way to add to add to the allure...<div><br></div><div>Come to think of it, Yamaguchi/Ri Koran's character slides into femme fatale mode for at least the middle part of the film - perhaps that's where she picked up the habit.</div><div><br></div><div>Paul</div><div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 26, 2008, at 1:47 AM, Roger Macy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><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><font face="Arial">Does anyone know if there is any smoking gun connecting the tobacco industry with Japanese cinema?</font></div><div><font face="Arial">I noticed this report about Hollywood in the Guardian on-line</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/26/tobaccoindustry.smoking">http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/sep/26/tobaccoindustry.smoking</a></font></div><div><font face="Arial">and it is, doubtless, reported elsewhere.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial">I've been watching as many films as I can of the 'Japan in Black' season here at San Sebastian. The 'noir' elements of many of the films are debatable (as the organisers readily admit). Femmes fatales are passing rare, along with private detectives, etc. etc. Train scenes figure strongly and memorably, but all the films share two elements: they were popular films that featured well-photographed scenes of stars, smoking (or was it " stars' smoking ").</font></div><div><font face="Arial">Roger</font></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>