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Markus, I still had this in PC storage but don't seem to have saved any others. Your friend is welcome. FB<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Faith Bach <<a href="mailto:faithbach@yahoo.co.jp">faithbach@yahoo.co.jp</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">September 12, 2008 9:10:25 PM JST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: Japanese train films</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><i>High & Low</i> is certainly the best!</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">For specifically Nostalgic trains, nobody seems to have mentioned yet the wonderful long rattling trip to Tokyo from Kyoto in Mizoguchi's <i>Gion Bayashi </i>(1954), or the luminous final onboard scene in his <i>Waga Koe wa Moenu</i> (1949), which really is worth sitting thru the whole film for. Not to mention the two (count 'em!) absolutely classic "leaving-on-a-Meiji-period-train" scenes central to his <i>Zangiku Monogatari </i>(1939, but also in the other two less inspired versions, 1956 & 1963). And one can hardly leave out the end of Ozu's <i>Ukigusa </i>(1959) with Kyo Machiko & Ganjiro II in perhaps their best respective moments of cinema acting; nor the ditto of his 1957 <i>Tokyo Boshoku</i> with Yamada Isuzu at the train window...</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">There is also a weird & wonderful "muri shinju" murder scene on and off a train platform in Naruse's 1960 <i>Yoru no Nagare,</i> quite a shocker.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times">Better stop while I still can!</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; ">Faith Bach</span></div><div><div><div>On Sep 12, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Peter Grilli 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="Book Antiqua"><strong>One of the alltime greatest train sequences in the history of movies is the ransom-money drop from the Shinkansen in Kurosawa's <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Tengoku to Jigoku </em>("High & Low" ).</strong></font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua"></font> </div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">For a station scene, I love the tense scene near the end of Kurosawa's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Nora Inu<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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.</font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua"></font> </div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">There are so many trains in Japanese movies one doesn't know where to begin. Others have already mentioned many train scenes.</font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">One rarely seen film that is full of trains is <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Tooi ippon no michi ("The Far Road") --<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>actress Hidari Sachiko's 1977 debut film as a director in a narrative about a stationmaster's family.</font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">Speaking of Hidari, I recall train scenes in her 1955 film for Tasaka Tomotaka<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Jochukko ("The Maid's Kid")</em></font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua"></font> </div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">And then there's Ichikawa's 1957<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Mannin Densha ("A Full-Up Train")<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>and the unforgettable train scene at the beginning of the various different film versions of Kawabata Yasunari's novel<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Yukiguni ("Snow Country"),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>and the long journey in Yamada Yoji's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Kazoku ("Family").</em></font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">Just about every Japanese film with the word<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>"furusato" (hometown)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>in the title has a train journey in it and a nostalgic journey home.</font></div><div><em><font face="Book Antiqua"></font></em> </div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">Some other memorable Japanese train stations appear in Imamura Shohei's 1955<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Nishi-Ginza Eki-mae ("In Front of Nishiginza Station")<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>and Toyoda Shiro's 1955<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Mugi-bue ("Grass Whistle")</em></font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">Not exactly a station, but the final scenes of Shinoda Masahiro's beautiful 1977 film<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Hanare-goze Orin ("Banished Orin" or "Melody in Gray")<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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.</font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">There's also a powerful train scene at the end of Kobayashi's great (but rarely seen) 1968 film<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Nihon no seishun ("Youth of Japan"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>or <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>"Diary of a Tired Man").</em></font></div><div><em><font face="Book Antiqua"></font></em> </div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">One odd sequence involving train stations is the party scene in Kurosawa's 1993 film<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Maada-dayo ("Not Yet"),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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.</font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">And don't forget Kurosawa's script<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Runaway Train,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>which was finally made into a movie of the same name in 1985, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and starring Jon Voight.</font></div><div><em><font face="Book Antiqua"></font></em> </div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">It's hard to know where to stop listing train scenes in Japanese films. There are many, many, many more.....!</font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua"></font> </div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">Peter Grilli</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">----- Original Message -----</font><div><font face="Arial" size="2">From: "Brian Ruh" <</font><a href="mailto:brianruh@yahoo.com"><font face="Arial" size="2">brianruh@yahoo.com</font></a><font face="Arial" size="2">></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">To: "KineJapan" <</font><a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu"><font face="Arial" size="2">kinejapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</font></a><font face="Arial" size="2">></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:27 PM</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Subject: Japanese train films</font></div></div><div><font face="Arial"><br><font size="2"></font></font></div><font face="Arial" size="2">> 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>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> [1]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080909jk.html"><font face="Arial" size="2">http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080909jk.html</font></a><br><font face="Arial" size="2">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Best,<br>> Brian<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Brian's Essential Reading: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://www.oshiibook.com"><font face="Arial" size="2">http://www.oshiibook.com</font></a><br><font face="Arial" size="2">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> --<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> No virus found i