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Aaron,<div><br></div><div>Your comment brings up two questions:</div><div><br></div><div>Would Shochiku have sent this out along with a feature film with the intent that the theater owner would screen it?</div><div><br></div><div>Were any of the scenes in this short(/trailer?) ever made by Oshima into films later or used in later films?</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 19, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Aaron Gerow wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Sep 18, 2009, at 11:38 PM, <a href="mailto:eigagogo@free.fr">eigagogo@free.fr</a> wrote:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Tomorrow's Sun - Nagisa Oshima (1959)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFW9hMuBWeQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFW9hMuBWeQ</a></div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">One could debate whether this fits the category of a fake trailer. When I saw it at the Bungeiza as part of an Oshima retro, it was labelled as being one of the many self-promotional shorts studios made, assignments which were often given to ADs to get them to hone their directorial skills. This one advertises Shochiku's new actors in their various roles without pretending any of this is one movie.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Aaron Gerow</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Associate Professor</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Yale University</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">53 Wall Street, Room 316</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PO Box 208363</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; 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