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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Dear kinejapaners,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I greatly enjoyed seeing Imamura's Nippon sengo shi:
Madamu onboro no seikatsu (History of Postwar Japan as told by a Bar Hostess,
1970) at Sheffield Doc/Fest, even though the aspect ratio was
inconsistent. It was all shown in standard format, including sections shot
in widescreen, so that people looked laterally compressed. I can't see any
mention of this by anyone - has it always been like this ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The print was an english-subtitled Japan Foundation 35mm,
which has now been shipped direct to Vienna.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>And is there a Japanese word for 'mockumentary' ? - (an
english term not invented, according to Wikipedia, until the
mid-1980s).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>