<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><FONT face=Arial>I'm doing this from memory, so could be completely wrong, but in <EM>Kohayagawa-ke no aki / End of Summer</EM>, 1961, didn't the plot involve dozens of journeys between Osaka and Kyoto, whilst the screen showed almost a complete absence of trains ? Would that be a planned absence, or could it have anything to do with it being a rare non-Shochiku film ? Were there any company tie-ups about filming on the tracks ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Almudena - we had a long thread on 'train films' a couple of years back. You can mine them with great labour through the archive, but I've got the contributions rolled away somewhere, if you want to contact me off-list.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV></td></tr></table><br>