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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>If you're still there, Andreas, I ought to have mentioned
that Tom Mes wrote about Shinoda in the September-October issue of 'Film
Comment' (I've only just seen it) and that Tom is definitely <U>not</U>
complimentary about 'Spy Sorge'.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=macyroger@yahoo.co.uk href="mailto:macyroger@yahoo.co.uk">Roger Macy</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:32 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: Japanese-German film relations</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Another Shinoda film with a strong German connection must
be his latest 'Spy Sorge', 2003.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Which also prompts me to mention that a write-up of
the film by Keiko McDonald appeared posthumously last year in the book '<SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: JA"
lang=EN>Patriots and Traitors: Sorge and Ozaki' edited by J. Thomas
Rimer.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: JA"
lang=EN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: JA"
lang=EN>Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia films were fitted out for each market with
home-country star performances from the 1936 games. Nagamasa Kawakita
recounts in his 'Recollections' that these were the hits of 1940 in Japan - a
time-lag that seems incomprehensible today but must in part be related to the
cancelled Tokyo 1940 games.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: JA"
lang=EN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: JA"
lang=EN>Kawakita had serviceable German and recounts numerous business
connections. These include the Karl Koch recompilation, with models made
in Germany, 'Nippon'.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: JA"
lang=EN>Roger</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: JA"
lang=EN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>From: "=%UTF-8?Q? Florian_B=C3=BClow ?=" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:floskel@web.de"><FONT face=Arial>floskel@web.de</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>To: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu"><FONT
face=Arial>KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:16 PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Subject: Re: Japanese-German film
relations</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial>Maihime/Die Tänzerin
(1989) by Masahiro Shinoda, a film about the japanese writer Mori Ogai's stay in
Berlin.<BR><BR>Ode an die Freude (2006) by Masanobu Deme, a film about german
war prisoners in Japan during First World
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