<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Whie I have seen and enjoyed one (or maybe two) films directed by Minoru Shibuya (a director who started his career working with Ozu at Shochiku), I've never seen any of the ones being shown in Berlin. I would be particularly interested in Radishes and Carrots, which was a project Ozu started before he became incapacitated by cancer. This film (starring lots of Ozu's regular performers) was sort of a farewell tribute (finished the year after Ozu died).<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Katherine Mezur <kmezur@sbcglobal.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, February 7, 2011 11:31:01 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> question on Berlinale Japanese films<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV>Hi, If any of you have some recommendations for the j-films at the Berlin filmfest, let me know:</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/programmsuche.php?screenings=efm_festival&page=1&order_by=1&section_id=0&cinema_id=0&country_id=79&date_id=0&time_id=0&filterSubmit=OK</SPAN><BR> </DIV>Prof. Dr. Katherine Mezur<BR>Research Fellow<BR>International Research Center<BR>"Interweaving Performance Cultures"<BR>Freie University Berlin<BR>Grunewaldstr. 34<BR>12165 Berlin(-Steglitz), Germany<BR>Tel.: +49 30 838 50448<BR>Fax: +49 30 838 50449<BR>kmezur@sbcglobal.net<BR><BR>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow@yale.edu><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sun, February 6, 2011 3:26:48 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> 2010 industry statistics<BR></FONT><BR>I reported on my blog about the film industry statistics that Eiren just released.<BR><BR><SPAN>http://www.aarongerow.com/news/2010-film-industry-statisti.html</SPAN><BR><BR>Basically, it was a record setting year for total BO, and the best attendance figures since 1974. Japanese films again beat foreign films, but multiplexes continue to take over, leaving independent theaters in danger.<BR><BR>Aaron Gerow<BR>Associate Professor<BR>Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures<BR>Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies<BR>Yale University<BR>53 Wall Street, Room 316<BR>PO Box
208363<BR>New Haven, CT 06520-8363<BR>USA<BR>Phone: 1-203-432-7082<BR>Fax: 1-203-432-6764<BR>e-mail: <A href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</A><BR>site: <A href="http://www.aarongerow.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>www.aarongerow.com</A><BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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