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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Maria Jose Gonzalez <tkarsavina@yahoo.com><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, 28 February, 2011 16:44:08<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: Spring Awakens (was: Hideko the Bus Conductor)<BR></FONT><BR>
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<TD vAlign=top>Just months before that same year,another "bus" film by Hiroshi Shimizu,"Akatsuki no Gassho" had been released and Naruse was of course very much aware of the comparisons that would arise.<BR>This film deals with yet another conductress and again contains no traces of a country at war (apparently it was filmed in Akita Prefecture which suggests films were moving away from the capital area to avoid it).
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<DIV>Maria-Jose</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 1/3/11, Michael Kerpan <I><mekerpan@verizon.net></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Michael Kerpan <mekerpan@verizon.net><BR>Subject: Spring Awakens (was: Hideko the Bus Conductor)<BR>To: "KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" <KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu><BR>Date: Tuesday, 1 March, 2011, 1:12 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><SPAN>> This has the feel of a story of the near past, only pretending to be in the present.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>This is true of one Naruse's early post-war films. I get a feeling that this could as easily have been set around 1930 as around the latter 1940s. (This is another of my top 1940s Naruse films). ;~}<VAR id=yiv2133000191yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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