<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This got lost in all the news about the quake and the tsunami, but the great comedian Sakagami Jiro passed away the day before the quake. As a member of Konto 55-go with Hagimoto Kin'ichi, he ruled variety TV in the 70s, but also appeared in a lot of films, most memorably in Oshima's Taboo. I talk about more on my website:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.aarongerow.com/news/sakagami-jiro-flies-away.html">http://www.aarongerow.com/news/sakagami-jiro-flies-away.html</a></div><br><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Aaron Gerow<br>Associate Professor<br>Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures<br>Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies Program<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">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a></div><div>website: <a href="http://www.aarongerow.com">www.aarongerow.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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