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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">there is a reference in my Mizoguchi filmography about the timing discrepancy. censors apparently cut 108 meters from the original 92-minute version; 69 minutes are all that remain. censorship was very strict in the 30s and this kind of butchering was not unusual. other Mizoguchi work suffered the same fate. whether the original version was ever screened or not, wiser heads will have to tell you, as this is all the info i have here at the moment. it seems to be common, however, for Japanese sources frequently to refer to the original, pre-censorship length that the director intended.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">cheers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 2011/10/5, Stefania Burk <I><stefania.burk@ubc.ca></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV id=yiv422031174>Dear all,<BR><BR>I am way out of my specialization (pre-modern J. poetry) here, but I have a quick question. I'm teaching Mizoguchi's Sisters of the Gion and have noticed a discrepancy in the runtimes listed online; the Criterion DVD version has a runtime of 69 minutes, but on other sites it states the running time in Japan was 95 minutes. Was the original really so much longer? Or is something else going on?<BR><BR>Best,<BR><BR>Stefania<BR>
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<DIV>Department of Asian Studies</DIV>
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