<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Dear All,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">I saw
recently the movie <i>Oshidori Utagassen</i> by Masahiro Makino (1939) at the French
Cinematheque in Paris. The movie amazed me: I was unaware of the existence of
Japanese musicals in the 30s. I've searched for information about the subject
but I've found practically nothing, only an article in French by Michael
Baskett in <i>Diasporas </i>n°4: “Empire et cinéma… : que le spectacle commence !” and a reference in this article to the book <i>Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History</i>, edited by Arthur Nolletti & David Desser (I've bought the book but I don't received it yet).<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Do you know
any books or articles about Japanese musicals in the 30s and 40s? I can
read English, French and, if necessary, Spanish and Portuguese, but not
Japanese (my level isn’t good enough).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US">Jérémie de
Albuquerque</span></p>
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