<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Small world / narrow world, <SPAN lang=EN-US>Jérémie</SPAN> ! </DIV>
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<DIV>'Oshidori utagassen' is credited as the Japanese movie being projected in Parker's 'Come See the Paradise', 1990. Within the story, it's being shown in 'Little Tokyo', Los Angeles in, I think, 1938, so it's slightly out but basically credible.</DIV>
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<DIV>I would also be interested in hearing, and seeing more.</DIV>
<DIV>Roger</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 3/2/12, =%ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=E9mie_de_Albuquerque?= <I><j.dealbuquerque@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: =%ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=E9mie_de_Albuquerque?= <j.dealbuquerque@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Japanese musicals in the 30s and 40s<BR>To: kinejapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR>Date: Friday, 3 February, 2012, 11:32<BR><BR>
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<P class=yiv2005977224MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US>Dear All,</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=yiv2005977224MsoNormal><SPAN 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></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=yiv2005977224MsoNormal><SPAN 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></DIV>
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<P class=yiv2005977224MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US>Regards,</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=yiv2005977224MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-US>Jérémie de Albuquerque</SPAN></DIV>
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