<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The news reports say that the great actress Awashima Chikage passed away. Not that well known abroad because she often did comedy (though she was great at serious roles as well), she was a force to be missed.<div><br></div><div>Here's a news report in Japanese:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.47news.jp/CN/201202/CN2012021601000990.html">http://www.47news.jp/CN/201202/CN2012021601000990.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Here's my report:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.aarongerow.com/news/awashima-chikage.html">http://www.aarongerow.com/news/awashima-chikage.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>The Japanese Wikipedia article contains a bunch of interesting trivia, such as that Awashima was the model for Tezuka Osamu's Ribon no kishi, or that her younger brother was a Hanna Barbera animator, but I'll wait to see extra proof of that.</div><br><br><div>
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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; "><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>Professor<br>Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures<br>Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies Program<br>Yale University<br>320 York Street, Room 311<br>PO Box 208236<br>New Haven, CT 06520-8236<br>USA<br>Phone: 1-203-432-7082<br>Fax: 1-203-432-6729<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"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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