<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Is a plot device a theme -- and are great movies all about "themes"<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>, in any event.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Naruse may already have made a movie thart covered this territory, but his 1949 "Furyo shojo" is lost. ;~}</SPAN></div>
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<DIV class=hr style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 5px 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; HEIGHT: 0px" readonly="true" contenteditable="false"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Mark Mays <tetsuwan@comcast.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:51 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: Japan in Cannes<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">I was afraid someone would try to read into my disinterest concerns about cultural ownership. Nothing to do with “Japanese-ness” or anything of the sort. If Naruse rose from the grave and decided to do a similarly themed film, I would have a similar response. Although I’d excuse him because it’s likely he hasn’t been keeping up with current events.</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>