<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><font face="sans-serif">But based on what I saw, I think it's
more than just a formal oddity. Certainly, it is IMHO in the Great Tradition
of Japanese documentary, in what it does best, and reflects the reasons
why a few of us are on this list (or keep going back to Yamagata): that
tradition's kind of Interview Film, and its forms of narrative that evolves
its arguments and themes through a respect for, curiosity about, patience
with its informants - rather than the western doco tendency to interrogate
and expose. In that sense, it is something different - and much more interesting
than mere 'oral history'.</font>
<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think you're spot on here. In this respect it has something in common with one of Tsuchiya's early docs, Does the Emperor Have War Responsibility? In that film, the filmmakers wore cameras on their heads as they interviewed people. It was a bit discombobulating at times, but a similar effect. Nami no koe also has a rough-hewn quality—they made no attempt to capture quality sound or light conventionally. But Quentin is right. This does fit a certain strong strain within Japanese nonfiction filmmaking. </div>
<div><br></div><div>He's also right that Act of Killing is not to be missed. Wow. </div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">
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