<div dir="ltr">I haven't seen the show yet, but from reading the synopses of the episodes, I can see how people can find it very upsetting. <div><br></div><div>What I found interesting was that at the same time there was a controversy over a new documentary on 311 "$B%,%l%-$H%i%8%*(B" that was chastised for using "yarase" ( more on it in this article: <a href="http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20140305-00000033-flix-movi">http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20140305-00000033-flix-movi</a>). I find it interesting that these two issues over the "authenticity" of the image is happening at the same time.<br>
<br>Yuki Nakayama <div>University of Michigan</div><div>Screen Arts and Cultures Department<br><div>PhD Student</div></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Dolores Martinez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dm6@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank">dm6@soas.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Aaron, I had a student working on the representations of single mothers especially in film and television. I could put ypu in touch with her if you'd like some general information. Yours, Lola <div class="HOEnZb">
<div class="h5"><br><br>On Friday, 7 March 2014, Gerow Aaron <<a href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu" target="_blank">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Related to this, I wonder if anyone has opinions on Dare mo shiranai and if there was similar reception to this - i.e. controversy. Of course it’s a different case since it was a movie and so presumably didn’t have sponsors like a TV show would. Anyway, it’s interesting to me because I heard that was also “based on a true story” (is that right?). I’m not a film expert by any means, so I hope this isn’t an ignorant question. I feel like the issue of the portrayal of child-rearing responsibility being solely the mother’s is similar between the two but I haven’t seen the movie in quite a while.</div>
</blockquote><br></div><div>There were some criticisms of Dare mo shiranai, but the ones I read (in Eiga geijutsu, etc.), had more to do with how Koreeda was fudging with reality while still advertising it as "based on a true story." It was not about problems in the representation of such abandoned children or the services that do or don't take care of them. </div>
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