
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I think Alo wins the prize. A very impressive feat of memory!</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8RQIAQAAMAAJ&dq=notes+for+a+study+on+imamura&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Actresses">https://books.google.com/books?id=8RQIAQAAMAAJ&dq=notes+for+a+study+on+imamura&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Actresses</a></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Kerim Yasar<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Sep 11, 2017, at 3:51 AM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Dear Alex,</span><br><span></span><br><span>I do not have an exact reference for you either, but it was indeed</span><br><span>Richie who said it somewhere in "Notes for a Study on Shohei Imamura"</span><br><span>(and possibly elsewhere). I seem to recall the quote originated from</span><br><span>Toyoda Shiro.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Best,</span><br><span>Alo Jõekalda</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 11 September 2017 at 19:36, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via</span><br><span>KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>I seem to remember this being a Donald Richie quote. It certainly is the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>kind of thing Richie would have said, although I can't remember the source.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Available to own and rent on iTunes in the US and Canada from 22 March 2016m</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and to schools, universities and libraries in through The Cinema Guild.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds book</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>out now from Alchimia Publishing.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>???An improbably delightful documentary about slime molds.... good-humored</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>but not campy in its regard of some genuinely fascinating research, and full</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>of trippy visuals",</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> Dennis Harvey, Variety</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself",</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Nicholas Rapold, The New York Times</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan-bounces@lists.osu.edu">kinejapan-bounces@lists.osu.edu</a>> on behalf of Japanese</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent: 11 September 2017 10:04:16</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: <a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: [KineJapan] "Why do Japanese actresses give such good</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>performances?"</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dear all,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hisashiburi, etc, etc!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I'm wondering if anyone might be able to help me out by identifying a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>puzzling sourceless quotation that I might like to use in an article</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>introducing a forthcoming season of films about Japanese actresses at the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>British Film Institute.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The quotation, as I remember it, is that either a famous Japanese actress,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>or a famous director, was asked something along of the lines of: "Why are</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Japanese actresses so good?" And the reply was something like, "Because</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Japanese women have to spend their whole lives acting." Several people I've</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>talked to confirm that they think they've heard the line, but no one can</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>remember where it comes from and where it's cited. I felt pretty sure that</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>it was in one of the older books, e.g., an early Richie or a Mellen, but the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>closest I've found either googling or looking through my library is Ian</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Buruma, but he's making a general comment about Japanese society, not</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>specifically about women, and it's his own point, not something ascribed to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>a Japanese commentator.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>It would be especially interesting if it had been an actress who had come</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>out with the line - less interesting if I'm misremembering and it was a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>foreign critic who said it.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks in advance for any leads,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>ALEX JACOBY</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>KineJapan mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.osu.edu">KineJapan@lists.osu.edu</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>KineJapan mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.osu.edu">KineJapan@lists.osu.edu</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>