<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505033499280_165884">And what a lure for the films of Toyoda, absent, in London at least, since 1993..</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505033499280_165886">Roger<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505033499280_165930"><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505033499280_165931"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505033499280_165832" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505033499280_165831"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505033499280_165830"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505033499280_165829"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505033499280_165842" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <kinejapan@lists.osu.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@lists.osu.edu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 11 September 2017, 12:00<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [KineJapan] "Why do Japanese actresses give such good performances?"<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505033499280_165932"><br><div id="yiv3947063626"><div><div>I think Alo wins the prize. A very impressive feat of memory!</div><div id="yiv3947063626AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv3947063626AppleMailSignature"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" 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="yiv3947063626AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv3947063626AppleMailSignature">Kerim Yasar<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="yiv3947063626yqt9310200675" id="yiv3947063626yqtfd26648"><br clear="none">On Sep 11, 2017, at 3:51 AM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv3947063626yqt9310200675" id="yiv3947063626yqtfd27339"><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Dear Alex,</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>I do not have an exact reference for you either, but it was indeed</span><br clear="none"><span>Richie who said it somewhere in "Notes for a Study on Shohei Imamura"</span><br clear="none"><span>(and possibly elsewhere). I seem to recall the quote originated from</span><br clear="none"><span>Toyoda Shiro.</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>Best,</span><br clear="none"><span>Alo Jõekalda</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>On 11 September 2017 at 19:36, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via</span><br clear="none"><span>KineJapan <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:</span><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I seem to remember this being a Donald Richie quote. It certainly is the</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>kind of thing Richie would have said, although I can't remember the source.</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Available to own and rent on iTunes in the US and Canada from 22 March 2016m</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and to schools, universities and libraries in through The Cinema Guild.</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds book</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>out now from Alchimia Publishing.</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>???An improbably delightful documentary about slime molds.... good-humored</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>but not campy in its regard of some genuinely fascinating research, and full</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>of trippy visuals",</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> Dennis Harvey, Variety</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself",</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Nicholas Rapold, The New York Times</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>________________________________</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: KineJapan <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kinejapan-bounces@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:kinejapan-bounces@lists.osu.edu">kinejapan-bounces@lists.osu.edu</a>> on behalf of Japanese</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent: 11 September 2017 10:04:16</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: [KineJapan] "Why do Japanese actresses give such good</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>performances?"</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dear all,</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hisashiburi, etc, etc!</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I'm wondering if anyone might be able to help me out by identifying a</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>puzzling sourceless quotation that I might like to use in an article</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>introducing a forthcoming season of films about Japanese actresses at the</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>British Film Institute.</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The quotation, as I remember it, is that either a famous Japanese actress,</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>or a famous director, was asked something along of the lines of: "Why are</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Japanese actresses so good?" And the reply was something like, "Because</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Japanese women have to spend their whole lives acting." Several people I've</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>talked to confirm that they think they've heard the line, but no one can</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>remember where it comes from and where it's cited. I felt pretty sure that</span><br clear="none"></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 clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>closest I've found either googling or looking through my library is Ian</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Buruma, but he's making a general comment about Japanese society, not</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>specifically about women, and it's his own point, not something ascribed to</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>a Japanese commentator.</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>It would be especially interesting if it had been an actress who had come</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>out with the line - less interesting if I'm misremembering and it was a</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>foreign critic who said it.</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks in advance for any leads,</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>ALEX JACOBY</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>KineJapan mailing list</span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:KineJapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.osu.edu">KineJapan@lists.osu.edu</a></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan</a></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br clear="none"></blockquote><span>_______________________________________________</span><br clear="none"><span>KineJapan mailing list</span><br clear="none"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:KineJapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.osu.edu">KineJapan@lists.osu.edu</a></span><br clear="none"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan</a></span><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div class="yqt9310200675" id="yqtfd23888">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">KineJapan mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:KineJapan@lists.osu.edu" href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.osu.edu">KineJapan@lists.osu.edu</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan" target="_blank">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>