<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><p class="ydp602adba7MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Dear KineJapaners,</span></p>
<p class="ydp602adba7MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">I see that the Nissan Institute in </span><span style="font-family:Arial">Oxford</span><span style="font-family:Arial"> have just announced an event with the film director,
John Williams.</span></p>
<p class="ydp602adba7MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Friday, 9</span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial">th </span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial">February</span></b></p>
<p class="ydp602adba7MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-family:Arial">Making Films in Japan -
</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial">Writer, Director and Producer John
Williams will talk about his experiences making three award-winning
Japanese-language feature films, <i>Firefly Dreams </i>(<i>Ichiban Utsukushii
Natsu</i>, 2001), <i>Starfish Hotel </i>(2007) and <i>Sado Tempest </i>(2013).
He will talk about the creation, production, and reception of these films and about
the Japanese film industry and will show clips from his recently completed fourth
feature, a Japanese language adaptation of <i>The Trial </i>(<i>Shinpan</i>,
2018) set in contemporary </span><span style="font-family: Arial">Tokyo</span><span style="font-family:Arial">.</span></p>
<p class="ydp602adba7MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial">This Seminar will take place in the
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre from </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial">5.00 pm</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family:Arial">.</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="ydp602adba7MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/making-films-japan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/making-films-japan</a></span></p>
<p class="ydp602adba7MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">Frustratingly for me, I shall be in
flight to </span><span style="font-family:Arial">Japan</span><span style="font-family:Arial"> at the time. <span> </span>So
if anyone else wants to organise a similar event in the </span><span style="font-family:Arial">UK</span><span style="font-family:Arial">, whilst John Williams has a fellowship in </span><span style="font-family:Arial">Oxford</span><span style="font-family:Arial">, they’d get one willing attendee !</span></p>
<p class="ydp602adba7MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">Roger</span></p>
<p class="ydp602adba7MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-family:Arial"><a href="mailto:macyroger@yahoo.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">macyroger@yahoo.co.uk</a></span></p>
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