<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><p class="ydp4031fb74MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Dear KineJapaners,</span></p>
<p class="ydp4031fb74MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">This
is just a response to the posting by Mark Selden on Asia-Pacific Journal about
the film, </span><i><span style="font-family:Arial">Nanking</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial">, 1938: <a href="http://apjjf.org/2018/2/Selden.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://apjjf.org/2018/2/Selden.html</a>
. I think I got a slightly better picture by going direct to YouTube.</span></p>
<p class="ydp4031fb74MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">There’s some information on the film in
Markus Nornes’ <i>Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era through Hiroshima</i>,
which is a more accurate source than JMDb, whose page seems to have been
compiled from secondary sources in the era when the film was ‘lost’.
Unsurprisingly, the Massacre is off-screen in this film. I did, though, find it
more of interest than Markus, particularly the section where the film’s
narration attempts to pars a position on Chiang Kai-shek (from 30 minutes in),
along with his fascist-style architecture.</span></p>
<p class="ydp4031fb74MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">There is one credit that JMDb gets right,
which the film’s awful subtitles do not. The music is by </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:SimSun;mso-ascii-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-hansi-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-language:JA" lang="JA">江文也</span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:JA">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial">JIĀNG Wén-yě, pronounced in Japanese as KŌ Bunya. He
was the subject of research of the protagonist in <i>Café Lumière</i>, HOU
Hsiao-hsien’s Tokyo-based fiction feature.</span></p>
<p class="ydp4031fb74MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">Roger</span></p>
<p class="ydp4031fb74MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span style="font-family:Arial">macyroger@yahoo.co.uk</span></p>
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