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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Dear KineJapanners,</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">The Foreign Correspondents' Club in Yurakucho is screening the enigmatically titled DYNAMITE GRAFFITI, about Japan’s 1980s porn magazine king, on March 14, with the director and star on hand for the Q&A session following the screening.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:11px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Since FCCJ is a private club, you must reserve your seats through Screenings Curator Karen Severns: <span class="gmail-s1" style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="mailto:karenseverns@gmail.com">karenseverns@gmail.com</a>.</span> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:11px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Be sure to reserve at least two days before the screening, as seats are limited.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;min-height:11px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(6,6,6)"><b>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 AT 6:30pm*</b></p>
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<p class="gmail-p7" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><b>DYNAMITE GRAFFITI<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(45,45,45)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>(</b></span><span class="gmail-s3" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Sutekina Dynamite Scandal</b></span><span class="gmail-s2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>)</b></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p9" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Japan, 2018<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>138 minutes<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span>Japanese with English subtitles</p>
<p class="gmail-p10" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(6,6,6)">Followed by a Q&A session with director Masanori Tominaga and star Tasuku Emoto</p>
<p class="gmail-p11" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(6,6,6);min-height:11px"><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p12" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">In the early years of the bubble era, struggling illustrator Akira Suei discovered he could make more money in the erotic publishing business than painting signboards for Tokyo’s increasingly naughty cabarets. By the early 1980s, he had become the Hugh Hefner of Japan, editing in quick succession three best-selling pornography magazines: New Self, Weekend Super and Shashin Jidai (Photo Age). Remarkably uninterested in porn himself, he focused instead on printing the work of distinguished writers like<span class="gmail-s4" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span>Genpei Akasegawa, copywriter Shigesato Itoi, editor-illustrator Sinbo Minami and art-photographers Nobuyoshi Araki and Daido Moriyama, earning them international renown and bringing unexpected cachet to his publications. Until Suei’s empire began to crumble under censorship…</p>
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<p class="gmail-p14" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">For more (in Japanese): <span class="gmail-s5" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(86,86,86)">https://</span><span class="gmail-s4" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><span class="gmail-s5" style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(86,86,86)"><a href="http://dynamitemovie.jp">dynamitemovie.jp</a></span></p>


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