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I've found no evidence of any scholarship on Hashiguchi in terms of journal papers, but remember that LIKE GRAINS OF SAND did get a theatrical release in the UK (I remember seeing it at the ICA in 1997), and Tony Rayns reviewed it in <span>Sight & Sound (UK),
1997, VII, no. 2 (Feb), pp. 47-48.<br>
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<div>At the same time, he also interviewed Hashiguchi in <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Time Out (UK), 1997, no. 1379 (Jan 22), for an article
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<div><span style="background: var(--white);">There are also reviews of ALL AROUND US in :
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<li><a>Cinema Scope (CN), 2009, no. 37 (Winter), p. 46-47. All around us.</a></li><li><a>Film Comment (US), 2008, XLIV, no. 6 (Nov-Dec), p. 64-65. Labors of love.</a></li></ul>
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<div><span style="background: var(--white);">But really nothing substantial in print beyond Variety reviews for his other work, unless you are also looking at stuff published in French, and even then it doesn't go much further than reviews.</span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of Alexander Jacoby <alexanderjacoby@brookes.ac.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 22 January 2019 11:54<br>
<b>To:</b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [KineJapan] Writing on Ryosuke Hashiguchi</font>
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<div>I was teaching Hashiguchi's Hush! last semester and found it went down particularly well this year; a lot of students either presented or wrote on the film. Perhaps the theme of alternative family models and the central themes of a gay man wanting to be
a parent and a straight woman wanting to be a mother without having to be a wife seems particularly interesting at a time when gay adoption and surrogacy is becoming more widespread in many Western countries.</div>
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<div>But I was struck by how little reading I have to recommend to students about this film! There is the chapter on Hashiguchi in the <span class="x_gmail-il">Midnight</span> Eye Guide to New Japanese Film. And there's a short piece that is part of a chapter
in Romit Dasgupta et al, Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan. But I wondered if anyone had come across any further published scholarship on the film, or on Hashiguchi in general, that I might have overlooked. For the sake of the Film Studies students
in the class this needs to be in English, but I'd also be interested from my own point of view to know if anyone has written about the film in Japanese.</div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
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<div>ALEX JACOBY</div>
<div>(Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, Oxford Brookes University)</div>
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