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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I wanted to let you know that I am importing Japan Foundation’s 35mm print of Yasuzo Masumura’s AFRAID TO DIE (1960), starring Yukio Mishima, for a standalone screening in NYC
at Japan Society on May 10. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The occasion is that New Directions Publishing is releasing a new English translation of Mishima’s novella STAR, which he wrote shortly after starring in Masumura’s film and
is more or less a fictionalized account of his experience. The book is set for release on April 30.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If anyone is interested in getting the print while it’s in the U.S., please let me know. Rights are with Kadokawa. I can also connect you with New Directions if you’d like to
make a similar book-related event out of it at your university or institution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kazu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Kazu Watanabe
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Deputy Director, Film<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Japan Society | 333 E. 47th St. | New York, NY 10017
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(p) 212-715-1265 (e)
</span><a href="mailto:kwatanabe@japansociety.org"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">kwatanabe@japansociety.org</span></a><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.japansociety.org/film"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">www.japansociety.org/film</span></a><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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