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<p class="ydp2500d537MsoNormal">Hmm.</p>
<p class="ydp2500d537MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">I do feel conflicted. Mori has a laudable strength in calling out
group-think, particularly when it involves persecution of the other.<span> </span>But I do feel uneasy about Mori’s employment
of Nazi-era analogies.</p>
<p class="ydp2500d537MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">At Oxford in 2015, Mori gave
a long lecture about his ‘<i>A</i>’. In it, he gave a just-so history of the holocaust
and said that the treatment of Aum followers in contemporary Japan
was a manifestation of a similar tribal othering. At the end of ‘<i>i</i>’, he
warns, with a filmic quote, that the treatment of people like Mochizuki, and
those she seeks to protect, could escalate to the <i>épuration sauvage</i> in
France in 1944.</p>
<p class="ydp2500d537MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">On the one hand, I do feel that holocaust and Nazi history gets too short
shrift in much of Asia and it still needs to be brought
into popular awareness. On the other hand; I fear that many people’s take-away
from such potted comparisons from far away could just lead to other otherings,
and that analogies closer to an audience’s experience would obtain greater
accuracy.</p>
<p class="ydp2500d537MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">To cut away two further limbs, I have also seen more coded comparisons to
holocaust history completely fail to get home, and seen ones closer to home totally
misfire. So I don’t have any answer or certainty.</p>
<p class="ydp2500d537MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">There’s a screening and Q&A of ‘<i>i</i>’ at FCCJ on the 12<sup>th</sup>
(when I’ll still be away).</p>
<p class="ydp2500d537MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><a href="http://www.fccj.or.jp/events-calendar/calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2019/11/12/5385/-/sneak-preview-screening-i-documentary-of-the-journalist-i-shimbun-kisha-document.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">http://www.fccj.or.jp/events-calendar/calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2019/11/12/5385/-/sneak-preview-screening-i-documentary-of-the-journalist-i-shimbun-kisha-document.html</a></p><div><br></div>Roger
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On Tuesday, 5 November 2019, 21:45:21 GMT+9, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpf2e05e7fyiv5536867001"><div><div><div><div>What a great thing for Mori! And he barely thinks of himself as a filmmaker (he’s being both modest and wrong there). This must be driving Hara crazy, considering he was deeply disappointed at the dearth of awards for Sennin Disaster. But he really needs to get his running times under control. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>By the way, check out the bragging rights numbers at the bottom. They apparently had nearly 300,000 people at various events like the red carpet etc. but only 65,000 tickets to the films. 🤔 </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Markus </div></div></div><div><div><br clear="none"><div class="ydpf2e05e7fyiv5536867001gmail_quote"><div class="ydpf2e05e7fyiv5536867001yqt4714456790" id="ydpf2e05e7fyiv5536867001yqt43144"><div class="ydpf2e05e7fyiv5536867001gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 4:31 AM Roger Macy via KineJapan <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydpf2e05e7fyiv5536867001gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr">Markus, I think you pondered, a while back, why Mori Tatsuya and Hara Kazuo enterred for TIFF rather than Yamagata.</div><div dir="ltr">Besides timing, another answer might be <span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;">¥1,000,000</span></span>, which Mori has just picked up.</div> <div dir="ltr"><span><a shape="rect" href="http://www.tiff-jp.net/pr/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191105_release.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.tiff-jp.net/pr/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191105_release.pdf</a><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">I feel the award has not a little to do with sympathy for Mochizuki Isoko and her causes.<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Roger<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
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