<div dir="ltr">Both films are very good. Suwa's film is a road movie starting in a landslide disaster zone near Hiroshima and ending up at the telephone up north. Along the way, the main character meets every kind of family who is experiencing every kind of loss or trauma and finding suitable ways to keep living. It's a lovely film, and interesting for the way it doesn't privilege 311 loss or memory while managing not to negate it either. <div><br></div><div>And Soda's new film is fantastic. It starts out as a sequel to <i>Mental</i> and halfway in—precisely half way, down to the minute—it pivots and turns into something else. He plays with flashbacks and sound in ways you rarely see in direct cinema (and in ways that don't break his 10 Commandments). I loved it. </div><div><br></div><div>Markus<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">--- </span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13"><b><img src="https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/uc?id=1i0izwlsrcSvQgU4nMCzTLiOhmdDMm-xZ&export=download" width="56" height="96"><br></b></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13"><b>Markus Nornes</b></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><font color="#38761d"><b>Professor of Asian Cinema</b></font></span></div><div><font size="1" color="#38761d"><font face="courier new, monospace">Department of Film, Television and Media</font><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps </span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">School of Art & Design</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#6aa84f"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>Department of Film, Television and Media</b></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>6348 North Quad</b></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>105 S. State Street</b></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285</b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 4:02 AM Roger Macy via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><div>
<p>Dear KineJapaners,</p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt">The Berlinale 2020 awards included two for Japanese filmmakers :-</p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt"><span>SUWA Nobuhiro<span> </span><i><span style="color:black">Kaze no denwa</span></i><span style="color:black"> / </span><i><span style="color:black">Voices in the Wind</span></i><span style="color:black">, special mention ‘Generation 14Plus’</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt"><span>SŌDA Kazuhiro<span> </span>E<span style="color:black">cumenical
jury award in ‘Forum’ section for <i>Seishin 0</i> <i>/ Zero</i> (€2500).</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt"><a href="https://www.berlinale.de/en/festival/awards-and-juries/all-prizes-and-juries.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.berlinale.de/en/festival/awards-and-juries/all-prizes-and-juries.html</a></p>
<p style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt">Roger</p>
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