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<p class="ydp8fec869fMsoNormal" style="text-align:center;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none" align="center"><i>Witches of the Orient</i>, 2021, Julien Faraut</p>


<p class="ydp8fec869fMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Partly answering my own question (again) about the film, <i>Witches of

the Orient </i>at Nippon Connection and elsewhere, “perhaps these subjects have

been explored previously in Japan ?”, it turns out that this subject has been

well written up much closer to my neck of the woods, by Helen Macnaughtan of

SOAS. A good one-stop account is her paper<span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">in </span><i><span><a href="https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17379/1/Oriental%20Witches%20Manuscript%20pre-print%20August%202013.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sport

in History</a></span></i><span> . It tells

me that manager Daimatsu was historically anything but the silent voice he is

in Faraut’s film, so that is clearly an editorial choice for the film.</span></p>


<p class="ydp8fec869fMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span>The reason I know this now, when

I didn’t on the 8<sup>th</sup> June, is that Helen is scheduled to conduct an

online Q&A with Faraut organised by the Japan Society of the UK on Wed 21<sup>st</sup>

July at 1830 London time (BST).</span></p>


<p class="ydp8fec869fMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><a href="https://www.japansociety.org.uk/?pg=event&event=240&eventcat=1&utm_source=e-shot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=070721WitchesES1#a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.japansociety.org.uk/?pg=event&event=240&eventcat=1&utm_source=e-shot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=070721WitchesES1#a</a></p>


<div class="ydp8fec869fMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Although the source for viewing the film quoted there is

country-restricted, the Q&A is, I believe, unrestricted.</div><div class="ydp8fec869fMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><br></div><div class="ydp8fec869fMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It's sad, of course, that I have to post this under the news that there will be no spectators in Tokyo for the Olympics.<br></div>


<p class="ydp8fec869fMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Roger</p>


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