<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Just following up, <a href="https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASQ196WCCQ19PTFC004.html">NHK in Osaka has apologized</a> for the wayward title, but it doesn’t seem like that gets at the root of the problem by any stretch.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">As <a href="https://twitter.com/yangyonghi/status/1480228049929248775">Yang Yonghi writes</a>, (paraphrasing): one can’t help but suspect they planned to shape the story with such a title from the beginning.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">A lot more going around on this topic, including criticism of Kawase, but I thought I’d just pass on the basics, especially since I haven’t seen the doc myself and I don’t have a clear sense of her connection or involvement yet.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Mabashi Movie Festival</p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 4:49 PM Jeremy Harley <<a href="mailto:jeremyharley@gmail.com">jeremyharley@gmail.com</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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Happy New Year, Kine Japanners!<br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I was wondering if anyone watched the NHK doc on Kawase Naomi’s Olympic doc<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Hiragino Sans"">「河瀬直美が見つめた東京五輪」</span>by any chance?  Apparently it aired <a href="https://www.nhk.jp/p/bs1sp/ts/YMKV7LM62W/episode/te/ZYG5V7624M/" target="_blank">on Dec 26</a>. Not her doc yet, it's a doc about her doc.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I missed it and am curious about <a href="https://twitter.com/Nathankirinoha/status/1476804452703432707" target="_blank">this dubious scene</a> of a man purported to have been paid to participate in anti-Olympic protests. The clip declares that he was paid - a very inflammatory assertion - by making it seem like he is admitting to it, but in fact the central detail about getting paid is only in the titles. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">It's not her filming, and it would seem irrelevant to her documentary, so I was curious how it was framed........... just in case anyone happened to catch it?</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Jeremy</p></div></div></div></div>
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