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I saw "Side A" at the Cannes screening with Kawase in attendance (see attached). Haven't really followed the protests, so can only speak about the film. I
<i>have</i> seen all the Olympics films ... and all Kawase's work. Side A was frustrating. Though it started in a quietly poetic way no other Olympics film has really dared, it quickly devolved into repetitive and usually superficial lessons about gender equality
and a specifically Japanese approach to the highlighted sports. 20+ minutes were devoted to the contrast between a breastfeeding Canadian basketball player, one who stood up against the Olympic Committee's ban on family member's attendance, and a star Japanese
basketball player and recent mother, who says she simply accepted the ban (she "followed the rule") and gave up her spot on the team. Sportswise, Side A was probably 85% women's basketball, judo, and karate. A single three (?) minute montage at the end of
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Much of the (non-interview) footage is quite beautiful. Kawase said there were 5000 hours of footage. I wish someone else had cut it.</div>
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I think she said the movies come to Japan in June - one one week and the other the next.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I don’t think the film is available to the general public here until sometime in June. I can only offer a perhaps meaningless piece of anecdata, which that the protest at the premiere in Tokyo made it to the Kyodo News headline ticker on Yamanote-sen,
on a day when there had been (judging from photos) somewhat larger protests against President Biden’s visit which received no such treatment.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 6:28 Markus Nornes via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Shukan Bunshun has another Kawase article, and apparently much longer. It's behind a paywall that cuts off after the incident where she punches a staff member in the face so hard his face swells up. But this box below the headline gives a sense for the
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東京五輪公式映画が間もなく封切られる河瀬直美氏。キャリアの絶頂を極めるまでには、役者を精神的に追い詰める演出や、スタッフを部品のように切り捨てる一面も。自らを卑弥呼になぞらえる映画界の女帝の足跡を辿る。<br>
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▶「人を部品のように」カンヌ受賞作主演が3時間語った<br>
▶女性スタッフを深夜のNYに締め出し「帰ってくるな」<br>
▶仕出しスタッフに一目惚れして主演抜擢、破局後に“追放”<br>
▶ヒロインに“イジメ演出”「徹底的に無視」「点滴5回」<br>
▶「黒澤明、大島渚の次の世代が私」“世界のカワセ”と豪語
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<div>Spectacular...by design. It's a weekly, so hard to trust. But it's also a topic the major outlets resist—as we've seen here in the states, especially pre-#Metoo. I'm curious if anyone has read the whole article, or if it's being picked up by other magazines,
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<div>She must be in the news all the time considering the Olympics film (part 1 of 2) is out and is playing at Cannes. Has anyone seen it????</div>
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