<div><div dir="auto">Tom Mes via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"><br>Sadly, listed among the festival's media partners is the website Asian Movie Pulse, which less than two weeks ago ran a publicity post for the festival that includes quotes from Sono but completely ignores any of <br>
the accusations against him:<br>
<a href="https://asianmoviepulse.com/2023/09/inlandimensions-international-arts-festival-unveils-2023-programme/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://asianmoviepulse.com/2023/09/inlandimensions-international-arts-festival-unveils-2023-programme/</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><div><div dir="auto">It does have a rather creepy quote:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.336px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68)">“If I had seen Shūji Terayama’s film </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.336px;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets!</em><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.336px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68)"> earlier, I would probably have had more courage to lay my hand on my girlfriend’s knee in the dark of the cinema that time and tell her I loved her. Then again, perhaps my life would have turned out differently and I might never have become a film director,” Sono confesses. In his works, love is multidimensional, boundless, and uncompromising; it can be avowed by a teenage girl in school uniform, reflected in Christian iconography, or played out in sado-masochistic practices and fantasies.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.336px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14.336px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68)"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" dir="auto"><br></div></span></div><br></div>
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