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My personal favorite Xmas film of all time 
 (Japanese or not)
is Okamoto's
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Blue Christmas</i> (1978). Not very romantic, at least not in the conventional sense, but it's easily the wildest out there!   <br></div><div><br></div><div>WIth best holiday wishes to all,</div><div><br></div><div>Rea<br></div><div><br></div><div><br> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 5:58 PM matteoB 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:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Rex 恐竜物語 (1993) by Kadokawa Haruki himself...</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 26 Dec 2023, 08:56 Michael Kerpan via KineJapan, <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"> Until the Lights Come Back 大停電の夜に (daiteden no yoru ni) (<span style="color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:15px">Gen Takashi, 2005) -- This is set on Christmas Eve -- about 12 strangers stuck together during a power outage.  I watched this ages ago, so my memory of it is pretty dim.</span><br><div><span style="color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:15px">Michael Kerpan</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:15px">Boston, MA</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 5:50 PM Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>I wanted to wish everyone on KineJapan a happy holiday season.<div><br></div><div>As a little game, I was wondering what people thought about Japanese Christmas films. Kon Satoshi’s Tokyo Godfathers is often considered a good Christmas movie, but I wondered what people thought about that or other films.</div><br><div>
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