<div dir="ltr">Hi Jonathan,<div>Ironically - I have never associated even the title of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence with Christmas! It must be a gap in my synapses.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial">Earl Jackson</div><div style="font-family:arial"><div>Chair Professor</div><div>Foreign Languages and Literatures</div><div>Asia University</div><div>Professor Emeritus</div><div>National Chiao Tung University</div></div><div style="font-family:arial">Associate Professor Emeritus</div><div style="font-family:arial">University of California, Santa Cruz<br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 7:06 AM Jonathan M. Hall 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">It’s hard not to think of: </div><div dir="auto">Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">for a brutal twist in a tropical clime! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jonathan M Hall</div><div dir="auto">CSUSB </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 2:50 PM Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" 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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