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<p class="ydp90ff0ee5MsoNormal">Thanks, Rea, for the link.</p>
<p class="ydp90ff0ee5MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Actually, I’m surprised <i>Oppenheimer</i> is doing so well at the
Japanese box office.</p>
<p class="ydp90ff0ee5MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">It makes me recall stumbling, at the Kawakita Institute, upon British-authored
promotion material in the immediate post-war for <i>A Matter of Life and Death</i>.
I think both films have considerable, if very different merits. But a film that
sends the bombers to heaven without mentioning the bombed – I can’t see it
doing well in Tokyo in 1948 despite
the glossy (for the time) material.</p>
<p class="ydp90ff0ee5MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Yaguchi-san’s particular way of characterising <i>Oppenheimer</i> as
one-sided would do better for the British film. <i>Oppenheimer</i> is, of
course, one sided but more outward in declaring that and portraying, if not
analysing, evolving war-time and post-war attitudes. Whether Truman actually
said to Oppenheimer’s face that ‘You didn’t drop the bomb, I did.’ doesn’t
worry me, it conveyed a truth. And, of course, the ‘Manhattan’
team would eagerly embrace a narrative that they had saved millions of lives. <span> </span>Besides no mention of the Red Army and its
preparations, what is not portrayed at all, is Truman’s motivation. But the
film isn’t about Truman and it at least doesn’t spoil the ground for that to be
questioned further.</p>
<p class="ydp90ff0ee5MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">So, in my view, any trigger warnings should have been on the line of
saying that the film conveys attitudes towards an enemy in wartime and the way
they started to evolve.</p>
<p class="ydp90ff0ee5MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Roger</p>
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On Monday, 1 April 2024 at 11:15:30 BST, Rea Amit via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal">Hello everyone, <br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal">Here is a NYT piece from today about Nolan’s Oscar-winning film in Japan:</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/world/asia/oppenheimer-opens-japan.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/world/asia/oppenheimer-opens-japan.html</a></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal">While there is a lot to to say about the reception of the film in Japan, I am particularly intrigued by this: <br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal">
</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal">"Mindful of domestic sensitivities, some theaters in Japan
are carrying trigger warnings, with signs cautioning audiences about scenes 'that may remind viewers of the damage caused by the atomic bombings.'”</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal">
</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal">I asked people I know in Japan who have seen the film, but
they were not warned. Does anyone know what these “trigger warnings” might be? <span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal">Have these kinds of signs been used in other screenings in the past? Which
theaters use them? <br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal">I would appreciate any information about this.</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal">Thanks,</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal">Rea<br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:sans-serif;" class="ydp6d5321f1yiv7089322017MsoNormal"><span></span></p>
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