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</style><p>Dear all,</p><p><br></p><p>the distributor of Oppenheimer and the cinemas might be afraid of far right groups. When they think something it is harming Japan in some way (the bar often is quite low...), they might become quite unpleasant, to say the least.</p><p><br></p><p>Just a personal idea, not more. Will see the film soon and look out for warnings and the like</p><p>Best</p><p>Susanne</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">----- Original Message -----</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><strong>From: </strong>"Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum" <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><strong>To: </strong>"Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum" <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><strong>Cc: </strong>"Peter Larson" <pslarson2@gmail.com></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><strong>Date: </strong>2024/04/02 火 03:26</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><strong>Subject: </strong>Re: [KineJapan] Oppenheimer in Japan</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">This is just so strange to me. School trips go to Hiroshima or Nagasaki and there's no obvious indication that kids or adults are particularly traumatized by the experience in any way. </blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">Oppenheimer wouldn't seem to me to be very traumatic for anyone, anywhere, as it doesn't actually show any (to my recollection) of the damage, and even if it did, I would highly doubt that someone born in the 1960s or 70s would feel any more trauma than seeing any other type of film. </blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">One wonders if this is simply hand wringing on the part of well meaning (or ignorant) Westerners, or possibly some clever marketing tactic. </blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">I simply have never met a single person who seemed particularly traumatized about the bombings, even in Nagasaki where I was faculty for a while. </blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">Well, expect that one drunk guy in Osaka who started screaming about Hiroshima in a bar in 1996 while throwing money at me, but that's a different story. </blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 6:15 AM Rea Amit via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">Hello everyone, </blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">Here is a NYT piece from today about Nolan’s Oscar-winning film in Japan:</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/world/asia/oppenheimer-opens-japan.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/world/asia/oppenheimer-opens-japan.html</a></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">While there is a lot to to say about the reception of the film in Japan, I am particularly intrigued by this: </blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">"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.'”</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">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? </blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"> </blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">Have these kinds of signs been used in other screenings in the past? Which theaters use them? </blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">I would appreciate any information about this.</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">Thanks,</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">Rea</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">_______________________________________________</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"> KineJapan mailing list</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"> <a href="mailto:KineJapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">KineJapan@mailman.yale.edu</a></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"> <a href="https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan" target="_blank">https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan</a></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">_______________________________________________</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">KineJapan mailing list</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">KineJapan@mailman.yale.edu</blockquote><blockquote style="border:0;padding-left:6px;margin-left:10px;border-left:4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204)">https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan</blockquote>