An example, to whit. Twenty odd years ago I watched an Okamoto Kihachi movie at the Pacific Film Archive with an older scholar who had been raised in Japan and was fluent--and could not follow the film at all. I could, despite my lack of Japanese because I could read the cutting and the genre. Just a note. SAT SYBIL THORNTON HISTORY-ASU FAX: 602-965-0310 TEL: 965-4472