queries: Love Letter; Itami; databases

[L. Roosen-Runge]

I will start off the new year with my saved-up questions for the list:

Love Letter - I recently watched this highly-recommended film, settling
on the laserdisc which has no English subtitles (I could rent a video
with Chinese subtitles but that doesn't help me either).  A friend, who
saw it two years ago, watched it with me and tried to recall the major
points of the plot.  Would anyone on this list remember the gist of what
Hiroko yells into the echoing mountains (which is what Itsuki is
whispering in her fever)?  We guessed it was something like "I still
miss you", but I would like to know.

Itami Juzo - It seems that only half of his films were shown in North
America (Funeral, Tampopo, A Taxing Woman, A Taxing Woman Returns,
Minbo).  Does anyone have any descriptive information or English titles
on the other films, in case they turn up?

databases - recently Japanese-language film databases were mentioned on
this list.  Is there an equivalent of the excellent Hong Kong Movie
Database for those of us without Japanese?  The internet movie database
has some info, and often more than I would expect, but it can only be as
good as its contributors.

thanks in advance
Lisa in Toronto
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lrr at discovery.ca              
"I kneel in front of the gorilla" - bad opera in Mad Phoenix