The End

[Mirjam/Roger Fischer]

At 20:25 19.05.98 +0200, you wrote:
>I wonder whether anybody out there can help me with a more general problem
>related to narrative film:
>I am looking for movies (and articles on them) that are known to have
>variations on the ending - a happy and a not-so-happy one, for instance.
>They don't necessarily have to be of Japanese origin.
>
>Thanks for any hints.
>melanie

Dear Melanie
>
La belle equipe (France 1936) Julien Duvivier
The first ending - the sad one - has been changed after the film failed at
the box office. The more happy ending is the one seen today and everywhere.
You find something about the two endings in "Dictionnaire du cinema", Les
Films, Jacques Lourcelles, Editor: Robert Laffont, Paris 1992. The french
state Television FRANCE 3's "Cinema de minuit" on sunday midnight showed
the two endings some five years ago. 

But you will find even more double endings in Hollywood. Almost every film
there has a changed ending because of the preview-system. See especially
for the great directors from abroad like Fritz Lang for example.

Have you already found some Japanese examples? I would be interested.

Thanks 

Bye

Roger