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[Lindsey W. Powell]

Dear Ms. Wender,

I read your post and remembered a documentary film that I saw a couple of
years ago that may be of interest to you. It is called "Osaka Story" and is
by Toichi Nakata. It concerns a family in Osaka that has ties to Korea.
Below is a URL that contains distribution information. You may already be
familiar with the film, but, if not, you may want to check it out. I found
it interesting for several reasons. Because I don't want to give the story
away, I can't tell you all the details, but I especially liked the karaoke
party which constitutes one of the many climaxes of the film.

http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/mcjrnl/mcjrnl/reviews/fall97/osaka.
html

Lindsey Powell
Temple University

-----Original Message-----
From: mlw5 at midway.uchicago.edu <mlw5 at midway.uchicago.edu>
To: kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu <kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 9:17 PM
Subject: introduction


>Hello.  My name is Melissa Wender.  I'm a grad student at the University of
>Chicago, currently trying to finish up a dissertation on the literature of
>the Korean community in Japan from the 1960s to the present.  I'm hoping to
>include a discussion of some recent films in my final chapter.
>I've always loved films -- both fiction and documentary -- but I'm just
>beginning to think that  I want to talk about them in my academic career.
>(Early in grad school, I did write a paper looking at Chibi Marukochan and
>Doraemon.)  Thoug I don't watch much tv here, I'm a tv junkie when in
>Japan, and am looking forward to doing something about tv when I'm done
>with my dissertation.
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