Question RE <Shinjuku Boys>

[Aaron Gerow]

>2) What credentials do Longinoto and Williams bring to this 
>particular project that suggest they are "reliable" (however one 
>might choose to define this)?

The two did previously make a film in Japan on Takarazuka (_Dream Girls_) 
and Longinoto made another called _The Good Wife of Tokyo_.  They have 
thus consistently been interested in gender issues in Asian contexts 
(though I have found their documentary style to be a bit conventional and 
their cultural analysis a bit limited).  Longinoto's new film _Divorce, 
Iranian Style_ will be one of the films shown at the International 
Competion at the Yamagata Film Festival STARTING NEXT WEEK!.  

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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