Fwd: RE: When Harry Met Sally, Tokyo style

[Aaron Gerow]

A subscriber had problems sending this to the list, so I'm forwading it 
on.

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Date:        05.20  3:39 PM
Received:    05.20  3:49 PM
From:        d-desser, d-desser at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
To:          Aaron Gerow, gerow at ynu.ac.jp
CC:          KineJapan, KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu

>===== Original Message From Aaron Gerow <gerow at ynu.ac.jp> =====

>Couple things about this. First, I haven't seen the flyer myself, but I
>doubt the title can be Koibitotachi no kokan, if we treat kokan as
>ko-ka-n. Perhaps ko-u-ka-n? Note also that the Japanese release title for
>When Harry Met Sally is _Koibitotachi no yokan_. Are you sure you are
>reading this right? Second, Yamakawa Naoto's Toki no kaori: Remember Me,
>which was released last fall, is sometimes called a psudo remake of When
>Harry Met Sally, although its really a remake of Kim Jung-Kueon's
>Remember Me.

The Korean film Aaron refers to, DONGGAM, is better known in the US as 
DITTO.  
So the "remember me" connection might be lost to American viewers.  I 
hadn't 
heard of TOKI NO KAORI:  REMEMBER ME, but now I'm very interested in 
seeing 
it.  
The influence of Korean cinema on Japanese films is fascinating, along 
with 
the 
circulation recently of shared tropes among Japan, Korea and Hong Kong 
cinema, 
including lost love redeemed by the flexibility of time. Perhaps Iwai's 
LOVE 
LETTER is one of the central films here, hugely popular in Korea and Hong 
Kong.

(I have lately been unable to send messages to the list as a whole; I get 
my 
message back telling me I'm not a subscriber to the list, but of course I 
am!  
So I'm also sending it directly to you, Aaron, just in case.)

best,

David 



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