Osaka Elegy

[Sarah Frederick]

Joanne,

It looks like a flatter piece of paper but it could be a cigarette 
package.  This makes sense logically given the role of smoking in the 
last scene at her father's house where her smoking, spitting out her 
cigarette, and putting on make-up disgust her family and demonstrate 
her "furyou" state.

I also had wondered if it was the phone numbers or business cards of 
the men she has been involved with.

Sarah

>Sarah,
>
>I've never thought about this, but could it be her cigarette? I didn't check
>my copy but it looks that way in the script.
>
>Joanne
>
>
>>  From: Sarah Frederick <sfred at bu.edu>
>>  Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>>  Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:29:06 -0400
>>  To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>>  Subject: Osaka Elegy
>>
>>
>>  I feel like I have seen this discussed somewhere before, but do 
>>not find it in
>>  my old KineJapan messages.  Does anyone know with any certainty what it is
>>  that Ayako, the main character of Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy, throws into the
>>  water at the end of the film? Or is this a matter of debate?  My print is
>  > rather fuzzy.
>  >
>  > Sarah Frederick


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Sarah Frederick
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