Osaka Elegy

[Jonathan M. Hall]

Dear Joanne, Sarah, and all,

I wonder if Joanne could help us by telling us what the screenplay does, in
fact, mention--this only if it is readily accessible to her.

I've often wondered about this.  There is a lustrous gleaming reflection in
that shot, which could be simply from the water--but which, I sometimes have
imagined, is a jewel or its absence.

Jonathan

> From: Sarah Frederick <sfred at bu.edu>
> Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 09:34:01 -0400
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Osaka Elegy
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sarah Frederick
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> Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
> Boston University
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