Obit: Imamura Shohei

[J.sharp]

By this he means that Miike studied at Imamura's film school in
Shinyurigaoka - "sponsored" might be pushing the point a little!

Jasper

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From: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: Obit: Imamura Shohei
Date: 01/06/06 10:44

>
> --- Markus Nornes &lt;amnornes at umich.edu&gt; wrote:
> &gt;
> &gt; From the NYT:
> &gt;
> &gt; But Mr. Imamura also found time during this period to sponsor the
> &gt; work of Takashi Miike, whose notoriously violent, overtly sadistic
> &gt; films took Mr. Imamura's assumptions about humanity to new extremes.
>
> I don't remember ever hearing this. I knew that Miike worked on
> Imamura's &quot;Black Rain,&quot; but hadn't heard that Miike was
&quot;sponsored&quot; by
> Imamura in any way. Can anyone shed more light on this connection?
>
> = Brian
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