J-horror Inquirer article

[Aaron Gerow]

On 2006.6.8, at 01:09  PM, Michael McCaskey wrote:

> Thank you again--you're helping me a lot. I did find that there's one 
> "nice" movie remake--"Eight Below," a movie about the Antarctic, to be 
> released in a few months, a remake of Kurahara's "Nankyoku" (1983), 
> which is available with subtitles as "Antarctica," but only on VHS--I 
> think both versions are supposed to be heartwarming.

Actually, Eight Below was released in the US in February (the NYT, I 
think, called it "doggie porn"--that is, a film shamelessly directed at 
dog lovers). It was released in Japan in March using the same title as 
Kurahara's film: Nankyoku monogatari.

Aaron Gerow
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Yale University

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