J-Horror / Yamaguchi Yoshiko

[J.sharp]

But this is fascinating, because isn't Ian Buruma about to publish a novel
based on Yamaguchi's story? Its amazing there's all this interest in her at
the moment. I really pray that Kore'eda's project gets off the ground,
because there has to be a huge amount of interest in the subject, even
outside of Asia.

Jasper


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--------- Original Message --------
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: J-Horror / Yamaguchi Yoshiko
Date: 26/07/07 02:54

>
> Dear Jason Gray,
>
> Thank you very much! I have been trying to find out what Kore'eda was
doing next for a while now, without success, and I very much appreciate this
lead.
>
> Re Yamaguchi Yoshiko and Kawashima, I found when I was doing some research
on Kawashima a couple of years ago that several Chinese popular films have
been made about her story, and have done quite well. It may be that the
espionage angle and the Manchu Princess angle helped. So there may be a good
chance that Kore'eda's film can do well in a broader Asian market, as well
as in Japan, via the Kawashima part.
>
> Michael McCaskey
> Georgetown Univ.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jason Gray &lt;loaded_films at yahoo.co.jp&gt;
> Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007 0:49 am
> Subject: J-Horror / Yamaguchi Yoshiko
>
> &gt; Emma,
> &gt;
> &gt; You may be interested in this article that entertainment
> &gt; chart purveyors Oricon published today that ranks
> &gt; J-horror's top 10 scariest films (ie. franchises), with
> &gt; the voting also broken down into male and female viewers:
> &gt;
> &gt; http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/ranking/46667/
> &gt;
> &gt; The &quot;Ring&quot; series is the undisputed heavyweight champion.
> &gt;
> &gt; Tokyograph's abridged English summary of the article is
> &gt; here:
> &gt;
> &gt; http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-1443
> &gt;
> &gt;
> &gt; Regarding Yamaguchi Yoshiko, I wonder if the Ueto movie
> &gt; has helped or hindered Kore-eda's &quot;Night-fragrant Flower&quot;
> &gt; project (PDF details available from the following link)
> &gt;
> &gt; http://www.haf.org.hk/haf/project2007.htm
> &gt;
> &gt;
> &gt; jg
> &gt;
> &gt;
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