Nostalgia, Big City<->Hometown

[Michael Kerpan]

I just got the Shochiku's wonderful new Hiroshi
Shimizu box set (volume one -- with English subtitles)
-- and am reminded that his "Arigato-san" deals quite
a bit with the hometown-Tokyo divide.

Shochiku really deserves three cheers for releasing
some prime Shimizu on DVD.  I hope vols one and two
will sell well enough to persuade them to issue more
volumes. 

MEK

--- Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:

> Speaking of TV, TOKIO's Za Tetsuwan DASH n NTV has
> featured DASH-Mura  
> for about 8 years now, where the Johnny's band TOKIO
> has been  
> creating a rural village and experiencing various
> old fashioned ways  
> of living.
> 
> http://www.ntv.co.jp/dash/village/index.html
> 
> I also write a bit about furusato in relation to
> Iwai's Swallowtail  
> in my piece in Hein and Selden's Censoring History.
>