AW: Self introduction + Representations of intoxication

[Aaron Gerow]

> Horoyoi Jinsei is an interesting film in itself. It was the first  
> official feature film production by PCL (later to become one of the  
> main building blocks in the founding of Toho), and was largely  
> funded by a certain beer company (not hard to identify).

Speaking of Toho-related musicals, there is a Furukawa Roppa musical  
I've written about for an upcoming article on the Japanese musical  
called Harikiri Boy which features a scene of drunken revelry that is  
constructed in such a way and ends so abruptly, there remains some  
doubt over whether what we saw really happened.

Aaron Gerow
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Yale University
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