Calligraphy

Mon May 3 02:23:35 EDT 2010

Caligraphy is a central item on Peter Greenaway's cinema. Not Japanese, but
he shooted on Japanese topics in The Pillow Book.

Best Regards,
JM

On 1 May 2010 15:44, Michael Kerpan <mekerpan at verizon.net> wrote:

> ZHANG Yibai's Yoru no shanhai (Longest Night in Shanghai) has a scene in
> which the hero (a Japanese man) and heroine (a young Chinese woman driving
> the lost hero about the city) realize they can communicate through writing.
>
> MEK
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> --- On *Sat, 5/1/10, Jasper Sharp <jasper_sharp at hotmail.com>* wrote:
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> From: Jasper Sharp <jasper_sharp at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Calligraphy
> To: "kinejapan" <kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010, 9:39 AM
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> In Kaizo Hayashi's The Breath (1997), set in Taiwan, the detective
> character played by Juro Kara communicates with the locals almost entirely
> through writing Chinese characters, their common visual language. I may be
> wrong, but I think Mitsuo Yanagimachi's About, Tokyo (1992) features a
> similar scene.
>
> Jasper
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> > Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 05:31:32 +0200
> > From: Alex.Zahlten at gmx.de
> > To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > Subject: RE: Calligraphy
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > thank you for this great collection of suggestions- it does seem that the
> connection of writing and moving images is intriguing to a lot of people. I
> think we can all look forward to Markus' paper at Kinema Club!
> >
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