Calligraphy

[Michael Kerpan]

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

--- On Sat, 5/1/10, Jasper Sharp <jasper_sharp at hotmail.com> wrote:

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




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.

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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!
> 
> alex
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