From mekerpan at verizon.net Wed Jul 23 23:51:06 2014 From: mekerpan at verizon.net (Michael Kerpan) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:51:06 -0700 Subject: [KineJapan] The Dragon Painter -- Sessue Hayakawa Message-ID: <1406173866.28696.YahooMailNeo@web121404.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> I finally saw The Dragon Painter (and Wrath of the Gods) thanks to Milestone's summer silents DVD sale.? I've read that (the incredibly bigoted) Wrath of the Gods was banned in Japan -- but haven't seen anything about the Japanese response to the much more appealing Dragon Painter.? Anyone know anything. Happy summer Michael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I have edited, illustrated, and annotated the memoir, with the help of knowledgeable colleagues here in Cleveland and abroad. In the memoir you will find that Juan Luis is a wonderful storyteller of a wide range of spirited interactions with many key figures of 20^th century art worlds, including his father Luis Bu?uel. Check out this 466 page full color hardcover book (with dust jacket!) via my Shika Press website (I'm my own publisher now). http://shikapress.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8fe25c9577415e640329092e7&id=ef2a9292ee&e=f01d45493a Please send this announcement far and wide. I?m hoping for book launches in several cities and even (a dream) translations into other languages, starting with Spanish and French. It?s been a pleasure working with Juan Luis and his family this past year. I hope you will enjoy the book. Thanks, Linda C. 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Can I be in the > list, please? > > Best regards, > Jose Monta?o > > > > > On 16 July 2014 14:32, Eija Niskanen wrote: > >> Dear KineJapanners, >> >> On August 7, the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Yurakucho is screening Sion >> Sono?s gonzo new film ?Tokyo Tribe,? followed by a Q&A with Sono and his >> three young stars Ryohei Suzuki, Young Dais and Nana Seino. An adaptation >> of the mega-bestselling manga series ?Tokyo Tribe2? by Santa Inoue, the rap >> musical gives nods to ?West Side Story? and ?A Clockwork Orange,? and Sono >> goes deliciously overboard with his visual and aural assault. But there?s a >> message in there somewhere! >> >> Since FCCJ is a private club, you must reserve your seats through Karen >> Severns: kjs30 at gol.com. >> >> Also don't forget to reserve seats for next week's screening of Shingo >> Ota's "The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed," on July 24: >> http://goo.gl/aUFtch >> >> *FCCJ SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING * >> >> *Thursday, August 7, 6:30 pm* >> >> *TOKYO TRIBE * >> >> Followed by a Q&A with director Sion Sono, stars Ryohei Suzuki, Young >> Dais and Nana Seino >> In Japanese with English subtitles >> Japan, 2014 116 minutes, Courtesy of Nikkatsu >> >> For more on the film: http://goo.gl/ysQHLu >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu >> https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> >> > > > -- > Jose Monta?o > ????????? > *Cine y cultura japonesa:* > *https://eigavision.wordpress.com/ * > > > *https://upf.academia.edu/JoseMonta?o > * > -- Jose Monta?o ????????? *Cine y cultura japonesa:* *https://eigavision.wordpress.com/ * *https://upf.academia.edu/JoseMonta?o * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best regards, Jose Monta?o On 16 July 2014 14:32, Eija Niskanen > wrote: Dear KineJapanners, On August 7, the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Yurakucho is screening Sion Sono?s gonzo new film ?Tokyo Tribe,? followed by a Q&A with Sono and his three young stars Ryohei Suzuki, Young Dais and Nana Seino. An adaptation of the mega-bestselling manga series ?Tokyo Tribe2? by Santa Inoue, the rap musical gives nods to ?West Side Story? and ?A Clockwork Orange,? and Sono goes deliciously overboard with his visual and aural assault. But there?s a message in there somewhere! Since FCCJ is a private club, you must reserve your seats through Karen Severns: kjs30 at gol.com. Also don't forget to reserve seats for next week's screening of Shingo Ota's "The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed," on July 24: http://goo.gl/aUFtch FCCJ SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING Thursday, August 7, 6:30 pm TOKYO TRIBE Followed by a Q&A with director Sion Sono, stars Ryohei Suzuki, Young Dais and Nana Seino In Japanese with English subtitles Japan, 2014 116 minutes, Courtesy of Nikkatsu For more on the film: http://goo.gl/ysQHLu _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -- Jose Monta?o ????????? Cine y cultura japonesa: https://eigavision.wordpress.com/ https://upf.academia.edu/JoseMonta?o -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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An adaptation > of the mega-bestselling manga series ?Tokyo Tribe2? by Santa Inoue, the rap > musical gives nods to ?West Side Story? and ?A Clockwork Orange,? and Sono > goes deliciously overboard with his visual and aural assault. But there?s a > message in there somewhere! > > Since FCCJ is a private club, you must reserve your seats through Karen > Severns: kjs30 at gol.com. > > Also don't forget to reserve seats for next week's screening of Shingo > Ota's "The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed," on July 24: > http://goo.gl/aUFtch > > *FCCJ SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING * > > *Thursday, August 7, 6:30 pm* > > *TOKYO TRIBE * > > Followed by a Q&A with director Sion Sono, stars Ryohei Suzuki, Young Dais > and Nana Seino > In Japanese with English subtitles > Japan, 2014 116 minutes, Courtesy of Nikkatsu > > For more on the film: http://goo.gl/ysQHLu > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > -- Jose Monta?o ????????? *Cine y cultura japonesa:* *https://eigavision.wordpress.com/ * *https://upf.academia.edu/JoseMonta?o * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Ted Cook William Paterson University Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2014, at 9:31, "Christophe Thouny" > wrote: Dear colleagues, In case the information has not circulated, there is tomorrow, sunday July 6th, a panel I organize on Melancholy Ethics and the (moving) image as part of the Hy?sh?bunkaron gakkai, this year at Tokyo University, Komaba Campus. Please find the link to the gakkai program here. The panel is from 16h30 in building 18, 4F, Collaboration Room #3. http://www.repre.org/conventions/9/ ???????????Melancholy Ethics ? Ecocriticism and the Moving Image in a Planetary Age????????????3? Love as Atmosphere: Melancholy Ethics, Fukushima Japan, and the lost decade in Sh?no Yoriko's Time War Complex / Christophe THOUNY (University of Tokyo) Doubts, Denial and Recognition: A Cavellian and Oreskian Approach to Films on 311 / ?lise DOMENACH (Ecole Normale Sup?rieure Lyon / University of Tokyo) After Species Being: Gender, Sexuality, and the Critique of Industrialization / Diane Wei LEWIS (Washington University in St. Louis) Chair: Christophe THOUNY (University of Tokyo) Discussant: Yoshiaki SATO Thank you and sorry for the late notice. Best, Christophe ********************************************************** Christophe Thouny, PhD University of Tokyo Global Communication Research Center tel : 080-3366-9018 email : ct843 at nyu.edu ********************************************************** On Jun 18, 2014, at 3:27 AM, Jim Harper > wrote: Cheers Jasper. For some reason it never occurred to me to check Aurum, and you're right, they've included it but obviously couldn't see it. I was interested in it because I know it's a version of the Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi, and having watched Nakagawa, Yasuda and Hase adaptations I was curious to see what Mizoguchi brought to his version, although I'm guessing it wasn't as gruesome as the others or as utterly misanthropic and cynical as the Kazuo Hase version. I know few of the pre-war kaidan/horror films have survived. Right, thanks for your assistance! Jim. -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 17/6/14, Jasper Sharp > wrote: Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Early Mizoguchi film enquiry To: "kinejapan" > Date: Tuesday, 17 June, 2014, 18:55 It is lost I am pretty sure. I know probably the reason you are asking about it is because it was included as an early proto-horror in the Aurum Encyclopeda of Horror, and this was precisely because it was released in Europe (because the authors of Aurum would not have been able to see it and there are quite a few other titles that would fit the bill too).From my research a few years back, I know this film was released in France, but no in the UK, I think - there were simply no places that would show this kind of thing except Close Up film club, and from my consultation of their catalogues, there's no mention of this particular film - although a few other Japanese films from this period did play at Close Up. So best to consult french sources, but its worth remembering that the kind of film culture we are used to today did not exist so probably it screened a few times and no one even bothered to so much as register its presence in any language.This is all from memory, so forgive my lack of precision. I'm sure there's info out there, but you might have to head to Paris to find it. The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them. Currently in production, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema (2011) is out now from Scarecrow Press Midnight Eye - Visions of Japanese cinema http://www.midnighteye.com Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:36:35 +0100 From: jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk To: kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu Subject: [KineJapan] Early Mizoguchi film enquiry Afternoon all I'm not terribly familiar with Kenji Mizoguchi's early films, so I wanted to check a couple of things. Is Kyoren no onna shisho (1926) a lost film, or do prints (wholly or in part) still exist? If it is lost, was their much written about the film (reviews, publicity etc) at the time of its release? Any help would be much appreciated! 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A full announcement is coming soon. Since FCCJ is a private club, you must reserve your seats through Karen Severns: kjs30 at gol.com. *FCCJ SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING * *Thursday, July 24* *THE END OF THE SPECIAL TIME WE WERE ALLOWED* Followed by a Q&A with director Shingo Ota Japan, 2013 119 minutes Japanese with English subtitles For more on the film: http://goo.gl/aUFtch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From amnornes at umich.edu Sat Jul 5 12:48:09 2014 From: amnornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 12:48:09 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Publication Announcement: The Pink Book Message-ID: <38D69ED0-3674-4A7C-93EE-6CBD7138BD53@umich.edu> PLEASE SHARE AND REPOST EVERYWHERE! The Kinema Club editorial collective presents this book, the second edited collection published by Kinema Club. Please share with your librarians, who can put the ebook in their collections at no cost. A paper version is available through print on demand. We are distributing it through a variation of the system devised by anime fans in the VHS era: send in a self-addressed priority mail label and money and we will send you a book. For foreign orders, please contact amnornes at umich.edu. http://kinemaclub.org/pink-book-japanese-eroduction-and-its-contexts The Pink Book The Japanese Eroduction and Its Contexts Edited by Ab? Mark Nornes With essays by Roland Domenig, Kimata Kimihiko, Kirsten Cather, Yuriko Furuhata, Julian Stringer, Andrew Grossman, Sharon Hayashi, Miryam Sas, Michael Arnold, Peter Alilunas and Donald Richie. Also features a fascinating collection of photographs from Tsuda Ichiro?s The Location. Free Electronic Versions (PDF and ePub): http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107423 Paper Version: A print-to-order paper version is available for purchase. Send a $25 check and a USPS self-addressed Priority Mail label to Irhe Sohn, Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan, 6348 North Quad, 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285. The Japanese eroduction, known locally as the Pink Film (pinku eiga), stands out among its soft-core cousins in other parts of the world for its scale, intimate relationship to the mainstream industry, and its occasional ambition. Pink films are ultra-low budget, soft-core, 35mm narrative feature films. They emerged in the early 1960s and quickly became a significant portion of Japan?s annual output (between 100 and 700 films a year), showing triple bills in their own network of national theater chains. Their success was accomplished in the vacuum left by the crumbling studio system. Today, the industry is itself in its death throes, unable to compete with the more explicit home video market known as AV. Triple bills in air conditioned comfort can no longer compete with the privacy of home. Now is an opportune time to examine the history of the Pink Film, now on the cusp of its disappearance. Words of praise for The Pink Book: Just as Pink Film was a challenge to fixed ideas about Japanese cinema, being so central to the development of contemporary Japanese film yet existing on the denigrated margins of the movie world, The Pink Book, while containing work by top scholars, is a challenge to academic Japanese cinema studies. It dares scholarship to explore ways to understand the intersections between sex, gender, politics, industry, and history without resorting to safe categories like ?art film? or ?pop culture?. An independent production like its subject matter, it breaks boundaries with its breadth and diversity, and offers models for where film studies can go. ?Aaron Gerow, Yale University This strange collection of brains has drawn an untouchable picture of the Pink Cinema. It is not simply a record of their wanderings around the utter darkness of the Japanese soft core sex film world. It is a story?for any reader?more pleasurable than a child?s secret treasure box! ?Adachi Masao, director Japanese cinema has an unusual history of sexual representation. Where standard Hollywood style kisses were long forbidden in Japanese cinema until the U.S. Occupation, in the 60?s and 70?s a particular type of sex film flourished. Analogous to, but much more stylistically adventurous and widespread than, the American genre of ?sexploitation?, Pink Films were differentiated from ?Blue? movies by the absence of hard-core sexual action. 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M Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > From: Christophe Thouny > Date: July 5, 2014 at 9:31:40 AM EDT > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Subject: [KineJapan] Panel on Melancholy Ethics tomorrow Sunday 6th at Tokyo University - Komaba Campus > Reply-To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > > Dear colleagues, > > In case the information has not circulated, there is tomorrow, sunday July 6th, a panel I organize on Melancholy Ethics and the (moving) image as part of the Hy?sh?bunkaron gakkai, this year at Tokyo University, Komaba Campus. > > Please find the link to the gakkai program here. The panel is from 16h30 in building 18, 4F, Collaboration Room #3. > http://www.repre.org/conventions/9/ > > > > ???????????Melancholy Ethics ? Ecocriticism and the Moving Image in a Planetary Age????????????3? > Love as Atmosphere: Melancholy Ethics, Fukushima Japan, and the lost decade in Sh?no Yoriko's Time War Complex / Christophe THOUNY (University of Tokyo) > Doubts, Denial and Recognition: A Cavellian and Oreskian Approach to Films on 311 / ?lise DOMENACH (Ecole Normale Sup?rieure Lyon / University of Tokyo) > After Species Being: Gender, Sexuality, and the Critique of Industrialization / Diane Wei LEWIS (Washington University in St. Louis) > Chair: Christophe THOUNY (University of Tokyo) > Discussant: Yoshiaki SATO > > > Thank you and sorry for the late notice. > > Best, > > Christophe > > ********************************************************** > Christophe Thouny, PhD > University of Tokyo > Global Communication Research Center > > tel : 080-3366-9018 > email : ct843 at nyu.edu > ********************************************************** > > > > > > > > > > >> On Jun 18, 2014, at 3:27 AM, Jim Harper wrote: >> >> Cheers Jasper. >> >> For some reason it never occurred to me to check Aurum, and you're right, they've included it but obviously couldn't see it. I was interested in it because I know it's a version of the Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi, and having watched Nakagawa, Yasuda and Hase adaptations I was curious to see what Mizoguchi brought to his version, although I'm guessing it wasn't as gruesome as the others or as utterly misanthropic and cynical as the Kazuo Hase version. I know few of the pre-war kaidan/horror films have survived. >> >> Right, thanks for your assistance! >> >> Jim. >> >> -------------------------------------------- >> On Tue, 17/6/14, Jasper Sharp wrote: >> >> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Early Mizoguchi film enquiry >> To: "kinejapan" >> Date: Tuesday, 17 June, 2014, 18:55 >> >> It is lost >> I am pretty sure. I know probably the reason you are asking >> about it is because it was included as an early proto-horror >> in the Aurum Encyclopeda of Horror, and this was precisely >> because it was released in Europe (because the authors of >> Aurum would not have been able to see it and there are quite >> a few other titles that would fit the bill too).From my >> research a few years back, I know this film was released in >> France, but no in the UK, I think - there were simply no >> places that would show this kind of thing except Close Up >> film club, and from my consultation of their catalogues, >> there's no mention of this particular film - although a >> few other Japanese films from this period did play at Close >> Up. So best to consult french sources, but its worth >> remembering that the kind of film culture we are used to >> today did not exist so probably it screened a few times and >> no one even bothered to so much as register its presence in >> any language.This is all from memory, so forgive >> my lack of precision. I'm sure there's info out >> there, but you might have to head to Paris to find it. >> >> >> >> >> >> The >> Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story >> about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With >> them. Currently in production, >> directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper >> Sharp. >> The Historical Dictionary of Japanese >> Cinema (2011) is out now from Scarecrow >> Press >> Midnight Eye - Visions of >> Japanese cinema >> http://www.midnighteye.com >> >> >> >>> Date: Tue, 17 Jun >> 2014 15:36:35 +0100 >>> From: >> jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk >>> To: >> kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu >> Subject: [KineJapan] Early Mizoguchi film enquiry >>> >>> Afternoon all >>> >>> I'm not terribly >> familiar with Kenji Mizoguchi's early films, so I wanted >> to check a couple of things. Is Kyoren no onna shisho (1926) >> a lost film, or do prints (wholly or in part) still >> exist? >>> >>> If it is >> lost, was their much written about the film (reviews, >> publicity etc) at the time of its release? >>> >>> Any help would be >> much appreciated! >> Thanks, >>> >>> Jim >> Harper. >> _______________________________________________ >>> KineJapan mailing list >>> KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu >> https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> >> >> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu >> https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu >> https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kthouny at gmail.com Sat Jul 5 09:31:40 2014 From: kthouny at gmail.com (Christophe Thouny) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 22:31:40 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Panel on Melancholy Ethics tomorrow Sunday 6th at Tokyo University - Komaba Campus In-Reply-To: <1403029675.21905.YahooMailBasic@web173101.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> References: <1403029675.21905.YahooMailBasic@web173101.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <51E2646E-804F-407B-9F9A-E1594D467858@gmail.com> Dear colleagues, In case the information has not circulated, there is tomorrow, sunday July 6th, a panel I organize on Melancholy Ethics and the (moving) image as part of the Hy?sh?bunkaron gakkai, this year at Tokyo University, Komaba Campus. Please find the link to the gakkai program here. The panel is from 16h30 in building 18, 4F, Collaboration Room #3. http://www.repre.org/conventions/9/ ???????????Melancholy Ethics ? Ecocriticism and the Moving Image in a Planetary Age????????????3? Love as Atmosphere: Melancholy Ethics, Fukushima Japan, and the lost decade in Sh?no Yoriko's Time War Complex / Christophe THOUNY (University of Tokyo) Doubts, Denial and Recognition: A Cavellian and Oreskian Approach to Films on 311 / ?lise DOMENACH (Ecole Normale Sup?rieure Lyon / University of Tokyo) After Species Being: Gender, Sexuality, and the Critique of Industrialization / Diane Wei LEWIS (Washington University in St. Louis) Chair: Christophe THOUNY (University of Tokyo) Discussant: Yoshiaki SATO Thank you and sorry for the late notice. Best, Christophe ********************************************************** Christophe Thouny, PhD University of Tokyo Global Communication Research Center tel : 080-3366-9018 email : ct843 at nyu.edu ********************************************************** On Jun 18, 2014, at 3:27 AM, Jim Harper wrote: > Cheers Jasper. > > For some reason it never occurred to me to check Aurum, and you're right, they've included it but obviously couldn't see it. I was interested in it because I know it's a version of the Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi, and having watched Nakagawa, Yasuda and Hase adaptations I was curious to see what Mizoguchi brought to his version, although I'm guessing it wasn't as gruesome as the others or as utterly misanthropic and cynical as the Kazuo Hase version. I know few of the pre-war kaidan/horror films have survived. > > Right, thanks for your assistance! > > Jim. > > -------------------------------------------- > On Tue, 17/6/14, Jasper Sharp wrote: > > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Early Mizoguchi film enquiry > To: "kinejapan" > Date: Tuesday, 17 June, 2014, 18:55 > > It is lost > I am pretty sure. I know probably the reason you are asking > about it is because it was included as an early proto-horror > in the Aurum Encyclopeda of Horror, and this was precisely > because it was released in Europe (because the authors of > Aurum would not have been able to see it and there are quite > a few other titles that would fit the bill too).From my > research a few years back, I know this film was released in > France, but no in the UK, I think - there were simply no > places that would show this kind of thing except Close Up > film club, and from my consultation of their catalogues, > there's no mention of this particular film - although a > few other Japanese films from this period did play at Close > Up. So best to consult french sources, but its worth > remembering that the kind of film culture we are used to > today did not exist so probably it screened a few times and > no one even bothered to so much as register its presence in > any language.This is all from memory, so forgive > my lack of precision. I'm sure there's info out > there, but you might have to head to Paris to find it. > > > > > > The > Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story > about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With > them. Currently in production, > directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper > Sharp. > The Historical Dictionary of Japanese > Cinema (2011) is out now from Scarecrow > Press > Midnight Eye - Visions of > Japanese cinema > http://www.midnighteye.com > > > >> Date: Tue, 17 Jun > 2014 15:36:35 +0100 >> From: > jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk >> To: > kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu >> > Subject: [KineJapan] Early Mizoguchi film enquiry >> >> Afternoon all >> >> I'm not terribly > familiar with Kenji Mizoguchi's early films, so I wanted > to check a couple of things. Is Kyoren no onna shisho (1926) > a lost film, or do prints (wholly or in part) still > exist? >> >> If it is > lost, was their much written about the film (reviews, > publicity etc) at the time of its release? >> >> Any help would be > much appreciated! >> >> > Thanks, >> >> Jim > Harper. >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu >> > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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