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		<title>Actor-director Okuda revisits wreckage of 3/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eiji Okuda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sakura Ando]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tasukui Emoto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Actors see how directors do their job — and not a few imagine they can do it better. But the number of Japanese actors who move successfully into the director’s chair is small.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Jigoku de Naze Warui (Why Don&#8217;t You Play in Hell?)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even great directors can make turkeys, sometimes without much obvious change in their style or obsessions. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kokuriko-zaka Kara (From Up on Poppy Hill)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Goro Miyazaki Language: Japanese (dubbed/subtitled in English) Studio Ghibli has released the U.K. Blu-ray and DVD of Goro Miyazaki&#8217;s 2011 animation &#8220;Kokuriko-zaka Kara (From Up on Poppy Hill).&#8221; Co-scripted by Hayao Miyazaki, the film is a nostalgic period piece about the campaign by Yokohama college students, circa 1963, to save their ramshackle clubhouse from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Soshite Chichi ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son)&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/19/films/soshite-chichi-ni-naru-like-father-like-son/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=soshite-chichi-ni-naru-like-father-like-son</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The English and Japanese titles of Hirokazu Koreeda&#8217;s dual-family drama &#8220;Soshite Chichi ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son)&#8221; are quite different in meaning, but both express something important about this extraordinary film, winner of the Jury Prize at this year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival. The English title is one of those commonplaces that rebellious adolescent sons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Casshern&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Kazuaki Kiriya Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) On Sept. 24, Paramount Catalog will release an English-subbed Region 1 DVD of Kazuaki Kiriya&#8217;s &#8220;Casshern.&#8221; This 2004 sci-fi epic about a mutant revolt in a post-apocalyptic world has the crazed ambition, visionary reach and even the back-to-the-future look of the great silent-era folie des grandeurs. True, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aoyama looks to the 1980s without nostalgia</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/09/12/films/aoyama-looks-to-the-1980s-without-nostalgia/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=aoyama-looks-to-the-1980s-without-nostalgia</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shinji Aoyama is the director as cinephile. That is, while winning awards for his own films, including two prizes at Cannes for his 2000 drama &#8220;Eureka,&#8221; he has long been a serious student of films by others, beginning with his days at Rikkyo University as a disciple of eminent film scholar Shigehiko Hasumi and continuing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Tomogui (Backwater)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1971 the Nikkatsu studio, desperate to stave off bankruptcy, switched production to the then-burgeoning genre of softcore pornography. Made mostly by young directors promoted after their elders fled, the films were hardly intended as high art. Instead their main selling point was simulated sex, often with an S&#38;M flavor. But the best of them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Minnasan, Sayonara! (See You Tomorrow, Everyone)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) On Oct. 14, Third Window Films (U.K.) will release an English-subbed DVD of Yoshihiro Nakamura&#8217;s &#8220;Minnasan, Sayonara! (See You Tomorrow, Everyone).&#8221; Starring Gaku Hamada as a boy who vows to spend his life in his Tokyo apartment complex, even as his childhood friends drift away, the film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Wolverine&#8217; draws from other Hollywood hits set in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood on the Sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shogun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wolverine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Yakuza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wolverine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Director James Mangold has claimed Japanese film influences on his Marvel comic adaptation &#8220;The Wolverine,&#8221; including Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s 1957 film &#8220;Kumonosu-jo (The Throne of Blood).&#8221; But the film, in which Hugh Jackman&#8217;s immortal Wolverine character comes to Japan, falls in love with a local beauty and fights local baddies, has much more in common with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kobayashi film explores Japan&#8217;s suicide problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great East Japan Earthquake]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kazuki Kitamura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masahiro Kobayashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinobu Terajima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tatsuya Nakadai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A folk-singer-turned-filmmaker who went to France in 1981 to apprentice under his idol François Truffaut, Masahiro Kobayashi may have failed in his quest (he couldn&#8217;t work up the courage to press Truffaut&#8217;s doorbell), but after returning to Japan became a prolific scriptwriter for pinku (softcore porn) films. He later moved on to directing, with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Nihon no Higeki (Japan&#8217;s Tragedy)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a good death? For certain Japanese Buddhist priests it was sokushinbutsu &#8212; self-mummification. As practiced by members of the Shingon sect, it was a decade-long process that culminated with the priest&#8217;s descent into a stone tomb to meditate in darkness, without food or water, until the final breath. After death, the priest&#8217;s body [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kibo no Kuni (The Land of Hope)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Sion Sono Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) On Aug. 26, Third Window Films of the U.K. released a DVD and Blu-ray of &#8220;Kibo no Kuni (The Land of Hope),&#8221; Sion Sono&#8217;s drama about two families caught up in a near-future nuclear catastrophe that eerily resembles Fukushima&#8217;s. Shot with Sono&#8217;s usual love of extremes, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Soul Flower Train&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dads, in Japan and elsewhere, never quite believe that their daughters are grown up and gone, do they? On a corner of their desk or in a corner of their mind is a picture of their princess at the school play or the piano recital or just making a goofy 8-year-old face. Yes, there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Various Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) Criterion is releasing a Blu-ray/DVD box set of the first 25 films in the &#8220;Zatoichi&#8221; series. Starring the burly, charismatic Shintaro Katsu as the titular blind swordsman, this action-packed series, which ran from 1962 to 1989, was a gateway to samurai films in particular and Japanese films in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Natsu no Owari (The End of Summer)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in 1963, Jakucho Setouchi&#8217;s &#8220;Natsu no Owari (The End of Summer)&#8221; was the &#8220;Fifty Shades of Grey&#8221; of its day: a best-selling novel written by a woman that viewed the unconventional love life of its 38-year-old heroine with the sort of matter-of-factness then considered daring. But the story, based on the author&#8217;s own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kumo no Hitomi (Eyes of the Spider), Hebi no Michi (Serpent&#8217;s Path)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) On Sept. 9, Third Window Films of the U.K. will release an English-subbed DVD set of Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s&#8221;Kumo no Hitomi (Eyes of the Spider)&#8221; and &#8220;Hebi no Michi (Serpent&#8217;s Path),&#8221; two linked 1998 low-budget shockers both starring Show Aikawa as a salaryman-turned-killer. Though shot in a total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the works of director Takashi Miike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese cinema]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Takashi Miike is one of the few Japanese filmmakers now working, Takeshi Kitano and Hayao Miyazaki being two others, who enjoy a measure of recognition outside Japan&#8217;s insular film world. Though hardly a household name in Kansas, Miike has long been a favorite with the international Asian Extreme Cinema crowd, who first loved him for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monster-film maker tackles other big menace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Norman England is the world&#8217;s leading non-Japanese expert on all things Godzilla, if hours logged on the set are any measure. From 1999 to 2004, he spent, by his own estimate, 150 days at Toho Studios watching the king of kaiju (monsters) come to life in film after film, culminating with Ryuhei Kitamura&#8217;s &#8220;Godzilla: Final [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When young creators answer the big city&#8217;s siren call</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asaka Seto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eri Fukatsu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kanon tani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kie Kitano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rieko Saibara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sosuke Ikematsu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suzuka Ohga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veteran scriptwriter and director Toshiyuki Morioka had more than a professional interest in making his new film &#8220;Jokyo Monogatari.&#8221; Based on an autobiographical manga by Rieko Saibara, its story of an aspiring artist coming to Tokyo to learn her trade and make her fortune was his as well. &#8220;I was in the same situation 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Jokyo Monogatari&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So many Japanese have relocated to Tokyo over the years to make their fortunes &#8212; or simply to escape rural poverty &#8212; that there is a word to describe the act: j&#333;ky&#333; (which the dictionary defines as &#8220;proceeding to the capital [Tokyo]&#8220;). Something similar in English would be &#8220;New York&#8221; as a verb: &#8220;I New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Various Toho war films</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Various Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) Amazon Spain is selling Spanish/English-subbed DVDs of old Toho war movies, including 1963&#8242;s &#8220;Taiheiyo no Tsubasa (Attack Squadron!),&#8221; with Toshiro Mifune starring as a fighter squadron leader, and 1968&#8242;s &#8220;Rengo Kantai Shirei Chokan: Yamamoto Isoroku (Admiral Yamamoto),&#8221; with Mifune as the title architect of the attack on Pearl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Homesick&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I once had a promising career as a teacher at a city day-care center in Hollywood (yes, that Hollywood). For one thing, I enjoyed interacting (translation: playing) with my charges, mostly African-American kids aged 9 to 12. For another, I liked making stuff with and for them, including a multi-story dollhouse &#8212; the product of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Eiga: Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de (The After-Dinner Mysteries)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese love mysteries, in print and on the screen, but foreigners, by and large, don&#8217;t take to Japanese mystery movies. For decades, Japanese producers were happy to concentrate on the big domestic market for local whodunit films, while making only half-hearted attempts to sell them abroad to largely indifferent buyers. So overseas fans are as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kurenai no Buta (Porco Rosso)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Hayao Miyazaki Language: Japanese (English subs/dub) Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s 1992 anime &#8220;Kurenai no Buta (Porco Rosso)&#8221; is now available in Japan as a multi-language-subbed/dubbed Blu-ray. This action-fantasy about a porcine World War I pilot who battles air pirates while vying with a rival for the hand of the lovely Gina features stunning flying sequences &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a royal problem in portraying the ruler</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Akira Kurosawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emperor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Fox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Webber]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Akira Kurosawa once told me that if he were to make a film about the Emperor, &#8220;I would probably be killed. &#8230; Even if the film were highly positive, just the fact that I was using the Emperor as a character would be enough to make (the rightists) mad.&#8221; Kurosawa may have been exaggerating &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Akaboshi&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to attract proselytizers, usually some variety of Christian, when I was thumbing around the United States in the early 1970s. Unlike most drivers who offered me rides, they didn&#8217;t want a captive ear for their personal confessions or rants. Instead they relentlessly quizzed me on the state of my soul. Was I twice-born [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Shokuzai (Penance)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) YesAsia has started selling an English-subbed Hong Kong version of &#8220;Shokuzai (Penance),&#8221; Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s five-part chiller about a mother (Kyoko Koizumi) who yearns for karmic retribution against the classmates of her dead daughter, who saw her murderer but failed to ID him to police. First broadcast on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying a price in Japan for showing up authority</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censorship in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genpei Akasegawa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Japan&#8217;s defeat in World II, its art world fell into the same flux as the rest of the society, as the rules and values that had governed it for decades suddenly vanished. Styles and movements once censored and banned, from Soviet-style socialist realism to surrealism, were now permitted and even encouraged by the U.S.-led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever Hayao Miyazaki, now 72, makes a film, fans and critics weigh it against this anime master&#8217;s past triumphs &#8212; and often find it wanting. Japanese critics, especially, fondly recall the films that Miyazaki directed at the start of his long career as peaks. That is, 1979&#8242;s &#8220;Lupin Sansei: Cagliostro no Shiro (Lupin the Third: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Godzilla&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Roland Emmerich Language: English A new 4K mastered Blu-ray of &#8220;Godzilla,&#8221; the 1998 Hollywood reworking of the seminal 1954 Japanese monster movie, was released on July 16. Reviled by Godzilla fans upon its original release, this CGI extravaganza directed by Roland Emmerich did not spawn the planned film series, though Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s &#8220;Pacific [...]]]></description>
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