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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>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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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;Trashed&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to associate the uber-groomed, aquiline-profiled Jeremy Irons (“Damage,” “Die Hard: With a Vengeance”) with garbage. But in the documentary “Trashed,” which focuses on the problem of global waste, Irons wallows in it.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Heaven&#8217;s Gate&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1970s are fondly remembered now as an insanely creative and risk-taking era for American cinema, and there&#8217;s one infamous film that is generally blamed for bringing it all to a crashing halt: &#8220;Heaven&#8217;s Gate.&#8221; Director Michael Cimino had cleaned up at the Oscars with &#8220;The Deer Hunter,&#8221; and seemed like a safe bet to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Warm Bodies&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Most zombie movies look at the undead and decide they&#8217;re a problem best solved with a bullet to the head. But director Jonathan Levine gives us &#8220;Warm Bodies,&#8221; which suggests that when World War Z comes, all you&#8217;ll need is love. R. (Nicholas Hoult) is a sulky 20-something who looks rather like a skater except [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Frozen Ground&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on a serial-killer spree in Anchorage, Alaska, in the late 1970s/early &#8217;80s, &#8220;The Frozen Ground&#8221; draws solid performances from an A-list cast but somehow falls short on terror. Writer/director Scott Walker is careful to maintain a dark, understated mood that blends in quite effectively with the bleak, wintry setting, but the story seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Soshite Chichi ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son)&#8217;</title>
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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;Elysium&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On the one hand &#8220;Elysium&#8221; is the last of this year&#8217;s summer blockbusters, the new Matt Damon star vehicle and the Hollywood debut by South African director Neill Blomkamp, acclaimed for his debut aliens-among-us feature &#8220;District 9.&#8221; On the other, this is a political propaganda film so stark and simplistic in its depiction of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Chronicle&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The found-footage thing: It can be addictive. Though as a movie ploy, it always stumps me how the characters would actually go into a dark woods in the middle of the night (&#8220;The Blair Witch Project&#8221;) or move their family into a house where a gruesome murder had taken place (&#8220;Sinister&#8221;). So much of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Byzantium&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The post-&#8221;Twilight&#8221; boom in all things vampire continues, but this latest undead flick comes from Irish director Neil Jordan (&#8220;The Crying Game&#8221;), whose 1994 adaptation of Anne Rice&#8217;s &#8220;Interview With the Vampire&#8221; well preceded the current trend. Clara and Eleanor are &#8220;sucreants&#8221; &#8212; vampires for all intents and purposes &#8212; who have been on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Despicable Me 2&#8242;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two things stand out about 2010 animated comedy &#8220;Despicable Me&#8221;: The hero, Gru (Steve Carell), is a villain (a philosophical oxymoron in itself), and he&#8217;s not that despicable. Sure, he freeze-dries people in front of him in line at Starbucks and tries to grab the coveted Star Villain slot on cable TV &#8212; but come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Zero Dark Thirty&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Kathryn Bigelow Language: English Kathryn Bigelow&#8217;s study of the decadelong hunt for Osama bin Laden will either fascinate or infuriate. Shown through the eyes of an iron-willed intelligence analyst (played by Jessica Chastain), the film insists that it was one woman&#8217;s hunch &#8212; and her dogged pursuit of it &#8212; that led to bin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Blood (Japan title: Land&#8217;s End: Yami no Koto)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Nick Murphy Language: English Chilling British crime thriller &#8220;Blood&#8221; stars Paul Bettany and Stephen Graham as cop brothers investigating the murder of a 12-year-old girl in a coastal town. Under the glare of public outrage, Joe (Bettany) tries to nail the most likely suspect ASAP, and winds up committing a crime of his own. [...]]]></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>&#8216;Hyde Park on Hudson&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For all intents and purposes, &#8220;Hyde Park on Hudson&#8221; should have you on hello. Instead, it may leave you feeling the tiniest bit revolted. Focusing on the events of a weekend in the life of 32nd U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, arguably the best-loved commander-in-chief of the 20th century after JFK, &#8220;Hyde Park on Hudson&#8221; [...]]]></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;The Wolverine&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While it never seems to be as high-profile as the &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; or &#8220;Spider-Man&#8221; franchises, the &#8220;X-Men&#8221; series is actually the longest-running Marvel Comics series on the big screen, and it&#8217;s the one that opened the gates to Marvel&#8217;s current dominance. For my money, &#8220;X-Men&#8221; remains the most interesting, with a fistful of well-etched characters, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Strutter&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Allison Anders started off as a scrappy indie filmmaker — cutting her no-budget first feature, &#8220;Border Radio,&#8221; after hours at the UCLA film school — and after a flirtation with mainstream success in the 1990s (the iconic &#8220;Gas Food Lodging&#8221; and &#8220;Grace of My Heart&#8221;) and a lot of work in TV, she&#8217;s now right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Les Saveurs du Palais&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In France, female chefs rarely get to the top &#8212; and when they do, gender issues are rife. One way to deal with it is simply to ignore it, and in this story of chef Hortense Laborie (based on the real-life Daniele Delpeuch) it works. &#8220;Haute Cuisine&#8221; is the story of how she was hand-picked [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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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;Side Effects&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Director Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s retirement from cinema after a career of 30-plus years has been much ballyhooed, and is hopefully only temporary. But if &#8220;Side Effects&#8221; turns out to be his last movie, it&#8217;s a shame, because this one shows him at the top of his game. Soderbergh is working again with screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Upside Down&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is: the movie equivalent of a crazy, distracting, impossibly attractive lover. Everything about &#8220;Upside Down&#8221; is nutso preposterous but it draws you in and locks you in a warm embrace, declaring undying love and promising mystery and eternal longing forever more. If there was a way I could go on a date with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Laurence Anyways&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it&#8217;s better to know the director before going in to see &#8220;Laurence Anyways&#8221;: Xavier Dolan is all of 23 years old, yet this is already the Quebecois filmmaker&#8217;s fourth feature. In other words, be prepared to cut the prolific (and many say brilliant) lad some slack. Bushels of it. Clocking in at nearly three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Le Magasin des Suicides&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the miserable satire-world of French animated comedy &#8220;Suicide Shop,&#8221; people are fined by the cops and billed for damages for failed suicide attempts. Of course in present-day Japan, this is the sad reality, where bereaved relatives get a bill for the disruption caused by a loved one who jumps in front of a train, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Man of Steel&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Overwrought and overlong but thoroughly engrossing, &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; is an experience akin to finding yourself standing next to an enormous turbo fan while trying to listen to a friend talk about his arduous Mount Everest expedition. On the one hand, you want to get out of the wind. It would be impolite to interrupt. [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Mark Schilling</dc:creator>
		
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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;Ginger &amp; Rosa&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filmmaker Sally Potter&#8217;s observations of women and their relationships have almost always been tinged by the subtexts of women and how they deal with their political environment. Now her keen sense of what women want (hint: Love is never enough) is brilliantly deployed in coming-of-age story &#8220;Ginger &#38; Rosa.&#8221; In the pre-Beatles London of 1962, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Bait&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know the summer blockbuster season is over when the shark flicks start to arrive. &#8220;Bait,&#8221; a fairly big-budgeted Australian film &#8212; although you wouldn&#8217;t guess it &#8212; tries to put a new spin on the sharxploitation movie, employing 3-D as it was originally intended: a massively in-your-face gimmick. &#8220;Bait&#8221; is not content to just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;On the Road&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giovanni Fazio</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you make a movie version of &#8220;On the Road,&#8221; author Jack Kerouac&#8217;s near stream-of-consciousness ode to bumming back and forth across Eisenhower-era 1950s America and Mexico in hitched rides, purloined cars and hobo boxcars in a blur of jazz joints, poetry and longing? The book is all about first-hand, lived experience expressed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Star Trek Into Darkness&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaori Shoji</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the biggest blockbuster this summer, &#8220;Star Trek Into Darkness&#8221; nonetheless throws more than a few curve balls: It is pensive, frosty and often curt, and comes elegantly and aptly dressed in several shades of black. Though there are many moments of humor and thrilling adventure, the story seems enshrouded in a dark cloud of [...]]]></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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