<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">oh man, that's too bad. oshima is one of my very favorite directors - a real renegade. EMPIRE OF PASSION, BOY, VIOLENCE AT NOON, PLEASURES OF THE FLESH, JAPANESE SUMMER - DOUBLE SUICIDE, and, i can hardly type it without blushing, IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES - all wholly delightful and disturbing all at once. i've never seen MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR LAWRENCE, the film he did with bowie that got more mainstream attention in the states. i am pretty sure it's on netflix - i might have to celebrate the man's life by watching it tonight.<br><br>thanks for posting. i hadn't heard. <br>pg<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> Dave Monroe <against.the.dave@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> pynchon -l <pynchon-l@waste.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, January 15, 2013 9:07:53 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Nagisa Oshima, requiescat in pace ...<br></font><br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/movies/nagisa-oshima-iconoclastic-filmmaker-dies-at-80.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/movies/nagisa-oshima-iconoclastic-filmmaker-dies-at-80.html</a><br><br>Nagisa Oshima (1932 - 2013)<br><br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651915/" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651915/</a><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagisa_Oshima" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagisa_Oshima</a><br><br>Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0BBZ5WWC8o" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0BBZ5WWC8o</a><br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063598/" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063598/</a><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Shinjuku_Thief" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Shinjuku_Thief</a><br></div></div>
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