Also went to see Kuroneko, a Japanese ghost story. Which is pretty good, yes, in its Ugetsu-like sensuality. Maybe it's the memory of Ugetsu that made me raise my eyebrows at the ending. No Mizoguchi woman would do something like that. Mothers are sacred in Japanese popular culture-- patient, self-sacrificing, Giving Tree saints. Kuroneko is quite heretical that way.
Also went to see Kuroneko, a Japanese ghost story. Which is pretty good, yes, in its Ugetsu-like sensuality. Maybe it's the memory of Ugetsu that made me raise my eyebrows at the ending. No Mizoguchi woman would do something like that. Mothers are sacred in Japanese popular culture-- patient, self-sacrificing, Giving Tree saints. Kuroneko is quite heretical that way.
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Ah, ok. So the trans character in Kafuka that I didn't notice was trans when I first read the book (or at least didn't remember as a salient detail…
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There's Lot's wife and then there's 'twenty years ago was a really nice year, why can't it be twenty years ago again?' But yeah, 2000 was a nice…
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Pepys is always writing 'Lay late abed' (except when he's getting up at 4 a.m. to be somewhere downriver at 8) and I fully sympathize with the…
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