In article <BD0ABDEF.1DDCA%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp>, Ernest Schaal
<eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:

> Last night I realized that it wasn't too smart to watch Kurosawa's "Stray
> Dog" on a mushiatsui night, even with the air conditioner on.
> 
> I bought the videotape a long time ago, and had watched it often over the
> years, but I hadn't viewed it in over a year, and I had forgotten how much
> the motif is heat, sweat, fatigue, and the unbearable summer in pre-air
> conditioned Japan.
> 
> Good movie, but wait until it is cooler to watch it. 

Funny.  But you're right as you discussed it I was remembering that I
had watched it initially during the summer.  Wait a minute--I didn't
either.  That movie is to heat what "Das Boot" is to claustrophobia.

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