On Apr 8, 11:29 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> John W. wrote:
> > On Apr 7, 9:42 am, Gerry <somewh...@sunny.calif> wrote:
> >> Having forgotten the name of this, I somehow managed to wind up renting
> >> the DVD again, at least 5 years after seeing the movie.  The wife
> >> didn't recognize it for almost an hour. But when the heroine moves to
> >> the coast we both remembered it well.
>
> >> For anyone who may have seen this movie, can you tell where the last
> >> half is shot. It's in coastal village. Her new husband comes to pick
> >> her up in the train station, and there is a announcement regarding a
> >> train to Kanazawa.
> >> --
> >> Dogmatism kills jazz. Iconoclasm kills rock. Rock dulls scissors.
>
> > The internet is our friend:
>
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maborosi
>
> > Long live Wikipedia, without which I might actually work.
>
> I am shocked to learn that there are Japanese-made movies in which no
> one lives in Shitamachi, wears a rumpled suit and haramaki, or goes on
> sales trips that take the lead actor to rural settings that feature the
> underaged heartthrob of the year as "madonna" ... and that there are
> also movies in which no one works for a construction company and no one
> sneaks away from work and goes fishing.
>
> How did that happen?

You didn't include giant atomic fire breathing lizards or monstrously
huge turtles that
fly with jets out of their appendage holes.

Or even stories about the hard life Yakuza wives if you want more
"reality" based films.