October 2010
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“But tell me: is there in any of your old stories a proper, upright fool like...”
– Murasaki Shikibu, “Fireflies,” The Tale of Genji
“Setsuko Hara, the daughter-in-law, tall, ungainly, humane (one feels) partly out...”
– Stanley Kauffman’s 1975 review of Ozu’s “Tokyo Story”