Word: monogatari
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...Ozu’s films, his most famous is Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari), a film about the ungrateful and indifferent children of an elderly couple who, close to death, go to visit their children in the city. Connor asked his students to watch the film and says that the beauty of the retrospective was that he could direct them to dozens more to watch on their own time...
...hoariest stereotypes of Japan is that the national genius is one of adaptation rather than invention - that it is a nation of copycats rather than creators. However, the Japanese have a good claim to having invented the novel. Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari), written some 600 years before Don Quixote, is a weirdly fascinating narrative of erotic and court intrigue. For Western readers it can only reinforce the image of Japan as, in Yukio Mishima's words, "a nation of flower arrangers...
...Ugetsu Monogatari" at 7:30 p.m. The legend ofa potter, Genjuro and a farmer Tobei, who, drawnby the lure of wartime profits, risk not their ownlives but the lives and happiness of theirfamilies...
...Ugetsu Monogatari--In the Carpenter Center...
...Author. A lady as irreproachable in her own behavior as her characters were worldly, Lady Murasaki (Murasaki, no Shikibu) belonged to a junior branch of the Fujiwara family, married a kinsman, joined the court of the Empress Akiko when he died. The Genji Monogatari, in 54 books, was finished in 1004 or a little earlier. Tourists who visit the Lake Biwa Temple of Ishiyama can see what legend calls Lady Murasaki's room and a scrap of the handwriting in which she composed the first Nipponese novel, some 700 years ahead of England's Fielding...