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...