Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)

Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954)

Uwasa no Onna (1954)

The Grey Fox (1982)

Dames (1934)

Footlight Parade (1933)

42nd Street (1933)

Radical Closure - How can cinema respond to a history shaped by violence? Akram Zaatari - PFA Theater - November 29 - December 12, 2006

An Evening with The Band - Paramount Theatre - July 22, 1983

Late Spring - Collaboration - Yuan Chen 779 - 831

Conversing with Asha - Pacific Bell Phone Bill - June 1990

the room beneath her dress

recent as browse tinge sand across aisles adequate to rove

contestants arrive with their knowledge intact

promptings were lenient

pitch coffee on the table fascinate - pockets peel with lamp

persuade anonymous in beverage

acacias coalesce to pounce subsequent stairs

shelvings blend as wood attains moisture

equivalents brim nave in a practical clasp

absence habituates the film - situate the room in frequent pauses

harbor half prompts pavement steep in beverage

kilometers trim - blend with extracted certainties

her dress in a tentative fold lock the slightest surface

per hour to my disappointment 20 kilometers per hour

day ocean was my disappointment ocean was 20 per hour ocean was 20 per speed over speed over the ocean per hour wind speed over my disappointment per hour disappointment 20 kilometers per hour kilometers per hour ocean was 20 kilometers per hour speed over speed over ocean 20 kilometers per hour my disappointment kilometers per hour to my 20 disappointment kilometers per kilometers per kilometers per hour kilometers per hour speed over speed over my disappointment 20 kilometers per hour over the ocean my disappointment per hour ocean was 20 kilometers my 20 disappointment 20 kilometers per hour ocean hour to my disappointment 20 kilometers my disappointment 20 kilometers per hour my disappointment over the ocean was ocean hour ocean was speed over my disappointment kilometers per hour ocean hour kilometers per hour


- letter from Sachiko – cut no. 4

wind speed over the ocean was my disappointment

wind speed over the ocean per hour

day ocean was 20 kilometers per hour

20 kilometers per hour was my disappointment

ocean was 20 kilometers over the ocean

speed over speed over the ocean was my 20 disappointment

wind speed over my disappointment 20 kilometers per hour

my disappointment was ocean 20 kilometers

over the ocean was ocean 20 kilometers per hour was my disappointment

ocean was 20 kilometers per hour to my disappointment per hour


- letter from Sachiko – cut no. 1

Letter from Sachiko with pages missing

...the anticipation cruelly betrayed me.
When Henry kindly took a boat out to tell you that I came to see you, I nearly wept for joy, but he told me that you had switched work shifts with your friend and couldn’t leave the ship. I reluctantly gave up meeting you in Osaka and went to Kobe next day and waited for you. To my disappointment, it was such a windy day that the wind speed over the ocean was 20 kilometers per hour. I figured I wouldn’t be able to see you then and decided to wait yet another day, praying for our reunion.

You never showed up at Mama-san’s house in Kobe , though. I was dying to see you again – I had been taking English conversation class every evening and studying so hard just to talk to you even in broken English. You and I speak different languages and have different cultures and customs. That may be part of the reason that we might have misunderstood each other, but I was just so upset and exhausted both physically and mentally.

What a tragedy – I had such huge expectations from self-serving pretension. My sorrow and anger has been taken over by hate. Why didn’t you see me? While I gave you the benefit of doubt thinking that you may have had so much work and been unable to leave the ship, I also wrapped myself up in paranoia that you had somebody else that you wanted to see.

I have to forget about you as if nothing has ever happened. I can still control myself with reasons. My heart is broken in pieces, but I want to say this – I regret my imprudence and ask you to return my picture.

Sachiko

P.S. I never lose my pride as Japanese.


(translated by Maki)

found letter at Alameda Flea Market
Sunday, Feb 5, 2006

Letter from Sachiko

Soleilmoon Recordings Catalogue - July 1991