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	Japanese Story
		Japanese Story is only about 95 minutes long, but it took me about 8 hours to watch it.
		Furthermore, a really savvy Japanese businessman would never say something like this in Australia to an Australian, because it plays right into the Xenophobic belief of some Australians that the Japanese want to buy up Australia because they are running out of room in their own country.
		Japanese Story (2003) is an Australian cross cultural communications study and a look at just how relationships, however fleeting can impact our lives.
	www.fakes.net /japanesestory.htm (2282 words)

	Japanese Story (2003): Reviews
		The glory of Japanese Story is that even after a daringly abrupt plot turn, the cast maintains its empathy and lucidity without interruption.
		Brooks endows Japanese Story with a fair measure of suspense, pathos, and romance, despite the challenge of conjuring these qualities from only two main characters and not much else to look at in many scenes but sand, sand, sand.
		Her story is that of a hard-bitten female geologist who falls for the uptight Japanese she’s squiring around the northwest of Australia.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/japanesestory (1392 words)

	Japanese Story: A Shift of Heart
		While Japanese Story was in development during the late 1990s, a road trip into the Australian outback became the leitmotiv of two other feature films involving a romance between Australian and Japanese characters in lead roles, Heaven's Burning (Craig Lahiff, 1997) and The Goddess of 1967 (Clara Law, 2001).
		Like The Goddess of 1967 and Heaven's Burning, Japanese Story was conceived in the mid-1990s when the national agenda was dominated by heated debates over the republic, refugees, reconciliation, One Nation's anti-Asia stance, the report on the Stolen Generation, and the Mabo and Wik judgments on terra nullius and Native Title.
		Taken as allegory, Japanese Story is indebted to the landscape tradition in that it imbues its characters and landscapes with the sense that what ails urban white settler Australia is a barely-felt spiritual malaise.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/29/japanese_story.html (2500 words)

	Japanese Story - Rent This DVD with Quickflix
		Japanese Story is a journey of change and discovery for its two lead characters.
		She reluctantly agrees to escort a visiting Japanese businessman, played by Gotaro Tsunashima, on a tour through the mining areas, though at first she has as much difficulty relating to him and his culture as he does to her.
		The story line is unexpected and Toni Collette is always worth watching, but this is a movie that falls into the category of "could have been".
	www.quickflix.com.au /public/tools/viewmovie/JapaneseStory/17421.aspx (979 words)

	Japanese Story (2003): Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunachima, Matthew Dyktynski - PopMatters Film Review
		After their vehicle is unexpectedly stuck in mud overnight, the two are forced to spend a freezing night in the desert together, during which Hiro begins to appreciate Sandy's authoritative knowledge of desert survival.
		Sandy is open about her ignorance of "the Japanese." She is put on the defensive when her equally scruffy colleagues show that they already know proper cross-cultural business etiquette: they pass out business cards on cue and bow respectfully to Hiro, while Sandy looks lost.
		We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/j/japanese-story.shtml (1030 words)

	Japanese Story (2004)
		On the surface, Japanese Story looks to be a love story.
		And it is. But it's not the romance you'd expect.
		Toni Collette dominates the film as Sandy Edwards, a geologist who, against her will, is appointed to play tour guide to a Japanese businessman (Gotaro Tsunashima) who is interested in iron mines.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/JapaneseStory/JapaneseStory.html (268 words)

	Film: Japanese Story
		Japanese Story comes along at a time when the Australian film community is feeling a bit wobbly.
		Japanese Story is the first feature film to be shot almost entirely in the Pilbara and, together with veteran cameraman Ian Baker, director Sue Brooks makes the most of it.
		Japanese Story is the result of a lengthy collaboration between Sue Maslin, Sue Brooks and writer Alison Tilson.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/film_reviews/article_1385.asp?MSID=0912bb9305f84f30822aea5690e054bf (959 words)

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		A famous Japanese story tells of an impoverished Samurai who, on a bitterly cold winter’s night in 1383, sacrificed his last three, much loved bonsai to the fire to provide some heating for his honored visitor, a shogun.
		Japanese Story is directed by Sue Brooks with a screenplay by Alison Tilson.
		She is on screen most of the story and manages to handle a rainbow of emotions as she responds to the unsettling events that eventually tenderize her heart.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/japanese-story.html (417 words)

	Reeling: the Movie Review Show's review of Japanese Story
		The "two cultures collide" story line that takes up the film's first half changes radically when the two strangers are stranded out in the middle of nowhere because of Hiromitsu's naïve insistence that they make the treacherous journey into the remote Pilbara Desert.
		The multiplicity of stories - cultural conflict, romance and sad calamity - affects the pace of "Japanese Story" and is the film's weakest element.
		"Japanese Story" is an uneven effort with cinematographic excellence that is almost, but not quite, enough to recommend it.
	www.reelingreviews.com /japanesestory.htm (1032 words)

	Japanese Story Movie Review - Japanese Story Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		In "Japanese Story," the Australian actress Toni Collette plays a geologist who is most in her element on the bumpy back roads of the outback.
		The middle sections of "Japanese Story" unfold with a lovely delicacy, as Sandy and Tachibana wander back toward civilization with the dumbstruck ardor of lovers who have shared something no one else has.
		"Story" is best taken as a dazzling showcase for Collette, an actress who fits none of Hollywood's ideas of glamour or artistry, yet who grows like a beautiful outback weed with each new role she takes.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=4182 (588 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: JAPANESE STORY (xhtml)
		Toni Collette can have an angular presence on the screen; she can look hard and tough, and is well cast in "Japanese Story" as an unmarried geologist whose idea of dinner is a can of baked beans poured over two slices of toast.
		Both of those identities are used in Sue Brooks' "Japanese Story," a film in which her character journeys into the Australian desert with a Japanese businessman she begins by hating, and then begins to...
		"Japanese Story" never steps wrong in its crucial closing passages, especially in the precise and exact way that Sandy and the widow have a limited but bottomless communication.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040130/REVIEWS/401300303/1023 (828 words)

	The Japanese Ghost Story of Okiku
		The ghost story of Okiku, an unfortunate servant maid, is one of the best known and was transformed into a Kabuki play and numerous novels.
		All the variations of the ghost story of Okiku have an extremely wrongful and cruel treatment of a poor girl of the lower classes in common.
		But different from the ghost story of Yotsuya, revenge towards the tormenter is not the big Leitmotiv (apart from one variation of the story).
	www.artelino.com /articles/ghost_story_okiku.asp (782 words)

	Japanese Story
		It’s obvious that he is just as unhappy with the arrangement as she is. He is meticulous in his affairs and is put off by Sandy’s casualness and crassness.
		"Japanese Story" begins as an entertaining examination of two cultures, told from the one-sided perspective of each character.
		"Japanese Story" is not only an exploration of Australia’s outback, but of the space between us as humans as well.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/J/japanese_story.htm (391 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Japanese Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Japanese Story without knowing anything about it in advance, with the possible exception that Toni Collette gives yet another superb performance, demonstrating range that one wouldn’t necessarily expect, given the material that she’s been presented with.
		As Japanese Story opens, sour geologist Sandy (Collette) is goaded into an agreement to chauffer Hiro (Gotaro Tsunashima), the Japanese son of a prospective investor, around the Australian outback on a trip that seems to have no practical purpose.
		Japanese Story has outgrown its unassuming premise and taken the audience on an emotional journey that is all the more affecting because of its serendipitous nature.
	www.moviemartyr.com /2003/japanesestory.htm (455 words)

	Japanese Story (2003)
		I LOVE it when movies surprise me. I love it when a plot takes a sudden twist that I hadn't anticipated, and I love it even more when that twist is a seriously risky one that pays off.
		Japanese Story contained such a twist, and when it happened I was practically twittering with glee in my seat.
		The story reaches a point where it can travel the tried and true (read: YAWN) familiar path, or opt to take a chance on the other, far more dangerous and uncertain route.
	www.moviepie.com /filmfests/japanese_story.htm (413 words)

	Japanese Story
		Each finds the other unbearably rude, until their car gets stuck in the middle of nowhere, and they are forced to spend some time together, and connect.
		Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that the Australians choose to set this story at home rather than abroad, but the imbalance between the two characters' journeys borders on the offensive.
		Japanese Story won a stack of Australian film awards last year, and it's a visually striking film, but the focus on Sandy really jars, particularly later in the film, and the presentation of the Japanese is disappointing.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2004-01/japanese.htm (389 words)

	Japanese Story - Nitrate Online Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But Japanese Story never really achieves the intellectual or visceral weight to lead viewers to believe that its couple has teamed up for any reason other than boredom.
		The final act of Japanese Story seems to be Brooks and Tilson's attempt at jolting viewers, but it rings false and fits poorly with what came before.
		Tilson does deserve some credit for understanding Japanese social customs, and there is a funny sequence where Sandy and Tachibana have the misfortune of being stuck with an old man who, try as he might, can't help but spout racist slips of the tongue.
	www.nitrateonline.com /2004/rjstory.html (622 words)

	Japanese Story: Music composed by Elizabeth Drake: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews September 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Sue Brooks directed film recounts the story of Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, who play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe.
		The dark and tense atmosphere is enhanced by natural sound effects, and by interweaving the sound of an instrument of Japanese culture, the shakuhachi, with an ancient aboriginal melody percussion additionally suggests cultural displacement.
		The album concludes with 'Japanese Story' which was not used in the final score, clearly because its tone is too dark for the film and it feels completely out of place with the rest of the music.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /film/2004/Sep04/japanese_story.html (782 words)

	Amazon.ca: Japanese Story: DVD: Sue Brooks,Toni Collette,Lynette Curran,Reg Evans,George Shevtsov,Bill Young,Justine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At first, Japanese Story may seem to be little more than a peculiarly static culture-clash comedy, pitting Collette's gruff, workaholic Aussie geologist Sandy against Gotaro Tsunashima's impulsive, impractical Japanese businessman Tachibana.
		"A Japanese Story" is one of those movies that has the effect of rushing up from behind you and hitting you over the head.
		JAPANESE STORY conveys the message that life can be shockingly tenuous and death correspondingly abrupt.
	www.amazon.ca /Japanese-Story-Sue-Brooks/dp/B0001L3LUO (2023 words)

	'Japanese Story' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
		Her latest picture, "Japanese Story," a compelling and edgy love story with a twist, offers her a gutsy all-stops-out role worthy of Barbara Stanwyck, and she makes the absolute most of it in one of the year's best screen performances.
		He strikes her as imperious and he regards her "as very loud and aggressive — and very stubborn," describing her in Japanese in her presence to someone on his cellphone.
		She is well matched by Tsunashima, also an actor of much presence and many resources, but this Japanese story belongs to Collette.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-thomas31dec31,2,703789.story (572 words)

	Sue Brooks' "Japanese Story": Unexpected Results as Cultures Clash in the Outback
		The attraction of two people from wildly differing cultures is not the freshest premise to come down the pike, and the main novelty of "Japanese Story" initially appears to be its setting in Australia's Pilbara Desert.
		And the story is continually rescued from its own limitations by the raw energy of Toni Collette.
		She also opens up this smallish story by evoking elemental forces: the beautiful but unforgiving outback, and water as both life-giver and destroyer.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_031230japanese.html (1425 words)

	BBC - Films - Japanese Story
		The cultural crunch between East and West was explored in Lost In Translation, but Sue Brooks' film is less glibly amused by Japanese peccadilloes, and more interested in people than broad laughs.
		Brooks also has a keen eye, not simply in the way she and cinematographer Ian Baker shoot the outback (a landscape so stunning it would probably be pretty hard to film badly), but also in her approach to gender and sexuality.
		Whether Japanese Story retains its raw emotional punch on repeat viewing is arguable, but for 105 minutes its power is palpable.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2004/05/11/japanese_story_2004_review.shtml (414 words)

	Review: Japanese Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The making of "Japanese Story" (IMDb listing) is as intriguing as the film itself.
		Collette for her part describes the story as, "very beautiful, and real and subtle and kind of uncomfortable." In other words, stimulating.
		This is a central theme in "Japanese Story," represented by the unusual exploration of acquaintance between an Australian woman and a Japanese businessman thrown together in a car by circumstance.
	www.filmfodder.com /movies/reviews/japanese_story (448 words)

	Japanese Story Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Japanese Story also virtually lurches to a halt following a major plot twist.
		In the harrowing, fact-based Lilian's Story (1996), she plays a young woman whose sadistic father commits her to a mental hospital.
		Japanese Story's director Sue Brooks and screenwriter Alison Tilson provide an insightful and articulate commentary track about how they wanted the drama to play out in the characters' silences, rather than the dialogue.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=138737 (1448 words)

	Japanese Story (2003): Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunachima, Matthew Dyktynski - PopMatters Film Review
		Looking on their protagonist, Sandy (Toni Collette), director Sue Brooks and screenwriter Alison Tilson suggest that at the beginning of Japanese Story, she is "boxed in." This despite the fact that the first shot of their remarkable film shows what Brooks call "the extraordinary Pilbara," a shot that "we almost lost" for lack of funding.
		Pretending to read a magazine, she surreptitiously studies up on Japanese (she knows nothing of the language or the culture), while sneaking looks at Hiro's slim legs and taut belly, captured in tight frames that recall usual modes of cinematic objectification.
		And so, the film's drastic change-up in mood and meaning, brought on by a truly unexpected plot turn, also connects with its thematic interests, in fragmented experience, isolation, and identity, as these are affected by Sandy and Hiro's collision.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/j/japanese-story-dvd.shtml (1456 words)

	Japanese Story - Rotten Tomatoes
		Japanese Story takes its audience on a series of physical and emotional journeys, but comes across as artificial and forced.
		Japanese Story gives Australian actress Toni Collette a chance to demonstrate the full range of her acting skills in a cross-
		Flows too quickly past other points where the story needed to slow down to allow the import of what was being said to sink in.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/japanese_story (847 words)

	The Old Fishing Lure Japanese Story
		Wakabayashi was also encouraging Japanese bass anglers and old lure collectors to join the club.
		That year there was no other Japanese bass anglers that caught a bass that were larger than these two bass that Mr.
		Wakabayashi was the first Japanese old lure collector to join the National Fishing Lure Collectors Club.
	www.antiquefishinglures.com /japanese.htm (1506 words)

	Japanese Story
		With her role in Japanese Story, Toni Collette proves that she is one of the most versatile actors working in Hollywood that is still unknown to most people.
		Part of her continuing anonymity stems from the fact that she is so good in her roles.
		She tends to disappear into them so much that it is sometimes hard recognizing her from one film to the next.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/japanese_story.html (501 words)

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