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but it was a cultural program on NHK
about Gérard de Nerval.
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8:40, Cambodia.
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From Jean Jacques Rousseau to the Khmer Rouge:
coincidence, or the sense of history?
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In Apocalypse Now, Brando said a few definitive
and incommunicable sentences:
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"Horror has a face and a name...
you must make a friend of horror."
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To cast out the horror that has a name and a face
you must give it another name and another face.
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Japanese horror movies have the cunning beauty
of certain corpses.
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Sometimes one is stunned by so much cruelty.
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One seeks its sources in the Asian peoples long familiarity with suffering,
that requires that even pain be ornate.
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And then comes the reward:
the monsters are laid out, Natsume Masako arises;
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absolute beauty also has a name and a face.
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But the more you watch Japanese television...
the more you feel it's watching you.