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	Missing Persons By Justin Lowe With a series of films based on the novels of Kobo Abe, Hiroshi Teshigahara helped forge a “New Wave” of Japanese filmmaking in a strikingly modernistic departure from the naturalistic cinema of such predecessors as Yasujiro Ozu and Masaki Kobayashi. In a rare retrospective of this creative partnership, Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive this month presents Missing Persons, a series of Abe-scripted Teshigahara films, including Pitfall, The Face of Another and the award-winning Woman in the Dunes. COMPLETE STORY...		Senate Bill Bans Burma (in National News) Learning Center Reaches Out in Oakland to Mentally Ill (in Bay Area News) New Business Deal to Import Chinese High Tech Workers. (in Business) Emil Amok: What Are Tiger Privates Doing in My Soup? (in Opinion)

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The Nijinsky of Butoh Akira Kasai returns with new life By Yafonne “When a young person can dance hip hop, he does not need a god,” declares 58 year-old Japanese Butoh dance master Akira Kasai in an interview with AsianWeek at Sunflower Café in downtown San Francisco. Dressed in a funky striped black suit, with long orange-tinted hair and dark glasses, Kasai looks like a Japanese “Elvis” — a strikingly young, yet serious mystery man. “If you dance hip hop, you can see life from the inside. You can catch the body. If all [people] were dancing, we would not need any religion,” he says in fluent German, which his dancer Petra Vermeersch, 31, then translates to English. COMPLETE STORY...

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