All,
Recently I watched a Japanese film, café LUMIÈRE.
Wikipedia sums up the movie like this:
"The story revolves around Yoko Inoue (played by Yo Hitoto), a young Japanese woman doing research on Taiwanese composer Jiang Wen-Ye, whose work is featured on the soundtrack. The late composer's Japanese wife and daughter also make appearances as themselves."A search of the local conservatory library produced nothing but a dissertation on the first page entitled,
"A Struggle for Recognition:"
http://uc.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?q=Jiang+Wen-Ye&search2.x=0&search2.y=0#!/search/document?ho=t&l=en&q=Jiang%20Wen-Ye&x=0&y=0&id=FETCHMERGED-uc_catalog_b435003652The piano scores must be tough to find in the States, which I would rather purchase, and I was wondering if someone here can find me a source for them, perhaps a translated Japanese site that sells his scores. I find it hard to believe that a faculty advisor ignored the work of the student so well that not even a single piano score was added to the library.
The movie also depicts cultural sensitivities about diversity in the Orient, which though I had been aware of these since college, did not quite understand in history and context as Taiwan has swapped authorities, a Japanese woman and protagonist who will not marry the Chinese man who impregnated her in Taiwan. Though Occidental commentators depict this as a conflict between her and her "conservative" parents, I interpreted the movie as communicating more so an unspoken approval by at least her conservative Japanese father, that she not marry the father, due to Chinese ancestry.
Anybody know where to buy a score or who to ask?
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Benjamin Sloane
Cincinnati OH
513-257-8480
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