Page 6 University Daily Kansan, September 25, 1980
Professors criticize 'Shogun'
ByJENNIFER LISTON Staff Reporter
the five-part TV series "Shogun" may have drawn 75 million viewers, but some KU professors were not enthusiastic about the series, calling it an *objection*.
Four KU professors held an informal discussion of the program last night at the Kansas Union.
The story, about the fictional John Blackthorne, an Englishman who is shipwrecked and rescued off the coast of Japan in the 1600's, perpetuates Western stereotypes about Japan, said Stephen Bracken, a specialist and professor of history.
"I have not read the book," Goodman said, "and after seeing the TV program, I never intend to."
Goodman also complained that the film portrayed Asians as wise and inscrutable, spouting Confucius-like saxiness.
syings. Andrew Tsubaki, a professor of
Theater and East Asian Languages and a native of Japan, said he didn't know why everyone was so upset about the movie.
"Things come and things go," Tsubaki said. "Life is too short to get upset about it."
Kimiko Yamamoto, East Asian Languages professor, complained that blackthorne's Japanese girlfriend has been the live bear of the freedom she enjoyed in the movie.
She was especially upset by a scence where the woman enters the room and she looks at her.
"I kept expecting her to say, 'Don't worry about the travelers' checks,' " she said.
Several of the professors complained about the film's excessive violence, including a scene in which a man commits ritual suicide.
One professor thought the movie was an unrealistic portrayal of Japanese
One man in the audience suggested that although there were stereotypes in
the film, most Westerners needed to be shown the differences between the cultures.
"I think it was an entertainment event and I am more to be than that," Taakai said.
"I'm thankful that the Japanese side was fairly carefully treated," he said.
Lawrence shops have not been overwhelmed by requests for kimonos, oriental tea or Japanese foods as a result of the movie.
But one businessman is trying to capitalize on the movie's popularity by advertising a "Shogun Special" ebl, Japanese for tiger prawns.
Claiming the prawns are typical of the period portrayed in "Shogun," Michael Caron, owner of a seafood market on Iowa Street, has been offering the prawns for about 95 cents a piece.
Caron also sells tempura mix and suggests dried seaweed or dried barracuda for a genuine Japanese flavor.
Two juveniles, one 16 and one 17,
were being detained yesterday in
connection with the Tuesday attack on
101 W. Sixth St., Lawrence police said.
The two were being held in the juvenile detention area of the Douglas County Jail and will have their initial court appearances today, Dennis McFall, Douglas County juvenile prosecutor, said yesterday.
The two were apprehended by Lawrence police yesterday at 12:05 a.m. near 12th and Tennessee streets, five minutes after they allegedly took $260 in cash from Taco John's, police said.
According to police, the two waited in the restaurant until they and two employees were the only people left in the building.
Police said the youths then jumped over the restaurant's counter, one of them brandishing a knife, and entered the money from the cash register.
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One of the employees ran to the back
of the restaurant but was grabbed and brought back to the counter by one of the youths, police said.
The other employee opened the cash register and the youths took all of the paper money, police said.
According to police, the two youths then took the employees to a back room and told them to stay there.
Police said the employees called police immediately after they heard the youths leave.
TWO STATE fire inspectors investigated alleged fire code violations yesterday on the fourth floor of Bailey House, where a fire fire inspection officer, said yesterday.
The investigation was prompted by a letter that was sent last week to Lawrence Fire Department Chief Jim McSoulin. The writer asked not to be.
McSwain said he sent a copy of the letter to the state fire marshall's office in Topeka because Bailey Hall is a
university building and is inspected by the state office.
The letter alleges that fourth floor closets "are filled with old papers and wooden frames with naphthalarm manner on wooden floors and nests next to exposed wood framing."
It also said that "at least two of the fire exits are partially blocked with office equipment," and that "fire escapes are located in rooms that are often locked during posted occupancy hours."
The two inspectors told Markley that they found the allegations in the letter to be mostly correct and that they file a report on Monday, Markley said.
According to Ed Redmond, state fire marshall, an order could be issued demanding that the violations be corrected.
If they are not, he said, Bailey could be issued a cease and desist order prohibiting the use of the building until it meets fire safety standards.
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Interiors
Woody Allen's foray into serious filmmaking is the story of three sisters (Margaret Griffith) who are shocked when their father announces he is leaving them embrassed mother for a lively, wivacious new life. He then becomes by inger Bergman, Allen's film is nevertheless a very personal, insightful work. 2:00. (79 min.) 9:15 min. Color. Zoon.
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A lavish love story set in Ireland. A young married woman (Sarah Miles) wants to leave her quiet school teacher hush-hush, to become a Christopher Jones). John Mills and cinematographer Freddie Woley won Ocares; director David Lean (192 min). Color: 7:30.
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