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EireformContinent
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Well, Emporor or not, in my rude, messy and unpolite Western world there's no excuse for missing appointment without good excuse given personally and in advance.
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hikaru004
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I also think that it was pretty rude of him to miss an audience with the royal family.
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nargun
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I might have mentioned this before here, but it's worth noting here that Miyazaki-pere's script adaptions for Poppy Hill involved taking a tale about the importance of simultaneously respecting your traditions and respecting the perspective of the young, and resetting it in time such that its protagonists -- student activists -- would be expected to be Tokyo University students in 1968. |
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Juno016
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Believe it or not, you're completely right. If someone skips a ceremony or a meeting with the Emperor for something like Miyazaki, especially with his reputation, that means they are a REALLY good worker. The party will think, "Wow, this guy is better than we thought." This isn't really an assumption. I've been to enough "important" meetings to know that they really mean it when they say, "shikata ga nai" ("it cannot be helped"). This doesn't constitute as disrespect. It constitutes as the honor of a "model citizen." And besides, the "Emperor," after World War II, not only lost his power--over the year since, he's been pretty much reduced to a celebrity whose only merits are having himself and his family covered by the media over here. It really is an awkward status for someone that used to hold so much power... |
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ARC-1300
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Really? I interpreted it as a man who is dedicated to his craft,rather than a d bag. And I'm pretty sure they will see it like that too. |
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Polycell
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Maybe it's cultural background, but at least in America there aren't many good excuses for standing someone up.
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
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If he was invited and accepted the invitation, then he has an obligation to be there, IMO. However, if they just said, "Get your butt over here now and take this award from the Emperor." Well, I can see someone blowing them off over that.
But, on its face, it seems like pretty poor behavior on Miyazaki's part... as if he were trying to make some sort of statement about something (don't know enough (or care enough) about his politics to say what). The whole "he's *such* a hard worker" thing seems like a cop-out to me: a cheap way of "saving face" (which is apparently all-important in many Asian cultures). That sort of excuse wouldn't fly at all in the West. |
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StudioToledo
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Hey, let the man work, that's all i ask for! |
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Mohawk52
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Well seeing as he is, or was a card carrying Communist, I'm not surprised at this at all. I'm not a Communist, but if our Queen asked me over for tea and biscuits, I'd be checking my diary to see if I was too busy that day too. I'm a Roundhead.
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getchman
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what does that mean? |
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
Posts: 3524 Location: Bellevue, WA |
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It means he supports Oliver Cromwell. In other words, an anti-royalist. |
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getchman
Space Cowboy Posts: 9120 Location: Bedford, NH |
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oh, ok. thanks
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toru
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Not only Hayao Miyazaki but also famous Kabuki actor Koshiro Matsumoto was absent on account of the schedule of the stage. But, none of the Japanese criticizes them.
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TJ_Kat
Posts: 364 Location: Saskatoon, Canada |
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I was under the impression that the Japanese Emperor was even less relevant that the British Royal family; more a celebrity than anything else. If I were a grouchy old work-a-holic and I was told some random celebrity wanted to invite me over for tea, I'd probably brush them off too.
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SereneChaos
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Ah, cultural differences, how fascinating you are.
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