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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>DVD Review <font size="4"><br><i>Pale Flower</i></font> <br>by Derek Hill</font> <p>Much like their French counterparts, the "new wave" films that came out of the Japanese studio system (Shochiku being the main one) in the 1960s were bold, provocative, and fresh. Seemingly free from the constraints of commercial obligations, directors such as Nagisa Oshima (<i>Cruel Story of Youth</i>, 1960, <i>The Sun's Burial</i>, 1960, and later the notorious <i>In the Realm of the Senses</i>, 1976), Yoshishige Yoshida (<i>The Affair</i>, 1967), and <i>Pale Flower</i>'s (1964) Masahiro Shinoda all made names for themselves working for Shochiku. </body>