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Another World We Are Making Dare you Know the Holy Youngsters? Ryoko, 21 Years Old Watching From Behind One Step At a Time Extremely Ordinary Women Who Chose Divorce Part II: Sex One Year of IMF Korea - Unemployed Homeless People There Was a Community As a Scientist We Shall Always Remember Testimony-Recording: A Practical Guide for Video-Shooting by Video Juku Guide to the U.S. Base in Okinawa Wire-tapping in Japan ImperfecTV Memories of Kawamoto Teruo		Ryoko, 21 Years Old 　 JAPAN / 1998 / Japanese / Color / Video / 9 min Director: Tsuchiya Yutaka (W-TV) The filmmaker looks into problems of personal communication by focusing on the letters of a woman who has done enjokosai, that is, a young woman who agrees to talk with or meet or go to a hotel with (usually older) men for money. The director himself met Ryoko, the film's subject, via her telephone messaging system. Discarding the flood of sensational images found in the mass media, this film illustrates the thoughts of Ryoko and others from the perspective of those actually involved. 　 beforenext COPYRIGHT:Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee