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Saturday, September 12, 2026

Oh--my big mistake--The White Countess was written by Nobel Laureate

Kazao Ishiguru, whom I met once at a book signing in Philadelphia, way back in the 1990s.

And it's not Liam Neeson--it's Ralph Fiennes--

A beautiful, understated, granular movie.

Other stellar cast members include Lynn Redgrave.

It would please my late professor and his wife--who named their daughter Vanessa.

The movie starts with the blind man's hand in a bar, and ends with 2 hands on a junk sailing to Macao from Shanghai.

KM Kaung

9-12-2026