Jenny Pitman Jenny Pitman Jennifer Susan Pitman OBE ("née" Harvey, born 11 June 1946), known as Jenny Pitman, is a former British racehorse trainer and author. She became the first woman to train a Grand National winner, when Corbiere won the race in 1983. She went on to win a second Grand National with Royal Athlete in 1995. She has also trained two Cheltenham Gold Cup winners with Burrough Hill Lad in 1984 and with Garrison Savanah in 1991. Following her retirement from horse training in 1998 she became a writer of novels, principally with a racing theme. Pitman was born as
Woman on the Night Train catches up to them, she kills her sister with a razor blade and then kills herself. During "Woman on the Night Train"'s Japanese critics noted the influence of European filmmakers on Tanaka's style. The use of metaphor and symbolism in the film was said to be similar to some of Roger Vadim's films. Luis Buñuel's "Diary of a Chambermaid" (1964), and Octave Mirbeau's original novel were said to be particular influences on "Woman on the Night Train". In their "Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films", Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser give "Woman on the Night Train" a rating of three