<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">According to the New York Film Festival's website, they showed Kuri Yoji's animation short CRAZY MURDER in 1967 at their fifth edition:<div><a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/archive/nyff/nyfffestlist.htm">http://www.filmlinc.com/archive/nyff/nyfffestlist.htm</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I'm guessing CRAZY MURDER is SATSUJIN-KYO JIDAI, having found a reference to this Japanese title on a DVD collection of Kuri Yoji's shorts:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4988102743314.html">http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4988102743314.html</a></font></div> <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The film doesn't appear to get a mention in Kuri's entry (p289-290) in Kinema Junpo 1997 reference to film directors (but perhaps I'm looking for the wrong title in Japanese).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>However, in 1967, Okamoto Kihachi's THE AGE OF ASSASSINS (SATSUJIN-KYO JIDAI) was released in Japan, written with the same kanji. This just sounds like too much of a coincidence.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>1. So, can anyone confirm that CRAZY MURDER played in 1967 in New York?</div><div>2. Is CRAZY MURDER known as SATSUJIN-KYO JIDAI in Japanese? What year was it produced?</div><div>3. Did THE AGE OF ASSASSINS in fact play the New York Film Festival in 1967?</div><div>4. Did Kuri Yoji work on THE AGE OF ASSASSINS, for example doing the title sequence..</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks in advance!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Stephen Cremin</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>PS: Charlie Chaplin's MONSIEUR VEDOUX was also released in Japan as SATSUJIN-KYO JIDAI</div></body></html>