<div>Has anyone else noted that this director of chanbara died on December 20th? I actually haven't seen all that many of his films, so won't endeavour to write an appreciation of him myself - could someone more familiar with his oeuvre than I am do the honours?</div> <div> </div> <div>ALEX<BR> </div> <div> </div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Roger Macy <macyroger@yahoo.co.uk></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Ah, thanks Aaron,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>And I see now I could have got it on Mark's method of googling NAME site: cinema.intercritique.com, but I hadn't realised I could have used a Japanese name in 'NAME'. Well, anyway, I got the 'Ō' right :>()</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT
face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>----- Original Message ----- </FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>From: "Aaron Gerow" <</FONT><A href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu"><FONT face=Arial>aaron.gerow@yale.edu</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>To: <</FONT><A href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu"><FONT face=Arial>KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:33 PM</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Subject: Re: Director of Kurokami yasha</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR></FONT></DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial>> The director of Kurokami yasha according to JMDb is 大久保 <BR>> . I don't recognise this name and tentatively read it as Ōshii <BR>> hochūsō.<BR><BR>KineJun gives the name as Ôkubo Tadamoto. He was mostly a director <BR>during the silent age (known most for
having Ozu and Saito Torajiro <BR>work under him) and later become a studio executive. Kishi Matsuo has <BR>a long entry on him in the 1976 KineJun Nihon eiga kantoku zenshu.<BR><BR><BR>Aaron Gerow<BR>KineJapan owner<BR><BR>Assistant Professor<BR>Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures<BR>Yale University<BR><BR>For list commands, send "information kinejapan" to<BR></FONT><A href="mailto:listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu"><FONT face=Arial>listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Arial>Kinema Club: </FONT><A href="http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html"><FONT face=Arial>http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html</FONT></A><BR><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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