<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I may have missed this on the KineJapan list itself--if so, I apologise for sending something people may have already received--but this looks like a _fantastic_ resource and a good, new company. Congratulations to Aaron and his wife's company for this and future releases.<br><br>Best,<br><br><br>Tim Iles<br>University of Victoria<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 1/16/09, H-Japan Editor <i><j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: H-Japan Editor <j-edit@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU><br>Subject: H-Japan (E): The Roots of Japanese Anime<br>To: H-JAPAN@H-NET.MSU.EDU<br>Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 9:29 PM<br><br><pre> H-JAPAN<br> January 16, 2009<br><br><br><br>Online Editor: David Wittner
<dwittner@utica.edu><br><br><br>Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:47:44 -0800 (PST)<br>From: AARON GEROW <gerowaaron@sbcglobal.net><br>Subject: The Roots of Japanese Anime<br><br>This may be a commercial product (and in the interests of full disclosure, it<br>is sold by my wife's company), but I thought this may be of interest to<br>scholars studying Japanese film, animation, culture, or history.<br><br>Aaron Gerow<br>Yale University<br><br>This is the announcement:<br><br>We are very pleased to announce the launch of our company, Zakka Films, and the<br>release of our first DVD, The Roots of Japanese Anime, which presents 8 classic<br>films, many of which are appearing for the first time on DVD with English<br>subtitles.<br><br>Zakka Films is new venture dedicated to introducing rare and important Japanese<br>films, particularly anime and documentary, to North American audiences.$B (B<br>Many of the powerful and wonderful films we love aren't
available outside<br>Japan, so our mission is to change that.<br><br>Starting with The Roots of Japanese Anime, we'll present some of the great<br>works of Japanese cinema on information-rich, high-quality DVDs ideal for<br>individual, scholarly, and classroom use. Every DVD will come stocked with extra<br>bonus features and commentaries by noted scholars sure to enlighten students,<br>researchers, and even the casual observer of Japan.<br><br>The Roots of Japanese Anime is our first release and contains 8 ground-breaking<br>films from the developmental years of Japanese anime. The centerpiece is<br>Momotaro's Sea Eagle (director: Mitsuyo Seo), Japan's first feature<br>animated film from 1942 notorious for showing "Peach Boy" and his cute<br>animal forces attacking Pearl Harbor. As an example of both Japanese wartime<br>propaganda and the great leaps made in the evolution of Japanese anime,<br>Momotaro's Sea Eagle has been the subject of great interest
amongst scholars<br>and fans, but is coming out in North America here for the first time.<br><br>The other 7 films introduce the delightful variety of Japanese pre-WWII anime<br>and the popular everyday culture it represented. There are masterworks by anime<br>pioneers such as Noburo Ofuji, Kenzo Masaoka, and Yasuji Murata; cartoons<br>presenting folk tales and legendary samurai heroes; sing-a-long films; and even<br>a wonderful work introducing the day in the life of a young girl from the 1930s.<br><br>The DVD includes a 12-page booklet describing the history of early anime and<br>the background of each film written by prominent scholars.<br><br>For more information on the DVD and to view the trailer, please visit us at<br>http://www.zakkafilms.com/. The Roots of Japanese Anime will also be showing on<br>Saturday, March 28, 9:00 AM at the 2009 AAS Annual Meeting in Chicago.<br><br>Thank you very much!<br><br>Contact:<br>Seiko Ono<br>Zakka
Films<br>http://www.zakkafilms.com/<br>onoseiko@zakkafilms.com<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>You can manage your H-Japan subscription at H-Net Subscription Management<br>Page without requiring the use of LISTSERV commands by email. Change of<br>address operations, digest requests and temporary mail suspensions can be<br>handles by using this page.<br><br>The link to this page is: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/lists/manage.cgi<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>