Hi Mia -<br><br>(and greetings to Nate and Dick)<br><br>Nathan is right, the National Film Center does have copies but they are not subtitled in English.<br><br>I did my Master's thesis on a similar topic, researching Japanese film from the 1936-1945 era (specifically, how the portrayal of "Shina" evolved from the Manchurian Incident news films to Ri-Koran, etc etc). Many KineJapan members helped me with finding original sources in Japan back then, for which I am still indebted to. <br>
<br>I've actually been wanting to upload my thesis somewhere (I never bothered with publishing it cos I left academia and the writing was so-so only ;)), mainly because I reviewed many rare films from a wide range of sources from the National Film Center, Showa Institute, Asahi News Film Archives, Ikeda Bunko in Osaka, etc etc which should be a useful resource to list members out there. Can anyone offer to help? <br>
<br>Best regards<br>Wei Ting<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/20 Nate Shockey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nshockey@gmail.com">nshockey@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The National Film Center in Tokyo definitely has a copy of the Nishizumi tank battalion film; I saw it there at a private screening several years ago with another list member (Wei Ting, are you reading this?). It is not a documentary, at least not in any conventional sense, but rather a feature length action film, albeit a pretty boring one, as I recall that all three attendees at that screening may have drifted off in the middle. That copy didn't have any subtitles, but I suppose it's possible that other archives' copies may.<br>
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The two films you mention are not documentaries and they should have
copies at the Film Center. English subtitled copies may exist, because
I recollect there was a showcase of Japanese propaganda/war films in
the US ten years or more ago.<br>
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<div>Hello Sybil</div>
<div>Thank you for your reply.</div>
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<div>I did however already checked out the Tokyo Modern Museum of Art
Film Center. I understood that they do not have documentaries, shorts,
animation films nor foreign films, and that their feature films are
only in Japanese. I therefore presumed they would not have copies of
these two documentaries, which ideally I would like in English. I also
tried searching their data base, but didn't find these films. <a href="http://search.artmuseums.go.jp/search_e/" target="_blank">http://search.artmuseums.go.jp/search_e/</a></div>
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<div>Do you know someone there I could contact about this? I really
appreciate your help,</div>
<div>Mia<br>
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<div>Hi,</div>
<div>The Tokyo Modern Museum of Art Film Center has copies.</div>
<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>SAT<br>
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Subject: Re: self-introduction and request<br>
To: <a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a><br>
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 8:42 AM<br>
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<div>Mia: I believe the Library of Congress
has copies, but not for general circulation. Only for viewing there (a
very interesting experience in itself). Linda Ehrlich<br>
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Mia Webster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://us.mc527.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Mia.Webster@radio-canada.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mia.Webster@radio-canada.ca</a>></span>
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<div>Name: Mia Webster<br>
Institutional affiliation or job: Visual researcher for CBC /
Radio-Canada (French language Canadian public broadcaster)<br>
City and country: Montr��al, Canada<br>
Research projects or publications: Currently working on doc on WWII<br>
Interests with regard to Japanese film and moving image media: </div>
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<div>For this current documentary project, I would like to
view the following two Japanese films:<br>
- Chokoreto to heitai (Chocolate and soldiers), directed by Takeshi
Sato, first aired in Osaka Nov 30, 1938<br>
- Nishizumi Senshacho-Den (The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi),
directed by Kosaburo Yoshimura, first aired at the Kokusai cinema, Nov
29, 1940<br>
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I haven't been able to find them on the web, at Amazon.ca nor
Amazon.com, at any of our specialized video stores, at zip.ca... I
contacted the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute in Japon, as well as The
Asian Film Archives but they couldn't help. I searched the websites of
the National Film Center of the NMOMA in Tokyo, and NHK but have come
up with nothing. I also contacted the Japanese Canadian Cultural
Centre here in Montreal, the Canada-Japan Society, the Japanese
consulat of Canada, the Japan Society of New York, the Center for Asian
American Media, and the Canadian association of Asiatic Studies, but
no-one was able to offer any other suggestions of where I might find
these.<br>
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Anyone have any ideas?<br>
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Thank you, much appreciated,</div>
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