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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hi, Beat,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Although the magazine 'Close Up' was published in
Switzerland in the late twenties and early thirties and was about the first
place where anything much was written on Japanese cinema in the west, the
material was submitted by correspondents in Japan and through Robert Herring in
London. Suzuki Shigeyoshi's stills that appeared in 'Close Up' must have
been briefly on Swiss soil, but they must have been returned to Robert Herring,
as Hiroshi Komatsu managed to buy them in London a few years ago.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The personal correspondence of the publishers' of Close Up
does NOT suggest that they saw any Japanese films in Switzerland. The
business records of Close Up would have been abandoned in 1940, if they still
existed at that time. Perhaps they're still buried under a shubbery
somewhere .... Where are you, Beat ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Perhaps someone could clarify about the origin of the
title of the Suzuki Shigeyoshi film 'Das Mädchen Sumiko' mentioned
at</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><A
href="http://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/product_info.php/info/p34_Forthcoming-releases.html">http://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/product_info.php/info/p34_Forthcoming-releases.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I can see that the film has been shown in the
German-speaking lands under this title since the Soviet rediscovery of <SPAN
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lang=DE><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text1"
lang=DE>Naniga kanojo o s</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-themecolor: text1"
lang=IT>ō</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-themecolor: text1"
lang=IT> </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text1"
lang=DE>saseta ka, but did the title have an earlier provenance
?</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"
lang=DE><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text1" lang=DE>All I
can get out of the 'filmmuseum' is that the 'executing archive' hasn't scheduled
it yet, not even which archive.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"
lang=DE><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text1"
lang=DE></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"
lang=DE><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text1" lang=DE>And
there were Japanese delegates to the 1929 Congress of Independent Cinema where
the lost short 'The Storming of La Sarraz' was shot. <SPAN
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lang=EN-US>Itō Shunya, in the blurb to <SPAN
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lang=EN-US>Eiga Kantoku tte Nan de! hopes to show his film there
'someday'. But perhaps this was your entry point
?</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"
lang=DE><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text1" lang=DE><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"
lang=EN-US><SPAN
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lang=EN-US></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
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lang=DE><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text1" lang=DE><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"
lang=EN-US><SPAN
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lang=EN-US>I have more details
off-list.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
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lang=DE><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text1" lang=DE><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"
lang=EN-US><SPAN
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lang=EN-US></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
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lang=DE><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text1" lang=DE><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"
lang=EN-US><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"
lang=EN-US>Roger</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
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lang=DE><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text1"
lang=DE></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>From: "Beat Frey" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:beatfrey@gmx.ch"><FONT face=Arial>beatfrey@gmx.ch</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: Sunday, September 27, 2009 12:55 PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Subject: Switzerland and Japanese
Cinema</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial>>A rather peculiar
question (and nothing to do with Roman Polanski):<BR>> <BR>> Does anyone
have information regarding Switzerland in Japanese cinema and vice-versa, i.e.
swiss/japanese locations or themes in japanese/swiss movies, other relations
like coproductions etc.?<BR>> There's probably not much more than Takahata's
'Arupusu no shojo Haiji', Morimoto's adaptation of 'Ichigensan' and Daniel
Schmid's 'Written Face', but if something pops up in your mind, I'd be glad to
know. It can also be some anecdotal detail. Answers off list are
welcome.<BR>> <BR>> Thanks in advance<BR>> <BR>> Beat<BR>>
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