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<DIV>Cheers,</DIV>
<DIV>SA Thornton</DIV>
<DIV>Arizona State University<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Jasper Sharp <jasper_sharp@hotmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> kinejapan <kinejapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, October 13, 2009 6:09:32 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: Jujiro on DVD<BR></FONT><BR>
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This is great news Aaron. I am interested though about the question of intertitles in the film. Jujiro was considered lost for a long time in Japan, until it was discovered in the British Film Institute in London, from what I understand. This was from the same print that Kinugasa took across to Europe after just making it. When this screened at the National Film Center in Tokyo about 5 years ago, there were English language intertitles and no Japanese written at all - one of those rare moments when I could let out a smug "hah!" and enjoy the film while everyone else sat seething in disappointment.<BR>So yes, I am also intrigued where the print came from.<BR><BR>Jasper Sharp<BR><BR>Midnight Eye: The Latest and Best in Japanese Cinema<BR>www.midnighteye.com<BR><BR>More details about me on http://jaspersharp.com/<BR><BR>> <BR>> I was thus extremely surprised to see that Kinugasa Teinosuke's Jujiro <BR>> (Crossroads, 1928) has recently been put out
on DVD by one of these <BR>> cut-rate labels, Disk Plan, in their Nihon Meisaku Gekijo series. I <BR>> bought a copy to check it out and, thankfully, the visuals are pretty <BR>> good for the price (1000 yen). It is 74 minutes in length, which means <BR>> they probably did at silent speed. There is no music, no menu, no <BR>> chapters, and of course no subtitles, but given that this has never <BR>> even come out on VHS (unlike Kinugasa's Page of Madness, which came <BR>> out on VHS in the USA about 20 years ago), it was amazing to see this. <BR>> I wonder where they got the print for this.<BR><BR><BR>
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