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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Dear Kinejapaners,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thank you all for your responses a while back on the term
'tendency film'. May I ask questions on another item of Ozu apocrypha
?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Last month, at the NFT, I saw, as part of the
side-bar series 'Ozu and his influence', the film by Wim
Wenders, <EM>Tokyo-Ga</EM>, released in 1985. I hadn't, at the time,
noticed Tony Rayns' remark in January <EM>Sight and Sound</EM>, describing the
film as "frequently wretched" (p26). I'd say he was being excessively
polite and I only want to remark on the last bit where there are
interviews of <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"
lang=EN>RYŪ Chishū</SPAN> and <SPAN style="LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line">ATSUTA
Yūharu</SPAN>, Ozu's cameraman.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>My point concerns the lack of credit. Patently, the
filmed interviews are not conducted by Wenders, but by a native Japanese speaker
who can occasionally be heard. There is no credit on the film, or on the
Criterion DVD coupling with <EM>Late Spring</EM>, to any interviewer, or
to a translator (which Wenders must have used specifically for his
voiceover of this section). The literature all talks of Wenders doing the
interviewing.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The only clue is on IMDb, where there are 'thanks' to
'Shigehiko Hasumi'.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>David Bordwell, on pp74-75 seems to cite the interview in
Tokyo-Ga and the French translation of an interview of Atsuta by
Hasumi, almost in the same breath.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>1) Was Hasumi indeed the interviewer on Tokyo-Ga
?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>2) Since Hasumi's interview cited by Bordwell comes
from Hasumi's 1982 book, <EM>Kantoku Ozu Yasujirō</EM> (which I have not seen),
I presume the footage on Tokyo-Ga, are not the same event ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>3) Who is doing the thanking on IMDb ? and~</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>4) If someone has made a fuss about this before to
get the IMDb credit, why can I find no trace of it, or of Hasumi's work, -
at least in any western language ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV>
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