<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sounds wonderful! Dick, does the book have an isbn number? We need that to get libraries to order it.<div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Dick Stegewerns wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear KineJapanners,<br><br>This is a rather belated announcement of a retrospective of film <br>director Yoshida Kiju which is currently touring the Northern part of <br>Europe. The retrospective consists of thirteen films - all of his <br>fiction films available with English subtitles - from the various <br>periods of his career. The start was at the Rotterdam Film Festival, <br>which the director visited together with Okada Mariko. I am afraid <br>tonight were the last screenings at the Netherlands Film Museum in <br>Amsterdam, but the retrospective will continue in March at the four <br>branches of the Norwegian Film Institute in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and <br>Tromso. In April part of the retrospective will screen at the Danish <br>Film Institute in Copenhagen. For details concerning the screenings in <br>Norway and Denmark, please refer to <a href="http://www.nfi.no/cinemateket">http://www.nfi.no/cinemateket</a> <br>(Oslo), <a href="http://www.cinemateket-usf.no">http://www.cinemateket-usf.no</a> (Bergen), <a href="http://www.tiff.no">http://www.tiff.no</a> <br>(Tromso), and <a href="http://www.cinemateket.dk">http://www.cinemateket.dk</a> (Copenhagen).<br><br>To coincide with this retrospective the book 'Yoshida Kiju - 50 Years of <br>Avant-Garde Filmmaking in Postwar Japan' has been published, which to my <br>knowledge is the first book on Yoshida in English (and maybe in all <br>other languages apart from Japanese). The book consists of an <br>introduction by myself, an interview with Yoshida by Chris Fujiwara, an <br>essay by the director himself, four essays - divided by period - by <br>Yamamoto Naoki, Saito Ayako, Yomota Inuhiko and Hasumi Shigehiko, <br>descriptions of all of his fiction films by Mathieu Capel and me, and a <br>biography. The book contains many pictures from Yoshida's films. The <br>retrospective received a warm welcome at the Rotterdam Film Festival and <br>the book completely sold out. I would not be surprised if the same <br>happens at the other venues, so in case some of you are interested in <br>obtaining a copy but cannot make it to one of the venues, please contact <br>me and I will secure you a copy. The book costs 15 Euro.<br><br>By the way, this retrospective was also the first opportunity for <br>Yoshida to consider the English titles of some of his fiction films. <br>Some of you may be interested in the following titles decided upon by <br>the director himself: A Story Written in Water (1965), The Lake of Women <br>(1966), Pilgrim in the Snow (1968), Adieu, Summer Light (1968), <br>Purgatory Heroica (1970), and Confessions of Actresses (1971).<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Dick Stegewerns<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>