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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hi, Markus,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><EM>Gonin no sekk<SPAN
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according to my notes from the book '2000 film a Venezia, 1932-1950', published
by the biennale, was one of two feature films entered by Japan in 1938 (the
other one was <EM>Kaze no naka no kodomo</EM>, listed as 'L'Enfant dans le
vent'). <EM>Gonin no sekk<SPAN
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</EM>is listed as '<SPAN
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Patrouille</EM></SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>', but even with the mis-prints/mis-hearings, is clearly this film.
It is listed as in competition for the Mussolini Cup, but is <U>not</U> listed
for any prize - unlike <SPAN
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no Tsuki </EM></SPAN><SPAN
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previous year which is listed as getting a special recommendation.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I have read several suggestions that the competition
favoured axis countries, but since this was neither surprising, nor backed by
hard evidence, I have no specific notes on this. Incidentally, the
1938 and 1939 jury included 'Junzo Sato'.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The book mentioned above reproduces several contemporary
Italian reviews of the films, including '<SPAN
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Patrouille</EM></SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>'.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I'd be interested to know whether or not the articles you
have found mention Japanese films in any way.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=amnornes@umich.edu href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu">Mark Nornes</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 29, 2010 6:08
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Five Scouts at Venice Film
Festival? Help!</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>In 1938, Five Scouts by Tasaka Tomotaka was shown at the Venice
Film Festival. According to Peter High in The Imperial Screen, it came home
with a "People's Culture" award. He also writes that it was shown in the
Berlin Film Festival. This would have to be one of the first Japanese films to
be shown in an international film festival, as well as the first to win an
award.
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<DIV>Now I've heard over the years that the award was controversial because
people assumed it was rigged—one axis country honoring another. I've tried to
track down both where I heard this and what exactly the controversy was and
who was engineering it. I've come up against a brick wall,
research-wise.</DIV>
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<DIV>First of all, Berlin Film festival started in the postwar era, so this
must be a reference to a minor film week or festival being held by the Nazis.
Can anyone clarify this?</DIV>
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<DIV>I have found a few articles in newspapers that report the aftermath of
the Venice festival. The British and American delegates to the jury resigned
in protest over the Mussolini Cup to Olympia on the grounds that it was not a
documentary. They insisted that the protest was not over suspected axis
politics, but this is hard to believe—especially when Flaherty's Man of Aran
had won the same award in 1934.</DIV>
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<DIV>Nowhere in this small clutch of articles does anyone mention Five Scouts.
Does anyone know if there was, indeed, a controversy? </DIV>
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