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Talking of resources on this film, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the work of Janine Hansen.<div>From my notes:</div><div><br></div><div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 200%">Hansen,
Janine. “Celluloid Competition: German-Japanese Film Relations,
1929-45.” In</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 200%"><i>Cinema
and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema</i><span style="font-style: normal">,</span>
ed. Roel Vande Winkel and David Welch. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2007</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 200%">_.
“<i>The New Earth</i> (136/37): A German-Japanese Misalliance in
Film.” In <i>In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino
Mamoru</i>, ed. Aaron Gerow and Abé Mark Nornes. Ann Arbor: Kinema
Club, 2001: 184-98.</p>
<div><br></div>And in the German language:</div><div><br></div><div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 200%"><i>Arnold
Fancks Die Tochter des Samurai: Nationalsozialistische Propaganda und
japanische Filmpolitik</i>. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997.</p>
</div><div><br><br>Jasper Sharp: Writer & Film Curator Homepage<br>http://jaspersharp.com/<br><br>Midnight Eye: The Latest and Best in Japanese Cinema<br>http://www.midnighteye.com<br><br>Zipangu Fest: Japanarchy in the UK<br>http://zipangufest.com/<br><br><br><br><br>> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:01:07 -0500<br>> From: mccaskem@georgetown.edu<br>> To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>> Subject: Re: Itami Mansaku (Peter High's Excellent Book)<br>> <br>> Dear FB,<br>> <br>> I just read the pages you refer to, in my copy of Peter High's book. It's excellent <br>> information, and I was surprised to find that my bits and pieces fit well into the <br>> bigger picture. I should have looked there sooner, rather than assuming there <br>> wasn't much available in English.<br>> <br>> I never knew that the Itami version was shown in theaters in Japan. That must <br>> have been very interesting!<br>> <br>> As for Fanck, I may be wrong, but I think he was a naive person who liked to do <br>> outdoor filming. Most of his films are Berg-Film/Mountain Film, in which the <br>> scenery is almost more important than the actors.<br>> <br>> Leni Riefenstahl began acting in Fanck's mountain films early on. Fanck did not <br>> like using doubles, and wanted his actors to do all the climbing, slipping, and <br>> hanging in space themselves. Hitler saw her onscreen in one of them later, and <br>> that's how she got mixed up with Nazis.<br>> <br>> Fanck really just wanted to make another mountain film, starring a volcano in <br>> Japan. In the long finale of the film, Hara Setsuko and the male lead do a very <br>> long and slow trek, one trying to catch up with the other, over fissures with <br>> steam coming out, etc. Hara is supposed to be trying to jump in the volcano's <br>> core because her "fiance" maybe doesn't care for her, and he schlepps through <br>> all perils to save her and prove his love for her.<br>> <br>> I'm not sure anyone in Japan had tried much to make this kind of outdoor film. <br>> Fanck was famous for them in Germany & Austria, and it was his main talent.<br>> <br>> Apart from this film, Fanck had a fairly dreary career under Nazi Rule. <br>> Riefenstahl & Goebbels always hated each other, so Fanck's connection with LR <br>> didn't help him so much in the big picture.<br>> <br>> After the war, unlike Harlan Veit, a notoriously Nazi director through and <br>> through, who resumed his bigtime career in the 1950s in W. Germany after a <br>> discreet hiatus, and later died while vacationing in his villa in Italy. Fanck instead <br>> ended up with a new kind of mountain gig, cutting down trees for a living for a <br>> while. Later mountain film nostalgia helped him economically.<br>> <br>> http://www.nevasport.com/nevablogs/retro-ski/art/arnold-fanck--maestro-<br>> de-peliculas-de-montana---arnold-fanck--the-master-of-mountain-<br>> films/2625/<br>> <br>> <br>> Thank You Very Much For The Good Information!<br>> <br>> mmcc<br></div> </body>
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