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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Kosho Li <koshori@yahoo.com.hk><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wed, 2 March, 2011 5:01:50<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: Top 20 Japanese film directors<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV>The 1995 list included 63 directors and the last one happened to be Yoshimura with 2 votes ranking 45 along with 18 other directors like Kobayashi Masaki and Itami Mansaku.</DIV>
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<DIV>The 2000 (A) list included 77 directors with the lowest ranking being 37 for those with 2 votes. Yoshimura was regrettably not in the list. </DIV>
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<DIV>The 2000 (B) list included 86 directors in 52 rankings. Both Shindo Kaneto and Yoshimura Kosaburo ranked 24. </DIV>
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<DIV>--- On <B>Tue, 3/1/11, Alexander Jacoby <I><a_p_jacoby@yahoo.co.uk></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Further to my earlier message, my request has now been answered. Thanks, Alo Joekalda, for your assistance!<BR><BR>One question however. Li Hoo Cheong, posting the poll lists in a post dated July 24, 2006, wrote: "Recently I re-read the results of 3 ranking surveys on Japanese directors conducted by "Kinema Junpo" back in 1995 and 2000. The first was published in issue 1176 (Nov 1995) polling the opinions of mainly film critics. The later two were published in issue 1320 (Nov 2000), one from 104 well known people (A) and one from 1502 ordinary readers (B). Here are the 3 lists down to the best 20 directors."<BR><BR>Does this mean that the original lists went further down that the best 20 directors? I'm interested in particular in where Yoshimura (not included in the Top 20) ranked, and also where Shindo was on the 1995 and 2000 (B) polls - he takes 12th place
on the 2000 (A) poll. Can anyone with immediate access to the relevant issues of KineJun help me?<BR><BR>1995 2000 (A) 2000 (B)<BR><BR>1 Ozu 1 Kurosawa 1 Kurosawa<BR>2 Kurosawa 2 Ozu 2 Ozu<BR>3 Mizoguchi 3
Mizoguchi 3 Kinoshita<BR>4 Oshima 4 Kinoshita 4 Yamada<BR> Naruse 5 Naruse 5 Mizoguchi<BR>6 Ichikawa Kon 6 Yamada 6 Ichikawa<BR>7 Kawashima Yuzo 7 Ichikawa 7
Naruse<BR>8 Uchida Tomu Uchida 8 Kitano<BR>9 Yamanaka Sadao Oshima 9 Imai<BR> Kinoshita Keishuke Fukasaku 10 Imamura<BR> Okamoto Kihachi Kawashima 11 Obayashi Nobuhiko<BR> Suzuki Seijun 12 Shindo
Kaneto Miyazaki<BR>13 Fukasaku Kinji Makino Masahiro 13 Uchida<BR> Kumashiro Tatsumi 14 Imamura Shohei Oshima<BR>15 Kato Tai Okamoto 15 Fukasaku<BR> Masumura Yasuzo Kitano Takeshi Yamanaka<BR> Yamada Yoji
Suzuki 17 Kawashima<BR> Ito Daisuke Masumura Masumura<BR>19 Imai Tadashi 19 Miyazaki Hayao 19 Kumashiro<BR> Somai Shinji 20 Morita Yoshimitsu Kobayashi Masaki<BR> Yamanaka Sadao<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby@yahoo.co.uk><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, 1 March, 2011 13:10:48<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Top 20 Japanese film directors<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV>A couple of years ago, a list member posted a list of the Top 20 Japanese film directors. I can't remember whether this was a list voted for by critics or industry members or the general public, and I can't track it down by searching my old Emails. It would be very useful for me today! I wonder if any kind KineJapanner could forward it to me?</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Maria Jose Gonzalez <tkarsavina@yahoo.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, 28 February, 2011 16:44:08<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: Spring Awakens (was: Hideko the Bus Conductor)<BR></FONT><BR>
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<TD vAlign=top>Just months before that same year,another "bus" film by Hiroshi Shimizu,"Akatsuki no Gassho" had been released and Naruse was of course very much aware of the comparisons that would arise.<BR>This film deals with yet another conductress and again contains no traces of a country at war (apparently it was filmed in Akita Prefecture which suggests films were moving away from the capital area to avoid it).
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<DIV>Maria-Jose</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 1/3/11, Michael Kerpan <I><mekerpan@verizon.net></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Michael Kerpan <mekerpan@verizon.net><BR>Subject: Spring Awakens (was: Hideko the Bus Conductor)<BR>To: "KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" <KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu><BR>Date: Tuesday, 1 March, 2011, 1:12 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><SPAN>> This has the feel of a story of the near past, only pretending to be in the present.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>This is true of one Naruse's early post-war films. I get a feeling that this could as easily have been set around 1930 as around the latter 1940s. (This is another of my top 1940s Naruse films). ;~}<VAR id=yiv535393097yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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