Thank you Ryan for your answer. I assume Nozaki is right to refer to Eiga hy�ron article, for Iwasaki actually just quote Bazin's title, without exploring any further his theories, in order to discuss Georges Sadoul's rendition of Japanese cinema in Les Cahiers du cin�ma in 1953. Talking of an "account" was a little misleading from me, indeed.<div>
Thank you also for pointing me "Opening Bazin" : it looks quite fascinating, and I shall read it as soon as I can.</div><div><br></div><div>Mathieu<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/3/8 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryan.cook@yale.edu">ryan.cook@yale.edu</a>></span><br>
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Dear Mathieu,<br>
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Nozaki Kan has an essay about this in the presently appearing Oxford UP Bazin<br>
anthology "Opening Bazin" edited by Dudley Andrew and Herv� Joubert-Laurencin<br>
(in which I also have a small essay about Bazin's writings on Japanese<br>
cinema... pardon the self-promotion). �Your 1958 reference predates what he<br>
understands to be the "first appearance of Bazin" in Japan which he dates to a<br>
1960 Eiga Hyoron article about Q'est-ce que le cinema by Okada Susumu and<br>
Mayama Yuriko. �Although it seems that even after being thus introduced Bazin<br>
was not *well* known, and has never become a terribly significant figure in<br>
Japan the way he eventually did in China, for example.<br>
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I've personally seen reference to some mid-60s translations of Bazin on Italian<br>
neo-realism by Hasumi Shigehiko for cine-club publications (just as Kokai<br>
Eiji's complete translation of Q'est-ce que le cinema began appearing, one<br>
volume at a time). �I assume that if these essays were being translated in such<br>
a forum at this time they probably were not otherwise available in Japanese.<br>
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I recommend Nozaki's informative essay on this!<br>
<br>
Ryan<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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Quoting Mathieu Capel <<a href="mailto:mathieucapel@gmail.com" target="_blank">mathieucapel@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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Dear Kinejapaners,<br>
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Would someone know precisely since when Andr� Bazin were known in Japan ?<br>
The oldest reference I could get is from Iwasaki Akira's *Gendai Nihon �no<br>
Eiga, *published in 1958, where he gave account of Bazin's "La le�on de<br>
style du cin�ma japonais". But, by that time, were his texts about Italian<br>
neorealism known by critics or cinematographers ?<br>
Many thanks,<br>
<br>
Mathieu Capel<br>
Paris<br>
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