<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mathieu,<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure about its content, but the October 1956 issue of <i>Kinema Junpo</i> includes the following article:</div><div><br></div><div><div>ルネ・クレマンの人と作品―アンドレ・バザン､岡田真吉､筈見恒夫</div><br><div><div>It may just be a <i>taidan</i> on René Clément, without any significant attention given to Bazin's own work, but this would predate the other two references by several years.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Mark Roberts</div><div><div><div><div>Research Fellow, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy</div><div><a href="http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/data/mark_roberts/index_en.php">http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/data/mark_roberts/index_en.php</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><br><div><br></div></div><div>On Mar 8, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Mathieu Capel wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear Kinejapaners,<div><br></div><div>Would someone know precisely since when André Bazin were known in Japan ? The oldest reference I could get is from Iwasaki Akira's <i>Gendai Nihon no Eiga, </i>published in 1958, where he gave account of Bazin's "La leçon de style du cinéma japonais". But, by that time, were his texts about Italian neorealism known by critics or cinematographers ?</div> <div>Many thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Mathieu Capel</div><div>Paris<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mathieu Capel<br>67 rue de la Roquette <br>75011 Paris<br>06 50 32 45 00 / 01 43 79 19 19<br><a href="mailto:mathieucapel@gmail.com">mathieucapel@gmail.com</a><br> </div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>