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This is excellent! So good to see and long overdue!<br>
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Pete<br>
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On 4/5/2011 2:54 PM, Nornes, Markus wrote:
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<div>Greetings,<br>
<br>
We would like to announce the
new release of <span
mce_style="color: #800000;"
style="color: rgb(128, 0,
0);"><b>THE DOCUMENTARIES OF
NORIAKI TSUCHIMOTO</b></span> from <span
mce_style="color: #800000;"
style="color: rgb(128, 0,
0);"><b>Zakka Films</b></span>.
We were somewhat reticent to
advertise our new products at
a time of great crisis in
Japan, but given the
documentarist Noriaki
Tsuchimoto's long commitment
to battling environmental
pollution and critiquing
modern Japanese society and
the corporate state, we
finally felt we should release
them now since his works are
as pertinent today as they
ever were.<br>
<br>
Noriaki Tsuchimoto is one of
the most important figures in
the history of Japanese
documentary, famous for his
compelling films on the
mercury poisoning incident in
Minamata, Japan, and for his
fascinating portraits of a
modernizing Japan and a
changing Asia. Tsuchimoto was
involved in over 100 films, of
different topics and styles,
and Zakka Films is introducing
four of those, starting with <span
mce_style="color: #800000;"
style="color: rgb(128, 0,
0);"><b>MINAMATA: THE
VICTIMS AND THEIR WORLD</b></span>,
one of the masterpieces of
world documentary; <span
mce_style="color: #800000;"
style="color: rgb(128, 0,
0);"><b>ON THE ROAD: A
DOCUMENT</b></span>, a
traffic safety documentary
that was so critical of modern
Japan it was shelved for 40
years; and two rare documents
of <span mce_style="color:
#800000;" style="color:
rgb(128, 0, 0);"><b>Afghanistan</b></span>filmed
in the 1980s before the
Taliban, including <span
mce_style="color: #800000;"
style="color: rgb(128, 0,
0);"><b>TRACES: THE KABUL
MUSEUM</b></span>, the
world?s only moving image
record of a priceless
collection that was largely
lost to bombs and looting. The
DVD comes with the booklet,
The Documentaries of Noriaki
Tsuchimoto, which includes a
critical evaluation of
Tsuchimoto?s career and
commentaries on each film by
prominent scholars.<br>
<br>
<span mce_style="color:
#008080;" style="color:
rgb(0, 128, 128);"><i><b>New
Release!</b><br>
<br>
<b>THE DOCUMENTARIES OF
NORIAKI TSUCHIMOTO</b></i></span></div>
<div><span mce_style="color:
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rgb(0, 128, 128);"><i><b><br>
</b></i></span></div>
<div><span mce_style="color:
#3366ff;" style="color:
rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span
mce_style="color:
#008080;" style="color:
rgb(0, 128, 128);"><i>Four
masterworks by one of
Japan's greatest
documentary filmmakers<br>
<br>
Bringing the world's
untold stories to light,
from the scourges of
Japan's modernization to
Afghanistan before the
Taliban<br>
<br>
Now on DVD with English
subtitles. You can view
the trailer for each DVD
on YouTube by clicking
the trailer link.</i></span><br>
</span><span mce_style="color:
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<span mce_style="color:
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mce_style="color:
#800000;" style="color:
rgb(128, 0, 0);">ON THE
ROAD: A DOCUMENT</span> </b>(DVD-R
/ Region Free / NTSC / 42 min.
/ B&W)<br>
<br>
The Trailer:<a
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href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIam9NlwxC0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIam9NlwxC0</a><br>
A powerful, award-winning
critique of the newly
modernized Japan of 1963 seen
through the eyes of a taxi
driver. <br>
<span mce_style="color:
#800000;" style="color:
rgb(128, 0, 0);"><br>
?<b>MINAMATA: THE VICTIMS
AND THEIR WORLD</b></span>
(DVD-R / Region Free / NTSC /
120 min. / B&W)<br>
<br>
The Trailer: <a
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href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf6FHMR7LVQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf6FHMR7LVQ</a><br>
Celebrated as a masterpiece of
documentary, MINAMATA follows
the victims of Minamata
disease, Japan?s most
notorious case of
environmental pollution, in
their struggle for recognition
and compensation.<br>
<span mce_style="color:
#800000;" style="color:
rgb(128, 0, 0);"><br>
?<b>ANOTHER AFGHANISTAN:
KABUL DIARY 1985</b></span> (DVD-R
/ Region Free / NTSC / 42 min.
/ Color)<br>
<br>
The Trailer: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvlkMp2CP4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvlkMp2CP4</a><br>
An engrossing portrait of
Kabul in the days before the
Taliban. When few foreigners
were allowed to film in the
country, Tsuchimoto succeeded
in revealing the everyday life
of Afghanis, particularly
those of women. <br>
<span mce_style="color:
#800000;" style="color:
rgb(128, 0, 0);"><br>
?<b>TRACES: THE KABUL MUSEUM
1988</b></span> (DVD-R /
Region Free / NTSC / 32 min. /
Color)<br>
<br>
The Trailer: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQX8zpVw67Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQX8zpVw67Q</a><br>
A rare tour of the Kabul
Museum and its priceless
antiquities before 70% of the
them were destroyed or stolen.
The only moving image record
of this treasure house of
Afghani history and culture. <br>
<br>
For more information on these
DVDs, please visit us at <a
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href="http://www.zakkafilms.com">www.zakkafilms.com</a>. <br>
<br>
<b>Now at a reduced price!</b><br>
To commemorate the release of <span
mce_style="color: #000000;"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">THE
DOCUMENTARIES OF NORIAKI
TSUCHIMOTO</span>, we've
reduced the price of <b><span
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#800000;" style="color:
rgb(128, 0, 0);">THE ROOTS
OF JAPANESE ANIME,</span></b> the
first DVD we released. If you
don't yet have this highly
acclaimed collection of
classic Japanese animation,
which includes the notorious
war film, <b><span
mce_style="color:
#800000;" style="color:
rgb(128, 0, 0);">MOMOTARO'S
SEA EAGLE</span></b>, you
can get it now for $10 off!<br>
<b><br>
How to order</b><br>
If you are an individual
customer, please purchase our
films at Film Baby:<a
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href="http://www.filmbaby.com/">http://www.filmbaby.com/</a>.
Institutions must purchase THE
DOCUMENTARIES OF NORIAKI
TSUCHIMOTO directly through
us. More information is
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<b>Coming soon!</b><br>
One of our exciting, upcoming
projects is The Filmmakers?
Market. This is a new
marketplace for documentaries
that allows filmmakers to
bring their English-subtitled
works in for direct sale, kind
of like a farmer?s fresh
produce market. We plan to
feature not only Japanese but
also other Asian
documentaries. We will
announce the grand opening
soon!<br>
<br>
<b>About Zakka Films</b><br>
We present some of the
classics and great works of
Japanese cinema on
information-rich DVDs. Our
main focus is anime and
documentary, but as we scour
archives and film festivals,
our over-riding criteria are
filmmaking excellence and
historical significance. Our
DVDs will come stocked with
extra bonus features and
commentaries by noted scholars
sure to enlighten students,
researchers, and even the
casual observer of Japan. <br>
Join us on Facebook, so you
can get fresh news from us. <br>
<b><br>
Japan Disaster Relief</b><br>
For those who are interested
in donating to the relief
effort, we have added a
convenient link to the Japan
Society of New York's relief
fund page to our web page.<br>
<br>
Contact:<br>
Seiko Ono<br>
Zakka Films</div>
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