It may be on other compilations as well, but "Les Aïnous à Yéso" is definitely on the first disc of the Les films Lumière set that Geneon brought out in Japan.<br><br>Fred.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Mark Nornes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu">amnornes@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hi Quentin, </div><div><br></div><div>Could have sworn the Lumiere Ainu films were on one of the DVD compilations. The one by Travenier?</div>
<div><br></div><div>The films are extant, and Institut Lumiere has them. There are several other documentaries/home movies. As Mark wrote, I write about these in my book. </div><div><br></div><div>In 1993, I also showed Japanese-made films about the Ainu in Nibutani. The main footage was shot by a Scotsman, Neil Gordon Munro, who also wrote one of the first monographs on them (Ainu Creed and Cult). He was a doctor in Nibutani. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The films are owned by an anthropology institute in Tokyo, so they are extant and can be programmed. Although the institute has it's own compilations on video, and that may be the only thing within reach. If you'd like their address, I've got it buried somewhere. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Maria-Jose also mentioned Chipuchisekor, which is how he transliterated his name if I remember correctly. He was a great help back when I was programming our First Nations event at Yamagata (1993). At the time, he was also publishing his own little zine about Ainu representations in film and video games. I have a stack of them somewhere, if a serious researcher wanted to do work on them. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:37 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Quentin,<div><br></div><div>The Lumières film was entitled "Les Aïnous à Yéso", and there were two parts. Information on the net is sketchy, but it looks like these films are extant and screened at Yamagata in 1995. Markus Nornes also discusses them in the first section of his "Japanese documentary film: the Meiji era through Hiroshima".<div>
<br></div><div>HTH,</div><div><br></div><div>M<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 10, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Quentin Turnour wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">My sidebar turns into a supplementary
question: does any of the very early Ainu footage you mention survive?
I know the survival rate for Lumiere titles is quite high, but whilst some
tiles survive with Japanese scenes, I've not seen any title that indicates
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Then - whilst my French is better than
my Japanese - it's still not good enough to fully access French-language
Lumiere scholarship.</font>
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<br><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Something else I forgot to mention,Makino
Productions "Ainu no Musume" from 1927,most likely without any
Ainu in it although as Aaron has already mentioned,any existing actor of
Ainu origin would have concealed their origins and in any case during the
Meiji period most people had been forced to adopt Japanese names.</font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Actor Takashi Ukajo surprised the
media by confessing he was actually of Ainu origin when he was already
46 a few years ago!</font>
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<br><a href="http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1927/bc003810.htm" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Roman" size="4"><u>http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1927/bc003810.htm</u></font></a>
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<hr><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>From:</b> Maria Jose Gonzalez <<a href="mailto:tkarsavina@yahoo.com" target="_blank">tkarsavina@yahoo.com</a>><b><br>
To:</b> "<a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a>><b><br>
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<br><font size="4">Fascinating question.</font>
<br><font size="4">Can you read Japanese,Peter?</font>
<br><font size="4">The sadly departed and Kyoto-based Ainu scholar,Chupuchisekor
-I apologise if the romanised version is not correct,for I have never seen
it- did a very interesting series on "Images of Ainu in Japan"
for Kyoto Shimbun.</font>
<br><font size="4">You can find it here</font><font face="Arial" size="4">:</font>
<br><a href="http://www6.plala.or.jp/fynet/2scrap411nihonnoainu.html" target="_blank"><font color="blue" size="4"><u>http://www6.plala.or.jp/fynet/2scrap411nihonnoainu.html</u></font></a>
<br><font size="4">Available online,you will also find a summary for a seminar
titled "Ainu Culture and Media",where he discusses </font>
<br><font size="4">Ainu in films.</font>
<br><a href="http://www.frpac.or.jp/rst/sem/sem1109.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="blue" size="4"><u>http://www.frpac.or.jp/rst/sem/sem1109.pdf</u></font></a>
<br><font size="4">The first Ainu moving images date from 1898 courtesy of
the very own Lumière Brothers so they predate Japanese cinema!Accounted
next are documentary films regarding the Russo-Japanese war,which geographically
makes a lot of sense .After these,the emphasis is on landscape/nature documentaries
and next he discusses some studio films.</font>
<br><font size="4">Since so much has been lost,it is impossible to say for
sure how much Ainu appeared in <i>Yamato </i>productions but Chupinsenkor
talks about three Shochiku films from 1921 and 1922,mentioning there were
others he did not watch and where the Ainu were often depicted as bad characters.</font>
<br><font size="4">I have not watched the Naruse you cite but was this the
case?</font>
<br><font size="4">Already at war,北の同胞-Northern Brothers ?-from 1941
is a Kokusaku Eiga where both Ainu and Yamato people fight for their country...</font>
<br><font size="4">I am not that familiar with Ainu culture but will confess
to finding this information after watching Kimi no Na,which Chupu-san also
discusses.</font>
<br><font size="4">There is not much available in English and it is a pity.Just
a study of name places and Japanese words that actually come from Ainu
would be an excellent read.</font>
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<br><font color="#4f4f4f" face="sans-serif" size="2">Maybe not strictly relevant,
but have you seen the footage from </font><font color="#4f4f4f" face="Arial" size="3">Benjamin
Brodsky</font><font color="#4f4f4f" face="sans-serif" size="2">'s A TRIP THROUGH
JAPAN WITH THE YWCA which includes 1919 shots of the Ainu community? The
NFSA recently restored it in collaboration with the National Film Preservation
Foundation in the US. See <a href="http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/a-trip-through-japan-with-the-ywca-ca-1919" target="_blank">http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/a-trip-through-japan-with-the-ywca-ca-1919</a></font><font color="#4f4f4f" face="Arial" size="1">
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I mention this as we are curious to know if there is any earlier surviving
material which shows Ainu community, whether drama or actuality?</font><font color="#4f4f4f" face="Arial" size="1">
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Access, Research and Development<br>
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McCoy Circuit, Acton, <br>
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<br><font color="#4f4f4f" face="Arial" size="1">Hello all,<br>
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This will be an odd question, but does anyone know if there were any<br>
Ainu actors in prewar Japanese film? I have seen a couple of silents<br>
recently which featured actors that look like they might, in fact, be<br>
of Ainu decent, though I could just be seeing things. The western<br>
looking man in Naruse's "No Blood Relation" (1932) comes to mindPardon<br>
me if this is an odd question.<br>
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Pete</font>
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<hr><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>From:</b> Aaron Gerow <<a href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu" target="_blank">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a>><b><br>
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I have not heard of any actors from that era who then or later termed themselves
Ainu. Perhaps there were some but because of factors such as discrimination,
which lead zainichi actors for instance to hide their backgrounds, did
not admit it publicly.<br>
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A good paper could be written about the representations of Ainu in Japanese
cinema, which incidentally could include Naruse's Kotan no kuchibue, as
well as other works like Kimi no na wa or Daisogen no wataridori.<br>
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