<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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 class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">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 size="2" face="sans-serif">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 size="4" face="Times New Roman">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 size="4" face="Times New Roman">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"><font size="4" color="blue" face="Roman"><u>http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1927/bc003810.htm</u></font></a>
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<hr><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>From:</b> Maria Jose Gonzalez <<a href="mailto:tkarsavina@yahoo.com">tkarsavina@yahoo.com</a>><b><br>
To:</b> "<a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a>><b><br>
Sent:</b> Friday, September 9, 2011 4:47 PM<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 size="4" face="Arial">:</font>
<br><a href="http://www6.plala.or.jp/fynet/2scrap411nihonnoainu.html" target="_blank"><font size="4" color="blue"><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 size="4" color="blue"><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 size="2" color="#4f4f4f" face="sans-serif">Maybe not strictly relevant,
but have you seen the footage from </font><font size="3" color="#4f4f4f" face="Arial">Benjamin
Brodsky</font><font size="2" color="#4f4f4f" face="sans-serif">'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">http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/a-trip-through-japan-with-the-ywca-ca-1919</a></font><font size="1" color="#4f4f4f" face="Arial">
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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 size="1" color="#4f4f4f" face="Arial">
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Access, Research and Development<br>
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ACT, 2601 AUSTRALIA<br>
phone: +61 2 6248 2054 | fax: + 61 2 6249 8159<br>
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<br><font size="1" color="#4f4f4f" face="Arial">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 size="2" face="Arial"><b>From:</b> Aaron Gerow <<a href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a>><b><br>
To:</b> <a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a><b><br>
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Subject:</b> Re: Ainu actors in prewar Japanese film</font><font size="3"><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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