<html>
<head>
<style><!--
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 12pt;
font-family:Calibri
}
--></style></head>
<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>Dear listmembers,</div><div><br></div><div>I just wanted to draw the attention of any potentially interested parties to a season of Japanese films produced by Nikkatsu Studios throughout the 1950s and 1960s which I have curated and which is running at the BFI Southbank this month. The retrospective features works by Shohei Imamura and Seijun Suzuki, as well as a host of directors not so well known in the West. It is an attempt to get beyond the auteur-driven approach that has dominated studies of Japan's cinema, and to introduce accessible popular films to reach out to audiences put off by its reputation for gloom, artiness and seriousness.</div><div><br></div><div>Sight and Sound online has just published a piece I wrote to accompany the season: </div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/second-youth-golden-age-nikkatsu-studios">http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/second-youth-golden-age-nikkatsu-studios</a><br><br><div>I hope some of you will be curious enough to come and see some truly wonderful films that you may never get the chance to see on 35mm ever again.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Jasper Sharp</div><div><br><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><b><i>Seasons in the Sun: The Heyday of Nikkatsu Studios</i></b> retrospective at the <a href="https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/nikkatsu-studios" target="_blank">BFI Southbank</a>, </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">curated by Jasper Sharp coming up in June 2013</span><br></div><div><font face="Tahoma"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">My n</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;">ew book, </span><b style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;"><i>The </i></b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;"><b><i>Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema</i></b>,</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">is out now from <a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810857957" target="_blank">Scarecrow Press</a></span></div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><div><br></div></span></span><span style="font-size:13px;">Midnight Eye - Visions of Japanese cinema<br><font class="ecxApple-style-span" size="2"><a href="http://www.midnighteye.com" target="_blank">http://www.midnighteye.com</a></font><br></span></font><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Jasper Sharp, </span><span>writer & film curator</span></div><font face="Tahoma"><a href="http://jaspersharp.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size:10pt;">http://jaspersharp.com/</a></font></span></div> </div></body>
</html>