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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hi, Alo,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>This doesn't exactly put Kawashima in the West very far
back, but my notes say he figured in a program at New York MoMA in 2005,
called 'Early Autumn: Masters of Japanese cinema from the NFC, Tokyo'. I can't
lay my hands on it to say which film. Galbraith's 'Japanese
filmography' is a good place to look for Western releases before that. But
there's also the 1991 book published by Rotterdam Film Festival, '<SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">KAWASHIMA
Yúzó & MORI Issei: Japanse meesters van de B-film ~ Japanese Kings of the
Bs', which strongly suggests to me that they showed some of his films. I
bought my copy at the Amsterdam 'Eye' centre last summer.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I don't recall metareferencing in the couple of Kawashima
films I've seen, but as far as the Marx brothers and Enoken are concerned, they
both have a history in vaudeville and radio comedy, in both of which the fourth
wall is only honoured in the breach. I read Enoken's to-camera squeak, at
the beginning of <EM>Enoken no seishun suikoden</EM> as referencing his radio
signature for a large part of his audience that might, up to that point,
have only known him in that medium.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Roger</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:56
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and
metareferences</DIV>
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<DIV>Hello Alo,<BR><BR></DIV>In terms of direct address, Enoken no seishun
suikoden is probably the most obvious. I remember a seemingly complicit look
in one of the Yotamono films (Jogakusei to yotamono?)
too...<BR><BR></DIV>Michael<BR><BR></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Alo Jõekalda <SPAN
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<DIV>Dear KineJapaners,<BR><BR>I've been writing something on early
Kawashima Yuzo recently, and have run into a couple of issues that I'm
hoping some of you can help to straighten out.<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>First, I'd be interested to know if the metareferencing and overtly
self-conscious narration that one begins to see in the Kawashima of late
1940s and Ichikawa of early 1950s was something entirely new in Japan. In
Hollywood, breaking the fourth wall has hardly been an issue ever since the
Marx Brothers or so, but what about the Japanese pre-war? There was, of
course, a number of films that referenced or parodied both foreign and local
product -- the Japanese King Kongs, for instance, have been brought up here
before, as has been Yamamoto Kikuo's book, which lists a number of
citational titles. But does anyone know if any of these or other older films
actually addressed the audience in the literal sense?<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Also, I''ve been wondering about Kawashima's availability overseas, and
whether Eureka's recent release of <I>Bakumatsu taiyo-den</I> really set a
historical precedent. Is anyone aware of any other foreign release of a
Kawashima film on any home video format? It's hard to believe it actually
took them fifty years. As for international screenings, I believe a few
films have been shown at Toronto and FILMeX, and <I>Taiyo-den</I> and
<I>Susaki paradaisu</I> have, of course, been all over the place since last
year's Nikkatsu centennial. Anything else of note?<BR><BR>Thanks in advance
and all the
best,<BR>Alo<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>KineJapan
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