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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Well, you can easily find out now, as the whole film appears to have been uploaded to youtube:<div><br id="FontBreak"><br><br><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);"><div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div></span></div><div style="font-size:13px;"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><b><i><a href="http://www.creepinggarden.com/" target="_blank">The Creeping Garden</a> </i>- A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them. </b></font><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma;"><b>Currently in production, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. </b></span></div><div style="font-size:13px;"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Tahoma"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;"><i>The </i></b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;"><b style="font-style:italic;">Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema </b>(2011)</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;"> </span><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma;">is out now from <a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810857957" target="_blank">Scarecrow Press</a></span></div><font face="Tahoma" size="2" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><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;"><b><i>Midnight Eye - Visions of Japanese cinema</i></b><br><font class="ecxApple-style-span" size="2"><a href="http://www.midnighteye.com" target="_blank">http://www.midnighteye.com<br></a></font><br></span></font><font face="Tahoma" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial, sans-serif;"></font></span><br><br><div>> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:13:51 +0000<br>> From: jimharper666@yahoo.co.uk<br>> To: kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<br>> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Right wing cinema<br>> <br>> Hello!<br>> <br>> I'd be very interested in knowing which (alleged) rock star was involved with that feature, if anyone comes across the name.<br>> <br>> Best,<br>> <br>> Jim Harper.<br>> <br>> --------------------------------------------<br>> On Wed, 19/2/14, Marc Walkow <marcwalkow@earthlink.net> wrote:<br>> <br>> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Right wing cinema<br>> To: "Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum" <kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu><br>> Date: Wednesday, 19 February, 2014, 4:44<br>> <br>> Markus - bizarre<br>> you mention that film! I was hired by the company<br>> distributing it in Japan, or at least the company who'd<br>> produced it, to try to get it booked at overseas film<br>> festivals, along with an action film they also<br>> produced. <br>> The action film was innocuous enough, if not very<br>> well-made or interesting in terms of cast or director's<br>> name, and played at a couple of small festivals. But the<br>> documentary - called SENKAKU ROCK - didn't generate any<br>> interest at all. Not surprisingly, I think. Few overseas<br>> people who aren't already interested in either Chinese<br>> or Japanese issues have even heard of the Senkaku dispute,<br>> and I think those who had might have been scared off by the<br>> nationalist feelings expressed in the film. It also<br>> wasn't even feature-length, only about 45 minutes long,<br>> which made programming difficult. (Of course, nobody had<br>> heard of the rock star in it, either.) <br>> The film itself was pretty harmless, I felt.<br>> It's presented with a kind of feel-good nationalist<br>> tone, if that makes any sense, concentrating on personal and<br>> national pride rather than demonizing the Chinese, for the<br>> most part. The rocker plays a depressingly tiny concert in<br>> Okinawa, then sets out on a boat with a right-wing politico<br>> to set foot on one of the Senkaku islands and plant a<br>> Japanese flag. It gets interesting at this point, because<br>> they run into various problems before being picked up by<br>> Japanese maritime police, but manage to land after all, and<br>> even play two national rallying-cry songs. <br>> I'm not sure who you might have met, maybe<br>> the director (who was also on the boat to the island, of<br>> course). I'd met a couple of the company members who<br>> were flogging it overseas in Yubari last year, but don't<br>> remember their names and I don't think the guy you met<br>> was among them. Small world - I thought nobody had ever<br>> heard of this movie other than me!<br>> If any members of this mailing list is interested<br>> in seeing it privately, I can provide a password-protected<br>> Vimeo link. Just email me separately, please.<br>> Marc<br>> <br>> <br>> On Feb 18, 2014, at 11:23 PM, Markus Nornes<br>> wrote:<br>> Anecdotally, one of my strong<br>> experiences of the last Yamagata festival occurred late at<br>> night at Komian Club (the venue everyone gathers at after<br>> the films). I noticed a slightly awkward looking fellow<br>> flitting from one clutch of people to the other. At some<br>> point, it was my turn. He pushed a chirashi into my hand. It<br>> was a film he had produced about the Senkaku Islands, and<br>> featuring some aged rock star. Probably because I didn't<br>> turn and walk away from him, he become increasingly agitated<br>> as he described his film and explained Japan's natural<br>> right to the rocks—along with China's pernicious<br>> claims to sovereignty. After a few minutes, his eyes started<br>> to gleam and thanks to his vigorous, clipped speech he began<br>> foaming at the mouth. Becoming nervous, I found an excuse to<br>> hand him off to the next poor soul. The pattern continued<br>> until the end of the festival, I noticed. What amazed me was<br>> the way his body language and speech took on the conventions<br>> of the New Order films—think Abe Yutaka's war films,<br>> for example. I'd actually like to see his film. He<br>> wanted me to buy the rights and distribute it for him, but<br>> didn't offer a screener. <br>> <br>> Markus<br>> <br>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014<br>> at 10:38 PM, Gerow Aaron <aaron.gerow@yale.edu><br>> wrote:<br>> <br>> I had<br>> forgotten to respond to this, sorry.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> There are many ways one could talk about right wing cinema.<br>> Personally, I would argue it was more marginal to what at<br>> least the film studios and film critics wanted to say was<br>> Japanese film culture. What has changed now is this marginal<br>> status.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Shintoho of course had its Meiji Tenno films, but those<br>> occupied an odd position, especially next to the eruguro<br>> Shintoho was also selling.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Clearly there were a lot of war films. Some talk of films by<br>> Matsubayashi Shu'e or Abe Yutaka as rightist, in part<br>> because of their backgrounds, though Matsubayashi also made<br>> some great comedies. And Abe's Senkan Yamato is very<br>> different from Otokotachi no Yamato. Also, not a small<br>> number of war films were anti-war films, and others, like<br>> Okamoto's Gurentai films or the Heitai yakuza films,<br>> made mockery of the military.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Isolde Standish has written about some of the war films and<br>> masculinity. Yoshikuni Igarashi has written about recent<br>> kamikaze films. I have several articles on Japan Focus about<br>> recent neo-nationalist war and fantasy films, one of which<br>> is a shorter version of a much longer piece about Yamato<br>> films that is forthcoming.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Aaron Gerow<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> On Feb 15, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Peter Larson wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> > All,<br>> <br>> ><br>> <br>> > A friend and I were discussing the recent success of<br>> Eien no zero (a recent war piece about Kamikaze pilots in<br>> WWII) in the context of the recent "resurgence"<br>> (did they ever go away?) of right wingers in Japanese<br>> politics.<br>> <br>> <br>> ><br>> <br>> > It seems like every few years a film with nationalist<br>> undertones comes out of Japan. Does anyone know if anyone<br>> has ever done any work on right wing cinema?<br>> <br>> ><br>> <br>> > Pete<br>> <br>> ><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> <br>> > KineJapan mailing list<br>> <br>> > KineJapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<br>> <br>> > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> <br>> KineJapan mailing list<br>> <br>> KineJapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<br>> <br>> https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Markus<br>> NornesChair,<br>> Department of Screen Arts and Cultures<br>> Professor of Asian Cinema,<br>> Department of Asian Languages and CulturesProfessor, School of Art &<br>> Design<br>> <br>> Department of Screen Arts and<br>> Cultures<br>> 6348 North<br>> Quad105 S. 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