<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Dear Kine-Japaners,</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">I know this is a bit off-topic, but if you happen to be in the LA/Santa Barbara area in coming weeks, please join us for the film series that I organize at UCSB's Pollock Theater. As you know, Odayaka is one of the post-3.11 fiction films on the nuclear disaster.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><b>Nuclear Japan: Japanese cinema before and after Fukushima</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">April 15 (Tue): Fukushima: Memories of the Lost Landscape (2011, dir. Matsubayashi Yojyu)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">* Guest Speaker: David Novak (Music, UCSB)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">April 22 (Tue): Odayaka (2012, dir. Uchida Nobuteru)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">* Guest Speaker: Margherita Long (Comparative Literature, UCR)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">April 29 (Tue): Ashes to Honey (2010, dir. Kamanaka Hitomi)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">* Guest Speaker: anne-elise lewallen (EALCS, UCSB)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">All the screenings will begin at 7PM. </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">More info can be found here: </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><a href="http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock/events/nuclear-japan-japanese-cinema-and-after-fukushima">http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock/events/nuclear-japan-japanese-cinema-and-after-fukushima</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Best,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Naoki</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Naoki Yamamoto</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Assistant professor</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Film and Media Studies</font></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">University of California, Santa Barbara</span></div><div><br></div><div>On Apr 8, 2014, at 2:40 AM, Jim Harper wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Isola was the only contemporary reference I could find in the horror genre. And you're absolutely right; there are dozens of films that deal with the Aum attacks and cults in general, from Miike's over-the-top MPD Psycho to one Itami's long line of comedy dramas starring his wife (Woman of the Police Protection Unit). Sogo Ishii's Angel Dust and Izo Hashimoto's Hideki: Evil Dead Trap 2 are pre-Aum films that make for interesting comparisions.<br><br>I haven't yet had a chance to watch Zeze's Pandemic yet, so I'll be interested to know how it connects with these earlier films.<br><br>Jim.<br><br>On Tue, 8/4/14, Jasper Sharp <<a href="mailto:jasper_sharp@hotmail.com">jasper_sharp@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tsunami and heartwake film versions of Kanto daijinsai<br> To: "kinejapan" <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>><br> Date: Tuesday, 8 April, 2014, 9:48<br><br><br><br><br><br> Yes, the<br> 1923 Kanto earthquake has appeared in cinema quite a few<br> times, largely because for Showa era directors it<br> represented figuratively the turning point between Taisho<br> liberalism and early-Showa nationalism. The Tanaka<br> Noboru-directed Roman Porno Watcher in the Attic (Yaneura no<br> sanpôsha, 1976) is another good example, based<br> on a number of stories by Edogawa Rampo. I'm sure there<br> are many more.As<br> for the 1995<br> Hanshin earthquake, the<br> only reference I can think of is MizutaniToshiyuki’s<br> J-horror Isola<br> (Isola: Tajû jinkaku shôjo, 2000), about a psychic<br> girl with multiple<br> personalities rescued from its ruins. As the Aum gas attacks<br> on the Tokyo subway occurred within a matter of weeks of<br> this, it was this latter disaster that formed the basis of<br> much of the pre-millennial manifestations of national<br> trauma, felt particularly strongly in films by Aoyama Shinji<br> and Zeze Takahisa.<br><br><br><br><br> The Creeping<br> Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about<br> Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With<br> them. Currently in production,<br> directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper<br> Sharp. <br> The Historical Dictionary of Japanese<br> Cinema (2011) is out now from Scarecrow<br> Press<br> Midnight Eye - Visions of<br> Japanese cinema<br> <a href="http://www.midnighteye.com">http://www.midnighteye.com</a><br><br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:29:44 +0900<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: <a href="mailto:hakutaku@kansaigaidai.ac.jp">hakutaku@kansaigaidai.ac.jp</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: <a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tsunami and heartwake film<br></blockquote> versions of Kanto daijinsai<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Concerning cinema versions of the Kanto daijinsai, I<br></blockquote> think there are many. Two popular ones are Jissoji<br> Akio's Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (帝都物語, Teito<br> Monogatari, 1988 that has all kinds of detailed models of<br> the city begin destroyed in a fantasy narrative. There is<br> also Fukusaku Kinji's retelling of Yosano Akiko's<br> life in Hana no ran 華の乱 also from 1988 that ends with<br> the chaos of the earthquake. I think there are many more. <br><blockquote type="cite">It is interesting to reflect on the varied treatments<br></blockquote> like this.<br><blockquote type="cite">Paul Berry<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kyoto<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">----- Original Message -----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: Ryan Cook <<a href="mailto:ryancook@fas.harvard.edu">ryancook@fas.harvard.edu</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum<br></blockquote> <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>><br><blockquote type="cite">Sent: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:58:12 +0900 (JST)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tsunami and heartwake 2011 Av<br></blockquote> coverage<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jim,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This was an issue that came up at times at the Berkeley<br></blockquote> symposium and was a theme in my own paper which situated<br> 3/11 fiction films in relation to atomic bomb and hibakusha<br> films. I personally came across an observation that the<br> Kanto and Hanshin earthquakes had received surprisingly<br> little attention from fiction/narrative filmmakers. I'm<br> not quite comfortable making that claim myself because I<br> haven't followed up on it very much, but Jonathan Abel<br> gave a paper at Berkeley in which he cited an interesting<br> quote from an essay by Yumeno Kyusaku written shortly after<br> the 1923 earthquake. Yumeno had interviewed an official<br> responsible for film censorship who noted that there had<br> been a lack of screenplays dealing with the disaster<br> submitted for official approval at the time. The conclusion<br> was that screenwriters had exercised self-restraint at least<br> in the historical moment. Self-restraint (jishuku) has also<br> been a theme since 3/11, but evidently not to the point of<br> altogeth<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> er preventing films from being made.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The Wind Rises contains a dramatic depiction of the<br></blockquote> Kanto earthquake, as someone else just mentioned. <br> That's interesting in that it is a depiction of the<br> earthquake from a post-3/11 vantage point (at least the film<br> was released in 2013... I don't know when production<br> began), and in that sense it is also a "3/11<br> film." Miyazaki of course has publicly come out<br> against nuclear energy, and it seems reasonable to imagine a<br> subtext in all the talk of Japan "exploding" and<br> the persistence of the wind motif in the film, the wind<br> being as ambivalent as the dream of flight, lifting<br> beautiful things into the air, but also spreading fires and<br> poisonous things. Wakamatsu Koji was reportedly planning an<br> adaptation of the nuclear fallout graphic novel "When<br> the Wind Blows" before his death. Off the top of my<br> head, I can't think of other dramatic representations of<br> the 1923 earthquake in film, though I'm probably<br> overlooking important examples.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ryan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From:<br></blockquote> <a href="mailto:kinejapan-bounces+ryancook=fas.harvard.edu@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">kinejapan-bounces+ryancook=fas.harvard.edu@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br> [kinejapan-bounces+ryancook=fas.harvard.edu@lists.service.ohio-state.edu]<br> on behalf of Jim Harper [jimharper666@yahoo.co.uk]<br><blockquote type="cite">Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 5:34 AM<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tsunami and heartwake 2011 Av<br></blockquote> coverage<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Forgive me butting in here, but I'm curious about a<br></blockquote> couple of things.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a) Has much been written about the presentation and<br></blockquote> portrayal of disaster in Japanese cinema in general, prior<br> to 3/11?<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">b) Have specific disasters- like the Great Kanto<br></blockquote> Earthquake of 1923 or the 1995 Kobe Earthquake- been heavily<br> represented in contemporary film, also prior to 3/11?<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Can anyone help? Just a couple of brief answers would<br></blockquote> be very much appreciated. 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