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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I screened Hayashi Kaizo's To Sleep, So As To Dream at Zipangu Fest in 2012. The Japan Foundation has a 16mm print, and also I believe of Circus Boys, and the rights have reverted back to Hayashi himself - I tracked him down on Facebook to book the print, but I remember him being fairly hard to pin down.<div>A beautiful film though, which went down really well at our festival, and the 16mm print looked as good as new.</div><div> </div><div>best</div><div>Jasper<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><br></div></span></div><div style="font-size:13px;"><div style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><font 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><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><b>directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. </b></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><i><br></i></b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><b><br></b></span></div><div style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><b>Starting its North American run at <a href="http://filmforum.org/film/the-creeping-garden-film" target="_blank">Film Forum New York</a>, </b></span><font face="Tahoma"><b>Wednesday, September 30 – Tuesday, October 6</b></font><b style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12.8000001907349px;"> </b></div><div style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-family:Tahoma;">See <a href="http://www.creepinggarden.com/screenings/" target="_blank">here</a> for screening dates.</b></div><div style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><div style="font-family:Tahoma;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;">The book, <i>The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds </i>out now from <a href="http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/" target="_blank">Alchimia Publishing</a>.</div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;"><br></div><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif">“An improbably delightful documentary about slime molds.... good-humored but not campy in its regard of some genuinely fascinating research, and full of trippy visuals.",</font><b style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;"><div style="display:inline !important;"><div style="display:inline !important;"><font face="arial black, sans-serif"> Dennis Harvey, <a href="http://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/film-review-the-creeping-garden-1201485006/" target="_blank">Variety</a></font></div></div></b></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;"><br></div></b></div><div style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="2" face="arial black, sans-serif">"...<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);line-height:16px;">one of the year's most original and bizarre documentaries", James Marsh, <a href="http://twitchfilm.com/2014/08/fantasia-2014-review-the-creeping-garden-explores-the-brave-new-world-of-plasmodial-slime-mould.html" target="_blank">Twitch</a>.</span></font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div></div><font face="Tahoma" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial, sans-serif;"></font></span><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 22:39:24 -0400<br>From: amnornes@umich.edu<br>To: kinejapan@lists.osu.edu<br>Subject: Re: [KineJapan] screening rights for Takamine Go and Hayashi Kaizo films<br><br><div dir="ltr">For Takamine, contact Hama Haruka at Yamagata. She's producing his new film, and knows more than anyone about Okinawa film right now. <div><br></div><div>Markus</div></div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Michael Raine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raine.michael.j@gmail.com" target="_blank">raine.michael.j@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello,<br><br></div>Does anyone know who would currently be able to authorize screenings of Takamine Go's Paradise View (1985) and Hayashi Kaizo's To Sleep, So As To Dream (Yumemiru yo ni nemuritai, 1986), and Circus Boys (Nijisseiki shonen dokuhon, 1989)? <br><br></div>Apparently the original distributors are no longer around...<br><br></div>Michael<br><div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Michael Raine, Film Studies<br></div>Western University, Canada<br></div></div></div>
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