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<p><span style="font-size:11px;">Jasper,<br>
Thank you very much for this link, just listening ... excellent.<br>
all my best,<br>
verina</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:9px;"><span style="font-size:8px;">dr verina gfader<br>
artist and researcher<br>
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Quoting Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>>:<br>
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> I thought this would be of interest to Kinejapanners, but BBC Radio 3<br>
> is currently in the midst of a season of Japan programmes, including<br>
> a couple on cinema.<br>
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> I know some list members have been involved in these. I myself was<br>
> one of the pundits talking about Rashomon with Rana Mitter on the<br>
> programme ‘Free Thinking’, which also included Yuna Tasaka and the<br>
> proper writers David Peace and Natascha Pulley. The talk was perhaps<br>
> more focussed on Akutagawa than Kurosawa and the international impact<br>
> of his film – another 10 minutes in the studio would have helped.<br>
><br>
> The programme was broadcast at 10pm on Wednesday night, but is<br>
> available as a podcast. I’m not sure where it is listenable to non<br>
> BBC licence payers outside the UK though:<br>
> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01vwk" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01vwk</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Coming up this Sunday at 6.45pm and similarly downloadable as a<br>
> podcast after is the provocatively title ‘Japan's Never-Ending War’,<br>
> once again hosted by Rana Mitter, about representations of war in<br>
> recent Japanese cinema, such as ETERNAL ZERO et al. I was also<br>
> interviewed for this one, as was Mark Schilling and (I believe) Adam<br>
> Torel. I’ve not heard it yet, but a number of Japanese filmmakers are<br>
> also interviewed, including Katabuchi Sunao, Harada Masato, Tsukamoto<br>
> Shinya, and Arai Harahiko – so a very diverse canvas of opinions!<br>
><br>
> Here are the details: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0wrpk" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0wrpk</a><br>
><br>
> [<a href="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1200x675/p02jv56r.jpg" target="_blank">https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1200x675/p02jv56r.jpg</a>]<<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0wrpk" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0wrpk</a>><br>
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> Japan's Never-Ending War, Sunday Feature - BBC Radio<br>
> 3<<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0wrpk" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0wrpk</a>><br>
> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk" target="_blank">www.bbc.co.uk</a><br>
> Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to explore how Japan remembers World War Two<br>
> today through movies<br>
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><br>
><br>
><br>
> Carrying on with the film focus, they have also made available online<br>
> another programme originally recorded 5 years back on TOKYO STORY,<br>
> which features, among others, the actor Richard Wilson of ONE FOOT IN<br>
> THE GRAVE fame: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lnfss" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lnfss</a><br>
><br>
> [<a href="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1200x675/p01n7bnp.jpg" target="_blank">https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1200x675/p01n7bnp.jpg</a>]<<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lnfss" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lnfss</a>><br>
><br>
> BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Landmarks: Tokyo<br>
> Story<<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lnfss" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lnfss</a>><br>
> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk" target="_blank">www.bbc.co.uk</a><br>
> 50 years ago this month director Yasujiro Ozu died after making 53<br>
> films. Tokyo Story follows an elderly couple who go to visit their<br>
> busy grown up children and their widowed daughter-in-law. Rana Mitter<br>
> presents a Landmark edition looking at this cinematic classic,<br>
> hearing from actor Richard Wilson ...<br>
><br>
><br>
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> There’s another ‘Free Thinking’ programme ‘Japan and Nature’, with<br>
> Eiko Honda from the University of Oxford and Professor Stephen Dodd<br>
> from SOAS, and one of the featured interviewees another film-related<br>
> figure (albeit talking about her photography work here), Ninagawa<br>
> Mika: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01n2j" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01n2j</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> ‘Free Thinking’ have also covered ‘Tokyo Idols and Urban life’, with<br>
> one of the interviewees the director of the recent documentary TOKYO<br>
> IDOLS, Miyake Kyoko, with whom I had the pleasure to sit on a panel<br>
> at the University of Sheffield this year, when she was over for the<br>
> Japan Now festival in the UK:<br>
> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01xk3" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01xk3</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> And finally (as far as I can ascertain), there’s ‘Supernatural<br>
> Japan’, which looks at the post-Fukushima boom in ghost sitings,<br>
> RINGU and yokai: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zmvmm" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zmvmm</a><br>
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> Hope you all find some time to be able to check at least some of<br>
> these programmes out.<br>
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><br>
> Best<br>
><br>
><br>
> Jasper Sharp</span><br>
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