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Storyville slot, a ridiculous decision in any case as most people would have watched it on the BBC's iPlayer streaming service rather than stayed up to catch it on a particular broadcast slot, but particularly ironic for a publicly-funded national broadcaster
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of Eija Niskanen <eija@helsinkicineaasia.fi><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 30 December 2018 17:56<br>
<b>To:</b> Michael Kerpan; Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [KineJapan] "Burning" NHK Drama Special broadcast</font>
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<div dir="ltr">NHK commissioned films have been treated weirdly by them before. Some 10 years ago they commissioned a series of documentary films by top documentarists around the world, to be shot on location in Japan. One Finnish filmmaker, Pirjo Honkasalo
made the film Ito
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in this program. The next year after it came out I asked at Yamagata doc film festival why it was not screening there, as they normally screen the new Japanese docs there. YIDFF replied that NHK would not let them screen those films of that particular series.
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<div dir="ltr">su 30. jouluk. 2018 klo 19.03 Michael Kerpan (<a href="mailto:mekerpan2@gmail.com">mekerpan2@gmail.com</a>) kirjoitti:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">A wonderful (if depressing film). NHK's mutilation merits excoriation.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 11:36 AM John Junkerman <<a href="mailto:jtj53213@gmail.com" target="_blank">jtj53213@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I had the very curious experience of watching NHK's broadcast of a "tokushu drama" version of Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" on Dec. 29 (10 pm Sat on NHK General channel). I was expecting to see the film (which is based on a Murakami Haruki short
story) that won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes and has had a strongly positive response from critics, but what I saw was beautiful, inventive, very Murakami-esque in its oddly skewed and evocative slant on the pedestrian lives of its aimless characters, some
hints of what critics raved about... but completely unengaging and unrewarding (it ended without an ending).
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<div>Looking into it after the broadcast, it turned out that someone (NHK itself?) had cut 53 minutes from the film. Of course, this happens all the time after a film has finished theatrical release. The "drama special" was also dubbed...happens all the time,
though it ruins the actors' performances. </div>
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<div>But why was this done a month before the film's theatrical release in Japan? Was this because NHK produced the film and has final cut, and the right to exploit it as it sees fit? I can't imagine that Lee directed this version, or signed off on it. I can't
imagine Murakami did either.</div>
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<div>From what I understand, NHK has commissioned a number of leading Asian directors to make films based on Murakami's stories, and this is the first to be released. There's clearly a lot of juice behind the project (using hot Korean actors, and hot Japanese
actors for the dubbing), but where are the director's rights in this equation? </div>
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<div>Some kind of hyping imperative seems to override the director's vision. To broadcast this chopped-up, incomprehensible version of a film, under its original title, with no apparent effort to let the audience know that it is not the same film--what were
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<div>I'll look forward to seeing the original film when it is released in February, but I'd bet that a lot of those who watched the "drama special" won't bother, because they were left bored and perplexed.</div>
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<div>If anyone has heard some back story on all of this, I'd appreciate hearing it, because to me, it just flummoxes.<br clear="all">
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