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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hello All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">If you are in the Boston area this coming month, don’t miss the amazing retrospective
<i>The Other New Wave: Alternative Histories of Post-WWII Japanese Cinema</i> at the Harvard Film Archive (curated by Go Hirasawa and the Japan Society). You can find more on the retrospective here:
<a href="https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/other.html#shorts">https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/other.html#shorts</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Also, we have additional events coming up, (most of them) connected to the retrospective:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">April 1: Lecture by Earl Jackson:
<i>The Cinematic Subject in Masumura Yasuzo </i>(4:15 – 5:45, Room S250, CGIS South Building, Harvard University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">April 1: Introduction to the retrospective by Go Hirasawa, before the screening of
<i>Shorts Program: New Wave Rarities</i> (7:00 pm, Harvard Film Archive)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">April 2: Meet the Director! A Conversation with Eizo Yamagiwa about Japanese New Wave Cinema (5:15 – 7:00, Room S250, CGIS South Building, Harvard University) -> see below for more information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We hope to see you there!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p2" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Meet the Director! A Conversation with Eizo Yamagiwa about Japanese New Wave Cinema</span></b></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Eizo Yamagiwa is a formative figure in Japanese film history and has carried many hats: Japanese New Wave rebel and the last director to emerge from the bankruptcy of the
major film studio Shin-Toho, film critic and co-founder of the central film journal</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Eiga
Hihyō</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">(Film Critique), but
also fan favorite as director of the</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Ultraman</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">sci-fi
TV series and prominent political activist for prisoners’ rights.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">To accompany the pioneering retrospective</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The
Other New Wave: Alternate Histories of Post-WWII Japanese Cinema</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">at
the Harvard Film Archive this April, we welcome Eizo Yamagiwa on skype from Tokyo to discuss the other history of Japanese cinema in the postwar.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The conversation will be accompanied by clips from Yamagiwa’s film</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span class="s1"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The
End of Love</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">(1961), a legendary
film until recently thought lost. (The film will be screened in full at the HFA on April 20 and 21).</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Film curator Go Hirasawa and Japanese film researchers Julia Alekseyeva (Reischauer Institute / University of Pennsylvania) and Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University) will
give a brief introduction to a highly experimental moment in Japanese film history before leading into a conversation with Eizo Yamagiwa.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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