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<p class="ydp23e753acMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Dear Lorenzo and Steve,</p>
<p class="ydp23e753acMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">I contacted Tony Rayns when I saw this question, due to his dealings and
knowledge of Terayama, and he kindly offered this :-</p>
<p class="ydp23e753acMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:17.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">About <i>Saraba Hakobune</i>: I saw Terayama's three-ring-circus of
a stage production in Tokyo (it took place on three widely distanced stages set
up in a cavernous warehouse on Tokyo Bay), which the film derives from, and I
did ask Terayama if he'd formally acquired the rights to adapt Garcia Marquez
-- since the play was still called <i>100 Years of Solitude</i>. He told
me that he did clear it with the publisher of the Japanese translation, which
was probably true. </p>
<p class="ydp23e753acMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:17.0pt;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:17.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">I never asked Madame Govaers about the film rights, so I never heard the
anecdote which Prof Bordwell's colleague Steve Ridgely reports. It rings
true to me that Govaers would have shown the film to Garcia Marquez and asked
his permission, but it's <u>not possible</u> that Terayama was present because
his nephritis killed him in the very early stages of the post-production.
Terayama would probably have wanted to keep Garcia Marquez's title, and the
money-minded Govaers would <u>definitely</u> have wanted to market Terayama's
last film as <i>100 Years of Solitude. </i>It also rings true that Garcia
Marquez (always famously cagey about film adaptations of his work) would have
judged the film a very free adaptation and asked for a title change.
Incidentally, the film's post-production wasn't finished until nearly a year
after Terayama's death. </p>
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On Tuesday, 5 May 2020, 19:32:05 BST, Steve Ridgely via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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<div class="ydpcf3681byiv0657914253">I asked Hiroko Govaers about this when I interviewed her in Paris (summer of 2002). She said that she and Terayama screened the film that would be released as Saraba hakobune before Cannes for García Márquez (I think in her apartment) as a way
of asking his permission to use the title of his novel. But he felt that the narrative was too much of a departure, and asked them to release it under a different name. She presented it to me as an amicable exchange.</div>
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<div class="ydpcf3681byiv0657914253">On May 5, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano via KineJapan <<a shape="rect" class="ydpcf3681byiv0657914253" href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span class="ydpcf3681byiv0657914253" lang="EN-GB">I’m writing an article on the Terayama’s film adaptation on García Márquez’<span class="ydpcf3681byiv0657914253Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="ydpcf3681byiv0657914253">Cien años de soledad</i>.<span class="ydpcf3681byiv0657914253Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="ydpcf3681byiv0657914253" lang="EN-GB">It is a very free and unknown adaptation and, apparently, Terayama did not ask the Colombian for permission, or did he not like the result: do you know any reliable sources that clarify the subject?</span></div>
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<span class="ydpcf3681byiv0657914253" lang="EN-GB">Thank you in advance and encouragement with the pandemic,</span></div>
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