<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">good line-up, as far as I understand, Minamata Mandala is divided in 3 parts, it’ll be interesting to see if they’re going to be screen and shown as 3 movies (like Soda’s Theatre 1,2 for instance)<div><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Matteo Boscarol<br></span><div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><br></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asian Docs</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Documentary in Japan and Asia</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com/" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com</font></a></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Film writer for Il Manifesto</span></div></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://ilmanifesto.it/" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://ilmanifesto.it</font></a></div></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><br></div><div><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 26, 2020, at 2:01, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace">Shanghai Int'l FF just opened. They breached the 500-film level a few years ago and it's unclear how large a festival they are shooting for this time around. It is in person, but with limited seating (30%), temperature taking, mandatory masking and no foreign guests. There are a ton of Japanese films this year.</font><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace">In the competition: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">“One Summer Story” by Okita Shuichi, and </span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="monospace">“Tracing Her Shadow,” a Sino-Japanese co-production from Pengfei. </font></span></div><div><font face="monospace"><font color="#000000">Animation competition: </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">“Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop,” by Japan’s Ishiguro Kyohei.</span></font><font color="#000000" style="font-family:monospace"> Documentary </font><font color="#000000" style="font-family:monospace">competition</font><font color="#000000" style="font-family:monospace">: Minamata Mandala by Hara Kazuo</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="monospace"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Asian New Talent: </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">“Daughters,” from Japan’s Tsuda Hajime</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="monospace"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Retrospectives of Kon </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Satoshi, Kitano Takeshi and Shochiku. </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="monospace"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Master classes by </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Japanese helmers Kore-eda and Kawase. </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace">Soda's Zero, Sabu's Dancing Mary, Sakamoto. Junji's I Never Shot Anyone, Obayashi's Labrynth of Cinema, Suwa's Voices in the Wind and others. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace">4k restorations of Kawashima's Elegant Beast and Masumura's Irezumi. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace">A bunch more. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace">The one I'm most curious about is Hara's Minamata Mandala. He's been working on this for 15+ years. It sounds like it's over 6 hours long, and SIFF will have an online dialogue between Hara and Wu Wenguang. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="monospace">This and the master classes will all be online. I'm trying to find out if they will be opened up globally. </font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="monospace"><br></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="monospace">Markus</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="monospace"><br></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="monospace"><br></font></font><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace"><br clear="all"></font><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="monospace">--- </font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#274e13" face="monospace"><b><img src="https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/uc?id=1i0izwlsrcSvQgU4nMCzTLiOhmdDMm-xZ&export=download" width="56" height="96" data-unique-identifier=""><br></b></font></div><div><font color="#274e13" face="monospace"><b>Markus Nornes</b></font></div><div><font color="#38761d" face="monospace"><b>Professor of Asian Cinema</b></font></div><div><font color="#38761d" face="monospace">Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#6aa84f" face="monospace"><br></font></div><div><font color="#93c47d" face="monospace"><b>Department of Film, Television and Media</b></font></div><div><font color="#93c47d" face="monospace"><b>6348 North Quad</b></font></div><div><font color="#93c47d" face="monospace"><b>105 S. 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