<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On further inquiry, it looks like there are a fair number of back issues of <u class="">PIA</u> at USC that date from 1979~89. There are runs of a few, then gaps of a few, and so on.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Doesn't help resolve this question for me, but it would be a great source for anyone wishing to imagine the offerings of bubble-era film culture. </div><div class="">With the vast reservoir Internet info rabbit-holes today, it is hard to imagine how semiotically different <u class="">PIA</u> was, in terms of being a cartography of the city. The showtimes, tiny print and tinier diagrams on that newsprint that mapped the times and spaces of the city according to the films and events they offered. As one-stop shopping for culture…I’m sure it wasn’t comprehensive, but it was still both wonderful and a little exhausting at times, due to the variety and spread of information. <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 21, 2020, at 12:45, Zahlten, Alexander via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" class="">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hi Anne,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">This is a fascinating thread, thanks for bringing these questions in. Another place to look might be one of the many books on minitheater history, which sometimes can be pretty specific about what films played where at what time (sometimes organized in nenpyo), when which theater opened, audiences, etc.; obviously minitheaters are only a subsection of what was going on in that area, but it will provide some insights,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">While I do have a number of these books I only have limited access to my office right now - but can check once I am able to get in to see if one of them might be useful to you.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">All best,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Alex<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan-bounces@mailman.yale.edu" class="">kinejapan-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>> on behalf of Anne McKnight via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" class="">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Reply-To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" class="">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Monday, September 21, 2020 at 14:42<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"Jonathan M. Hall" <<a href="mailto:jonathanmarkhall@gmail.com" class="">jonathanmarkhall@gmail.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Anne McKnight <<a href="mailto:annekmcknight@gmail.com" class="">annekmcknight@gmail.com</a>>, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" class="">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [KineJapan] Film fests of yore in Yurakucho/Hibiya<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thanks Jonathan and Markus~<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Fortunately, I only have to deal with actual empirical fact insofar as it helps me understand what Kurosawa is saying. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">He says it was the Chanter (which maybe I should render Chanté in English-ish to capture the retro-elegance?) so his memory recall is what I am going with. His line is mostly rhetorical, I think—about situating himself in a mediascape where he has an identity that does not pander, is old-school in daring to be vulgar, etc…but I need to see the programming in the surrounding areas to make that call of where he is dragging his contrarian feet…<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Markus, sadly, USC Library does not seem to have kept up the connection, as they only have 5 issues from 1979~81. Or it may well be that they have them in a pile somewhere, and they have not been catalogued. That reminds me that Rebecca Corbett has just started as librarian there and may well know...<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">What I am most concerned with is how that theatre sits in the cluster of theatres in that area, with their respective repertoires of both Japanese and foreign/“Western" films. In the way that, say Yosumi Shunya’s book on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u class="">sakariba</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>gives the general vibe of street/theatre life in various neighborhoods...<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Indeed, PIA or TIFF archives would help me figure that out, as I could see what was regular programing, and what was special event/festival…<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">TIFF on-line archive is interesting—also, a blast from the past to see the juxtapositions…<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">It doesn’t look like there was any kind of a Kurosawa fest at TIFF. No screening of his stuff at all from 1989~1992, while Obayashi, Kumai and Shindo all do have films. I did come across a really fascinating Satyajit Ray film that Kurosawa mentions, though (The Stranger/Agantuk), in the same<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u class="">taidan</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I am translating. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Jonathan, at UCI library,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u class="">PIA</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>does not come up in a search, so are you suggesting I should skim through the film journals from 1990~1 or thereabouts to look at general news items?<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">All this for a footnote, if an intriguing one, and thanks for the resources!<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Anne<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Sep 20, 2020, at 17:46, Jonathan M. Hall <<a href="mailto:jonathanmarkhall@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">jonathanmarkhall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hi Anne,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I think TIFF was only six years old in 1991, and Kurosawa definitely presented at it in person that year. But was the Chanter the actual venue? I seem to remember it was one of them.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__history.tiff-2Djp.net_en_overviews-3Fno-3D4&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=__ROkypPMfBMMPVia3CjGrxSJryXbwjGyfBDGhCKd68&m=1TeuSyQZ8XzKJo8jt0AE3fGzo8fyPX3FQdkXM5UCJqw&s=NEKTP77J5058rwf7loJX3eZ25exBPzeEokmbXGbQ9gg&e=" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://history.tiff-jp.net/en/overviews?no=4</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">If only these weren’t pandemic times, this might help:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__findingaids.library.columbia.edu_ead_nnc-2Dea_ldpd-5F7755896_dsc_16&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=__ROkypPMfBMMPVia3CjGrxSJryXbwjGyfBDGhCKd68&m=1TeuSyQZ8XzKJo8jt0AE3fGzo8fyPX3FQdkXM5UCJqw&s=ftqQpK903PKArQLMOVhVS46UtbISndGIQkSIQffqq7s&e=" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ea/ldpd_7755896/dsc/16</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I do remember a festival, but which one. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">By the way, one more local resource: UC Irvine has an excellent collection of film journals of the period, which I helped the library acquire through a NEAC grant. That would be the easiest place. And those periodicals are loanable. So a colleague there might request curbside loan for you if inter-library loan doesn’t work. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">With best wishes, <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Jonathan <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Sunday, September 20, 2020, Anne McKnight via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hi all~<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I’m wondering if anyone who has pounded the pavements and darkened the doors of the theatres in the Yurakucho area might know of any film fests particularly associated with the Hibiya Chanter (<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Gothic";" class="">日比谷シャンテ</span>) theatre? <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I ask because Kurosawa Akira was in about 1991 miffed that one of his films (The Bad Sleep Well) was not included at the retrospective of his films that screened there; he hints that it is too déclassé for the time and place. The whole Kurosawa feature was probably a part of a larger festival, as he does refer to a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Gothic";" class="">フェスティバル</span>. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">If I had access to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u class="">PIA</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I would go back and look at the listings, but I don’t, so if anyone has a memory of being there or reading about festivals that took place in Hibiya, or strolling by the marquees even, I would very much enjoy hearing about these events.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thanks!<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Anne<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">KineJapan mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:KineJapan@mailman.yale.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">KineJapan@mailman.yale.edu</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>