<div dir="ltr">This is all very fasciinating!<div><br></div><div>I'm disheartened to hear that USC only catalogued 5 issues. They had a regular subscription for years! So perhaps that behind that conversation with the librarian there were conversations whether it was worth keeping or junking!</div><div><br></div><div>Markus<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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)">--- </span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13"><b><img src="https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/uc?id=1i0izwlsrcSvQgU4nMCzTLiOhmdDMm-xZ&export=download" width="56" height="96"><br></b></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13"><b>Markus Nornes</b></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><font color="#38761d"><b>Professor of Asian Cinema</b></font></span></div><div><font size="1" color="#38761d"><font face="courier new, monospace">Department of Film, Television and Media</font><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps </span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">School of Art & Design</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#6aa84f"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>Department of Film, Television and Media</b></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>6348 North Quad</b></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>105 S. State Street</b></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285</b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 1:14 PM Anne McKnight via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Thanks, Roger~I did see it! Mubi is really killing it these days.<div>The late-in-life discovery of Ray and Kurosawa’s embrace of this film, with its mysteriously well-traveled anthropologist progagonist, made me wonder if Kurosawa had a change in heart about local/indigenous cultures. A turn away from the John Wayne affinity of his earlier days…</div><div><br></div><div>Anne<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 21, 2020, at 12:09, Roger Macy via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div></div>
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On Monday, 21 September 2020, 19:42:37 BST, Anne McKnight via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="gmail-m_-7174985114495308408ydpffa924d9yiv3914350166"><div>Thanks Jonathan and Markus~<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Fortunately, I only have to deal with actual empirical fact insofar as it helps me understand what Kurosawa is saying. </div><div>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…</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div>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...</div></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>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 <u>sakariba</u> gives the general vibe of street/theatre life in various neighborhoods...</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>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…</div><div>TIFF on-line archive is interesting—also, a blast from the past to see the juxtapositions…</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>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 <u>taidan</u> I am translating. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Jonathan, at UCI library, <u>PIA</u> 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?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>All this for a footnote, if an intriguing one, and thanks for the resources!</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div>Anne</div><div id="gmail-m_-7174985114495308408ydpffa924d9yiv3914350166yqt79869"><div><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 20, 2020, at 17:46, Jonathan M. Hall <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:jonathanmarkhall@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jonathanmarkhall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none"><div>Hi Anne,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>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.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><a shape="rect" href="http://history.tiff-jp.net/en/overviews?no=4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://history.tiff-jp.net/en/overviews?no=4</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>If only these weren’t pandemic times, this might help:</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><a shape="rect" href="https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ea/ldpd_7755896/dsc/16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ea/ldpd_7755896/dsc/16</a><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I do remember a festival, but which one. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>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. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>With best wishes, </div><div>Jonathan </div><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">On Sunday, September 20, 2020, Anne McKnight via KineJapan <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Hi all~<div><br clear="none"></div><div>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 (日比谷シャンテ) theatre? </div><div>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 フェスティバル. </div><div>If I had access to <u>PIA</u> 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.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Anne</div></div></div></blockquote></div>
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