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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dear Roger,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I suppose you mean that the character in the attached frames is Irie Takako.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">;-)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Did you also get the wonderful booklet that accompanies all the Kurosawa DVD Collection series by Asahi?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I am attaching some photos just in case, as it offers some more clues as to why there was no continuation. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Also attached, an image of KineJun from 1937.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It is a pity that at least over 60 minutes are missing from this consolidated version, we don't get to see some of the actors mentioned in the credits.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">However, we are very lucky to have this fantastic Kurosawa series, some of the titles are true gems.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Best wishes,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">María José González</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Kwansei Gakuin University<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, 5 January 2021, 2:02:13 am GMT+9, Roger Macy via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="yiv8525381756ydpd720bc0ayiv1059951684ydp648d2e0eMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;">Sorry that you got two link corrections together, yesterday.</p>
<p class="yiv8525381756ydpd720bc0ayiv1059951684ydp648d2e0eMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;">It is an unexpected list – I hadn’t even heard of the last director,
KURODA Yoshiyuki. But it’s also an over-promising list.<span> </span>Most, but not all, have been shown in the
history of the National Film Theatre but I think only the Kurosawa has been
shown this millennium. Several are also not available to view legitimately in
the UK,
including a couple on Criterion Channel which is not available in the UK.</p>
<p class="yiv8525381756ydpd720bc0ayiv1059951684ydp648d2e0eMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;"><span>But I like your suggestion,
Markus, of pondering over such a list, sitting here with winter lockdown
seeming to extend indefinitely. We could keep this simmering on the kamado for
months.<span> </span>‘Winter’ films could be divided
into those that are set entirely in winter and those which have memorable
winter scenes. Feeling pessimistic, this side of the pond, I’m offering one
where spring never came.</span></p>
<p class="yiv8525381756ydpd720bc0ayiv1059951684ydp648d2e0eMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;"><span>After reading last year the
translated novel <i>The Little House</i>, </span><span>by NAKAJIMA Kyoko in which the narrator goes to see </span><i>Otto no teisō</i>
(A Husband’s Chastity), 1937 (setting the novel of <span>YOSHIYA Nobuko – she of <i>Scent of Pheasant’s Eye</i> and best-selling
author of the ‘flower stories’), I noticed that a DVD could be bought. The DVD
was packaged as ‘Kurosawa Akira #65’, tenuously as he was 3rd A.D., and as </span><span style="font-family:MS Mincho;" lang="JA">総集編</span><span lang="JA"> </span>Sōshū-hen, i.e., the consolidated version of
104 minutes. JMDb listed the two parts released in April .37, as ‘When Spring
Comes’ and ‘Autumn Comes Again’.</p>
<p class="yiv8525381756ydpd720bc0ayiv1059951684ydp648d2e0eMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;">Alas, when I watched it, it ended in bleak mid-winter (attached
frame-grabs). What’s more, no one had reached any kind of nirvana or chastity,
only just starting to smart from a lack of it. With help from Johan Nordstr<span>ö</span>m (he on PCL) and Michiko Suzuki
(she on Yoshiya’s book), I established that the first two films only covered
the first half of the novel and the rest was never made. The character in the
picture, the young widow Kayo, has been excluded from her legitimate child, but
does she even ‘know’ that she’s pregnant – the window to her redemption in the
second half ? (I think I can dispense with spoiler-warnings).</p>
<p class="yiv8525381756ydpd720bc0ayiv1059951684ydp648d2e0eMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;">There’s a strong clue as to why it was never concluded. A short pause in
serializing was normal, and the story needed setting in the Philippines
or re-set elsewhere (Manchuria?).The actress in the
picture, Chiba Sachiko, however made no films for eighteen months for anyone. I
know that Chiba married Naruse
Mikio in 1937 and that there was a child by this short marriage. So, was
Naruse’s filmmaking winter in the 1940s because he took some of the blame for
this unconcluded winter ?</p>
<p class="yiv8525381756ydpd720bc0ayiv1059951684ydp648d2e0eMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;">Anyway, here’s for spring in real life.</p>
Roger</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, 3 January 2021, 15:36:22 GMT, Michael Kerpan via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv8525381756ydpd95fceb1yiv0136401890"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Markus --<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Your link didn't work -- but hopefully this will.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><a shape="rect" href="https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-japanese-winter-films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-japanese-winter-films</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Michael Kerpan<div>Boston, MA</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv8525381756ydpd95fceb1yiv0136401890gmail_quote"><div class="yiv8525381756ydpd95fceb1yiv0136401890yqt8174898889" id="yiv8525381756ydpd95fceb1yiv0136401890yqtfd65038"><div class="yiv8525381756ydpd95fceb1yiv0136401890gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 10:30 AM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv8525381756ydpd95fceb1yiv0136401890gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;">Now here’s a delightfully unexpected list!<div><br clear="none"></div><div><div><a shape="rect" href="https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-japanese-winter" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-japanese-winter</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>So many other films rush to mind, starting with....Yukiguni (either the ‘57 Toyota film or the prewar bunka eiga, take your pick)!</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>M </div><br clear="none"></div>-- <br clear="none"><div dir="ltr"><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" class="yiv8525381756" width="56" height="96"><br clear="none"></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:monospace;"><font style="background-color:inherit;" 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:monospace;">, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps </span><span style="font-family: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 clear="none"></font></div><div><font size="1" face="courier new, monospace" color="#93c47d"><b>Department of Film, Television and Media</b></font></div><div><font size="1" face="courier new, monospace" color="#93c47d"><b>6348 North Quad</b></font></div><div><font size="1" face="courier new, monospace" color="#93c47d"><b>105 S. State Street</b></font></div><div><font size="1" face="courier new, monospace" color="#93c47d"><b>Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285</b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);"><br clear="none"></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>
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