<div dir="ltr"><div>KineJapan,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not answering Roger's question, but hope he and others will find this post on <i>Witches of the Orient</i> to be of interest.</div><div><br></div><div>The film is opening tomorrow (Friday, July 9th) on a screen at the Film Forum in New York and possibly other venues, and is distributed by KimStim in the US. (Those of us not yet ready to watch films in movie theaters will need to wait a little while longer.) Film Forum has posted an interviewed with director Julien Faurat on its YouTube channel at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfT6HFfBeWw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfT6HFfBeWw</a></div><div><br></div><div>Teo Bugbee made this film a <i>New York Times </i>critic's pick. Her review is at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/movies/the-witches-of-the-orient-review.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/movies/the-witches-of-the-orient-review.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>Variety </i>(Jessica Kiang)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/witches-of-the-orient-review-1235011099/">https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/witches-of-the-orient-review-1235011099/</a></div><div><br></div><div>and <i>Slant </i>(Mark Hanson), among others, also reviewed <i>Witches:</i></div><br><div><i><a href="https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review-the-witches-of-the-orient-is-an-artful-remembrance-of-a-legendary-sports-team/">https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review-the-witches-of-the-orient-is-an-artful-remembrance-of-a-legendary-sports-team/</a></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Bill Thompson<br></div><div><i></i></div><div><i></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i></i><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 1:14 PM Roger Macy 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:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><div>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><i>Witches of the Orient</i>, 2021, Julien Faraut</p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt">Partly answering my own question (again) about the film, <i>Witches of
the Orient </i>at Nippon Connection and elsewhere, “perhaps these subjects have
been explored previously in Japan ?”, it turns out that this subject has been
well written up much closer to my neck of the woods, by Helen Macnaughtan of
SOAS. A good one-stop account is her paper<span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">in </span><i><span><a href="https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17379/1/Oriental%20Witches%20Manuscript%20pre-print%20August%202013.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sport
in History</a></span></i><span> . It tells
me that manager Daimatsu was historically anything but the silent voice he is
in Faraut’s film, so that is clearly an editorial choice for the film.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt"><span>The reason I know this now, when
I didn’t on the 8<sup>th</sup> June, is that Helen is scheduled to conduct an
online Q&A with Faraut organised by the Japan Society of the UK on Wed 21<sup>st</sup>
July at 1830 London time (BST).</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt"><a href="https://www.japansociety.org.uk/?pg=event&event=240&eventcat=1&utm_source=e-shot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=070721WitchesES1#a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.japansociety.org.uk/?pg=event&event=240&eventcat=1&utm_source=e-shot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=070721WitchesES1#a</a></p>
<div style="margin-top:6pt">Although the source for viewing the film quoted there is
country-restricted, the Q&A is, I believe, unrestricted.</div><div style="margin-top:6pt"><br></div><div style="margin-top:6pt" dir="ltr">It's sad, of course, that I have to post this under the news that there will be no spectators in Tokyo for the Olympics.<br></div>
<p style="margin-top:6pt">Roger</p>
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