<div dir="ltr">Motohashi Seiichi is the owner of (now) Pole-pole Higashinakano, made several films around Chornobyl, and has produced several others (Hanabusa Aya's documentaries), through Pole Pole Times-sha.<div>Didn't Eurospace produce Sato Makoto's Self and Others?</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>John Junkerman</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:49 AM Dimitri Ianni via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">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">
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Picking up this thread. What comes to mind in recent times is Cinema
Iris in Hakodate with the series of Satō Yasushi adaptations :<br>
<a href="http://www.cinemairis.com/hakodate.html" target="_blank">http://www.cinemairis.com/hakodate.html</a><br>
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Wamrly,<br>
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<div>Le 19/04/2022 à 20:12, Zahlten,
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the late 1970s the Shinbungeiza in
Ikebukuro co-funded some jishu films (basically, but not quite
accurately, “amateur” films), as did some other theaters in
Tokyo that (usually) wouldn’t strictly qualify as arthouse
theaters.
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the 1980s many minitheaters teamed up
with video distribution companies to purchase foreign films’
full-package rights for Japan; that way the minitheater could
afford the exclusive rights for screenings, and the video
company would get the distribution rights for home video (with
the added bonus of pre-advertising via the minitheater run).
Since many of the films purchased in this way relied heavily
on pre-sales to finance the production of the film you could
say that the minitheaters in some way contributed to their
production, though they didn’t really “make” the film.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the 1990s and 2000s a number of small
theater chains were involved in film production, often (but
not always) via the production committee system; Theatre
Shinjuku’s parent company is one of these.
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a fascinating history, thanks for
kicking off this thread-<u></u><u></u></p>
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Rea Amit via KineJapan <a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank"><kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 10:22<br>
<b>To: </b>Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum
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<b>Cc: </b>Rea Amit <a href="mailto:reavolution@gmail.com" target="_blank"><reavolution@gmail.com></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [KineJapan] Mini theatres and
independent movies<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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work on a theater in Kyoto that participated in
documentary film production. You might want to check more
information with her.<u></u><u></u></p>
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are mini-theater operators who were making films
alongside their work in exhibition. Daishima Haruhiko
was producing Pineapple Tours (currently in revival)
when he was running Box Higashi Nakano, and the guy
that owned (?) it was a photographer who also made a
few documentaries (Hashiguchi? Can't quite remember
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behind pre-1968 Ogawa films—was specifically creating
an interface between exhibition and production that
directly led to the establishment of many of the first
mini-theaters (an example is the Forum in Yamagata). <u></u><u></u></p>
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matteoB via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Researching about how Haneda
Sumiko's Ode to Mt Hayachine came into being, that
is through the help and support of Equipe de
Cinema, Iwanami Hall, and Takano Etsuko, made me
wonder whether there are other examples of
Japanese independent cinemas or mini theatres
helping a movie being produced. <u></u><u></u></p>
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