<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I haven’t seen it, but I met the director at a literature conference back in October, the 社会文学会. One thing that was interesting was that a man on the sponsoring committee actually wrote, produced and distributed a rebuttal to the main jist of the film—that people from hisabetsu buraku backgrounds are still undergoing discrimination. (As opposed to things being much better, from am elder generation POV.) I talked to the director, and it sounded like subtitles were in the works. He was getting help on some of the more complicated terminologies and vernaculars from a couple of academics (Ian Neary, I remember, maybe more). So I would not be surprised if it were available somehow. <div><br></div><div>He seemed open to popping in to talk about the film (in the context of programming, classes). And had a lot to say about producing labors of love, his own trajectory, observational tendencies in doc filmmaking post-Wiseman, etc. </div><div><br></div><div>I would love to work on getting it screened in LA, if anyone in the area is up for it, as my university is pretty broke, and only works with collaborations…</div><div><br></div><div>Anne<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 2, 2023, at 9:51 AM, Roger Macy via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div><div class="ydpc17e49f9yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Has anyone seen <span>Watashi no hanashi, buraku no hanashi</span> ?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://buraku-hanashi.jp/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://buraku-hanashi.jp/</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I'm guessing at 205 minutes, it won't be quick to get shown outside of Japan, although the vinyl-length soundtrack seems widely available..</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Roger<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, 2 February 2023 at 03:38:27 GMT, Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"><div>Kinema Junpo announced their awards for 2022. In recent years, they have only been publicly announcing the individual and picture awards, so as to make people buy the magazine in order to find out all the films in KineJun’s famous Best Ten. <div class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"><br class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"></div><div class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"><a href="https://www.kinejun.com/2023/02/01/post-20472/" class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.kinejun.com/2023/02/01/post-20472/</a></div><div class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"><br class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"></div><div class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332">Here are some of the awards:</div><div class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"><br class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"></div><div class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332">Best picture: Small, Slow but Steady</div><div class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332">Best documentary: Watashi no hanashi, buraku no hanashi</div><div class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"><div style="" class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332">Best actress: Kishii Yukino</div><div style="" class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332">Best actor: Sawada Kenji</div><div style="" class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332">Best supporting actress: Hirosue Ryoko</div><div style="" class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332">Best supporting actor: Miura Tomokazu</div><div style="" class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332">Best director: Takahashi Banmei</div><div style="" class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332">Best screenplay: Kajiwara Aki</div></div><div class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"><br class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"></div><div class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332">It seems Small, Slow but Steady (Miyake Sho) is getting most of the best picture awards for 2022. (Though the Japan Academy Prize ignored it for Best Picture, because that’s the nature of those awards, shaped as they are by the major studios.)</div><br class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"><br class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332"><div class="ydpb1ce0bdeyiv1335248332">
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