<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">"Hidden treasures of Japan’s Golden Age"</span><br><div><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">I'm always up for curating that. The only difficulty is, narrowing it down!</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">ALEX<br><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 12:31, 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></div>
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<p>Thank you, María José.</p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt">Sadly, I have not seen a single film by Hisamatsu.</p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt">Keiko McDonald gives a few pages in ‘From Book to Screen’ to Hisamatsu’s
treatment of some other women writers during this period (pp55-9).</p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt">Time for a travelling retrospective, ‘Hidden treasures of Japan’s
Golden Age’ ??</p>
<p style="margin-top:6pt">Roger</p>
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</div>On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 04:36:04 GMT, Maria Jose Gonzalez via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:
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<div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3">In recent years this film has been shown several times at retrospectives related to any of the numerous and famous cast. </font></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3">I even have the 台本 somewhere in my collection.</font></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3">I first saw it in the Takarazuka Film Festival many years ago and then twice more.</font></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3">There is an incredible amount of films from that period relatively or completely unknown abroad, some of them truly interesting, as the Shintoho Cinema Nostalgia DVD series has been proving.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3">The film is based on the autobiography of Mita Tsuneko, the first female warden of a prison in Japan who worked to improve the treatment and rehabilitation of female prisoners in <font color="#202122" face="sans-serif"><span>Wakayama's Women Prison as part of GHQ's efforts to allow more women into the management of prisons.</span></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="3">The book was published in 1955, just one year before Hisamatsu's work.</font></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3">Kinuyo Tanaka plays a somehow subdued warden. It's easy to get the impression that Toho wanted to put as many famous faces on the poster as possible as a reclaim. This was her fourth film that year (out of a total of six!) and somehow, as far as I can recall, that shows. </font><span style="font-size:medium">Even Hara gives the same impression.</span></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3">The weight and interest of the film really falls onto the prisoners, each with very difficult backgrounds and criminal records. There are some good performances overall, some over the top. </font></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3">Sadly, the ending reflects once more that the only socially acceptable salvation for these women is marriage.</font></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3"><br clear="none"></font></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3"><br clear="none"></font></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3"><br clear="none"></font></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3">María José González Muñoz</font></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3">Kwansei Gakuin University</font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="3"><span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Center for International Education and Cooperation (CIEC)</span></span><br clear="none"></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="3" style="background-color:inherit">Nishinomiya, Japan</font></span></span></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br clear="none"></div>
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<div><div id="m_-6685666297105369804ydp8a4a47e9yiv7854277758"><div dir="ltr"><div>Really interesting reading about that film, I found quite a few stills and pamphlets on sites like Yahoo Auctions Japan. It was shown on the Japanese Movie Channel in April 2017 (<a shape="rect" href="https://x.com/nihoneiga/status/851698881108824064" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://x.com/nihoneiga/status/851698881108824064</a>). I'm not familiar with him, but a Twitter user by the name of Ken Shimomura seems to have information that the prints were "junked" by Toho (<a shape="rect" href="https://x.com/Shimo_x2/status/1622444741093883904" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://x.com/Shimo_x2/status/1622444741093883904</a>). This seems to be their area of expertise, so while I wouldn't take it as fact, it seems like reliable information. Does anybody know this person?</div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 7:42 PM <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kinejapan-request@mailman.yale.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kinejapan-request@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to<br clear="none">
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Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of the greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!<br clear="none">
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Wow, a women?s prison film with Tanaka Kinuyo as the warden and Kuga Yoshiko (who in real life was the daughter of a marquis) as a prisoner! <br clear="none">
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