<div dir="ltr">I met Roger several times both in Japan, and at Berlinale film festival, where I remember sitting over beers with him. He was a true enthusiast, and the world and Japanese cinema need those. <div>Eija</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM Earl Jackson 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 dir="ltr"><div>Dear Alexander,</div><div>Thank you for letting us know the sad news of Roger Macy's death. His love of Japanese cinema was as boundless as his enthusiasm. He threw himself into the appreciation of these films with a fervor rarely seen and certainly underappreciated. A wonderful eccentric whose sincerity was as disarming as it was refreshing. May his memory be a blessing.</div><div>ej</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial">Earl Jackson<br></div><div style="font-family:arial">Professor, Emeritus<br></div><div style="font-family:arial"><div>National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan</div></div><div style="font-family:arial">Associate Professor, Emeritus</div><div style="font-family:arial">University of California, Santa Cruz, the US<br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM Alexander Jacoby 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"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I thought members of KineJapan might wish to be informed of the death of Roger Macy, who often posed queries and engaged in discussion about Japanese film via this mailing list. His son, who I don't know personally, contacted me the other day by text to share the news.</div><div><br></div><div>Roger was a true enthusiast, whose interest in Japanese film and Japan in general stemmed in part from family matters; his daughter had settled and married in the country. He took his enthusiasm seriously and engaged in his own private research into Japanese cinema. His opinions about the films he watched and discussed were sometimes eccentric, even at times infuriating, but always stimulating, and he was a source of entertaining and knowledgeable conversation.</div><div><br></div><div>Although he had no academic post, he regularly travelled to conferences and lectures on film and Japan-related themes, and voyaged across Britain, to Paris and to the Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna to see rare movies. Alas, this year he was not able to go to Bologna. When I visited him last month in the nursing home to which his final illness confined him, he was still lamenting that fact, as well as the failing eyesight which now prevented him from watching films.</div><div><br></div><div>To many people on this list he will have been a name rather than a face, and others will have known him only slightly. For anybody who knew him well, the funeral will be on Saturday 8th November in London; I'm happy to share details if messaged off-list.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Alexander Jacoby</div><div>(Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, Oxford Brookes University)</div><div><a href="mailto:alexanderjacoby@brookes.ac.uk" target="_blank">alexanderjacoby@brookes.ac.uk</a></div></div>
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