Title of Kaizo Hayashi film

[Aaron Gerow]

Todd asked,

>I'm looking for the title of a Kaizo Hayashi film that had some film festival
>playdates over the past year.
>
>If my memory is correct it was short (40-50 minutes) and was a filmed version
>of a stage production. 
>
>Does anyone know the title of this film or have any more information on it,
>including which film festivals it played?

The title is _Chinanee_ ????????--in English, I think, "Born to 
Be Baby"?and is a documentary recording of a butoh dance performance 
entitled "Tonari wa nani o suru hito zo" by Maro Akaji commissioned by 
the Aichi Kenritsu Bijutsukan.  While the dance piece was over an hour 
and a half, Hayashi edited it down according to his vision and added a 
drama section with Harada Yoshio which makes the dance portion Harada's 
"dream."

If you have a Japanese capable browser, one review of the film is at the 
following URL:

http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/hattori-k/97/97102701.html

The BOX Higashi Nakano home page (the theater that originally showed it), 
still has a description of it on their site (it includes a short English 
description, too):

http://www.mmjp.or.jp/BOX/database/borntobe.html

I don't have any info on its festival participation, sorry.



Aaron Gerow
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