Kinema Club-Need Info.

[Abe-Nornes]

Dear Chris, 

I'm forwarding your letter to the KineJapan list, which you might want to
join. The directors you mention (an excellent list, I might add) often come
up in our discussions. Information for joining can be found on the Kinema
Club site.

Just off the top of my head, here are a couple suggestions. 'm assuming you
know the standard English language works by Desser and Burch. There is a
wealth of info in Japanese, of course. For a number of these people,
including Kumashiro and Sone and many others, you should definitely get
your hands on _Roman poruno, 1971-1982 zen eiga: Kanno no puroguramu
pikucha-_, edited by Yamane Sadao (Tokyo: Film Art, 1983). There has been a
Terayama boom in the last 5 years, so there is truckloads of material on
him (including Image Forum tapes of his main experimental films). Yamagata
Film Festival publications have some info on Kanai, Wakamatsu, Oshima and
others, but it's slim. Obayashi has a website (see Kinema Club). Finally,
try the Kinema Club Database, which is under construction but will turn up
some unusual entries. 

KineClubbers may have other suggestions. 

Markus

>
> Hello--
>
>          My name is Chris. Vaillancourt. I'm writing a book on 
>Japanese cult films, to cover a variety of strange and off-beat 
>Japanese films in detail. Some of the directors I'm covering are 
>Takeshi Kitano, Sogo Ishii, Tatsumi Kumashiro, Noboru Tanaka, Takashi 
>Ishii, Shuji Terayama, Kinji Fukasaku, Koji Wakamatsu, Nagisa Oshima, 
>Yasuzo Masumura, among others. However, there are some 
>films/directors I'm stumped on, and can find little information on. I 
>was hoping you could help:
>         1) I'm trying to find out more about Chusei Sone. I'm 
>especially looking for info (articles, pictures, reviews, commentary) 
>on any of his films, especially AH! FLOWER CHEERLEADERS!
>         2) I'm looking for more info on Yamatoya Atsushi's KOYA NO 
>DAICCHU WAIFU.
>      If you can direct me to books or magazines or websites 
>(preferably in English or French but any language is fine) with info. 
>on Chusei and Yamatoya, I would be very grateful, or if you could 
>fill me in on them and these films yourself (or direct me to a person 
>who could). Also:
>        3) Any info on experimental, underground or cult directors 
>like Terayama, Obayashi, Takabayashi, Kura, Kanai-preferably 
>underground filmmakers who have done feature-length work, which I 
>haven't already mentioned, would be extremely helpful (especially 
>underground films fom the 60s and 70s).
>     I'll give  Kinema Club and the people in it credit of course for 
>your/their help. This is NO JOKE-I'm seriously writing this book and 
>need the above info, soon if its possible and not a hassle. Please 
>help!
>   Thank you. Take care, Chris. Vaillancourt, Asian Cult Cinema
>
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