Spotlight: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (E+J)
Aaron Gerow
gerow
Thu Jul 8 20:33:36 EDT 1999
>What was he up to in the twelve year
>gap after THE EXCITEMENT OF THE DO-RE-MI-FA GIRL?
The following is his filmography as given by the Japanese Movie Database.
It does not include 1999 films.
1.1978.06.25?????????????????????????
2.1980.05.15????????
3.1983.08.??????????????????
4.1985.11.03??????????????????????????
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5.1989.01.21??????????????
6.1989.07.08??????????????????????????
7.1992.06.13??????????
8.1995.04.22??????????????????????
9.1995.08.12??????????????????????
10.1996.02.16??????????????????????
11.1996.02.23??????????????????????
12.1996.04.13?????????????
13.1996.09.07??????????????????????
14.1996.09.21??????????????????????
15.1997.03.01??????????????????????????
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16.1997.05.31??????????????????????????
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17.1997.12.27????????????
18.1998.02.21???????
19.1998.04.11????????
The first two films are some of his 8mm works. After _Do-re-mi-fa_, he
made the notorious _Sweet Home_, a horror film produced by Itami Juzo.
He and Itami had a fight over the completed film (Itami wanted to show
all the gore and Kurosawa didn't), which eventually went to court. The
1992 _Jigoku no keibiin_ is considered one of his masterpieces. From
1995, he started making a lot of films in rapid succession for KSS,
mostly works intended for sale on video but which did briefly get shown
in the theaters (by the way, some of his for-video works that did not get
released in the theaters are not listed above). The _Katte ni
shiyagare!!_ series, of course, bears the same title as the Japanese
title of Godard's _Breathless_ (Godard is a crucial intertext for
Kurosawa).
Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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