Kinugasa + Kobayashi, etc

[Roland Domenig]

antoine kilian?asked
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> 1. Could anyone suggest me a book about Teinosuke KINUGASA, in japanese or in English, that would deal with his "surrealist", or "impressionist" movies : KURUTTA IPPEIJI (1926), aka A Crazy Page ; and JUJIRO (1928), aka Crossroads, or Shadows of the Yoshiwara ? Books with many images from those films would be just as much welcome.
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Here some suggestions of articles in English and Japanese: 

Cohen, Robert: A Japanese Romanitic: Teinosuke Kinugasa, in: Sight &
Sound XYV, 3, summer 1976, pp. 164-169.

Peterson, James: A War of Utter Rebellion. Kinugasa's Page of Madness
and the Japanese Avant-Garde of the 1920s, in: Cinema Journal 29,1, fall
1989, pp. 36-53.

Petric, Vlada: A Page of Madness. A Neglected Masterpiece of the Silent
Cinema, in:  Film criticism VIII, 1, autumn 1983, pp. 86-106.

Kinugasa Teinosuke: Waga eiga no seishun. Chuo Koronsha 1977.

Kinugasa Teinosuke: Watashi no rirekisho, in: Bunkajin Vol.10, Nihon
Keizai Shinbunsha 1970, pp.377-454.

Ekipu do shinema 8, 1975: Dai gokai tokubetsu rodo sho. Kinugasa
Teinosuke: Kurutta ippeiji, Jujiro (special edition of Equipe de Cinema)

Tomo 155, Iwanami Hall 8, Tokushu Kinugasa Teinosuke, August 1982
(special edition of Tomo)

The best book on Kinugasa and Kurutta Ippeiji, however, is neither in
Japanese nor in English but in German: 
Lewinsky, Mariann: Eine verrueckte Seite. Stummfilm und filmische
Avantgarde in Japan. (A Crazy Page - Silent movie and filmic avantgarde
in Japan). Zuerich: Chronos Verlag 1997 (441 pages).

Lewinsky's wrote a brilliant analysis of Kinugasa's films, particularly
Kurutta ippeiji and the avantgarde of the 1920's. It includes a complete
Decoupage of the film as well as plenty of pictures and stills, so that
it is an important source even for those who cannot read German. 

As Aaron Gerow points out in his paper for the upcoming Kinema Club
workshop it is true that most of the discussion about Japanese cinema is
in English. In the German speaking countries we don't have a long
tradition of studies about Japanese cinema, but the situation is
changing and - at least in the field of Japanese studies (that here is
still called Japanology) where I belong to - the number of film-studies
is increasing and their quality on a very high level, as can be seen in
Lewinsky's book. 
I express my hope that books on Japanese cinema that are not written in
English (or Japanese) will also find a readership outside the German
speaking countries and outside the closed circle of specialists in
Japanese studies. 

Regards,

Roland Domenig