Help on Asano Tadanobu Retrospective

[Michael Badzik]

Stephen Cremin asked:

> I'm writing for some help on the Asano retrospective I'm hosting in 
> London in June.  Its suddenly grown into a two-screen event so I'm 
> considering increasing its scale.  I've marked those films which have a 
> subtitled print with "***".  Have I left any out?

Well, since your list includes one television show, does this mean that 
you want to know about all of them? The ones that I am fairly certain 
Asano was in (besides _Fried Dragon Fish_) are _Masui_ (1994, YTV), 
_Inochi Sasagesourou_ (1996, NHK), _Typhoon Shelter_ (1997, Fuji) 
and _Tobu Otoko_ (1998, NHK). There is an Asano fan page 
(http://www.yk.rim.or.jp/~obuchi/) that claims quite a few more -  
_3-nen B-gumi_ and _Ultraman Tiga_ both appear on this list!

But if _Fried Dragon Fish_ was included only because it was directed 
by Iwai Shunji, then I would like to point out the similar involvement 
of Christopher Doyle in _Typhoon Shelter_ . I have not seen it myself, 
but perhaps someone else on the list has, and can say whether it is 
worth searching out.

Hope this is of some interest.

Michael Badzik
mike at vena.com