Tokyo Film Festival

[Serdar Yegulalp]

If this is in fact the "Merzbow documentary", as some have called it
(Merzbow is Akita's performing name), then it would be more than worth a
look. But it sounds offhand like it's not.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hopkins" <hopkat at sa2.so-net.ne.jp>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 3:50 AM
Subject: RE: Tokyo Film Festival


> Could this film possibly be about or based on Akita Masami, writer for SM
Sniper magazine and avant-garde noise/musique concrete performer?
> David Hopkins
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> From: Aaron Gerow
> Sent: Monday, November 8, 1999 2:33 PM
> To: KineJapan
> Subject: Tokyo Film Festival
>
> The Tokyo Film Festival closed this weekend with no awards for home
> country films (it always seems they come up with one token award for a
> Japanese work, but not this time).  But quite a number of Japanese films
> were shown, including premieres of the new Godzilla film and Miike's Dead
> or Alive.  New Cinema from Japan also showed a lot of films (including at
> least one, Hiroki Ryuichi's _I Am an SM Writer_, which enjoyed probably
> one of it's first screenings--star Osugi Ren, Hiroki and others involved
> were there).  I know a number of KineJapan members were there. Any
> comments on the Festival or films seen there?
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