Kawashima Yuzo

[RAZAK, Mohd. Naguib]

Dear Geert van Bremen,

This is a wonderful piece of information... i had already resigned myself to
idea that i will not find any written material on the man in any language
but japanese. 

Rotterdam is a really great festival, and i had a seriously enriching
festival experience when i went there in January... it makes me feel even
more appreciative of their work that they were on the ball enough to have
done a retrospective on Kawashima Yuzo... i'm gonna bug Gerwin Tamsma for
the book (do u know him?) ... 

and what do you do yourself by the way...? thanks for the ISBN and
e-contacts too...

when i was in japan i decided i loved the film (Shitoyakana Kemono) enough
to splurge on an unsubtitled VHS copy, do you know if there's an official
subtitled VHS release or an unofficial one done within Kinema Club? I also
have another VHS tape of his film that he shot in the same year 1962 (i have
been told that the title translates to something like Temple of Bird, or
something...)
Perhaps i will try to get these subbed and submit to the group...

thanks again!
naguib

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Geert van Bremen [SMTP:gvbremen at mail.goo.ne.jp]
> Sent:	Tuesday, November 16, 1999 7:21 PM
> To:	kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject:	Kawashima Yuzo
> 
> 
> Dear Mod Naguib Razak,
> 
> 
> In 1990 the Int. Rotterdam Film Festival, then under director Marco
> Muller,
> held a retrospective titled 'Japanese Kings of the B's' featuring
> Kawashima
> Yuzo and Mori Issei. In the same year Suzuki Seijun was also honoured with
> an extensive programme.
> 
> Just like you I became very fond of Shitoyakana Kemono. The festival
> published the following book on the two directors (a seperate book on
> Suzuki
> Seijun was mentioned ealrier in this thread):
> 
> 'Kawashima Yuzo & Mori Issei - Japanese Kings of the B's'
> 
> January 1991
> 
> Publ.: Stichting Film Festival Rotterdam / Uniepers Abcoude
> 
> ISBN: 90 6825 089 2
> 
> 
> The publication is bilingual (Dutch and English) and has contributions on
> Kawashima by Imamura Shohei (who was his assistant dirctor at Nikkatsu),
> one
> original and one from 'Sayonara dake ga jinsei da', a commemorative
> publication dating fron 1969, and an original contribution by the critic
> Ueno Koshi.
> 
> You can check with the festival (catalogue at iffrotterdam.nl, address to
> Erwin
> Houtenbrink) or with the Dutch Film Museum (monica at nfm.nl, address to
> Monica
> Eckelkamp) for remaining stock, if any.
> 
> 
> 
> Geert van Bremen
> 
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