London NFT August Season

[Gavin Rees]

Many thanks to Stephen for posting advance notice on the list. 

And thanks - belatedly -  to everybody who dredged up the names of war
movies for me a few weeks ago. (I still think, though, that my central
thesis is right. Despite a few indy offerings, it is hard to imagine any
commercially switched on producer putting money into a Japanese war film
that he would have no hope of selling in the rest of Asia. Manga are
different, I feel.)

Back to the NFT season. Theoretically it is connected to a big festival in
the UK called "Japan 2001" which is supposed to promote the best of all that
is Contemporary for a UK audience (i.e. people who don't know anything about
Japan, and on most days couldn't give a hang about it.) I was wondering what
people thought were the strengths in Rayn's selection. It is a noticeably
different list to the one's that have been discussed here, as various
people's "recent favourites."

I have not seen any of Hayashi Kaizo's films, or Obitani Yuri's. Any
impressions?

Gavin

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>From: "Stephen Cremin" <asianfilmlibrary at mac.com>
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Subject: London NFT August Season
>Date: Mon, Jun 25, 2001, 1:25 pm
>

> For Miles, Jasper, etc, here's the lineup at NFT in London (3-25 August),
> headlined UNSEEN GEMS FROM JAPAN, curated by Tony Rayns, in approximate
> screening order.
>
> GOHATTO (Oshima Nagisa)
> MARKS (Sai Yoichi) *
> BODY DROP ASPHALT (Wada Junko) *
> GONIN (Ishii Takashi) *
> GONIN 2 Ishii Takashi) *
> THE NEW MORNING OF BILLY THE KID (Yamakawa Naoto)
> SHINJUKU TRIAD SOCIETY (Miike Takashi) *
> RAINY DOG (Miike Takashi) *
> LEY LINES (Miike Takashi) *
> WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (Otomo Katsuhiro) *
> THE HAIR OPERA (Obitani Yuri)
> NOT FORGOTTEN (Shinozaki Makoto) *
> TEL-CLUB (Murakami Kenji) *
> WATCHING THE DETECTIVE (Yagi Junichi) *
> DISCIPLINE FOR THE LEFT-HANDED (Shirakawa Koji) *
> LOVE/JUICE (Shindo Kaze) *
> THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE (Hayashi Kaizo)
> STAIRWAY TO THE DISTANT PAST (Hayashi Kaizo) *
> THE TRAP (Hayashi Kaizo) *
>
> Films marked with * are to the best of my knowledge UK premieres.
>
> Stephen
>