Good news for Ozu fans

[Mark Nornes]

On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 05:54  PM, Don Brown wrote:

>> From this morning's Japan Times:
>
> Shochiku Co., a major movie distributor and film producer, will run a 
> yearlong project to mark the centennial of the birth of director 
> Yasujiro Ozu.

This is good only for people that have access to the project. I've 
already started hearing about people locked out of Ozu programming 
because Shochiku is treating this tour of the famous festivals as 
proprietary. New Yorker, for example, is no longer going to be renting 
Ozu films in the US.

Markus