Kawase et al

[Rodica-Livia Monnet]

Thanks to Aaron and the other Kinejapaners for the suggestions.Is there a 
possibility to order the Kawase Retrospective catalogue to be released at Alba 
at the Infinity festival?I would appreciate Roberta's input.Thanks.LM En 
réponse à Aaron Gerow <gerow at ynu.ac.jp>:

> Livia,
> 
> >Questions to KineJapaners and Aaron,Mark,etc.
> >1)Is Kawase Naomi's Hotaru available on DVD,video ?if yes,where and how
> 
> >can it 
> >be purchased (cdjapan,other sites?)
> 
> I have not seen the DVD out, but I'm not sure if the rental VHS has been
> 
> released yet.  Anyone?
> 
> >2)What was the reception of Kawase's A Kyakaraba(some letters missing
> in the 
> >title?) in France and elsewhere?
> 
> There were some earlier discussions of this on the list.  It seems that
> 
> foreign reception has been pretty good while most of the people I know
> in 
> Japan were disappointed with it.  It has yet to be released in Japan, 
> though.
> 
> >3)Kawase's novelizations of Moe no Suzaku and Hotaru(Gentosha),any 
> >criticisms,reactions?
> 
> Kawase told me that the novelization of Suzaku sold quite well (70,000
> 
> copies, if I remember correctly--quite good for new literature) and even
> 
> went into bunko form.  I have not heard about sales for Hotaru or about
> 
> criticial reaction for either.
> 
> >4)Any recent articles on Kawase,and Wada Junko in Japanese and/or other
> 
> >languages anyone can recommend??Unfortunately,Kinejun
> ,Eureka,Shinario,other 
> >Japanese film journals are not available here.
> 
> The most extensive writing on Kawase in Japan has been by Yomota
> Inuhiko, 
> especially in his Nihon eiga no rajikaru na .... Kawase is not strongly
> 
> supported by the critical establishment here.  But the official
> pamphlets 
> to her films feature some of the "in" people: Tawara Machi, Yoshimoto 
> Banana, etc. 
> 
> Keiko McDonald has a piece on Suzaku in Postscript (Fall 1998).
> 
> Roberta Novielli is now preparing a retrospective of Kawase for the 
> Infinity Festival in Alba, Italy, and the catalog includes articles by
> 
> Roberta, Yomota, and myself (Roberta can correct me or add some more if
> 
> she wants). 
> 
> For Wada Junko, there's not much in English, I imagine, except the paper
> 
> I gave (or, more precisely, which Markus read for me!) at the Colorado
> 
> symposium a while ago. For Japanese articles, there's always searching
> 
> Image Forum and its catalogs.
> 
> >5)Aaron,you posted recently your review of Wada Junko's Body Drop 
> >Asphalt(which 
> >I found really interesting).Could you indicate the date and place of 
> >publication (Yomiuri?)of the article ?
> 
> I don't have it here in the office, but I'm pretty sure it appeared in
> 
> the August 8, 2001, Daily Yomiuri.
> 
> 
> Aaron Gerow
> Associate Professor
> International Student Center
> Yokohama National University
> 79-1 Tokiwadai
> Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501
> JAPAN
> E-mail: gerow at ynu.ac.jp
> Phone: 81-45-339-3170
> Fax: 81-45-339-3171
> 



Rodica-Livia Monnet
Département de littérature comparée/Dept.of Comparative Literature
University of Montreal,C.P.6128,Succ.Centre Ville
Montreal,QC,H3C 3J7,Canada
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Email: rodica-livia.monnet at umontreal.ca