Between War and Media / video notes

[Mark Feinsod]

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: drainer at mpinet.net 
  To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:17 PM
  Subject: Re: Between War and Media / video notes



  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "M Arnold" <ma_iku at hotmail.com>
  To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
  Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 3:46 AM
  Subject: Between War and Media / video notes


  > Am I correct in assuming the symposium at Maison Franco-Japonaise is open
  to
  > the public?  On the website the English schedule says entrance is free and
  > the Japanese schedule says entrance is free but limited to the first 150
  > guests.
  >
  > Last night I got in a Jack Nicholson mood and went searching for "The
  > Terror" at Tsutaya in Shibuya, but I couldn't find it.  To my surprise
  they
  > didn't even have a Jack Nicholson row in the "actors" section.  Later I
  went
  > looking at the Shinjuku branch.  They had a section for him and they even
  > had the tape I was looking for.  While I was searching at the Shinjuku
  store
  > I stumbled through the cult corner and was surprised to see that they also
  > had four copies of Schrader's Mishima, which is banned in Japan as Aaron
  > Gerow mentioned in a recent post.  All four copies were the American
  version
  > of the video, and there was a little sticker on the side of the box that
  > said, "If you want to rent this video please bring the case up to the
  front
  > counter."  The rest of the videos at Tsutaya are left in the cases, and
  you
  > just take the tape itself up to the cashier for checkout, so I guess
  > somebody's worried about something happening to the Mishima videos.  I
  don't
  > know much about the films Mishima the person starred in, but you can still
  > easily find the video for Karakkaze Yaro in Tokyo rental shops -- I rented
  > it about 2 months ago -- and it will even be screened in an all-night
  > showing on March 30th as part of a (another) Masumura Yasuzo
  retrospective,
  > at Cine Saison Shibuya.  Actually I've been searching for a video of
  Yukoku
  > for years, and now I have an idea of why I haven't had any luck.
  >
  > Before renting videos I had a little time to kill in Shinjuku yesterday
  > afternoon, so I sat down for some coffee and thumbed through the movie
  > section of this week's Pia magazine.  In the "special screenings" page
  there
  > was a listing for an all night pink eiga movie festival to be held that
  > night featuring films from the four 'tenou' (not sure how to translate
  that)
  > of the genre, Zeze Takahisa, Sato Toshiki, et al.  I wanted to go because
  > they were going to show Zeze's "Haneda ni ittemiro..." and a few other
  films
  > I was sure I wouldn't be able to track down on video.  There was even a
  > panel discussion scheduled featuring all four directors themselves and a
  few
  > other guests.  HOWEVER, it turns out that this was another one of those
  > sneaky "women only" pink movie festivals so I didn' t even have a chance
  of
  > getting in.  "Minors and men prohibited" says the ad.  So aside from the
  > fact that most of the guests were men (all of the directors were), last
  > night's showing was separate but equal.  After coffee I went to Tsutaya
  and
  > discovered that not all was lost; I looked in the new DVD section and
  > discovered that all four of the films scheduled to be shown at last
  night's
  > all-nigher have recently been released in Japan.  Haneda..., Don't Let it
  > Bring You Down, Tanjun na hanashi and Himitsu no hanazono are all now for
  > sale at 3800 yen.  If I find any more information about them I'll post it
  > here.
  >
  > Michael Arnold
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