ATG Retrospective and Symposium

[Roland Domenig]

Here some details about the Viennale-retrospective ART THEATRE GUILD -
INDEPENDENT JAPANESE CINEMA 1962-1984 that starts tomorrow, October 4. It is
the first comprehensive retrospective dedicated to this very important
Japanese production and distribution company. Until October 30 some 33 films
will be shown, among them many masterpieces of Japanese cinema.

The catalogue of the retrospective features on 176 pages essays by Hirasawa
Go, Yomota Inuhiko, Okubo Ken, Max Tessier, Roberta Novielli and myself, a
long interview with producer and manager of the Art Theatre Shinjuku Bunka,
Kuzui Kinshiro, introductory and secondary texts for each film of the
programme, and finally a complete documentation of all films distributed and
produced by ATG with full credits of all Japanese films. Half of the essays
and texts are in German, the other half is in English.

Also, an international symposium will be held on this occasion on

20.?21. October 2003

AGAINST THE GRAIN ? CHANGES IN JAPANESE CINEMA OF THE 1960s AND EARLY 1970s

A symposium of the Austrian Japan-Society for Science and Art (AAJ),
supported by the Japan Foundation

::: P R O G R A M M E :::

Roland DOMENIG (University of Vienna)
"Vortexes and counter currents. The advent of independent film productions"
  
HIRASAWA Go (Film Scholar, Tokyo)
"Underground filmmakers and their struggle 1958?1976"

Roberta Maria NOVIELLI (University of Venice)
"First traces of media contamination in Japanese Cinema of the 1960s"

Mark NORNES (University of Michigan)
"Documentary codes in fiction cinema in times of political stress and
artistic experimentation"

Max TESSIER (Film Critic, Paris)
"The Power of the Imaginary in the New Wave films of the 60s and early 70s"

YOMOTA Inuhiko (Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo)
"Cultural milieu on film and the city of Shinjuku"

As guests the directors Kuroki Kazuo and Wakamatsu Koji as well as producer
Kuzui Kinshiro will join the discussion after screenings of TENSHI NO
KOKOTSU (on 20.10.) and RYOMA ANSATSU (on 21.10.).

We also prepare a little surprise for the symposium.

For more information on the retrospective see www.viennale.at and/or
www.filmmuseum.at
For details on the symposium www.aaj.at

The following films will be shown in the retrospective:

Teshigahara Hiroshi - Otoshiana (The Pitfall, 1962)
Oshima Nagisa - Ninja bugeicho (Manual of Ninja Martial Arts, 1967)
Imamura Shohei - Ningen johatsu (A Man Vanishes, 1967)
Oshima Nagisa - Koshikei (Death By Hanging, 1968)
Hani Susumu - Hatsukoi jigokuhen (The Inferno of First Love, 1968)
Okamoto Kihachi - Nikudan (Human Bullet, 1968)
Shinoda Masahiro - Shinju ten no Amijima (Double Suicide, 1969)
Matsumoto Toshio - Bara no soretsu (Funeral Of Roses, 1969)
Oshima Nagisa - Tokyo senso sengo hiwa (The Man Who Left His Will On Film,
1970)
Jissoji Akio - Mujo (This Transient Life, 1970)
Yoshida Yoshishige - Eros + Gyakusatsu (Eros Plus Massacre, 1970)
Matsumoto Toshio - Shura (Pandemonium, 1971)
Terayama Shuji - Sho o suteyo machi e deyo (Throw Away Your Books, Let's Go
into the Streets, 1971)
Oshima Nagisa - Gishiki (The Ceremony, 1971)
Wakamatsu Koji - Tenshi no kokotsu (Ecstasy of the Angels, 1972)
Ichikawa Kon - Matatabi (The Wanderers, 1973)
Yoshida Yoshishige - Kaigenrei (Coup d'Etat, 1973)
Saito Koichi - Tsugaru Jongara-bushi (Jongara, 1974)
Kuroki Kazuo - Ryoma ansatsu (The Assassination of Ryoma, 1974)
Terayama Shuji - Denen ni shisu (Pastoral to Die in the Country, 1974)
Kuroki Kazuo - Matsuri no junbi (Preparations for the Festival, 1975)
Hasegawa Kazuhiko - Seishun no satsujinsha (Young Murderer, 1976)
Higashi Yoichi - S?do (A Boy Called Third Base, 1978)
Omori Kazuki - Hipokuratesutachi (Disciples of Hypocrates, 1980)
Suzuki Seijun - Tsuigoinerwaizen (Zigeunerweisen, 1980)
Negishi Kichitaro - Enrai (The Far Thunder, 1981)
Obayashi Nobuhiko - Tenkosei (Sayonara Me, 1982)
Takahashi Banmei - Tattoo ari (Tattoo, 1982)
Nakagawa Nobuo - Kaidan ? Iikiteiru Koheiji (The Living Koheiji, 1982)
Morita Yoshimitsu - Kazoku g?mu (Family Game, 1983)
Ishii Sogo - Gyakufunsha kazoku (A Crazy Family, 1984)
Itami Juzo -  Oshoshiki (The Funeral, 1984)
Terayama Shuji - Saraba hakobune (Farewell to the Ark, 1984)

With greetings from Vienna,

Roland Domenig
Austrian Japan-Society for Science and Art
www.aaj.at