Toei hires again

[Tom Mes]

Interesting news. I wonder what kind of impact this will have on the 
industry, both in terms of the other studios and in terms of the future of 
independent cinema. Will young filmmakers be more inclined to skip the 
hassles of independent filmmaking and choose to make movies at Toei on a 
salary instead? Perhaps one day in the future, researchers and others will 
be able to use this event as a convenient marker for the 'resurgence of the 
studios' or 'the end of the independents'. Particularly since it comes not 
so long after the demise of Suncent, the company that symbolised Japanese 
independent cinema for many.

I'm just philosophising here, but this could be a potential 'turning point'.

Tom

Midnight Eye
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>From: Aaron Gerow <gerow at ynu.ac.jp>
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: "KineJapan" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>Subject: Toei hires again
>Date: Mon, 1 Sep 03 10:49:06 +0900
>
>Reviving a system it stopped 38 years ago, the Toei film studio has
>announced it will again start hiring "contract trainees in artistic work"
>(geijutsushoku kenshu keiyakusha). The system, which in its heyday from
>1952 to 1965, hired young people for three years to train as filmmakers.
>Fukasaku Kinji was one of the products of this system. The current call
>for applicants (https://www2.toei.co.jp/jinji/about.html) covers three
>fields of training: producer, assistant director, and screenwriter.
>Applicants have to submit an essay as part of their packet (those wanting
>to be directors have to write about "What should a film director be?").
>
>Aaron Gerow
>Yokohama National University
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