Nakata and LAST SCENE

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I saw Last Scene at some film market quite a good time back. Maybe it was mifed last year or even cannes and would agree with Miles, the visuals of the film are actually so bleak in a shot-on-video-sense that it feels that it was made on video in the 80ies and then stored on magnetic tape that has since deteriorated. However, worse is that the melodrama seems like likewise dated tv material. 
that's my five cents..
jakob
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  From: J.sharp 
  To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
  Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 1:50 AM
  Subject: Re: Nakata and LAST SCENE


  Last Scene was intended for theatrical distribution (though shot on DV). The reason why it was never widely distributed was the bankrupcy of its South Korean production company. I think it may have got a very limited run on a single screen in Tokyo, before reaching video. 
  Interesting to hear your opinions on it Miles, as I haven't seen it yet, though I have heard a number of people speak highly on it. 

  Jasper Sharp
  www.midnighteye.com


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    From: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
    To: "KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
    Subject: Nakata and LAST SCENE
    Date: 23/06/04 19:09


    Would like to see the interview in SFX, at least his talk about his work with Konuma. 

    LAST SCENE played the HKIFF and I was seriously underwhelmed by it. It really felt like a TV drama, seeming out-of-place on the large screen of the Cultural Centre, and it didn't look very good either, though when I mentioned the disapponting image quality to HKIFF programmer Jacob Wong he seemed surprised and told me it was shot on film which it clearly wasn't. Was it even intended for theatrical play in Japan?

    Miles
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      From: J.sharp 
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      Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 10:23 AM
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      Just a quick plug, but there's an interview I did with Nakata in this month's edition of the UK horror/fantasy mag SFX in which he talks about his Roman Porno background working with Konuma and states his general disinterest in the horror genre. I guess there's not many filmmakers who get to make the films they really want to make, and perhaps worth rembering that though an unsubbed DVD exists in Japan, LAST SCENE might as well be called UN-SEEN for all the attention it received by either critics or fans of his more typical work.

      Jasper Sharp 
      www.midnighteye.com

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