Japanese Films in archives?
Trond Trondsen
trondsen at shaw.ca
Tue Dec 6 01:36:23 EST 2005
I saw CROSSROADS at the Pacific Film Archive yesterday. It was the
original cut, found in the National Film Archive (UK). The quality of
the print was unbelievable. Wonderful. I suspect the BFI will
release it on DVD eventually.
Trond
http://www.mastersofcinema.org/
----- Original Message -----
From: "J.sharp" <j.sharp at hpo.net>
Date: Monday, December 5, 2005 2:08 pm
Subject: Re: Japanese Films in archives?
> I am not sure if this is the question you are asking, but the
> British Film
> Institute archive in London has a print of Kinugasa's A PAGE OF
> MADNESS, and
> his subsequent attempt at bringing a European avant-garde style
to
> Japanesecinema, the German Expressionism influenced (and
more
> interesting in my
> opinion) CROSSROADS (JUJIRO).
>
> Early Japanese animation is in the Japanese National Film
Archive,
> but they
> are very selective about who they let see anything.
>
> Best,
>
> Jasper Sharp
>
>
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> --------- Original Message --------
> From: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> To: Kinejapan <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Subject: Japanese Films in archives?
> Date: 05/12/05 09:47
>
> >
> > Dear kinejapan-list,
> >
> > I'm working on the japanese (silent) cinema and I found many
> interesting> hints in the DVD-database "Masters of the
Silent
> JapaneseCinema". But
> > none of the films seems to be available. Has there someone
out
> there an
> > idea (archives in europe would be perfect...)? Especially
Teinosuke
> > Kinugasa "A Page of Madness/KURUTTA IPPEIJI";
Tomizawa
> Shinro"chi no
> > miyako kohan no bansho" (1925); Keisuke Sasaki and
Torajiro
> Saito> "bakudan hanyome" (Dynamite Bride) (1932);
Mikio
> Naruse"kimi to
> > wakarete/Farewell to You" (1933)? Is there a compilation
of
> early> japanese animation?
> > Also some documentaries from the 60's seemed to be
disappearing.
> A list
> > is included. ... Please help to make them visible!
> >
> > Thanks for hints!
> >
> > Yours sincerely
> >
> > Andreas Becker
> >
> > ---
> >
> > A Page of Madness
> > KURUTTA IPPEIJI,
> > L (Land) Japan,
> > J (Jahr) 1926,
> > Drama,
> > P (Produktionsfirma) Shin Kankaku-Ha Eiga Renmei,
> > Länge: 80 (18 B./sec.) Minuten, FSK: , Erstaufführung: 1973
> > Kino/16.2.1975 HR
> > Pd (Produzent) Teinosuke Kinugasa,
> > R (Regie) Teinosuke Kinugasa,
> > B (Drehbuch) Yasunari Kawabata,
> > K (Kamera) Kôhei Sugiyama,
> > M (Musik) Modern Bamboo Flute Ensemble,
> > D (Darsteller) Hiroshi Nemoto als ein junger Mann, Misao Seki
als
> der> Arzt, Eiko Minami als Tänzerin, Masao Inoue als der Mann,
Yoshie
> > Nakagawa als die Frau, Ayako Iijima als die Tochter,
> >
> > Early Japanese Animation
> > A list with films is on:
> > http://www.quilts-club.com/animation/japanese1.html
> >
> > Paruchizan Zenshi (1969)
> > Directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto
> > Genre: Documentary (more)
> > Also Known As:
> > Pre-History of the Partisan Party
> > Pre-Partisan
> > Runtime: 122 min
> > Country: Japan
> > Color: Black and White
> >
> > Sommer auf Narita
> > NIHON KAIHO SENSEN - SANRIZUKA NO NATSU,
> > L (Land) Japan,
> > J (Jahr) 1968,
> > Dokumentarfilm,
> > P (Produktionsfirma) Ogawa Prod.,
> > Länge: (TV) 105 Minuten, FSK: , Erstaufführung: 21.3.1971 BR
> > Pd (Produzent) Shinsuke Ogawa,
> > R (Regie) Shinsuke Ogawa,
> > B (Drehbuch) Shinsuke Ogawa,
> > K (Kamera) Shinsuke Ogawa,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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