Taste of tea

[Tatiana Leite]

Thanks a lot for your help!

Best, 

Tatiana Leite


> Last year, The Klockworx Co Ltd were handling international sales.
> 
> Tel: +81 3 5720 7791; Fax: +81 3 5720 7792
> Contacts: Kana Koido (aka Koido Kanako) & Negami Tetsu
> Email: kana at klockworx.com & negami at klockworx.com
> 
> It was produced by Iizumi Hilo (his spelling) at Grasshoppa Films:
> h-iizumi at grasshoppa.jp
> 
> Try Kana and Tetsu first who are very professional (and have great
> English to boot).  If they aren't handling international any more,
> then contact Hilo directly.
> 
> Best
> 
> Stephen Cremin
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> On Jul 26, 2005, at 10:44 PM, Tatiana Leite wrote:
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>> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> Does anyone know who is the World Sales for Taste of Tea?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Tatiana
>> 
>> 
>>> Prints and rights would be two different issues.
>>> 
>>> Print: I think there's an English subbed print in the UK that pops up
>>> occasionally.  It was originally distributed by Electric Pictures Ltd
>>> (+44 20 7267 3060), but I'm not sure if they're still around in any
>>> form.
>>> 
>>> Rights: Didn't Altamira Pictures (+81 3 5456 8581;
>>> altamira at altamira.jp) have some connection to Itami Productions?  I'd
>>> contact them on the off-chance for advice on clearing rights.
>>> 
>>> Also, there's a documentary about food in cinema that has cropped up
>>> at festivals recently that uses clip(s) from Tampopo.  It was just in
>>> Puchon.  Perhaps the producer knows who has the rights.  I'll check
>>> the contact details when I'm next in front of the catalogue.
>>> 
>>> Another idea.  Yubari last year had a focus on Miyamoto Nobuko and
>>> screened a couple of her films, whose rights would have belonged to
>>> Itami Productions.  They could advice; in fact I imagine rights may
>>> very well now belong to Miyamoto, Itami's wife.  Again, I'll take a
>>> look at the catalogue when I'm home.
>>> 
>>> Stephen Cremin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 26, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Aaron Gerow wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Has anyone tried to show Tampopo on film recently? Yale's student
>>>> film society wants to show it this coming year, but New Yorker,
>>>> which had the US rights, doesn't have them anymore and the Japan
>>>> Foundation doesn't have a print. Itami Productions doesn't seem to
>>>> have an office anymore, so it's unclear who to contact in Japan
>>>> (Toho distributed it in Japan, but they didn't have any rights over
>>>> it).
>>>> 
>>>> Any ideas or information?
>>>> 
>>>> Aaron Gerow
>>>> Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies Program
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
>>>> Yale University
>>>> 53 Wall Street, Room 316
>>>> PO Box 208363
>>>> New Haven, CT 06520-8363
>>>> USA
>>>> Phone: 1-203-432-7082
>>>> Fax: 1-203-432-6764
>>>> e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
>>>> 
>>>> 
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