Ito Daisuke query

[Mark Anderson]

I would like to second the request for screening anything by Ito Daisuke 
at the Tokyo Kinema Club meeting.
                                                                         
         Mark Anderson

William Gardner wrote:

>I've read the posts on the Great Kanto Earthquake, the modern girl, etc.,
>with interest. Among films that are fairly widely available, I would also
>recommend to Irene Mizoguchi's Naniwa Ereji (Osaka Elegy, 1936) for its
>depiction of the Modern Girl, although the setting is obviously Osaka rather
>than Tokyo.
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>Changing the subject to period films of this era, does anyone know if it is
>possible to view or obtain a copy of Ito Daisuke's acclaimed Chiji tabi
>nikki (A Diary of Chiji's Travels, 1927)? I understand that copies of part 3
>and some of part 2 of this trilogy were rediscovered in 1991, and brief
>excerpts, if I remember correctly, were featured in Oshima's 100 Years of
>Japanese Cinema.
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>Could this be something that we might screen at the Tokyo Kinema Club
>meeting?
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>Best,
>Will Gardner
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