Japanese musicals?

[Joseph Murphy]

There is a guy named Minami Ryuta, a theater/Shakespeare scholar from  
the Nagoya Kyoiku Daigaku who gave a paper at our Film and Media  
Studies forum last month on the "samurai musical" with Enoken, etc.,  
as precursor to Kitano's Zatoichi closing scene.  He has assembled a  
pretty astonishing archive of scenes and references from the 1920's  
on.  If this is of interest please let me know.
yours,
J. Murphy

On 22 Nov 2005, at 12:22 AM, mark schilling wrote:

> My colleague Roger Garcia of the Udine Far East Film festival is  
> curating a section for next year's edition on Asian musicals,  
> primarily from the 1950s and 1960s. I'm helping him with Japan by  
> screening the films of the usual suspects (Takamine Mieko, Takamine  
> Hideko, Misora Hibari, Kayama Yuzo, The Crazy Cats, Frankie Sakai,  
> Ishihara Yujiro, etc.), but I'm wondering if there are any good  
> books or articles out there, in Japanese or English, I should be  
> mining. There is plenty of writing on music in Japanese films, but  
> I'm more interested in the musical genre per se, or rather the  
> local interpretation of it.
>
>
> Mark Schilling
> schill at gol.com
>
>

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