AW: Pordenone

[Roland Domenig]

>Did you happen to see "Koshu Saho Tokyo Kenbutsu",
>"Bakudan Hanayome", or "Teito Fukko" in Pordenone? I'm
>curious how they went down with audiences as I subtitled
>them with my wife. I suspect "Bakudan" was a crowd
>pleaser...


"Bakudan hanayome" was indeed a crowd pleaser. It's a hilariously funny short piece and its originality contrasted very favorably with the following "Ogon no dangan" which closely followed (if not slavishly copied) Western models. 
"Koshu saho Tokyo kenbutsu" also was received very well and certainly deserves more attention. 
"Teito fukko" fared less well and I've heard many people saying it was boring. I found the film quite intersting, however, especially because of the image of emperor Hirohito in the last part and the fact that the film spares out the people that inhibit the newly rebuilt imperial capital (that was doomed to be destroyed again only a decade later). It became even more interesting in relation to "Koshu saho Tokyo kenbutsu" that visits the same places, but presents them in a quite different way. 
Of the other Japanese films I liked Nomura Hotei's "Chikyodai" and Shimizu Hiroshi's "Fue no shiratama" very much that I had the chance to see for the first time. The last was a little spoiled by the dark blue tinting that unnecessarily obscured several scenes. With some Japanese films I also strongly missed the accompaniment of a benshi. 
My personal favorite of the festival was not a Japanese film, however, but the Australian film "The sentimental bloke" by Raymond Longford that was presented with a congenial music score by Jen Anderson. 

Roland Domenig
Institute of East Asian Studies
Vienna University  




--- Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk> ?????
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> Dear All,
> Sorry not to have encountered people on this website
> at Pordenone, I was too distracted by the awful loss
> of my film notebook, which I am now painstakingly
> striving to reconstruct...
> Anyway, I wondered if anyone knew if there was
> anywhere in English where one could read in detail
> about the Lady Ejima scandal of 1714 (Shotoku 4nen);
> the histories seem to have very sketchy accounts. If
> there's a detailed account in Japanese somewhere,
> that might also be useful since I can no doubt
> enlist someone Japanese who will help me puzzle the
> meaning out...
> Best,
> 
> ALEX
> 
> 
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