AW: Pordenone

[Jason Gray]

Roland,

Thank you very much for the recap -- I really appreciate
it. I had a feeling "Bakudan Hanayome" would go down well
-- it's a comedic gem. Was it accompanied by music?

As far as Emperor Hirohito's appearance in "Teito Fukko,"
when I first saw the film, I was surprised at how much
access the crew were given to shoot his image (the obscure
term 
????being used to reflect this privilege?. Would this
have been a precedent-setting film in that way, do you
know? The shot choices certainly didn't lend His Majesty
an air of greatness -- he looked like a regular person, a
little guy in fact, surrounded by more powerful men.

And yes, it's hard to believe that after all of that,
Tokyo was decimated once again...What a town. 

Best,
Jason Gray


> "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> ?????
> ???:
> > 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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