Imai Tadashi DVDs

Alastair Phillips a.w.e.phillips at reading.ac.uk
Sat Aug 5 03:52:00 EDT 2006


Try:

http://www.dvdasian.com/cgi-bin/dvdasian/22102.html

Best,

Alastair


On Aug 5 2006, Alexander Jacoby wrote:

>Can one buy them online? If so, how?
>   
>  ALEX
>
>
>nuzumaki at gmx.net wrote:
>  A leader of the postwar independent film production movement. Imai was 
> an erratically brilliant filmmaker whose controversial leftist views and 
> "subversive" activities forced him outside Japan's studio system. He 
> directed his first feature, "The Namazu Military Academy", in 1939 but 
> shortly after was forced to give up politics under the wartime military 
> regime and began making war-collaboration propaganda films.
>
> After the war, Imai joined the Communist Party and returned to leftist 
> themes, criticizing the corruption of the wartime leaders. In "The 
> People's Enemy" (1946) Imai proselytized on behalf of postwar democracy. 
> During this period he directed his greatest commercial success, "Green 
> Mountains Part I and II" (1949), which depicted a small town high 
> school's struggle against established institutions and values. Imai was 
> blacklisted at times for his political views and was fired by Toho 
> studios for leading a strike. His subsequent freelance work continued to 
> focus on the plight of the downtrodden proletariat.
>
>- Green Mountains (aka: Aoi sanmyaku )
>
>- Mata au hi made (aka: Till We Meet Again)
>
>Studio: Rontm (Taiwan) 
>Audio Format: DD 1.0 Mono 
>Video Format: Full Screen (B & W) 
>Languages: Japanese 
>Subtitles: English, Chinese (T) 
>Country Made: Japan 
>Region Code: 3 
>Year Made: 1949-1950 
>Running Time: 183 
>
>
>best,
>
>Stefan Nutz
>

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Dr. Alastair Phillips
Lecturer in Film Studies
Department of Film, Theatre & Television
University of Reading
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