looking for articles on Miike

[Tim Stone]

Audition has shown on SBS television in Australia, SBS is the
free-to-air multicultural broadcaster in Australia. Their charter is to
show foreign films catering to the many different language groups
prevalent here - while also attracting more viewers in general; they
regularly show Japanese films. I agree with Jim, next to Hideo Nakata's
films, most people seem to know the film "where the girl saws off the
guys leg..."
 
Miike appears to have a strong fan base here. His films either sell out
or are well attended at the Melbourne Film Festival - which
unfortunately is usually the only time you get to see a film print
version. We usually get two films a year. 2005  - it was Izo and Three
Extremes, 2004 - Graveyard of Honour and One Missed Call.
 
 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Jim Harper [mailto:jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk] 
	Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2006 1:57 AM
	To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
	Subject: Re: looking for articles on Miike
	
	
	In the UK over the past 3-4 years it's been shown on
digital/satellite subscription channels (Sky Movies, FilmFour), 'free'
digital/satellite channels (Sci-Fi) and one of the five basic
terrestrial channels. Next to Ring, it's probably the most widely shown
of all the 'extreme' Asian films that have made it to television (and
there are quite a few now). The fact that three separate 'networks' have
picked it up is a testament to its popularity over here.
	 
	Jim.
	
	drainer at mpinet.net wrote:

		In the U.S. it has been shown on subscription movie
channels; I've been back 
		here for the past 3 months and I've noticed quite a few
Japanese movies 
		being played lately, mostly on Starz.
		
		-d
		
		----- Original Message ----- 
		From: "Jim Harper" 
		To: Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:20 AM
		Subject: Re: looking for articles on Miike
		
		
		> Just out of interest, aside from the UK, where has
Audition been shown on 
		> television?
		>
		> Jim.
		>
		> Mark Nornes wrote:
		>
		> On Jan 10, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Aaron Gerow wrote:
		>
		>> I don't know if it "proves" his violence is not
gratuitous, but I do
		>> have an old article that makes a case for his
thematic importance:
		>>
		>
		> OK, so what I was obliquely trying to suggest is that
standard
		> definitions of "gratuitous" won't work so well for
Miike. Thanks to the
		> irony and self-conscious, "light" approach to
everything he does, the
		> very "gratuitousness" of the violence is in its own
way "thematic." I'd
		> be very impressed if you could get Audition on
television without
		> censorship, though. Go for it.
		>
		> Markus
		>
		>
		>
		>
		>
		> http://www.flipsidemovies.com
		> http://jimharper.blogspot.com
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