Japanese Films in Berlin 1963-64

Thu Jun 29 08:54:19 EDT 2006

Dear H C Li

You may already have some, most, or all of this information, but I'm sending it in case any part below may be helpful.

A) 
going to URL:

http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/archivsuche/Archivsuche.php

for a number of archive listings for Imai (via the search box) yields:

8 results for Imai Tadashi: 

2) Berlinale | Archive | Annual Archives | 1963 | Programme
... Tadashi Imai Section: Competition...

3) Berlinale | Archive | Annual Archives | 1958 | Programme
... Tadashi Imai Section: Competition...

4) Berlinale | Archive | Annual Archives | 1958 | Prize Winners
Tadashi Imai Jun-ai monogatari Silver Bear for Best Actress Anna Magnani Wild Is The Wind Wild Is The Wind Silver Bear for Best Actor Sidney Poitier The Defiant Ones The Defiant Ones Silver Bea...

8) Berlinale | Archive | Annual Archives | 1990 | Programme
... Tadashi Imai Section: Retrospective...

B)

going to URL:

http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1964/03_preistraeger_1964/03_Preistraeger_1964.html

provides information for Hidari, who apparently won two awards, for two different pictures, a Silver Bear each.

Silver Bear for Best Actress  Sachiko Hidari
Nippon Konchuki, Dir. Imamura Shohei

Silver Bear for Best Actress  Sachiko Hidari
Kanajo to kare, Dir. Susumu Hana

This double award is also confirmed by a different Japanese database (allcinema)

http://www.allcinema.net/prog/awardmain.php?num_a=185

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Best Actress/Kanojo to kare/Hidari Sachiko 

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(Best Actress)/Nippon konchuki/Hidari Sachiko

It seems as if perhaps Hidari was equally good in both films, both made the same year, so the jury or juries decided to give her a separate Silver Bear for each.

With Best Wishes,

Michael McCaskey
Georgetown Univ. 

----- Original Message -----
From: Li Hoo Cheong <lbhcli at polyu.edu.hk>
Date: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:18 am
Subject: Japanese Films in Berlin 1963-64

> Dear members
> 
> The annual Berlin FF is currently held in February, but in the 
> 1960s I
> recall that it was held either in June or July.  I am searching 
> for the
> exact month when the following Japanese films won a prize back in 1963
> and 1964.  I saw the Imai film in Hong Kong back in 1963.
> 
> 1963  "Bushido zankoku monogatari" directed by Imai Tadashi won the
> Golden Bear
> 
> 1964  Hidari Sachiko won the Best Actress award for her 
> performance in 2
> films,
>      "Nippon Konchikuki" and "Kanojo and kare"
> 
> I checked the official web site of Berlin FF, but could not find the
> exact month.  Also, the entry for Hidari Sachiko appears twice, 
> one for
> her first film and one for her second film.  If there
> were two actresses, they would be co-winners.  Since only Sachiko was
> involved, I wonder did she get two awards, or just one (Bear)?
> 
> Checking the film magazines or film annuals back then would give 
> me the
> answer, but I do not have access to them.  The 1960 "Eiga nenkan" 
> citesJuly as the month for the 1959 Berlin Film Festival, and Sato 
> Tadao's"Nihon eiga shi" gives June as the month for the 1963 
> Berlin FF.
> 
> Any information on this will be much appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> H C Li
> 
> 
> 