Imamura Shohei

[Alastair Phillips]

I've written an essay on Vengeance is Mine for the forthcoming anthology I
am co-editing with Julian Stringer for Routledge: Japanese Cinema: Texts and
Contexts. Eureka printed an excerpt in the booklet for the DVD.

Best wishes,

Alastair Phillips

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Dr. Alastair Phillips
Lecturer in Film Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Film, Theatre & Television
University of Reading
READING
UK
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Tel. 44 (0)118 378 5870
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> 
> Thank you for this information. It is sad to hear, but it is also good to be
> informed. As it happens, one of my former students just discovered last week
> that Imamura's "Vengeance is Mine" (Fukushu suru wa ware ni ari, 1979) has
> recently become available with English subtitles in the UK (Region 2 DVD).
> It's part of the Masters of Cinema Series, a sort of UK complement to the
> Criterion Collection, which has some titles not available in the US.
> 
> www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc
> 
> My own great Imamura favorite is Kanzo Sensei ("Dr. Akagi" 1998), for its
> social conscience, and honest (though maybe a bit extreme) portrayal of the
> evils of Japanese militarism at the local level.
> 
> Michael McCaskey
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alex Zahlten <Alex.Zahlten at gmx.de>
> Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:44 am
> Subject: Imamura Shohei
> 
>> 
>> Newspapers report that Imamura Shohei died today at age 79. Asahi
>> Shinbun has a very brief article on it, and although it is the
>> headline in its internet edition, very little information is given
>> other than the fact itself.
>> 
>> Alex Zahlten
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