Japanese Cinema Book: Vengeance is Mine Chapter

[Michael McCaskey]

Thank you, I will put in a reservation order for the volume at Blackwell's online. Does it have an ISBN number assigned yet?

Michael McCaskey

----- Original Message -----
From: Alastair Phillips <a.w.e.phillips at reading.ac.uk>
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:57 am
Subject: Re: Imamura Shohei

> 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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> 
> > 
> > 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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