Japanese Cinema Book: Vengeance is Mine Chapter

[Christine Marran]

Dennis Washburn also has an interesting essay on the same film in his 
and Cavanaugh's book Word and image in Japanese cinema.


Christine

Michael McCaskey wrote:
> 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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>>Dr. Alastair Phillips
>>Lecturer in Film Studies
>>Director of Graduate Studies
>>Department of Film, Theatre & Television
>>University of Reading
>>READING
>>UK
>>RG6 1HY
>>
>>Tel. 44 (0)118 378 5870
>>http://www.rdg.ac.uk/fd/Staff/phillips.htm
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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
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>>>that Imamura's "Vengeance is Mine" (Fukushu suru wa ware ni ari, 
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>>1979) has
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>>>recently become available with English subtitles in the UK 
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>>(Region 2 DVD).
>>
>>>It's part of the Masters of Cinema Series, a sort of UK 
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>>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" 
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>>1998), for its
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>>>social conscience, and honest (though maybe a bit extreme) 
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>>portrayal of the
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>>>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
>>>>-- 
>>>>alex at nipponconnection.de
>>>>
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>>>
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Christine L. Marran
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Minnesota