Love behind the camera

[Alexander Jacoby]

Ichikawa is making a new film too, it appears! A remake of his popular hit of the seventies, The Inugami Family. OK, he's a few years younger than Shindo, but being both in their nineties I think they both deserve Grand Old Man status. By the way, Senkichi Taniguchi appears also to be still living and he was born the same year as Shindo. He's not making movies though... His last film, incidentally, ties in with the recent Hani conversation, as it was made in Africa, and its title, Asante Sana, is Thankyou in Swahili I believe.
  

Rob Schwartz <gangamati at gmail.com> wrote:
  Aaron-

That sounds like a great doc. I'll try to check it out. Shindo-san is really amazing, still going strong at 94! We can safely say he is the grand old man of Japanese film at this point.

Thanks for the heads up.

rob schwartz

  On 9/12/06, Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:  If you thought that the current boom in romantic melodramas was
restricted to fictions before the camera, then you might want to check
out the Nippon TV drama tonight at 9pm: "The Story of the World's Most
Loved Wife: Otowa Nobuko and Shindo Kaneto" (Sekaiichi no aisai 
monogatari). It is basically a dramatic retelling of the long
relationship between the director Shindo Kaneto (Onibaba, The Island)
and the actress Otowa Nobuko, which began while Shindo was still
married and had to wait 27 years until they were finally married. 

Katahira Nagisa plays Otowa and Terawaki Yasufumi plays Shindo. The
real Shindo is now 94 and still making films, while Otowa died in 1994
of cancer after making Gogo no yuigonjo.

Aaron Gerow
KineJapan owner 

Assistant Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University




 		
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