chance to sub five films
SYBIL.THORNTON@asu.edu
SYBIL.THORNTON
Thu Sep 28 03:06:59 EDT 2006
Hi,
It was not so much foresight as luck: if I remember right, whoever was the
main distributor for Hawaii and the West Coast gave the collection to the PFA
when they closed down: most of the theaters for Japanese-language audiences
had closed down, although the Kabuki-za in San Francisco was still going in
the early seventies.
Cheers,
SAT
Quoting david alston <davidals at msn.com>:
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> <P>Here's the link for the Pacific Film Archive: <A
>
href="http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/resources/pfa_filmcollection/index.html">h
ttp://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/resources/pfa_filmcollection/index.html</A></P>
> <P>Plot synopses are provided for some films.</P>
> <P>I have an earlier print version of their catalogue of Daiei
> films; the site is a one-of-a-kind resource. I wish one
> of the NC Universities had had the foresight to build a library of
> such stature. </P>
> <P>David Alston<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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> <DIV></DIV>From: <I>SYBIL.THORNTON at asu.edu</I><BR>Reply-
To: <I>KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-
state.edu</I><BR>To: <I>KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-
state.edu</I><BR>Subject: <I>Re:
> chance to sub five films</I><BR>Date: <I>Wed, 27 Sep 2006
> 21:52:41 -0700 (MST)</I><BR>>Hi,<BR>><BR>>Always check the
> Pacific Film Archive: they have an enormous collection
> of<BR>>Japanese films from the 50s and 60s, many of which have
> subtitles because they<BR>>were screened in
> California: Nikkatsu, Toho, Shochiku, and Daiei (only
> two<BR>>Toei films). The complete catalogue is online with
> indications of subtitles.<BR>><BR>>Cheers,<BR>>SA
> Thornton<BR>><BR>>Quoting Aaron Gerow
> <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>:<BR>><BR>> ><BR>> > On
> 2006.9.28, at 01:42 AM, Christine Marran
> wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > > We have a chance here at
> University of Minnesota to subtitle five<BR>> > > Japanese
> films that have never been subbed. Any requests for
> films<BR>> > > that we really need in the canon of subbed
> Japanese film?<BR>> ><BR>> > Defining "Japanese films that
> have never been subbed" can be a bit<BR>> > tricky. There are a
> lot of subtitled film prints floating around that<BR>> > for one
> reason or another, have never been easily available. For<BR>> >
> instance, there are subtitles prints of many Daiei films around<BR>>
> > somewhere (since Daiei made a point in the 50s and 60s of trying
> to<BR>> > sell their films abroad), but most are not in rental
> circulation. Then<BR>> ><BR>> > there are the hundreds of
> films the Japan Foundation handles. Even some<BR>> ><BR>> >
>
> individual filmmakers have subtitled versions of their works that
> you<BR>> > don't know about unless you ask them (I vaguely recall
> that Hara's<BR>> > Kyokushiteki erosu is subtitled). Researching
> what has really been<BR>> > subtitled is not easy, and then
> there's the fact that even if you find<BR>> ><BR>> > that
> there is a subtitled version in existence, that doesn't mean it
> is<BR>> ><BR>> > available for classroom use.<BR>>
> ><BR>> > The choice also can depend on what prints are
> available. Are you going<BR>> ><BR>> > to do this on
> computer and produce a DVD? Or a real subtitled film<BR>> > print?
> Will you be working with the negative or a positive print? Or a<BR>>
> ><BR>> > DVD? All of those pose problems of
> availability.<BR>> ><BR>> > That said, my vote is for five
> prewar or wartime films.
> There's a lot<BR>> > written about in Burch, for instance, that is
> not readily available,<BR>> > such as Ito Daisuke, Ishida Tamizo,
> Yamanaka Sadao, or Itami Mansaku.<BR>> > Humanity and Paper
> Balloons has come out on DVD in the UK and the JF<BR>> > has a
> subtitled print of Hyakuman-ryo, but the subtitles on the latter<BR>>
> ><BR>> > are pretty bad. Films that I always show clips of in
> class include<BR>> > Makino Masahiro films such as Chikemuri
> Takadanobaba, Oshidori<BR>> > Utagassen and Awa no odoriko. I
> think there are a lot of people out<BR>> > there, especially
> outside of film studies proper, who would like to see<BR>>
> ><BR>> > more wartime films available like Hawaii-Malay
> okikaisen or Shina no<BR>> > yoru.<BR>> ><BR>> > For
> postwar work, I would urge you to do some of the 1950s Toei<BR>> >
>
> jidaigeki. Toei was by far the most successful studio in the Golden
> Age<BR>> ><BR>> > of Japanese film but it is virtually
> absent in foreign film histories<BR>> > because they were just
> "entertainment" and not "art." But the Fuefuki<BR>> > doji films,
> for instance, are great and tell us a lot about popular<BR>> >
> film culture beyond the "masters." Doing a popular film of one of
> the<BR>> > prewar third tier studios may also be interesting from
> the standpoint<BR>> > of "vernacular modernism," such as the Ramon
> Kosaburo Kensei Araki<BR>> > Mataemon (Matsuda has this) or one of
> Hayafusa Hideto's films.<BR>> ><BR>> > Also for the postwar,
> there is a need for other popular genres such as<BR>> ><BR>>
> > comedies (Crazy Cats, more Kawashima Yuzo, Morisaki Azuma,
> Maeda<BR>> > Yoichi, early Yamada Yoji), musicals (Kimi mo
> shusse ga dekiru, Sannin<BR>> ><BR>> > musume films), or
> some series like the Shacho series.<BR>> ><BR>> > I could go
> on forever, but I guess I'll stop here.<BR>> ><BR>>
> ><BR>> > Aaron Gerow<BR>> > Assistant Professor<BR>>
> > Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures<BR>>
> > Yale University<BR>> > 53 Wall Street, Room 316<BR>> >
> PO Box 208363<BR>> > New Haven, CT 06520-8363<BR>> >
> USA<BR>> > Phone: 1-203-432-7082<BR>> > Fax:
> 1-203-432-6764<BR>> > e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu<BR>>
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