Re: Tenkô in Japanese film ?

Michael McCaskey mccaskem
Sat Aug 25 07:45:15 EDT 2007


In Waga seishun ni kuinashi, the tenko didn't work, as I recall - Masaki Kobayashi's
Ningen no joken (1959-1961) might have something in it - I watched the third part several years ago, but I haven't seen all 3 films together since the 1960s.

Tsurumi Shunsuke, who once was a teacher of mine, and others in the Shiso no kagaku group, did a large-scale series of Tenko case studies in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Tsurumi Shunsuke et al, Tenko, Shiso no Kagaku Kenyukai hen, Tenko, 3 vols. (Heibonsha, 1959-1962). But Tsurumi told us that, in his opinion, so many intellectuals had compromised with fascism that he and his colleagues had a very hard time finding people for the Tenko survey, since so many were in denial, or wished to conceal the facts, and refused to participate.

There weren't so many searching postwar anti-fascist films of this sort made in any WWII fascist-controlled country, maybe, except a few like Wolfgang Staudte's Die M?rder sind unter uns (The Murderers Are Among Us), starring Hildegard Knef (1946).

Michael McCaskey
Georgetown Univ.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mathieu Capel <mathieucapel at gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, August 25, 2007 6:53 am
Subject: Re: Tenk? in Japanese film ?

> One could think about Kurosawa's Waga seishun ni kuinashi (1946)...
> 
> Mathieu Capel
> Paris
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