Re: Mizoguchi and neo-realism

[frannyandzoey at infoseek.jp]

I just wanted to add another important film to Roland's impressive list; that is, Paisa (1946) by Rossellini, which was released in Japan September 1949 to my konwledge, and having read some contempoary articles on Italian neorealism, this film was referred often as the influential example. At least in Japan, Paisa was better and proirly known than Roma Open City.

Ayako Saito
 
> -----元のメッセージ-----
> 差出人: "Roland Domenig" <roland.domenig at univie.ac.at>
> 受取人: "KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> 日付: 07/06/10 02:53
> 件名: Mizoguchi and neo-realism
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> The first Italian neorealism films had indeed their Japanese release a year after Mizoguchi finished Yoru no onnatachi and it is very unlikely that he has seen any of them.  
> Here are the Japanese release dates of some of the neorealism films. 
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> Pais&#65533; (Roberto Rossellini): September 6, 1949
> Vivere in pace (Luigi Zamapa): October 4, 1949
> Il nome della Legge (Pietro Germi): January 15, 1950
> Sciusci&#65533; (Vittorio de Sica): March 21, 1950
> Caccia tragica (Giuseppe de Santis): June 10, 1950
> Ladri di biciclette (Vittorio de Sica): September 8. 1950
> Roma, citt&#65533; aperta (Roberto Rossellini): November 7, 1950
> Cuori senza frontiere (Luigi Zampa): September 1, 1951
> Il mulino del Po (Alberto Lattuada): November 25, 1951
> Riso Amaro (Giuseppe de Santis): March 20, 1952
> Germania anno zero (Roberto Rossellini); July 6, 1952
> La citt&#65533; si difende (Pietro Germi): September 1, 1952
> Miracolo a Milano (Vittorio de Sica): November 1, 1952
> Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini): October 31, 1953
> I Bambini ci guardano (Vittorio de Sica): March 16, 1954
> Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica): October 1, 1962
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> For some reason Visconti's early films haven't been shown in Japan in the 1950s. Japanese audiences had to wait until retrospectives in the 1970s and 1980s. 
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> Roland 
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> -----Urspr&#65533;ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu im Auftrag von Mathieu Capel
> Gesendet: Sa 09.06.2007 11:59
> An: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Betreff: 
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> Hello everyone,
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> Just a little question for mizoguchian specialists : a french critic,
> Jean Douchet, wrote some ten years ago that Mizoguchi's Yoru no
> onnatachi, released in 1948, was in some way influenced by italian
> neo-realism. But if I'm not wrong, and Oshima Nagisa confirmed that in
> his "taikenteki sengo eigaron", these italian movies had been all
> released in Japan from 1949 to 1950...
> I was just wondering if Mizoguchi ever had the chance to see these
> movies before shooting his own Yoru no onnatachi... Could someone help
> me for that ? Thanks a lot.
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> Mathieu Capel
> Paris
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