AW: Anybody got a catalogue to hand for the 1967 New York Film Festival?

[Roland Domenig]

Stephen, I can't verify whether Kuri's film was shown at the 1967 New York Film Festival, but I can answer your other questions:

2. Is CRAZY MURDER known as SATSUJIN-KYO JIDAI in Japanese?  What year was it produced?
The original title of Kuri Yoji's CRAZY MURDER is indeed SATSUJIN KYOJIDAI. It was produced in 1966 and first presented at the 6. Animation Festival '66 held at Teshigahara's Sogetsu Art Center. The film was shown at several international film festivals and won several awards, among them the award for best film at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival and a Golden Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, both in 1967. The original version is 15 minutes long and consists of 13 episodes (among them a parady of Mishima Yukio's Yukoku), the international version with the title AU FOU! was shortened to 10 minutes.   

3. Did THE AGE OF ASSASSINS in fact play the New York Film Festival in 1967? 
Okamoto Kihachi's film SATSUJIN KYOJIDAI, based on Tsuzuki Michio's serial NAMEKUJI NI KIITE MIRO, was also produced in 1966 and has a very difficult production history. Toho didn't release the film immediatly, but kept it back until February 1967 when it was finally released. Since Toho didn't advertise the film actively it was a total failure at the box office. It was barely shown in Japan, much less abroad, so that it is most unlikely that it has been screened at the New York Film Festival in 1967. 

4. Did Kuri Yoji work on THE AGE OF ASSASSINS, for example doing the title sequence?
There is indeed a quite funny animated title sequence in Okamoto's film, but although the fim doesn't give a credit for the title sequence it doesn't look like it was made by Kuri Yoji. 


Roland Domenig
Institute of East Asian Studies
Vienna University




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Betreff: Anybody got a catalogue to hand for the 1967 New York Film Festival?
 
According to the New York Film Festival's website, they showed Kuri  
Yoji's animation short CRAZY MURDER in 1967 at their fifth edition:
http://www.filmlinc.com/archive/nyff/nyfffestlist.htm

I'm guessing CRAZY MURDER is SATSUJIN-KYO JIDAI, having found a  
reference to this Japanese title on a DVD collection of Kuri Yoji's  
shorts:
http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htm/4988102743314.html

The film doesn't appear to get a mention in Kuri's entry (p289-290)  
in Kinema Junpo 1997 reference to film directors (but perhaps I'm  
looking for the wrong title in Japanese).

However, in 1967, Okamoto Kihachi's THE AGE OF ASSASSINS (SATSUJIN- 
KYO JIDAI) was released in Japan, written with the same kanji.  This  
just sounds like too much of a coincidence.

1. So, can anyone confirm that CRAZY MURDER played in 1967 in New York?
2. Is CRAZY MURDER known as SATSUJIN-KYO JIDAI in Japanese?  What  
year was it produced?
3. Did THE AGE OF ASSASSINS in fact play the New York Film Festival  
in 1967?
4. Did Kuri Yoji work on THE AGE OF ASSASSINS, for example doing the  
title sequence..

Thanks in advance!

Stephen Cremin

PS: Charlie Chaplin's MONSIEUR VEDOUX was also released in Japan as  
SATSUJIN-KYO JIDAI


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