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

[Stephen]

Huge thanks, Roland!

SC

On Jun 28, 2007, at 6:59 PM, Roland Domenig wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu im Auftrag von Stephen
> Gesendet: Do 28.06.2007 11:10
> An: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> 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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