Forest Stories

[anne mcknight]

You might want to check out _Himatsuri_, directed by Yanagimachi Mitsuo,
adapted from a story by Nakagami Kenji, camera by Tamura Masaki (of Ogawa
fame, who has worked with a lot of later indie directors). It's on VHS,
through Ebay or Amazon. Google him--there's some nice writing about the film
& Yanagimachi over and above the databases.

You can see from one of the Amazon reviews  ("the shaky and honest feel of a
non-studio film") that it's an indie film. It plays to a lot of the tensions
of Nakagami's stories--mysticism, masculinity that intensifies the farther
it gets from the metropole, focus on senses and landscape. Indeed it's
almost too pretty for words at times, with the wind, trees, mountain
goddesses and all. Music is by Takemitsu Toru.

Anne

On 31/05/07, Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu> wrote:
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> One of the best and weirdest: Charisma, by Kurosawa.
> And other odd one: Jogakusei Gerira, by Adachi Masao
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> On May 31, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Rob Smith wrote:
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> I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for
> stories that take place in the forest. Preferably not samurai stories. I'm
> not looking for anything too specific, but something closer to Tom Sawyer
> than Lord of the Flies. Ghost stories are fine. Kids lost in the woods,
> adventure, obstacles and tasks...stuff like that.  (It doesn't specifically
> have to be a Japenese story, but this is a Japanese film list.)
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> I'm looking for both films and written stories, so whatever you've got (as
> long as there is an English translation) is cool.
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> --
> -rob
> http://www.robixsmash.com/
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