KINEJAPAN digest 2224
Nancy Stalker
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On Oct 6, 2007, at 11:07 PM, KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu wrote:
>
> KINEJAPAN Digest 2224
>
> Topics covered in this issue include:
>
> 1) Re: Inuzuka Minoru
> by Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk>
> 2) call for papers: visualisation of Japanese history
> by Dick Stegewerns <dick_stegewerns at hetnet.nl>
> 3) Re: early Japanese cinema anthology / scripts
> by John Gorman <macfugu at mac.com>
> 4) Re: Inuzuka Minoru
> by "Mark R. Harris" <brokerharris at gmail.com>
> 5) Kwaidan/Kaidan
> by Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>
> 6) Re: Kwaidan/Kaidan
> by "David Lewis" <david.lionel.lewis at sympatico.ca>
> 7) Re: Kwaidan/Kaidan
> by Mark Anderson <ander025 at umn.edu>
> 8) Re: Inuzuka Minoru
> by Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk>
> 9) Re: Kwaidan/Kaidan
> by Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk>
> 10) Re: Inuzuka Minoru
> by Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> 11) Re: Inuzuka Minoru
> by "thomas.lamarre" <thomas.lamarre at mcgill.ca>
> 12) Re: Inuzuka Minoru
> by Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk>
> 13) More Yamagata News
> by amnornes at umich.edu
> 14) Re: More Yamagata News
> by "Don Brown" <ryuganji at gmail.com>
>
> From: Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: October 6, 2007 3:44:35 AM CDT
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Inuzuka Minoru
>
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> From: Dick Stegewerns <dick_stegewerns at hetnet.nl>
> Date: October 6, 2007 4:40:30 AM CDT
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: call for papers: visualisation of Japanese history
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> From: John Gorman <macfugu at mac.com>
> Date: October 6, 2007 6:12:28 AM CDT
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: early Japanese cinema anthology / scripts
>
>
> Thanks for this information Markus.
>
> Had been hoping something more around the cost of a regular DVD
> might be available as 18,900 yen is a bit stiff for me.
>
> From my initial search of past discussions in the KineJapan
> archives, it does not appear that there is a good source of
> Japanese scripts on the Internet. I will further search the
> archives tomorrow.
>
> Best regards,
>
> John
>
>
> On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:08 AM, amnornes at umich.edu wrote:
>
>> Huh. Strange. Here is the link I was trying to send;
>>
>> http://www.urbanconnections.jp/en/store/dvd/taizen_e.html
>>
>> m
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Quoting Frako Loden <frako at well.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> Mark, did you leave out a reference for the "only clips" of
>>> benshi performances?
>>>
>>> Frako Loden
>>>
>>>
>>> At 6:41 AM -0400 10/3/07, Mark Nornes wrote:
>>>> This fits the bill. It's only clips, but they're subtitled
>>>> benshi performances and really, really fun.
>>>>
>>>> As for scripts, search the KineJapan archive for extensive
>>>> discussions. The Kinema Club website explains how to do this.
>>>> Kinema Club also has the following page:
>>>>
>>>> http://pears2.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/searchscripts.html
>>>>
>>>> Markus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 3, 2007, at 5:07 AM, John Gorman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I need help in finding the following materials:
>>>>>
>>>>> An introductory anthology of early Japanese cinema on DVD with
>>>>> English subtitles. I'm hoping to find something that begins at
>>>>> the inception and goes up until either the war years or the
>>>>> Occupation. I'm especially hoping for something that includes
>>>>> the role of 'benshi', preferably with some footage or just
>>>>> stills of them in action.
>>>>>
>>>>> A source for excerpts from Japanese movie scripts, either in
>>>>> Japanese or English.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
> From: "Mark R. Harris" <brokerharris at gmail.com>
> Date: October 6, 2007 7:37:51 AM CDT
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Inuzuka Minoru
>
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> From: Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: October 6, 2007 8:15:33 AM CDT
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Kwaidan/Kaidan
>
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm sure somebody on here could help me with this- I'm
> trying to unravel the origins of the title 'Kwaidan'
> for Kobayashi's 1964 film. Obviously the Japanese word
> should be 'kaidan', but does anyone know for certain
> when the inaccurate title came into use. A footnote in
> the Steven Jay Schneider-edited Fear Without Frontiers
> suggests that it was western distributor of Kwaidan,
> but I have found a 1927 essay- written by H.P.
> Lovecraft of all people, who seems to have enjoyed
> Lafcadio Hearn's work- that uses the title 'Kwaidan'.
> Did this misconception arise with the book's first
> publication?
>
> Thanks for any help that can be provided here!
>
> Jim Harper.
>
> http://www.flipsidemovies.com
> http://jimharper.blogspot.com
>
>
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>
>
> From: "David Lewis" <david.lionel.lewis at sympatico.ca>
> Date: October 6, 2007 8:38:17 AM CDT
> To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Subject: Re: Kwaidan/Kaidan
>
>
> since Kobayashi's movie is based of Lafcadio Hearn's book, I would
> say that
> Kwaidan is the right rendering in English.
> As for Lafcadio Hearn's choice of Kwaidan, I have always thought
> that it was
> simply based on an old (and possibly local?) pronouciation.
>
> David Lewis
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Harper" <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 9:15 AM
> Subject: Kwaidan/Kaidan
>
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm sure somebody on here could help me with this- I'm
>> trying to unravel the origins of the title 'Kwaidan'
>> for Kobayashi's 1964 film. Obviously the Japanese word
>> should be 'kaidan', but does anyone know for certain
>> when the inaccurate title came into use. A footnote in
>> the Steven Jay Schneider-edited Fear Without Frontiers
>> suggests that it was western distributor of Kwaidan,
>> but I have found a 1927 essay- written by H.P.
>> Lovecraft of all people, who seems to have enjoyed
>> Lafcadio Hearn's work- that uses the title 'Kwaidan'.
>> Did this misconception arise with the book's first
>> publication?
>>
>> Thanks for any help that can be provided here!
>>
>> Jim Harper.
>>
>> http://www.flipsidemovies.com
>> http://jimharper.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>> ___________________________________________________________
>> Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good
> http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html
>
>
>
>
> From: Mark Anderson <ander025 at umn.edu>
> Date: October 6, 2007 10:09:13 AM CDT
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Kwaidan/Kaidan
>
>
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> From: Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: October 6, 2007 10:52:51 AM CDT
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Inuzuka Minoru
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> From: Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: October 6, 2007 11:28:15 AM CDT
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Kwaidan/Kaidan
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> From: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> Date: October 6, 2007 11:56:03 AM CDT
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Inuzuka Minoru
>
>
> I actually conveyed the question to a film studies list. We'll see
> what others come up with.
>
>> I was thinking of Oliveira, which is why I didn't say the thought
>> that initially occured to me?of?"last director to have made silent
>> films" - since?Oliveira's short documentary Douro - Faina Fluvial
>> (1931) is silent. Having said that, I could have said "Was Inuzuka
>> the last director to have made silent features"?
>
> The problem with saying "silent features" is that there were some
> countries, like Korea, that were making silent features into the
> 1940s due to various historical circumstances. Japan, of course,
> was releasing silent features up until about 1937. Perhaps
> restricting the question to the 1920s helps avoids these
> differences in circumstance.
>
>
> Aaron Gerow
> KineJapan owner
>
> Assistant Professor
> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Yale University
>
> For list commands, send "information kinejapan" to
> listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Kinema Club: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html
>
>
>
> From: "thomas.lamarre" <thomas.lamarre at mcgill.ca>
> Date: October 6, 2007 12:54:48 PM CDT
> To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Subject: Re: Inuzuka Minoru
>
>
> Just to add to this train of thought: there are other reasons to
> make silent
> films, if we look at Guy Maddin's recent silent 'Brand upon the
> Brain,'
> which was performed in Toronto with Isabella Rosselinni as the live
> narrator
> but which has been released more widely as a 'silent' (with the
> caveat the
> silent films often have sound and music).
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 10/6/07 12:56 PM, "Aaron Gerow" <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> I actually conveyed the question to a film studies list. We'll see
>> what
>> others come up with.
>>
>>> I was thinking of Oliveira, which is why I didn't say the thought
>>> that
>>> initially occured to me?of?"last director to have made silent
>>> films" -
>>> since?Oliveira's short documentary Douro - Faina Fluvial (1931) is
>>> silent. Having said that, I could have said "Was Inuzuka the last
>>> director to have made silent features"?
>>
>> The problem with saying "silent features" is that there were some
>> countries, like Korea, that were making silent features into the
>> 1940s
>> due to various historical circumstances. Japan, of course, was
>> releasing silent features up until about 1937. Perhaps restricting
>> the
>> question to the 1920s helps avoids these differences in circumstance.
>>
>>
>> Aaron Gerow
>> KineJapan owner
>>
>> Assistant Professor
>> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
>> Yale University
>>
>> For list commands, send "information kinejapan" to
>> listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>> Kinema Club: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html
>
>
>
>
> From: Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: October 6, 2007 1:05:15 PM CDT
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Inuzuka Minoru
>
>
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> From: amnornes at umich.edu
> Date: October 6, 2007 7:45:08 PM CDT
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: More Yamagata News
>
>
> Yamagata is as lively and enjoyable as ever. One of the pleasures is
> seeing so many people you know in one place. There are few events were
> so many people gather like this, partly because after the films are
> over there is one gathering point----an old pickle factory---where
> everyone hangs until they kick us out at 2:00 with an employee
> wandering around playing Auld Langs Eyne on a boom box. So rude. If
> the
> the ancient rafters of this place collapsed, film culture in Japan
> would be reduced to the shakey, barren studios in the capital and the
> Tokyo Film Festival.
>
> One big surprise of this year:s festival is the sidebar on science
> films. We see the originary moment of this program in Iizuka Toshio's
> Eiga no miyako futatabi, which I wrote about yesterday. In that scene,
> the festival staff present the idea at a meeting with the head of the
> organizing committee, who has already been structured as a nemisis (he
> may in fact be playing that role). His response is to push
> back?FScience films?!? No one cares about dull science films, and the
> march of progress has made their science irrelevant. The staff
> explains
> their plans for outreach through the local schools, to try to make
> science fun, etc. They clearly packaged it along these lines. The
> cover
> of their catalog (which has nice little articles on UFA, kulturefilm,
> Painleve, Higuchi, etc.) is a colorful manga filled with insects,
> animals, cells, slime, gears, and two bug-eyed kids holding
> Doraemon-like apparatuses. The plan obviously worked. They have filled
> every seat and turned people away from every show. Those who went were
> lucky to see stunning films like Marine Snow in the original 35mm.
>
> Last night there was a symposium asking the question, "Should Yamagata
> have a documentary festival?" The answer being obvious, I elected to
> go to a small gathering at an izakaya for Miyazawa-san. This is the
> former director who we see displaced in the Iizuka film. Organized by
> critic Murayama Kyoichiro, the attendees were many of the movers and
> shakers that constitute the infrastructure for film culture in Japan.
> It was a fun and relaxing evening, and Miyazawa-san deserved the
> little
> celebration. [An aside: one participant had a great story about Ogawa
> Shinsuke which I wished I:d heard before I published my book. Ogawa
> reprimanded a few of his staff members who wanted to pay into the
> social security net here, asserting that they shouldn:t have anything
> to do with the side of power. Of course, when Ogawa died it turned out
> he had been putting money in for years.] As we left, someone
> announced, "It seems people at tonight's symposium have heard about
> our
> gathering for Miyazawa. If anyone asks, make sure they know it's no
> 'ura-symposium.'" Of course, it is meaningful that they just happened
> to have their dinner during the scheduled "Should Yamagata have a
> documentary festival symposium."
>
> Documentary Box hit the streets yesterday. I imagine it will be online
> soon. This is the final number of what has been a really great
> newsletter. In the pages of this last issue, you will see article
> after
> article waxing nostalgic and wishing the festival organizers good luck
> in their new life as an NPO. The most notable article may be director
> Yano Kazuyuki's swan song; after years of saying he was going to quit,
> he takes stock of the last ten festivals and bids farewell. If it's on
> paper, he must be serious this time.
>
> My filmic highlight so far? Yesterday's program at Tohoku Geikodai
> showed classic 8mm films (all the original---often unique---prints,
> which must have made the projectionist pretty nervous). In the program
> was Yamazaki Mikio's "Kaihen no kioku". Yamazaki, coming out the heady
> 70s indie film culture, wanted to express that era's violence in an
> 8mm
> film---this was 1982. Basically, he cuts between what appears to be a
> lovely scene of beheading by the sea and a hand in close-up. The hand
> appears in three modes: with a white glove, completely covered with
> band-aids, and bare. The bare hand has been sliced with a hundred
> (seems like a thousand) cuts, including a couple onscreen with a
> boxcutter. They slowly ooze with life force until being replaced by
> glove. Bandaids. The ocean... I:ve never seen an 8mm film with such
> impact as that.
>
> Markus
>
>
>
> From: "Don Brown" <ryuganji at gmail.com>
> Date: October 6, 2007 8:07:47 PM CDT
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: More Yamagata News
>
>
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