KINEJAPAN digest 2283

[Nancy Stalker]

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On Dec 27, 2007, at 11:08 PM, KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu wrote:

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> 			    KINEJAPAN Digest 2283
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> Topics covered in this issue include:
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>   1) Re: Tanaka Tokuzo 1920-2007
> 	by Kyoko Omori <komori at hamilton.edu>
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> From: Kyoko Omori <komori at hamilton.edu>
> Date: December 27, 2007 2:58:20 AM CST
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Tanaka Tokuzo 1920-2007
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> Just in case anybody is interested in attending a memorial for  
> Tanaka Tokuzo, it is planned for Saturday, February 2nd at Kwansei  
> Gakuin University, his alma mater in Hyogo Prefecture. Further  
> details will be announced in newspapers in January. Tanaka was very  
> active until the final days of his life, planning for the sequel to  
> the short film Aaron mentions in his message. After he was  
> hospitalized in late November for hip/back pains, he suffered from  
> a cerebral hemorrhage and passed away on December 20.
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> Off the top of my head, I can think of two books (both in Japanese)  
> about Tanaka's oeuvre. A freelance writer, Ayaba Kazuki interviewed  
> Tanaka in the mid-1990s and published a book titled _Eiga ga  
> koufuku datta koro._ I believe that the book is still in print. The  
> other one is _RESPECT: Tanaka Tokuzo_ published in 2006.
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> Kyoko
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> Kyoko Omori
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> Visiting Researcher (July 2007-August 2008) @ Waseda University,  
> Tokyo, Japan
> JSPS-SSRC Postdoctoral Fellow
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> Assistant Professor in Japanese
> East Asian Languages & Literatures Department
> Hamilton College
> Clinton, New York, USA
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> On Dec 27, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Aaron Gerow wrote:
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>>> Has anyone else noted that this director of chanbara died on  
>>> December 20th? I actually haven't seen all that many of his  
>>> films, so won't endeavour to write an appreciation of him myself  
>>> - could someone more familiar with his oeuvre than I am do the  
>>> honours?
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>> Thanks to Alex for mentioning this. I missed it in the end of  
>> semester/pre-Christmas rush.
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>> I actually saw Tanaka in 2006 at the Mizoguchi Symposium, which  
>> has now been put together in book form. He was quite lively and  
>> entertaining, and reminded me of the vigor of his own films.
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>> He started out at Daiei working as an AD for Kurosawa (Rashomon)  
>> and Mizoguchi (Ugetsu, Chikamatsu monogatari) before earning his  
>> directorial debut in 1958. He is in some ways a director from my  
>> youth, because I spent a year going to see the jidaigeki triple  
>> features at the Thalia in NYC when I was at Columbia. Most of the  
>> films were from Daiei, so Tanaka was a name I remembered from all  
>> those Nemuri Kyoshiro and Zatoichi films I saw. While Misumi Kenji  
>> was the most famous of the Daiai jidaigeki directors, it was  
>> Tanaka and Ikehiro Kazuo who formed the journeyman core. After  
>> Daiei went under, Tanaka continued to work in TV and thus I saw  
>> his name there a lot too.
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>> According to the news reports, his last film project was helping  
>> direct Shonen Kochi ondotori monogatari, a 35 minute entry in  
>> Yoshimoto's Directors 100, which features 100 films made by  
>> Yoshimoto Kogyo tarento. A trailer can be seen at:
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAyq5wl1fkY
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>> Tanaka was genki enough to attend screenings of the film in November.
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>> Aaron Gerow
>> KineJapan owner
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>> Assistant Professor
>> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
>> Yale University
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