Academy Awards

[Andrijana Cvetkovic]

Congratulation for both films! Its a great year for japanese cinema! For all currently in Japan there is program on NHK going right now focusing on the film Okuribito and all about the film and the Oscar event. 

Andrijana


--- On Mon, 2/23/09, Eija Niskanen <eija.niskanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Eija Niskanen <eija.niskanen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Academy Awards
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 1:41 PM
> Channel 4 reporters are contemplating that these two films
> show a new,
> more contemporary side of Japanese film: Okuribito is not
> jidaigeki
> but gendaigeki, and Kato Kunio's animation is not manga
> style but
> European-style art animation.
> 
> Eija
> 
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Eija Niskanen
> <eija.niskanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And Okuribito took the foreign language Oscar. But why
> is no TV
> > channel in Japan showing this occasion?!
> >
> > Eija
> >
> > 2009/2/23 Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>:
> >> Those watching the show already know, but Kato
> Kunio won the Academy Award
> >> for best animated short.
> >>
> >> I believe this is the first time a Japanese film
> has won in this category.
> >>
> >> On Jan 22, 2009, at 10:13 PM, Aaron Gerow wrote:
> >>
> >>> I should note that it was also announced that
> Kato Kunio's "Tsumiki no
> >>> Ie'' (The House of Small Cubes) was
> nominated in the animated short film
> >>> category. Here's his website:
> >>>
> >>> http://kiteretsu.robot.co.jp/kunio/
> >>>
> >>> He apparently works at Robot.
> >>>
> >>> This is the first Japanese nomination in this
> category since Yamamura
> >>> Koji's Atamayama in 2003.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Aaron Gerow
> >>> KineJapan owner
> >>>
> >>> Assistant Professor
> >>> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and
> Literatures
> >>> Yale University
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