Yokohama and Yokosuka

[jesty at uchicago.edu]

Hi Ken

As for films, I've come across two more. One is Kurosawa
Akira's "Tenkoku to Jigoku" which is set in Yokohama's
Koganecho (黄金町). Another one associated with Koganecho is a
documentary based on a series of photographs by Mori Hideo
that took an aging mama-san as their main subject. The title
is "横浜メリー" but I haven't seen it.

As for film programs and events, in Yokohama I think there
have been some scattered series put on by smallish community
art groups. There's been a lot of support for eizo through
Yokohama's Sozo Toshi programs. This year was also the 150th
anniversary of the opening of the port. The ones below are
associated with machi-okoshi projects in the Koganecho,
Wakabacho, and Isezakicho areas:

Cinema Jack and Betty is going to have their second "Koganecho
Eigasa" in September (though the films involved don't
necessarily have any relation to Yokohama). I think they've
done some Yokohama themed things in the past.
http://www.jackandbetty.net/

There's also this thing: 横浜下町パラダイスまつり＊よこはま若
葉町多文化映画祭. http://downtownart.hama1.jp/ If you can
figure out what it is from the website, congratulations! But
you might want to keep and eye on it and see what takes shape.

Zakiza (which closed recently) put on an Isezaki Eigasai a few
months ago, where part of the program was outdoor screening of
1950s newsreels from the Kanagawa Nyusu Eiga Kyokai.
http://zakizastaff.hama1.jp/e88164.html

If you wanted to contact someone about ideas for a series, you
might try emailing Jack and Betty - the people who took it
over in 2007 have been trying all kinds of different things.
It sounds like a great idea.

Take care
Justin Jesty
 

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:48:44 +0900
>From: Ken Shima <nihoneiga1960 at gmail.com>  
>Subject: Yokohama and Yokosuka  
>To: KineJapan <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>
>For a long time now I keep wishing a programer here in Tokyo
would put  
>together a series on films set in Yokohama. Films that
explore the  
>interconnection of  industry and confluence of cultures that
take  
>place in port cities and that place Yokohama as a contrasting
urban  
>space to Tokyo.
>
>Since I have yet to see a program like this I wanted to ask
people's  
>recommendations of films that are set or deal with the space of  
>Yokohama or other ports of trade in Japan (Yokosuka, Kobe,
Hakodate  
>etc). In terms of time period I'm most interested in the
50s-70s. Some  
>examples of what I've been thinking of are "Mondays with
Yuka/月曜日 
>のユカ" and "Pigs and Battleships/豚と軍艦".
>
>Any other films that you can think of that fit these criteria?
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>Kenneth Shima