Re: Rép. : Re: self-introduction and request

[Wei Ting Jen]

Hi Mia -

(and greetings to Nate and Dick)

Nathan is right, the National Film Center does have copies but they are not
subtitled in English.

I did my Master's thesis on a similar topic, researching Japanese film from
the 1936-1945 era (specifically, how the portrayal of "Shina" evolved from
the Manchurian Incident news films to Ri-Koran, etc etc). Many KineJapan
members helped me with finding original sources in Japan back then, for
which I am still indebted to.

I've actually been wanting to upload my thesis somewhere (I never bothered
with publishing it cos I left academia and the writing was so-so only ;)),
mainly because I reviewed many rare films from a wide range of sources from
the National Film Center, Showa Institute, Asahi News Film Archives, Ikeda
Bunko in Osaka, etc etc which should be a useful resource to list members
out there. Can anyone offer to help?

Best regards
Wei Ting



2009/5/20 Nate Shockey <nshockey at gmail.com>

> The National Film Center in Tokyo definitely has a copy of the Nishizumi
> tank battalion film; I saw it there at a private screening several years ago
> with another list member (Wei Ting, are you reading this?). It is not a
> documentary, at least not in any conventional sense, but rather a feature
> length action film, albeit a pretty boring one, as I recall that all three
> attendees at that screening may have drifted off in the middle. That copy
> didn't have any subtitles, but I suppose it's possible that other archives'
> copies may.
>
> -Nate Shockey
>
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Dick Stegewerns <
> dick.stegewerns at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>>  The two films you mention are not documentaries and they should have
>> copies at the Film Center. English subtitled copies may exist, because I
>> recollect there was a showcase of Japanese propaganda/war films in the US
>> ten years or more ago.
>>
>> Dick Stegewerns
>>
>>
>>
>> Mia Webster ¤µ¤ó¤Ï•ø¤­¤Þ¤·¤¿:
>>
>> Hello Sybil
>> Thank you for your reply.
>>
>> I did however already checked out the Tokyo Modern Museum of Art Film
>> Center.  I understood that they do not have documentaries, shorts, animation
>> films nor foreign films, and that their feature films are only in Japanese.
>> I therefore presumed they would not have copies of these two documentaries,
>> which ideally I would like in English.  I also tried searching their data
>> base, but didn't find these films.
>> http://search.artmuseums.go.jp/search_e/
>>
>> Do you know someone there I could contact about this?  I really appreciate
>> your help,
>> Mia
>>
>> >>> Sybil Thornton <camford1989 at yahoo.com> <camford1989 at yahoo.com>2009-05-20 00:17 >>>
>>    Hi,
>> The Tokyo Modern Museum of Art Film Center has copies.
>> Cheers,
>> SAT
>>
>> --- On *Tue, 5/19/09, Linda Ehrlich <linda.ehrlich at gmail.com><linda.ehrlich at gmail.com>
>> * wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Linda Ehrlich <linda.ehrlich at gmail.com> <linda.ehrlich at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: self-introduction and request
>> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>> Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 8:42 AM
>>
>> Mia: I believe the Library of Congress has copies, but not for general
>> circulation. Only for viewing there (a very interesting experience in
>> itself). Linda Ehrlich
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Mia Webster <
>> Mia.Webster at radio-canada.ca<http://us.mc527.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Mia.Webster@radio-canada.ca>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>  Name: Mia Webster
>>> Institutional affiliation or job: Visual researcher for CBC /
>>> Radio-Canada (French language Canadian public broadcaster)
>>> City and country: Montr¨¦al, Canada
>>> Research projects or publications: Currently working on doc on WWII
>>> Interests with regard to Japanese film and moving image media:
>>>
>>> For this current documentary project, I would like to view the following
>>> two Japanese films:
>>> - Chokoreto to heitai (Chocolate and soldiers), directed by Takeshi Sato,
>>> first aired in Osaka Nov 30, 1938
>>> - Nishizumi Senshacho-Den (The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi),
>>> directed by Kosaburo Yoshimura, first aired at the Kokusai cinema, Nov 29,
>>> 1940
>>>
>>> I haven't been able to find them on the web, at Amazon.ca nor Amazon.com,
>>> at any of our specialized video stores, at zip.ca...  I contacted the
>>> Kawakita Memorial Film Institute in Japon, as well as The Asian Film
>>> Archives but they couldn't help.  I searched the websites of the National
>>> Film Center of the NMOMA in Tokyo, and NHK but have come up with nothing.  I
>>> also contacted the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre here in Montreal, the
>>> Canada-Japan Society, the Japanese consulat of Canada, the Japan Society of
>>> New York, the Center for Asian American Media, and the Canadian association
>>> of Asiatic Studies, but no-one was able to offer any other suggestions of
>>> where I might find these.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thank you, much appreciated,
>>>
>>>  Mia
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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