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

[Nate Shockey]

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
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> 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>
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> 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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