Rép. : Re: self-introduction and request

[Dick Stegewerns]

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 ????????:
> 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> 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>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Linda Ehrlich <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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