Fake Trailer

[Roger Macy]

This trailer was screened this month at the BFI by Tony Rains as part of his introductory talk, where he trailed the trailer as being 'extremely rare' (I think we got the 35mm print, so perhaps I can't sue under the Trade Descriptions Act).
Tony Rayns' point was that it rehearsed a series of genre depictions that were never to reappear in Oshima's later work.
The film, which seems of a kind with other company-promotional films, is listed in the 'complete works' by Turim, Jacoby and others, so I'll stop there.
Roger
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bruce Baird 
  To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
  Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 11:38 AM
  Subject: Re: Fake Trailer


  Aaron,


  Your comment brings up two questions:


  Would Shochiku have sent this out along with a feature film with the intent that the theater owner would screen it?


  Were any of the scenes in this short(/trailer?) ever made by Oshima into films later or used in later films?


  Bruce


  On Sep 19, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Aaron Gerow wrote:




    On Sep 18, 2009, at 11:38 PM, eigagogo at free.fr wrote:


      Tomorrow's Sun - Nagisa Oshima (1959)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFW9hMuBWeQ


    One could debate whether this fits the category of a fake trailer. When I saw it at the Bungeiza as part of an Oshima retro, it was labelled as being one of the many self-promotional shorts studios made, assignments which were often given to ADs to get them to hone their directorial skills. This one advertises Shochiku's new actors in their various roles without pretending any of this is one movie.


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