Fake Trailer

[Bruce Baird]

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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Bruce Baird
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