Fake Trailer

[Aaron Gerow]

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.

Aaron Gerow
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