Shochiku 'New Wave' filmography?

eigagogo at free.fr eigagogo at free.fr
Tue Sep 1 16:35:23 EDT 2009


thanks Mathieu for the details ... never heard about these names!
By the way, i didn't know the 'Shochiku New-Wave' was a kind of 'official'
movement ... was it a kind of 'marketing' tool from the Shochiku executives?


Selon Mathieu Capel <mathieucapel at gmail.com>:

> As far as I know, Sh?chiku new wave "officially" included the three
> directors you mentioned, as well as Tamura Tsutomu, Takahashi Osamu,
> Morikawa Eitar? (who provided the Kyoto-based, jidai geki-esque version of
> this so-called new-wave), and maybe Sait? Masao...
> There's an interesting article ("Sh?chiku Ofuna no jidai") Sat? Tadao wrote
> around 1973 (in *Sekai no eiga sakka*), that could stand as an objective
> testimony of what was the "official version" of Sh?chiku Nouvelle Vague...
> And if one relies on that text, Sh?chiku officials actually seem to have
> stopped this Nouvelle Vague by 1961, for economical reasons... That is to
> say that strictly speaking, Hani's film would not be part of it... But how
> far is this point of view to be acknowledged ? That's something I wouldn't
> know...
>
> Mathieu Capel
> Paris
>


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