Death by Hanging in Screen

[shota ogawa]

Thank you to Ryan and Roger for the information.

I will look into the issues of Wide Angle from the mid-1970s.

I wonder if 'Japan~History through Cinema' that was shown as part of
BFI's 'Japan~ Contemporary Directors' in 1974 is the same as "Daitoasenso"
that
Oshima did for Ushiyama Junichi?

Best wishes to all for the holiday season.

Shota



On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>  Hi, Shota,
> 'Death by Hanging' and 'Boy' were both screened at the LFF in 1969, and I
> would have thought most Oshima films would make the Festival in this era.
> It was, however, 1983 when he got a season at the BFI and at Edinburgh.
> BFI's 'Japan~ Contemporary Directors' in 1974 included Oshima's 'Three
> Resurrected Drunkards' and 'Japan~History through Cinema'  in 1975 had
> 'Night and Fog in Japan'.
> It's pretty likely that other cinemas would have been showing Oshima at
> this time, and this was an era when the BBC gave access to films not
> generally available, but I don't have details.
> Roger
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ryan.cook at yale.edu>
> To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 7:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Death by Hanging in Screen
>
> >
> > Hi Shota,
> >
> > Not sure about screenings of Koshikei, but the discussion in 1976
> probably has
> > something to do with the release of Ai no koriida that year.  Wide
> > Angle (where
> > Heath published "The Question Oshima") put out more than one special
> issue on
> > Oshima and Japanese cinema around 76-77, I think.
> >
> > -Ryan
> >
> >
> >
> > Quoting shota ogawa <shota.ogawa at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> I am writing a dissertation chapter on Oshima's Death by Hanging
> (Koshikei
> >> 1968) in relation to the
> >> "nisei mondai" of zainichi Koreans.
> >>
> >> I am fascinated by the fact that Stephen Heath places such importance on
> the
> >> film in his two articles "Narrative Space"
> >> and "Anata mo" (both in Screen, 1976).
> >> Although there is, for a brief period, some discussions between Heath
> and
> >> Colin MacCabe on Death by Hanging, this
> >> only lasts for a couple of issues.
> >> *Does anyone know if there was a major Oshima retrospective in England
> or
> >> around that prompted scholars to write about
> >> Death by Hanging all of a sudden after 8 years from its release in Japan
> >> (and the Marche du Film at 1968 Cannes).*
> >>
> >> Thank you and best wishes for the holiday season.
> >>
> >> Shota
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> ----------------------------------------
> >> Shota Ogawa
> >> Ph.D. Student
> >> Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
> >> 424 Morey Hall
> >> University of Rochester
> >> Rochester, NY 14627
> >>
> >> www.rochester.edu/College/onfilm/
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> >>
> >
> >
>



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Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
424 Morey Hall
University of Rochester
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