Death by Hanging in Screen

[Roger Macy]

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
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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
>>
>>
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>> 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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