Shintoho genre film series

[BRYAN HARTZHEIM]

Hi Marc,

I am a graduate student in UCLA's film studies department. I was wondering what the costs would be to hold this series. We have a venue at UCLA - the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater - which could possibly accommodate this series as part of their seasonal film programs. 

Best,
Bryan Hartzheim


On Jan 7 9:47 PM, marcwalkow at earthlink.net wrote: 

> In cooperation with Mark Schilling and the Far East Film Festival in 
>  
> Udine, I'm currently preparing a retrospective film series devoted to 
>  
> exploitation and genre films from Japanese film studio Shintoho,  
> specifically from 1956-1961, when the studio went bankrupt. It will 
>  
> feature a little more than a dozen films, and cover directors such as 
>  
> Teruo Ishii, Nobuo Nakagawa and many lesser-known others, including 
> a  
> large percentage of films never seen before in the West. Some better-
>  
> known Shintoho films include Nakagawa's JIGOKU (currently out on DVD 
>  
> from Criterion) and GHOST STORY OF YOTSUYA (which has screened on IFC-
>  
> TV from time to time).
> 
> We're currently looking for cinematheque or festival partners to help 
>  
> defray the costs of subtitling and securing the rights to screen the 
>  
> films overseas. If anyone out there is interested, please contact me 
>  
> directly. Title selection is still underway, and the series is due to 
>  
> be presented initially in Italy at the end of April. We're looking for 
>  
> North American bookings after that time period. Other European  
> bookings are possible, but wouldn't necessarily go through me...
> 
> Like the 1960s Nikkatsu Action series I toured in North America a year 
>  
> or two ago, most of the films (all but one, in fact) would have to be 
>  
> manually subtitled via a digital source. And many of the films will 
> be  
> dual digital projection: one projector for the feature film, one for 
>  
> the subtitles. Unfortunately, the rarity of the titles and the low  
> budget of the project make this a necessity; most of these films don't 
>  
> exist on celluloid any longer.
> 
> Marc Walkow
> (NY Asian Film Festival, and others...)