3 Japanese fantasy cinema titles needed

[Michael Kerpan]

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MEK

--- On Wed, 3/3/10, noble 1362 <noble1362 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: noble 1362 <noble1362 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: 3 Japanese fantasy cinema titles needed
> To: kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 11:33 PM
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> Ooe-yama Shuten-dôji AKA The ogre of mount Oe directed by
> Tokuzo Tanaka (1960) or Nippon tanjo AKA The Birth of Japan
> (1959) directed by Hiroshi Inagaki are two to consider.
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> For the 80's how about Shuji Terayama's Saraba
> Hakobune aka Farewell To The Ark (1984) or Tenkosei aka
> Exchange Students (1982) directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
> (although this may not meet your criteria) or Masahiro
> Shinoda's Sakura no mori no mankai no shita aka Under
> the Cherry Blossoms which is 1975 so may also not be
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> For the current decade there is Yoshitaka Amano's Yume
> jû-ya aka Ten Nights of Dreams (2006) or Sogo Ishii's
> Mizu no naka no hachigatsu AKA August in the Water (1995).
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> There are many more. These just come to mind right now and
> may not fit the "fantasy" film genre as tightly as
> you may want.
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> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 23:06:16 +0000
> From: 204172 at soas.ac.uk
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: 3 Japanese fantasy cinema titles needed
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> Hi all,
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> I have posted here regarding the same research project
> before, and I have got to the stage of doing my own close
> analysis of subtitle translation of 3 films in different
> eras.  However, I am not so au fait with the range of
> fantasy films on offer, so I would be eternally grateful if
> somebody could suggest 3 Japanese fantasy film subtitles,
> one film from the 60s, one from the 80s, and one from this
> decade, and ones that have been subtitled into English. I am
> also looking for the scripts of the original japanese
> dialogues, and should be able to find them myself, but if
> anyone has links to those as well, that would be ideal. I
> have chosen the genre of fantasy due to its tendency to lend
> itself to opportunities for 'creative'
> translations.
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> Regards,
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> Claudia
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