Retrospective and book on Yoshida Kiju

[Tom Mes]

ISBN 978-82-8025-026-1

It is a fine volume indeed.
Best,
Tom

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> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:00:57 -0500
> From: amnornes at umich.edu
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> CC: amnornes at umich.edu
> Subject: Re: Retrospective and book on Yoshida Kiju
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> Sounds wonderful! Dick, does the book have an isbn number? We need that to get libraries to order it.
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> On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Dick Stegewerns wrote:
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> Dear KineJapanners,
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> This is a rather belated announcement of a retrospective of film
> director Yoshida Kiju which is currently touring the Northern part of
> Europe. The retrospective consists of thirteen films - all of his
> fiction films available with English subtitles - from the various
> periods of his career. The start was at the Rotterdam Film Festival,
> which the director visited together with Okada Mariko. I am afraid
> tonight were the last screenings at the Netherlands Film Museum in
> Amsterdam, but the retrospective will continue in March at the four
> branches of the Norwegian Film Institute in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and
> Tromso. In April part of the retrospective will screen at the Danish
> Film Institute in Copenhagen. For details concerning the screenings in
> Norway and Denmark, please refer to http://www.nfi.no/cinemateket
> (Oslo), http://www.cinemateket-usf.no (Bergen), http://www.tiff.no
> (Tromso), and http://www.cinemateket.dk (Copenhagen).
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> To coincide with this retrospective the book 'Yoshida Kiju - 50 Years of
> Avant-Garde Filmmaking in Postwar Japan' has been published, which to my
> knowledge is the first book on Yoshida in English (and maybe in all
> other languages apart from Japanese). The book consists of an
> introduction by myself, an interview with Yoshida by Chris Fujiwara, an
> essay by the director himself, four essays - divided by period - by
> Yamamoto Naoki, Saito Ayako, Yomota Inuhiko and Hasumi Shigehiko,
> descriptions of all of his fiction films by Mathieu Capel and me, and a
> biography. The book contains many pictures from Yoshida's films. The
> retrospective received a warm welcome at the Rotterdam Film Festival and
> the book completely sold out. I would not be surprised if the same
> happens at the other venues, so in case some of you are interested in
> obtaining a copy but cannot make it to one of the venues, please contact
> me and I will secure you a copy. The book costs 15 Euro.
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> By the way, this retrospective was also the first opportunity for
> Yoshida to consider the English titles of some of his fiction films.
> Some of you may be interested in the following titles decided upon by
> the director himself: A Story Written in Water (1965), The Lake of Women
> (1966), Pilgrim in the Snow (1968), Adieu, Summer Light (1968),
> Purgatory Heroica (1970), and Confessions of Actresses (1971).
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> Regards,
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> Dick Stegewerns
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