SOME SOURCE INFO re: Hayakawa, Itami Mansaku, & Atarashiki Tsuchi Variant

[Roger Macy]

Thank you, Ayoko for this.
May I clarify?  Is that the Itami version is at the NFC and is only available to view there, or can it be obtained on DVD?
Am I right that, if you put 新しき土 into Amazon.jp, all those shown are, in fact, Fanck's film?

In addition to Jasper's sources, Kiyoko Hirano wrote 'Japanese Filmmakers and Responsibility for War' in the book 'War, Occupation and Creativity' edited by Marlene J. Mayo and J. Thomas Rimer.  There's quite a lot about Itami, but nothing that hasn't already been said here about Atarashiki tsuchi because, as late as 2001, she says it is "no longer available".

Roger
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> hello,
> 
> The Itami version is available at the National Film Center in Tokyo. Also Naoki Yamamoto has published an excellent article in Japanese on the two versions of Atarashiki Tsuchi.
> 
> As for German-Japanese connection via Hayakawa Sesshu, there's a 1937 film, though in French, directed by Max Ohuls called Yoshiwara, co-starring Japanese diva Michiko Tanaka. Not a film with Greamn-Japanese actors, but an absolutely fascinating film.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ayako Saito
> 
> 
>> -----元のメッセージ-----
>> 差出人: "David Blair" <blair at telepathic-movie.org>
>> 受取人: "KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>> 日付: 11/01/19 06:35
>> 件名: Re: SOME SOURCE INFO re: Hayakawa, Itami Mansaku, & Atarashiki Tsuchi Variant
>> 
>> Dear Professor McCaskey,
>> thanks very much!
>> that is really appreciated.
>> I once met Itami's assistant editor for the project,
>> and read the english version of the essay about the project [by one of
>> authors on this wonderful list],
>> but somehow I completely missed that there was an English version ....
>> wow, maybe if I'm lucky I'll dream it tonight,
>> and then tomorrow can claim to have seen it ;)
>> 
>> best,
>> David
>> 
>> On 1/18/2011 10:19 PM, mccaskem at georgetown.edu wrote:
>> > Dear David Blair,
>> >
>> > I did not feel right about leaving the matter hanging vaguely in space, so I went 
>> > back and looked around.
>> >
>> > The text excerpts below tend to verify that Itami tried to make a variant 
>> > version...but it was not so terrific. Itami had been put off by a number of cultural 
>> > howlers in Fanck's film - products of what some would call "Orientalism" a 
>> > decade ago.
>> >
>> > The characters are in a city, maybe Kyoto, which somehow is beside a raging 
>> > volcano actually far away, and so on. Hara Setsuko and Ruth Eweler look at a 
>> > very garish kimono-thing, that Japanese would not want to wear to a wedding 
>> > or anywhere else. Itami had a dispute with Fanck about these things, so later he 
>> > tried to make a revised version, in English and Japanese, trying to salvage the 
>> > sets, and using many of the same technical people. But it didn't really work out.
>> >
>> > Then the Fanck version was a hit in Germany, with a premiere at the great big 
>> > theater near the Zoo in Berlin, where "Metropolis" had premiered. Not only was 
>> > Fanck's film praised in Germany (and of course Japan) - it was also shown in 
>> > other countries.
>> >
>> > Release Dates 
>> > Japan . 3 February 1937 (Tokyo)
>> > Germany . 23 March 1937 (Berlin) (premiere)
>> > Finland . 21 November 1937
>> > Sweden . 7 April 1941
>> > Also Known As (AKA)
>> > Die Tochter des Samurai . Austria / Germany
>> > Die Liebe der Mitsu . Germany (reissue title)
>> > Mitsucho la figlia del samurai . Italy
>> > Mitsuko . Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
>> > N.r jorden brinner . Sweden
>> > Samurain tyt.r . Finland
>> > Tapfere kleine Mitsuko . Austria
>> > The New Earth . (undefined)
>> > The New Soil . (undefined)
>> > http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0028028/releaseinfo
>> >
>> > So the idea that Itami was "rescuing" the film just did not seem to make sense 
>> > any longer.
>> >
>> > I think maybe fragments of Itami's films either were shown at Tokyo MOMA in 
>> > connection with the 1996 retrospective film show, referenced below, or were 
>> > shown on TV around that time, or both.
>> >
>> > There's still the one blog bit I can't locate, but I now entrust this matter to you.
>> >
>> > Best Regards,
>> >
>> > mmcc
>> >
>> > 1)
>> >
>> > ファンクは「死の銀嶺」（1929年独）や「モンブランの嵐」（1930年独）などで、美
>> > しい自然を堂々と描き上げた作家であるが、「新しき土」でもそうした絶景を見せるこ
>> > とを優先させた。その結果、地理的にみて辻褄のあわないちぐはぐな作品となってし
>> > まっている。光子の家は京都にあることになっているのだが、彼女の家の裏庭はなぜか
>> > 広島の厳島神社である。また、ドイツから横浜に入港する船からは松島が見える。ドイ
>> > ツの観客ならばまったく疑問を差し挟むことはないのだろうが、我々日本人にしてみる
>> > と思い切り違和感がある。伊丹が早々とこの映画の製作から降りてしまった原因はこの
>> > ような理由からであった。後に伊丹は新たに撮り直した場面を加え、もう一つの「新し
>> > き土」を完成させたそうだが、僕はそっちのほうは観ていない。だが、どうやらそれも
>> > さほど優れた作品ではなかったようである。
>> >
>> > http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~st_octopus/MOVIE/SILENT/06.5SESSHUE2.htm
>> >
>> >
>> > 2) 大ホール上映作品
>> > 日本映画の発見II：トーキーの開始と戦前の黄金時代
>> > Rediscovering Our National Film Heritage (II): 
>> > The Advent of Sound and the Prewar Golden Age
>> >
>> > http://www.momat.go.jp/FC/NFC_Calendar/kaisetu.1996.6-9.html
>> >
>> > 2a)
>> >
>> > A-18 6／29(土)1:00pm 7／10(水)6:30pm 7／23(火)3:00pm
>> > 新しき土 ［日英版］THE NEW EARTH(114分・35mm)
>> >
>> > 日本初の国際合作映画として製作されたこの超大作については、共同監督とし
>> > て指名された伊丹万作とアーノルド・ファンクの対立が伝えられている。今回
>> > の特集では当時連続公開されて話題を呼んだ二つの「新しき土」＝ファンク版
>> > (ドイツ語版)と伊丹版(日・英語による国際版)の双方を上映する。二つの版の
>> > 成立にあたっては、双方のスタッフが撮影したフィルムが、編集材料として互
>> > いに共有されたと言われる。また、山田耕筰による音楽は、それぞれ新交響楽
>> > 団(ドイツ版)と中央交響楽団(日英版)によって演奏されている。(英語部分の
>> > 日本語字幕なし)
>> >
>> > '37(ファンク映画製作所＝J.O.スタヂオ＝東和商事映画部)(監)アーノルド・
>> > ファンク、伊丹万作(脚)アーノルド・ファンク(撮)リヒアルト・アングスト
>> > (美)吉田謙吉(音)山田耕筰(録)中大路□二(R.C.A. HIGH FIDELITY)(出)早川雪
>> > 洲、小杉勇、原節子、市川春代、ルート・エヴェラー、高木永二、英百合子、
>> > 中村吉治、村田かな江、常盤操子
>> >
>> > 2b)
>> >
>> > A-19 6／29(土)4:00pm 7／10(水)3:00pm 7／23(火)6:30pm
>> > 新しき土［ドイツ版］ Die neue Erde(127分・35mm)
>> >
>> > 山岳映画の巨匠、アーノルド・ファンクとリヒアルト・アングストによってフィ
>> > ルムに収められた、噴煙けむる焼岳や浅間山、そして原節子。当時の夥しい批
>> > 評には日本文化の皮相な解釈や国策的な意図に対する批判とともに、曖昧さを
>> > 排した再構成の力強さへの評価が混在して興味深い。(ドイツ語部分の字幕な
>> > し)
>> >
>> > '37(ファンク映画製作所＝J.O.スタヂオ＝東和商事映画部)(監)アーノルド・
>> > ファンク、伊丹万作(脚)アーノルド・ファンク(撮)リヒアルト・アングスト
>> > (美)吉田謙吉(音)山田耕筰(録)中大路□二(出)早川雪洲、小杉勇、原節子、市
>> > 川春代、ルート・エヴェラー、高木永二、英百合子、中村吉治、村田かな江、
>> > 常盤操子
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> 
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