Bazin in Japan

[Mathieu Capel]

Thank you Ryan for your answer. I assume Nozaki is right to refer to Eiga
hyôron article, for Iwasaki actually just quote Bazin's title, without
exploring any further his theories, in order to discuss Georges Sadoul's
rendition of Japanese cinema in Les Cahiers du cinéma in 1953. Talking of an
"account" was a little misleading from me, indeed.
Thank you also for pointing me "Opening Bazin" : it looks quite fascinating,
and I shall read it as soon as I can.

Mathieu

2011/3/8 <ryan.cook at yale.edu>

>
> Dear Mathieu,
>
> Nozaki Kan has an essay about this in the presently appearing Oxford UP
> Bazin
> anthology "Opening Bazin" edited by Dudley Andrew and Hervé
> Joubert-Laurencin
> (in which I also have a small essay about Bazin's writings on Japanese
> cinema... pardon the self-promotion).  Your 1958 reference predates what he
> understands to be the "first appearance of Bazin" in Japan which he dates
> to a
> 1960 Eiga Hyoron article about Q'est-ce que le cinema by Okada Susumu and
> Mayama Yuriko.  Although it seems that even after being thus introduced
> Bazin
> was not *well* known, and has never become a terribly significant figure in
> Japan the way he eventually did in China, for example.
>
> I've personally seen reference to some mid-60s translations of Bazin on
> Italian
> neo-realism by Hasumi Shigehiko for cine-club publications (just as Kokai
> Eiji's complete translation of Q'est-ce que le cinema began appearing, one
> volume at a time).  I assume that if these essays were being translated in
> such
> a forum at this time they probably were not otherwise available in
> Japanese.
>
> I recommend Nozaki's informative essay on this!
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Mathieu Capel <mathieucapel at gmail.com>:
>
>  Dear Kinejapaners,
>>
>> Would someone know precisely since when André Bazin were known in Japan ?
>> The oldest reference I could get is from Iwasaki Akira's *Gendai Nihon  no
>> Eiga, *published in 1958, where he gave account of Bazin's "La leçon de
>> style du cinéma japonais". But, by that time, were his texts about Italian
>> neorealism known by critics or cinematographers ?
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Mathieu Capel
>> Paris
>>
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>>
>
>


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