Top 20 Japanese film directors

[Alexander Jacoby]

Thanks for your help!

ALEX




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From: Kosho Li <koshori at yahoo.com.hk>
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Sent: Wed, 2 March, 2011 5:01:50
Subject: Re: Top 20 Japanese film directors


The 1995 list included 63 directors and the last one happened to be Yoshimura 
with 2 votes ranking 45 along with 18 other directors like Kobayashi Masaki and 
Itami Mansaku.

The 2000 (A) list included 77 directors with the lowest ranking being 37 for 
those with 2 votes. Yoshimura was regrettably not in the list. 


The 2000 (B) list included 86 directors in 52 rankings. Both Shindo Kaneto and 
Yoshimura Kosaburo ranked 24. 

H C Li

--- On Tue, 3/1/11, Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:


>From: Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: Top 20 Japanese film directors
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 11:48 PM
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>Further to my earlier message, my request has now been answered. Thanks, Alo 
>Joekalda, for your assistance!
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>One question however. Li Hoo Cheong, posting the poll lists in a post dated July 
>24, 2006, wrote: "Recently I re-read the results of 3 ranking surveys on 
>Japanese directors conducted by "Kinema Junpo" back in 1995 and 2000.  The first 
>was published in issue 1176 (Nov 1995) polling the opinions of mainly film 
>critics.  The later two were published in issue 1320 (Nov 2000), one from 104 
>well known people (A) and one from 1502 ordinary readers (B). Here are the 3 
>lists down to the best 20 directors."
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>Does this mean that the original lists went further down that the best 20 
>directors? I'm interested in particular in where Yoshimura (not included in the 
>Top 20) ranked, and also where Shindo was on the 1995 and 2000 (B) polls - he 
>takes 12th place on the 2000 (A) poll. Can anyone with immediate access to the 
>relevant issues of KineJun help me?
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>1995                       2000 (A)               2000 (B)
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>1  Ozu                       1  Kurosawa            1  Kurosawa
>2  Kurosawa                  2  Ozu                 2  Ozu
>3  Mizoguchi                 3  Mizoguchi           3  Kinoshita
>4  Oshima                    4  Kinoshita           4  Yamada
>   Naruse                    5  Naruse              5  Mizoguchi
>6  Ichikawa Kon              6  Yamada              6  Ichikawa
>7  Kawashima Yuzo            7  Ichikawa            7  Naruse
>8  Uchida Tomu                  Uchida              8  Kitano
>9  Yamanaka Sadao               Oshima              9  Imai
>   Kinoshita Keishuke           Fukasaku            10 Imamura
>   Okamoto Kihachi              Kawashima           11 Obayashi Nobuhiko
>   Suzuki Seijun             12 Shindo Kaneto          Miyazaki
>13 Fukasaku Kinji               Makino Masahiro     13 Uchida
>   Kumashiro Tatsumi         14 Imamura Shohei         Oshima
>15 Kato Tai                     Okamoto             15 Fukasaku
>   Masumura Yasuzo              Kitano Takeshi         Yamanaka
>   Yamada Yoji                  Suzuki              17 Kawashima
>   Ito Daisuke                  Masumura               Masumura
>19 Imai Tadashi              19 Miyazaki Hayao      19 Kumashiro
>   Somai Shinji              20 Morita Yoshimitsu      Kobayashi Masaki
>                                Yamanaka Sadao
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From: Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk>
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Sent: Tue, 1 March, 2011 13:10:48
>Subject: Top 20 Japanese film directors
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>A couple of years ago, a list member posted a list of the Top 20 Japanese film 
>directors. I can't remember whether this was a list voted for by critics or 
>industry members or the general public, and I can't track it down by searching 
>my old Emails. It would be very useful for me today! I wonder if any kind 
>KineJapanner could forward it to me?
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>ALEX
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From: Maria Jose Gonzalez <tkarsavina at yahoo.com>
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 16:44:08
>Subject: Re: Spring Awakens (was: Hideko the Bus Conductor)
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>Just months before that same year,another "bus" film by Hiroshi 
>Shimizu,"Akatsuki no Gassho" had been released and Naruse was of course very 
>much aware of the comparisons that would arise.
>This film deals with yet another conductress and again contains no traces of a 
>country at war (apparently it was filmed in Akita Prefecture which suggests 
>films were moving away from the capital area to avoid it). 
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>Maria-Jose
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>--- On Tue, 1/3/11, Michael Kerpan <mekerpan at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>From: Michael Kerpan <mekerpan at verizon.net>
>>Subject: Spring Awakens (was: Hideko the Bus Conductor)
>>To: "KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>>Date: Tuesday, 1 March, 2011, 1:12 AM
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>>> This has the feel of a story of the near past, only pretending to be in the 
>>>present.
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>>This is true of one Naruse's early post-war films.  I get a feeling that this 
>>could as easily have been set around 1930 as around the latter 1940s. (This is 
>>another of my top 1940s Naruse films). ;~} 
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