KINEJAPAN digest 3295

[Michael Raine]

Terrible news about Tanaka-san. I only met him briefly but his books
were fundamental to my work on Ozu. I am sure he will be long
remembered for the quality of his scholarship.

Michael

> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 10:15:04 -0500
> From: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Tanaka Masumi
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> Abe Kasho reported on Facebook that the film scholar Tanaka Masumi has =
> died. He apparently collapsed at home after returning from Sawato =
> Midori's benshi recital at Kinokuniya Hall on December 29. He was 65. =
> Tanaka was not an academic film scholar, but he was very good and =
> produced a lot of top level work, especially on Ozu Yasujiro, but not =
> confined to him. I had the pleasure of doing a roundtable talk with him =
> for Eiga geijutsu in the spring (on the subject of film and =
> academia--and on March 10th!) and will be using his work in my seminar =
> this semester.=20
>