From mroberts37 at mail-central.com Wed Aug 28 09:22:43 2013 From: mroberts37 at mail-central.com (Mark Roberts) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:22:43 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences In-Reply-To: References: , , <1254ECB5E19246BF81F5EA5D041E1531@SamsungNetbook>, , <15B0A58A-DE66-4449-B702-C490025E6139@mail-central.com>, , Message-ID: Jasper, The NFC wasn't involved with the most recent FILMeX series on Kawashima, nor, for that matter, were Toho or Kadokawa. As Fred says, it was the TCCP. The NFC stopped doing retrospectives with FILMeX a few years ago. The festival now works directly with the studios. I believe the NFC collaborates with PIA, but it seems they have scaled back other partnerships. Thus, the FILMeX program only included films that Kawashima directed during his time at Shochiku and Nikkatsu. Toho and Kadokawa asked for too much money or had some other impossible requirements that prevented the Kawashima films in their catalogs from traveling outside of Japan, thus they weren't in the program at all. I mention this not to belabor these details, but to draw attention to the fact that a major festival such as FILMeX no longer has the resources to organize a traveling retrospective of a director such as Kawashima Yuzo. We could argue that Kawashima is a special case, since he worked at nearly all of the studios at different points in his career, but I would think that makes him even more worthy of a serious retrospective, not less. What I take away from this situation is not how distant we are from the dismissive attitude of the Western critics who saw these films in the late 50s and early 60s or how we comfortable should feel about this distance, but rather how the little things have changed in the past few decades. If anything, the situation has deteriorated over the past ten years, such that the catalogs of Toho and Kadokawa are seemingly no longer viable for Japanese festival programmers. Going forward, I would expect to see more programs based on the holdings of Shochiku and Nikkatsu, rather than complete retrospectives that express a broad curatorial perspective of Japanese film history. That period is apparently behind us. M. On Aug 28, 2013, at 9:34 PM, Jasper Sharp wrote: > Yes, you are right, there are a number of at the NFC made for the recent FilmEx retrospective. I believe there may have already been a few prints with the Japan Foundation too, which would have been the ones that screened at the 1991 Dutch Filmmuseum retrospective. > > > > The 2013 Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival will take place 5-15 September at various venues across Southeast London. > For more information, click here. > > My new book, The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema, > is out now from Scarecrow Press > > Midnight Eye - Visions of Japanese cinema > http://www.midnighteye.com > > Jasper Sharp, writer & film curator > http://jaspersharp.com/ > > From: notreconciled at gmail.com > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:22:23 -0400 > To: kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences > > Jasper, > > It may be the case that Bakumatsu Taiyo-den is the only new print which was made by Nikkatsu itself ? and as you point out, it was their initiative which made the film available for video release ? but there are a number of other new prints that were made recently. > > The FilmEx series in 2011 consisted of four new, subtitled prints that were made under the auspices of the Tokyo Culture Creation Project (as far as I understand this is part of the Olympic slush fund): Tonkatsu Taisho, Kino to Ashita no Aida, Ai no Onimotsu, and Suzaki Paradise. The Nikkatsu retrospective at Lincoln Center included another film (in addition to Bakumatsu and Suzaki), which I believe also came from the TCCP: Ashita kuru hito. > > The subtitled prints of the three Daiei films that have screened over the years came from the PFA's collection so, as you say, they presumably screened in the US at the time of their release as well. Between those and the Toho screenings, the early 60s seems to have been a better time to see Kawashima in the US than the present. > > But as you imagined, mainstream reviewers of the time, when they even bothered to take notice, were ill-equipped to appreciate what they saw. Crowther's review is an object lesson. He dismisses the "remarkably skillful and exquisite color photography" as the sole virtue of "a curious little Japanese film." He seems to object particularly to the mixture of comedy and sentimentality, as well as the way that the various narrative strands are organized, which he finds abrupt, erratic and "progressively more distracting." And then, the coup de grace: "And some rococo English subtitles for the screechy Japanese dialogue do not help the viewer sustain an attentive attitude. Sometimes they are funnier, unintentionally, than the broadest comedy scenes." > > Fred. > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Jasper Sharp wrote: > Bakumatsu taiyo-den was remastered as a 4K DCP by Nikkatsu last year. I think it was the only "new print" they made for the centenary, and a film the company was actively trying to promote for the overseas retros. This would explain the DVD release, not because it was something that Eureka hunted down themselves for its Masters of Cinema series, but because finally a version was made available for overseas home video markets. > > The Pacific Film Archive has a number of subtitled Kawashima prints listed in its holdings, suggesting that at least a few were circulated overseas back around the time of their release. For example, I know that Nikkatsu had an overseas office in Hawaii until 1968, and when this was closed, they donated all its subtitled prints to the archive rather than pay the cost of transporting them back to Japan and storing them. There are a lot of rare subbed prints of Nikkatsu films by directors like Masuda Toshio that have never even been checked for quality since this time - god knows what sort of state they're in! > > Another interesting thing I've come to appreciate over the years - a lot of Japanese films were distributed in the West by smaller concerns without the cachet of the film organisations and festivals who shaped the canon, and many were dismissed by critics out of hand. I cite the case of Man Who Causes a Storm, by Inoue Umetsugu - this was distributed in London in the late 50s by Gala films, who were largely associated with subtitled "continental films" (a euphemism from the time for saucy French and Swedish films). There's a review in the Monthly Film Bulletin in which the reviewer denounces the film for its garish emulation of American culture, presumably because it was different from the Ozu, Kurosawa and Mizoguchi films that formed the canon in the BFI-sanctified version of Japanese film history. I'd imagine that Kawashima would have been treated in a similar fashion by critics of the time - if his films were release in the US or UK, they'd probably have been similarly dismissed, and more likely, simply ignored for not being "Japanese" enough. > You might want to check through the review index of magazines like Variety or Monthly Film Bulletin though, even Continental Film Review - you'll be surprised at what was released in the West at that time. > > > > The 2013 Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival will take place 5-15 September at various venues across Southeast London. > For more information, click here. > > My new book, The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema, > is out now from Scarecrow Press > > Midnight Eye - Visions of Japanese cinema > http://www.midnighteye.com > > Jasper Sharp, writer & film curator > http://jaspersharp.com/ > > From: mroberts37 at mail-central.com > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:01:02 +0900 > To: kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences > > It might be worth adding that "Japanse meesters van de B-film" was edited by Hasumi as a project of the 20th edition of the Film Festival Rotterdam. > > My guess is that most of these screenings in Europe and North America were sourced by the Japan Foundation, which has perhaps ten films by Kawashima with English subtitles. > > After Rotterdam, the next significant retrospective in Europe was possibly in 2003 at the Maison de la Culture du Japon in Paris: > > http://mcjp.fr/francais/cinema/archives-101/yuzo-kawashima-le-vagabond-de-l > > Since the Japanese rights holders evidently have zero interest in overseas distribution, it doesn't surprise me that it took fifty years to see Kawashima on DVD with subtitles. > > > Mark Roberts > > Research Fellow, UTCP > http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/data/mark_roberts/index_en.php > > > On Aug 28, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Frederick Veith wrote: > > The film in the MoMA series was Bakumatsu taiyo-den, or as they called it: Not Long After Leaving Shinagawa. The Rotterdam publication only gives detailed credits for four films, which suggests to me that they were the only ones which screened at the festival: Suzaki Paradise, Bakumatsu taiyo-den, Onna wa nido umareru, and Shitoyakana kemono. Apart from these four, the only other film which seems to have screened in the US recently is the other Daiei film, Gan no tera. But believe it or not, some of Kawashima's Toho films were shown in the US at the time of their original release. Aobeka monogatari was even reviewed in the New York Times in 1964 by Bosley Crowther. > > Fred. > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Roger Macy wrote: > Hi, Alo, > This doesn't exactly put Kawashima in the West very far back, but my notes say he figured in a program at New York MoMA in 2005, called 'Early Autumn: Masters of Japanese cinema from the NFC, Tokyo'. I can't lay my hands on it to say which film. Galbraith's 'Japanese filmography' is a good place to look for Western releases before that. But there's also the 1991 book published by Rotterdam Film Festival, 'KAWASHIMA Y?z? & MORI Issei: Japanse meesters van de B-film ~ Japanese Kings of the Bs', which strongly suggests to me that they showed some of his films. I bought my copy at the Amsterdam 'Eye' centre last summer. > > I don't recall metareferencing in the couple of Kawashima films I've seen, but as far as the Marx brothers and Enoken are concerned, they both have a history in vaudeville and radio comedy, in both of which the fourth wall is only honoured in the breach. I read Enoken's to-camera squeak, at the beginning of Enoken no seishun suikoden as referencing his radio signature for a large part of his audience that might, up to that point, have only known him in that medium. > > Roger > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Raine > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:56 PM > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences > > Hello Alo, > > In terms of direct address, Enoken no seishun suikoden is probably the most obvious. I remember a seemingly complicit look in one of the Yotamono films (Jogakusei to yotamono?) too... > > Michael > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Alo J?ekalda wrote: > Dear KineJapaners, > > I've been writing something on early Kawashima Yuzo recently, and have run into a couple of issues that I'm hoping some of you can help to straighten out. > > First, I'd be interested to know if the metareferencing and overtly self-conscious narration that one begins to see in the Kawashima of late 1940s and Ichikawa of early 1950s was something entirely new in Japan. In Hollywood, breaking the fourth wall has hardly been an issue ever since the Marx Brothers or so, but what about the Japanese pre-war? There was, of course, a number of films that referenced or parodied both foreign and local product -- the Japanese King Kongs, for instance, have been brought up here before, as has been Yamamoto Kikuo's book, which lists a number of citational titles. But does anyone know if any of these or other older films actually addressed the audience in the literal sense? > > Also, I''ve been wondering about Kawashima's availability overseas, and whether Eureka's recent release ofBakumatsu taiyo-den really set a historical precedent. Is anyone aware of any other foreign release of a Kawashima film on any home video format? It's hard to believe it actually took them fifty years. As for international screenings, I believe a few films have been shown at Toronto and FILMeX, and Taiyo-den andSusaki paradaisu have, of course, been all over the place since last year's Nikkatsu centennial. 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From jasper_sharp at hotmail.com Wed Aug 28 08:34:45 2013 From: jasper_sharp at hotmail.com (Jasper Sharp) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:34:45 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences In-Reply-To: References: , , <1254ECB5E19246BF81F5EA5D041E1531@SamsungNetbook>, , <15B0A58A-DE66-4449-B702-C490025E6139@mail-central.com>, , Message-ID: Yes, you are right, there are a number of at the NFC made for the recent FilmEx retrospective. I believe there may have already been a few prints with the Japan Foundation too, which would have been the ones that screened at the 1991 Dutch Filmmuseum retrospective. The 2013 Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival will take place 5-15 September at various venues across Southeast London. For more information, click here. My new book, The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema, is out now from Scarecrow Press Midnight Eye - Visions of Japanese cinema http://www.midnighteye.com Jasper Sharp, writer & film curatorhttp://jaspersharp.com/ From: notreconciled at gmail.com Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:22:23 -0400 To: kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences Jasper, It may be the case that Bakumatsu Taiyo-den is the only new print which was made by Nikkatsu itself ? and as you point out, it was their initiative which made the film available for video release ? but there are a number of other new prints that were made recently. The FilmEx series in 2011 consisted of four new, subtitled prints that were made under the auspices of the Tokyo Culture Creation Project (as far as I understand this is part of the Olympic slush fund): Tonkatsu Taisho, Kino to Ashita no Aida, Ai no Onimotsu, and Suzaki Paradise. The Nikkatsu retrospective at Lincoln Center included another film (in addition to Bakumatsu and Suzaki), which I believe also came from the TCCP: Ashita kuru hito. The subtitled prints of the three Daiei films that have screened over the years came from the PFA's collection so, as you say, they presumably screened in the US at the time of their release as well. Between those and the Toho screenings, the early 60s seems to have been a better time to see Kawashima in the US than the present. But as you imagined, mainstream reviewers of the time, when they even bothered to take notice, were ill-equipped to appreciate what they saw. Crowther's review is an object lesson. He dismisses the "remarkably skillful and exquisite color photography" as the sole virtue of "a curious little Japanese film." He seems to object particularly to the mixture of comedy and sentimentality, as well as the way that the various narrative strands are organized, which he finds abrupt, erratic and "progressively more distracting." And then, the coup de grace: "And some rococo English subtitles for the screechy Japanese dialogue do not help the viewer sustain an attentive attitude. Sometimes they are funnier, unintentionally, than the broadest comedy scenes." Fred. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Jasper Sharp wrote: Bakumatsu taiyo-den was remastered as a 4K DCP by Nikkatsu last year. I think it was the only "new print" they made for the centenary, and a film the company was actively trying to promote for the overseas retros. This would explain the DVD release, not because it was something that Eureka hunted down themselves for its Masters of Cinema series, but because finally a version was made available for overseas home video markets. The Pacific Film Archive has a number of subtitled Kawashima prints listed in its holdings, suggesting that at least a few were circulated overseas back around the time of their release. For example, I know that Nikkatsu had an overseas office in Hawaii until 1968, and when this was closed, they donated all its subtitled prints to the archive rather than pay the cost of transporting them back to Japan and storing them. There are a lot of rare subbed prints of Nikkatsu films by directors like Masuda Toshio that have never even been checked for quality since this time - god knows what sort of state they're in! Another interesting thing I've come to appreciate over the years - a lot of Japanese films were distributed in the West by smaller concerns without the cachet of the film organisations and festivals who shaped the canon, and many were dismissed by critics out of hand. I cite the case of Man Who Causes a Storm, by Inoue Umetsugu - this was distributed in London in the late 50s by Gala films, who were largely associated with subtitled "continental films" (a euphemism from the time for saucy French and Swedish films). There's a review in the Monthly Film Bulletin in which the reviewer denounces the film for its garish emulation of American culture, presumably because it was different from the Ozu, Kurosawa and Mizoguchi films that formed the canon in the BFI-sanctified version of Japanese film history. I'd imagine that Kawashima would have been treated in a similar fashion by critics of the time - if his films were release in the US or UK, they'd probably have been similarly dismissed, and more likely, simply ignored for not being "Japanese" enough. You might want to check through the review index of magazines like Variety or Monthly Film Bulletin though, even Continental Film Review - you'll be surprised at what was released in the West at that time. The 2013 Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival will take place 5-15 September at various venues across Southeast London. For more information, click here. My new book, The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema, is out now from Scarecrow Press Midnight Eye - Visions of Japanese cinema http://www.midnighteye.com Jasper Sharp, writer & film curatorhttp://jaspersharp.com/ From: mroberts37 at mail-central.com Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:01:02 +0900 To: kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences It might be worth adding that "Japanse meesters van de B-film" was edited by Hasumi as a project of the 20th edition of the Film Festival Rotterdam. My guess is that most of these screenings in Europe and North America were sourced by the Japan Foundation, which has perhaps ten films by Kawashima with English subtitles. After Rotterdam, the next significant retrospective in Europe was possibly in 2003 at the Maison de la Culture du Japon in Paris: http://mcjp.fr/francais/cinema/archives-101/yuzo-kawashima-le-vagabond-de-l Since the Japanese rights holders evidently have zero interest in overseas distribution, it doesn't surprise me that it took fifty years to see Kawashima on DVD with subtitles. Mark Roberts Research Fellow, UTCPhttp://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/data/mark_roberts/index_en.php On Aug 28, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Frederick Veith wrote: The film in the MoMA series was Bakumatsu taiyo-den, or as they called it: Not Long After Leaving Shinagawa. The Rotterdam publication only gives detailed credits for four films, which suggests to me that they were the only ones which screened at the festival: Suzaki Paradise, Bakumatsu taiyo-den, Onna wa nido umareru, and Shitoyakana kemono. Apart from these four, the only other film which seems to have screened in the US recently is the other Daiei film, Gan no tera. But believe it or not, some of Kawashima's Toho films were shown in the US at the time of their original release. Aobeka monogatari was even reviewed in the New York Times in 1964 by Bosley Crowther. Fred. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Roger Macy wrote: Hi, Alo, This doesn't exactly put Kawashima in the West very far back, but my notes say he figured in a program at New York MoMA in 2005, called 'Early Autumn: Masters of Japanese cinema from the NFC, Tokyo'. I can't lay my hands on it to say which film. Galbraith's 'Japanese filmography' is a good place to look for Western releases before that. But there's also the 1991 book published by Rotterdam Film Festival, 'KAWASHIMA Y?z? & MORI Issei: Japanse meesters van de B-film ~ Japanese Kings of the Bs', which strongly suggests to me that they showed some of his films. I bought my copy at the Amsterdam 'Eye' centre last summer. I don't recall metareferencing in the couple of Kawashima films I've seen, but as far as the Marx brothers and Enoken are concerned, they both have a history in vaudeville and radio comedy, in both of which the fourth wall is only honoured in the breach. I read Enoken's to-camera squeak, at the beginning of Enoken no seishun suikoden as referencing his radio signature for a large part of his audience that might, up to that point, have only known him in that medium. Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Raine To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences Hello Alo, In terms of direct address, Enoken no seishun suikoden is probably the most obvious. I remember a seemingly complicit look in one of the Yotamono films (Jogakusei to yotamono?) too... Michael On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Alo J?ekalda wrote: Dear KineJapaners, I've been writing something on early Kawashima Yuzo recently, and have run into a couple of issues that I'm hoping some of you can help to straighten out. First, I'd be interested to know if the metareferencing and overtly self-conscious narration that one begins to see in the Kawashima of late 1940s and Ichikawa of early 1950s was something entirely new in Japan. In Hollywood, breaking the fourth wall has hardly been an issue ever since the Marx Brothers or so, but what about the Japanese pre-war? There was, of course, a number of films that referenced or parodied both foreign and local product -- the Japanese King Kongs, for instance, have been brought up here before, as has been Yamamoto Kikuo's book, which lists a number of citational titles. But does anyone know if any of these or other older films actually addressed the audience in the literal sense? Also, I''ve been wondering about Kawashima's availability overseas, and whether Eureka's recent release of Bakumatsu taiyo-den really set a historical precedent. Is anyone aware of any other foreign release of a Kawashima film on any home video format? It's hard to believe it actually took them fifty years. As for international screenings, I believe a few films have been shown at Toronto and FILMeX, and Taiyo-den and Susaki paradaisu have, of course, been all over the place since last year's Nikkatsu centennial. Anything else of note? 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From notreconciled at gmail.com Wed Aug 28 07:22:23 2013 From: notreconciled at gmail.com (Frederick Veith) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:22:23 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences In-Reply-To: References: <1254ECB5E19246BF81F5EA5D041E1531@SamsungNetbook> <15B0A58A-DE66-4449-B702-C490025E6139@mail-central.com> Message-ID: Jasper, It may be the case that Bakumatsu Taiyo-den is the only new print which was made by Nikkatsu itself ? and as you point out, it was their initiative which made the film available for video release ? but there are a number of other new prints that were made recently. The FilmEx series in 2011 consisted of four new, subtitled prints that were made under the auspices of the Tokyo Culture Creation Project (as far as I understand this is part of the Olympic slush fund): Tonkatsu Taisho, Kino to Ashita no Aida, Ai no Onimotsu, and Suzaki Paradise. The Nikkatsu retrospective at Lincoln Center included another film (in addition to Bakumatsu and Suzaki), which I believe also came from the TCCP: Ashita kuru hito. The subtitled prints of the three Daiei films that have screened over the years came from the PFA's collection so, as you say, they presumably screened in the US at the time of their release as well. Between those and the Toho screenings, the early 60s seems to have been a better time to see Kawashima in the US than the present. But as you imagined, mainstream reviewers of the time, when they even bothered to take notice, were ill-equipped to appreciate what they saw. Crowther's review is an object lesson. He dismisses the "remarkably skillful and exquisite color photography" as the sole virtue of "a curious little Japanese film." He seems to object particularly to the mixture of comedy and sentimentality, as well as the way that the various narrative strands are organized, which he finds abrupt, erratic and "progressively more distracting." And then, the coup de grace: "And some rococo English subtitles for the screechy Japanese dialogue do not help the viewer sustain an attentive attitude. Sometimes they are funnier, unintentionally, than the broadest comedy scenes." Fred. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Jasper Sharp wrote: > Bakumatsu taiyo-den was remastered as a 4K DCP by Nikkatsu last year. I > think it was the only "new print" they made for the centenary, and a film > the company was actively trying to promote for the overseas retros. This > would explain the DVD release, not because it was something that Eureka > hunted down themselves for its Masters of Cinema series, but because > finally a version was made available for overseas home video markets. > > The Pacific Film Archive has a number of subtitled Kawashima prints listed > in its holdings, suggesting that at least a few were circulated overseas > back around the time of their release. For example, I know that Nikkatsu > had an overseas office in Hawaii until 1968, and when this was closed, they > donated all its subtitled prints to the archive rather than pay the cost of > transporting them back to Japan and storing them. There are a lot of rare > subbed prints of Nikkatsu films by directors like Masuda Toshio that have > never even been checked for quality since this time - god knows what sort > of state they're in! > > Another interesting thing I've come to appreciate over the years - a lot > of Japanese films were distributed in the West by smaller concerns without > the cachet of the film organisations and festivals who shaped the canon, > and many were dismissed by critics out of hand. I cite the case of Man Who > Causes a Storm, by Inoue Umetsugu - this was distributed in London in the > late 50s by Gala films, who were largely associated with subtitled > "continental films" (a euphemism from the time for saucy French and Swedish > films). There's a review in the Monthly Film Bulletin in which the reviewer > denounces the film for its garish emulation of American culture, presumably > because it was different from the Ozu, Kurosawa and Mizoguchi films that > formed the canon in the BFI-sanctified version of Japanese film history. > I'd imagine that Kawashima would have been treated in a similar fashion by > critics of the time - if his films were release in the US or UK, they'd > probably have been similarly dismissed, and more likely, simply ignored for > not being "Japanese" enough. > You might want to check through the review index of magazines like Variety > or Monthly Film Bulletin though, even Continental Film Review - you'll be > surprised at what was released in the West at that time. > > > > The 2013 *Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival *will take place 5-15 > September at various venues across Southeast London. > For more information, click here > . > > My new book, *The **Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema*, > is out now from Scarecrow Press > > Midnight Eye - Visions of Japanese cinema > http://www.midnighteye.com > > Jasper Sharp, writer & film curator > http://jaspersharp.com/ > > ------------------------------ > From: mroberts37 at mail-central.com > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:01:02 +0900 > To: kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences > > It might be worth adding that "Japanse meesters van de B-film" was edited > by Hasumi as a project of the 20th edition of the Film Festival Rotterdam. > > My guess is that most of these screenings in Europe and North America were > sourced by the Japan Foundation, which has perhaps ten films by Kawashima > with English subtitles. > > After Rotterdam, the next significant retrospective in Europe was possibly > in 2003 at the Maison de la Culture du Japon in Paris: > > http://mcjp.fr/francais/cinema/archives-101/yuzo-kawashima-le-vagabond-de-l > > Since the Japanese rights holders evidently have zero interest in overseas > distribution, it doesn't surprise me that it took fifty years to see > Kawashima on DVD with subtitles. > > > Mark Roberts > > Research Fellow, UTCP > http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/data/mark_roberts/index_en.php > > > On Aug 28, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Frederick Veith wrote: > > The film in the MoMA series was Bakumatsu taiyo-den, or as they called it: > Not Long After Leaving Shinagawa. The Rotterdam publication only gives > detailed credits for four films, which suggests to me that they were the > only ones which screened at the festival: Suzaki Paradise, Bakumatsu > taiyo-den, Onna wa nido umareru, and Shitoyakana kemono. Apart from these > four, the only other film which seems to have screened in the US recently > is the other Daiei film, Gan no tera. But believe it or not, some of > Kawashima's Toho films were shown in the US at the time of their original > release. Aobeka monogatari was even reviewed in the New York Times in 1964 > by Bosley Crowther. > > Fred. > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Roger Macy wrote: > > ** > Hi, Alo, > This doesn't exactly put Kawashima in the West very far back, but my notes > say he figured in a program at New York MoMA in 2005, called 'Early Autumn: > Masters of Japanese cinema from the NFC, Tokyo'. I can't lay my hands on it > to say which film. Galbraith's 'Japanese filmography' is a good place to > look for Western releases before that. But there's also the 1991 book > published by Rotterdam Film Festival, 'KAWASHIMA Y?z? & MORI Issei: > Japanse meesters van de B-film ~ Japanese Kings of the Bs', which strongly > suggests to me that they showed some of his films. I bought my copy at the > Amsterdam 'Eye' centre last summer. > > I don't recall metareferencing in the couple of Kawashima films I've seen, > but as far as the Marx brothers and Enoken are concerned, they both have a > history in vaudeville and radio comedy, in both of which the fourth wall is > only honoured in the breach. I read Enoken's to-camera squeak, at the > beginning of *Enoken no seishun suikoden* as referencing his radio > signature for a large part of his audience that might, up to that point, > have only known him in that medium. > > Roger > > ----- Original Message ----- > > *From:* Michael Raine > *To:* Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:56 PM > *Subject:* Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences > > Hello Alo, > > In terms of direct address, Enoken no seishun suikoden is probably the > most obvious. I remember a seemingly complicit look in one of the Yotamono > films (Jogakusei to yotamono?) too... > > Michael > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Alo J?ekalda wrote: > > Dear KineJapaners, > > I've been writing something on early Kawashima Yuzo recently, and have run > into a couple of issues that I'm hoping some of you can help to straighten > out. > > First, I'd be interested to know if the metareferencing and overtly > self-conscious narration that one begins to see in the Kawashima of late > 1940s and Ichikawa of early 1950s was something entirely new in Japan. In > Hollywood, breaking the fourth wall has hardly been an issue ever since the > Marx Brothers or so, but what about the Japanese pre-war? There was, of > course, a number of films that referenced or parodied both foreign and > local product -- the Japanese King Kongs, for instance, have been brought > up here before, as has been Yamamoto Kikuo's book, which lists a number of > citational titles. But does anyone know if any of these or other older > films actually addressed the audience in the literal sense? > > Also, I''ve been wondering about Kawashima's availability overseas, and > whether Eureka's recent release of *Bakumatsu taiyo-den* really set a > historical precedent. Is anyone aware of any other foreign release of a > Kawashima film on any home video format? It's hard to believe it actually > took them fifty years. As for international screenings, I believe a few > films have been shown at Toronto and FILMeX, and *Taiyo-den* and *Susaki > paradaisu* have, of course, been all over the place since last year's > Nikkatsu centennial. 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From jasper_sharp at hotmail.com Wed Aug 28 04:54:25 2013 From: jasper_sharp at hotmail.com (Jasper Sharp) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:54:25 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences In-Reply-To: <15B0A58A-DE66-4449-B702-C490025E6139@mail-central.com> References: , , <1254ECB5E19246BF81F5EA5D041E1531@SamsungNetbook>, , <15B0A58A-DE66-4449-B702-C490025E6139@mail-central.com> Message-ID: Bakumatsu taiyo-den was remastered as a 4K DCP by Nikkatsu last year. I think it was the only "new print" they made for the centenary, and a film the company was actively trying to promote for the overseas retros. This would explain the DVD release, not because it was something that Eureka hunted down themselves for its Masters of Cinema series, but because finally a version was made available for overseas home video markets. The Pacific Film Archive has a number of subtitled Kawashima prints listed in its holdings, suggesting that at least a few were circulated overseas back around the time of their release. For example, I know that Nikkatsu had an overseas office in Hawaii until 1968, and when this was closed, they donated all its subtitled prints to the archive rather than pay the cost of transporting them back to Japan and storing them. There are a lot of rare subbed prints of Nikkatsu films by directors like Masuda Toshio that have never even been checked for quality since this time - god knows what sort of state they're in! Another interesting thing I've come to appreciate over the years - a lot of Japanese films were distributed in the West by smaller concerns without the cachet of the film organisations and festivals who shaped the canon, and many were dismissed by critics out of hand. I cite the case of Man Who Causes a Storm, by Inoue Umetsugu - this was distributed in London in the late 50s by Gala films, who were largely associated with subtitled "continental films" (a euphemism from the time for saucy French and Swedish films). There's a review in the Monthly Film Bulletin in which the reviewer denounces the film for its garish emulation of American culture, presumably because it was different from the Ozu, Kurosawa and Mizoguchi films that formed the canon in the BFI-sanctified version of Japanese film history. I'd imagine that Kawashima would have been treated in a similar fashion by critics of the time - if his films were release in the US or UK, they'd probably have been similarly dismissed, and more likely, simply ignored for not being "Japanese" enough.You might want to check through the review index of magazines like Variety or Monthly Film Bulletin though, even Continental Film Review - you'll be surprised at what was released in the West at that time. The 2013 Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival will take place 5-15 September at various venues across Southeast London. For more information, click here. My new book, The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema, is out now from Scarecrow Press Midnight Eye - Visions of Japanese cinema http://www.midnighteye.com Jasper Sharp, writer & film curatorhttp://jaspersharp.com/ From: mroberts37 at mail-central.com Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:01:02 +0900 To: kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences It might be worth adding that "Japanse meesters van de B-film" was edited by Hasumi as a project of the 20th edition of the Film Festival Rotterdam. My guess is that most of these screenings in Europe and North America were sourced by the Japan Foundation, which has perhaps ten films by Kawashima with English subtitles. After Rotterdam, the next significant retrospective in Europe was possibly in 2003 at the Maison de la Culture du Japon in Paris: http://mcjp.fr/francais/cinema/archives-101/yuzo-kawashima-le-vagabond-de-l Since the Japanese rights holders evidently have zero interest in overseas distribution, it doesn't surprise me that it took fifty years to see Kawashima on DVD with subtitles. Mark Roberts Research Fellow, UTCPhttp://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/data/mark_roberts/index_en.php On Aug 28, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Frederick Veith wrote:The film in the MoMA series was Bakumatsu taiyo-den, or as they called it: Not Long After Leaving Shinagawa. The Rotterdam publication only gives detailed credits for four films, which suggests to me that they were the only ones which screened at the festival: Suzaki Paradise, Bakumatsu taiyo-den, Onna wa nido umareru, and Shitoyakana kemono. Apart from these four, the only other film which seems to have screened in the US recently is the other Daiei film, Gan no tera. But believe it or not, some of Kawashima's Toho films were shown in the US at the time of their original release. Aobeka monogatari was even reviewed in the New York Times in 1964 by Bosley Crowther. Fred. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Roger Macy wrote: Hi, Alo, This doesn't exactly put Kawashima in the West very far back, but my notes say he figured in a program at New York MoMA in 2005, called 'Early Autumn: Masters of Japanese cinema from the NFC, Tokyo'. I can't lay my hands on it to say which film. Galbraith's 'Japanese filmography' is a good place to look for Western releases before that. But there's also the 1991 book published by Rotterdam Film Festival, 'KAWASHIMA Y?z? & MORI Issei: Japanse meesters van de B-film ~ Japanese Kings of the Bs', which strongly suggests to me that they showed some of his films. I bought my copy at the Amsterdam 'Eye' centre last summer. I don't recall metareferencing in the couple of Kawashima films I've seen, but as far as the Marx brothers and Enoken are concerned, they both have a history in vaudeville and radio comedy, in both of which the fourth wall is only honoured in the breach. I read Enoken's to-camera squeak, at the beginning of Enoken no seishun suikoden as referencing his radio signature for a large part of his audience that might, up to that point, have only known him in that medium. Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Raine To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences Hello Alo, In terms of direct address, Enoken no seishun suikoden is probably the most obvious. I remember a seemingly complicit look in one of the Yotamono films (Jogakusei to yotamono?) too... Michael On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Alo J?ekalda wrote: Dear KineJapaners, I've been writing something on early Kawashima Yuzo recently, and have run into a couple of issues that I'm hoping some of you can help to straighten out. First, I'd be interested to know if the metareferencing and overtly self-conscious narration that one begins to see in the Kawashima of late 1940s and Ichikawa of early 1950s was something entirely new in Japan. In Hollywood, breaking the fourth wall has hardly been an issue ever since the Marx Brothers or so, but what about the Japanese pre-war? There was, of course, a number of films that referenced or parodied both foreign and local product -- the Japanese King Kongs, for instance, have been brought up here before, as has been Yamamoto Kikuo's book, which lists a number of citational titles. But does anyone know if any of these or other older films actually addressed the audience in the literal sense? Also, I''ve been wondering about Kawashima's availability overseas, and whether Eureka's recent release of Bakumatsu taiyo-den really set a historical precedent. Is anyone aware of any other foreign release of a Kawashima film on any home video format? It's hard to believe it actually took them fifty years. As for international screenings, I believe a few films have been shown at Toronto and FILMeX, and Taiyo-den and Susaki paradaisu have, of course, been all over the place since last year's Nikkatsu centennial. Anything else of note? 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After Rotterdam, the next significant retrospective in Europe was possibly in 2003 at the Maison de la Culture du Japon in Paris: http://mcjp.fr/francais/cinema/archives-101/yuzo-kawashima-le-vagabond-de-l Since the Japanese rights holders evidently have zero interest in overseas distribution, it doesn't surprise me that it took fifty years to see Kawashima on DVD with subtitles. Mark Roberts Research Fellow, UTCP http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/data/mark_roberts/index_en.php On Aug 28, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Frederick Veith wrote: > The film in the MoMA series was Bakumatsu taiyo-den, or as they called it: Not Long After Leaving Shinagawa. The Rotterdam publication only gives detailed credits for four films, which suggests to me that they were the only ones which screened at the festival: Suzaki Paradise, Bakumatsu taiyo-den, Onna wa nido umareru, and Shitoyakana kemono. Apart from these four, the only other film which seems to have screened in the US recently is the other Daiei film, Gan no tera. But believe it or not, some of Kawashima's Toho films were shown in the US at the time of their original release. Aobeka monogatari was even reviewed in the New York Times in 1964 by Bosley Crowther. > > Fred. > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Roger Macy wrote: > Hi, Alo, > This doesn't exactly put Kawashima in the West very far back, but my notes say he figured in a program at New York MoMA in 2005, called 'Early Autumn: Masters of Japanese cinema from the NFC, Tokyo'. I can't lay my hands on it to say which film. Galbraith's 'Japanese filmography' is a good place to look for Western releases before that. But there's also the 1991 book published by Rotterdam Film Festival, 'KAWASHIMA Y?z? & MORI Issei: Japanse meesters van de B-film ~ Japanese Kings of the Bs', which strongly suggests to me that they showed some of his films. I bought my copy at the Amsterdam 'Eye' centre last summer. > > I don't recall metareferencing in the couple of Kawashima films I've seen, but as far as the Marx brothers and Enoken are concerned, they both have a history in vaudeville and radio comedy, in both of which the fourth wall is only honoured in the breach. I read Enoken's to-camera squeak, at the beginning of Enoken no seishun suikoden as referencing his radio signature for a large part of his audience that might, up to that point, have only known him in that medium. > > Roger > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Raine > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:56 PM > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences > > Hello Alo, > > In terms of direct address, Enoken no seishun suikoden is probably the most obvious. I remember a seemingly complicit look in one of the Yotamono films (Jogakusei to yotamono?) too... > > Michael > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Alo J?ekalda wrote: > Dear KineJapaners, > > I've been writing something on early Kawashima Yuzo recently, and have run into a couple of issues that I'm hoping some of you can help to straighten out. > > First, I'd be interested to know if the metareferencing and overtly self-conscious narration that one begins to see in the Kawashima of late 1940s and Ichikawa of early 1950s was something entirely new in Japan. In Hollywood, breaking the fourth wall has hardly been an issue ever since the Marx Brothers or so, but what about the Japanese pre-war? There was, of course, a number of films that referenced or parodied both foreign and local product -- the Japanese King Kongs, for instance, have been brought up here before, as has been Yamamoto Kikuo's book, which lists a number of citational titles. But does anyone know if any of these or other older films actually addressed the audience in the literal sense? > > Also, I''ve been wondering about Kawashima's availability overseas, and whether Eureka's recent release of Bakumatsu taiyo-den really set a historical precedent. Is anyone aware of any other foreign release of a Kawashima film on any home video format? It's hard to believe it actually took them fifty years. As for international screenings, I believe a few films have been shown at Toronto and FILMeX, and Taiyo-den and Susaki paradaisu have, of course, been all over the place since last year's Nikkatsu centennial. 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From notreconciled at gmail.com Tue Aug 27 20:23:32 2013 From: notreconciled at gmail.com (Frederick Veith) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:23:32 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences In-Reply-To: <1254ECB5E19246BF81F5EA5D041E1531@SamsungNetbook> References: <1254ECB5E19246BF81F5EA5D041E1531@SamsungNetbook> Message-ID: The film in the MoMA series was Bakumatsu taiyo-den, or as they called it: Not Long After Leaving Shinagawa. The Rotterdam publication only gives detailed credits for four films, which suggests to me that they were the only ones which screened at the festival: Suzaki Paradise, Bakumatsu taiyo-den, Onna wa nido umareru, and Shitoyakana kemono. Apart from these four, the only other film which seems to have screened in the US recently is the other Daiei film, Gan no tera. But believe it or not, some of Kawashima's Toho films were shown in the US at the time of their original release. Aobeka monogatari was even reviewed in the New York Times in 1964 by Bosley Crowther. Fred. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Roger Macy wrote: > ** > Hi, Alo, > This doesn't exactly put Kawashima in the West very far back, but my notes > say he figured in a program at New York MoMA in 2005, called 'Early Autumn: > Masters of Japanese cinema from the NFC, Tokyo'. I can't lay my hands on it > to say which film. Galbraith's 'Japanese filmography' is a good place to > look for Western releases before that. But there's also the 1991 book > published by Rotterdam Film Festival, 'KAWASHIMA Y?z? & MORI Issei: > Japanse meesters van de B-film ~ Japanese Kings of the Bs', which strongly > suggests to me that they showed some of his films. I bought my copy at the > Amsterdam 'Eye' centre last summer. > > I don't recall metareferencing in the couple of Kawashima films I've seen, > but as far as the Marx brothers and Enoken are concerned, they both have a > history in vaudeville and radio comedy, in both of which the fourth wall is > only honoured in the breach. I read Enoken's to-camera squeak, at the > beginning of *Enoken no seishun suikoden* as referencing his radio > signature for a large part of his audience that might, up to that point, > have only known him in that medium. > > Roger > > ----- Original Message ----- > > *From:* Michael Raine > *To:* Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:56 PM > *Subject:* Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences > > Hello Alo, > > In terms of direct address, Enoken no seishun suikoden is probably the > most obvious. I remember a seemingly complicit look in one of the Yotamono > films (Jogakusei to yotamono?) too... > > Michael > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Alo J?ekalda wrote: > >> Dear KineJapaners, >> >> I've been writing something on early Kawashima Yuzo recently, and have >> run into a couple of issues that I'm hoping some of you can help to >> straighten out. >> >> First, I'd be interested to know if the metareferencing and overtly >> self-conscious narration that one begins to see in the Kawashima of late >> 1940s and Ichikawa of early 1950s was something entirely new in Japan. In >> Hollywood, breaking the fourth wall has hardly been an issue ever since the >> Marx Brothers or so, but what about the Japanese pre-war? There was, of >> course, a number of films that referenced or parodied both foreign and >> local product -- the Japanese King Kongs, for instance, have been brought >> up here before, as has been Yamamoto Kikuo's book, which lists a number of >> citational titles. But does anyone know if any of these or other older >> films actually addressed the audience in the literal sense? >> >> Also, I''ve been wondering about Kawashima's availability overseas, and >> whether Eureka's recent release of *Bakumatsu taiyo-den* really set a >> historical precedent. Is anyone aware of any other foreign release of a >> Kawashima film on any home video format? It's hard to believe it actually >> took them fifty years. As for international screenings, I believe a few >> films have been shown at Toronto and FILMeX, and *Taiyo-den* and *Susaki >> paradaisu* have, of course, been all over the place since last year's >> Nikkatsu centennial. 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But there's also the 1991 book published by Rotterdam Film Festival, 'KAWASHIMA Y?z? & MORI Issei: Japanse meesters van de B-film ~ Japanese Kings of the Bs', which strongly suggests to me that they showed some of his films. I bought my copy at the Amsterdam 'Eye' centre last summer. I don't recall metareferencing in the couple of Kawashima films I've seen, but as far as the Marx brothers and Enoken are concerned, they both have a history in vaudeville and radio comedy, in both of which the fourth wall is only honoured in the breach. I read Enoken's to-camera squeak, at the beginning of Enoken no seishun suikoden as referencing his radio signature for a large part of his audience that might, up to that point, have only known him in that medium. Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Raine To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kawashima and metareferences Hello Alo, In terms of direct address, Enoken no seishun suikoden is probably the most obvious. I remember a seemingly complicit look in one of the Yotamono films (Jogakusei to yotamono?) too... Michael On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Alo J?ekalda wrote: Dear KineJapaners, I've been writing something on early Kawashima Yuzo recently, and have run into a couple of issues that I'm hoping some of you can help to straighten out. First, I'd be interested to know if the metareferencing and overtly self-conscious narration that one begins to see in the Kawashima of late 1940s and Ichikawa of early 1950s was something entirely new in Japan. In Hollywood, breaking the fourth wall has hardly been an issue ever since the Marx Brothers or so, but what about the Japanese pre-war? There was, of course, a number of films that referenced or parodied both foreign and local product -- the Japanese King Kongs, for instance, have been brought up here before, as has been Yamamoto Kikuo's book, which lists a number of citational titles. But does anyone know if any of these or other older films actually addressed the audience in the literal sense? Also, I''ve been wondering about Kawashima's availability overseas, and whether Eureka's recent release of Bakumatsu taiyo-den really set a historical precedent. Is anyone aware of any other foreign release of a Kawashima film on any home video format? It's hard to believe it actually took them fifty years. As for international screenings, I believe a few films have been shown at Toronto and FILMeX, and Taiyo-den and Susaki paradaisu have, of course, been all over the place since last year's Nikkatsu centennial. Anything else of note? 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Michael On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Alo J?ekalda wrote: > Dear KineJapaners, > > I've been writing something on early Kawashima Yuzo recently, and have run > into a couple of issues that I'm hoping some of you can help to straighten > out. > > First, I'd be interested to know if the metareferencing and overtly > self-conscious narration that one begins to see in the Kawashima of late > 1940s and Ichikawa of early 1950s was something entirely new in Japan. In > Hollywood, breaking the fourth wall has hardly been an issue ever since the > Marx Brothers or so, but what about the Japanese pre-war? There was, of > course, a number of films that referenced or parodied both foreign and > local product -- the Japanese King Kongs, for instance, have been brought > up here before, as has been Yamamoto Kikuo's book, which lists a number of > citational titles. But does anyone know if any of these or other older > films actually addressed the audience in the literal sense? > > Also, I''ve been wondering about Kawashima's availability overseas, and > whether Eureka's recent release of *Bakumatsu taiyo-den* really set a > historical precedent. Is anyone aware of any other foreign release of a > Kawashima film on any home video format? It's hard to believe it actually > took them fifty years. As for international screenings, I believe a few > films have been shown at Toronto and FILMeX, and *Taiyo-den* and *Susaki > paradaisu* have, of course, been all over the place since last year's > Nikkatsu centennial. Anything else of note? > > Thanks in advance and all the best, > Alo > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There was, of course, a number of films that referenced or parodied both foreign and local product -- the Japanese King Kongs, for instance, have been brought up here before, as has been Yamamoto Kikuo's book, which lists a number of citational titles. But does anyone know if any of these or other older films actually addressed the audience in the literal sense? Also, I''ve been wondering about Kawashima's availability overseas, and whether Eureka's recent release of *Bakumatsu taiyo-den* really set a historical precedent. Is anyone aware of any other foreign release of a Kawashima film on any home video format? It's hard to believe it actually took them fifty years. As for international screenings, I believe a few films have been shown at Toronto and FILMeX, and *Taiyo-den* and *Susaki paradaisu* have, of course, been all over the place since last year's Nikkatsu centennial. Anything else of note? 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Or, at least, Ghibli fans are. thanks, Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: itchyshouse at rocketmail.com To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kaze tachinu gets attention at home and abroad No, it was "Laputa": http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/08/economist-explains-14 Sent from my iPad On 2013/08/26, at 0:32, Roger Macy wrote: I've not seen the film - I was just being the messenger - Kokuriko-zaka kara, 2011, has only just reached London. . The reports of it seem no more distorted than those on other wars rather closer to me. I'd be interested in reading other argued opinions. best, Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: Cook, Theodore To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Cc: KineJapan Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 3:52 PM Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kaze tachinu gets attention at home and abroad Wonderful Roger. The historical distortion and wishful thinking are mind-boggling Ted Cook Sent from my iPhone On Aug 25, 2013, at 9:38 AM, "Roger Macy" wrote: Maybe only old fogeys like me hadn't caught up with this, since I think that the reception of 'The Wind Rises / Kaze tachinu' may, in terms that its twitter response, have broken some world data traffic record this month - at least it's unlikely, surely, to have been in respect of 'Castle in the Sky' ? (para 14, starting 'A wholesale rewrite') http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/23/tech-giants-data But it has also got some prominence, in terms of its content, at 'The Economist' and 'The Guardian' http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21582490-celebrated-director-upsets-some-fans-and-angers-conservatives-above-fray http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/hayao-miyazaki-film-wind-rises Roger _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The reports of it seem no more distorted than those on other wars rather closer to me. > I'd be interested in reading other argued opinions. > best, > Roger > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Cook, Theodore > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Cc: KineJapan > Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 3:52 PM > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kaze tachinu gets attention at home and abroad > > Wonderful Roger. The historical distortion and wishful thinking are mind-boggling > > Ted Cook > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 25, 2013, at 9:38 AM, "Roger Macy" wrote: > >> Maybe only old fogeys like me hadn't caught up with this, since I think that the reception of 'The Wind Rises / Kaze tachinu' may, in terms that its twitter response, have broken some world data traffic record this month - at least it's unlikely, surely, to have been in respect of 'Castle in the Sky' ? >> (para 14, starting 'A wholesale rewrite') >> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/23/tech-giants-data >> >> But it has also got some prominence, in terms of its content, at 'The Economist' and 'The Guardian' >> http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21582490-celebrated-director-upsets-some-fans-and-angers-conservatives-above-fray >> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/hayao-miyazaki-film-wind-rises >> >> Roger >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu >> https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The historical distortion and wishful thinking are mind-boggling Ted Cook Sent from my iPhone On Aug 25, 2013, at 9:38 AM, "Roger Macy" wrote: Maybe only old fogeys like me hadn't caught up with this, since I think that the reception of 'The Wind Rises / Kaze tachinu' may, in terms that its twitter response, have broken some world data traffic record this month - at least it's unlikely, surely, to have been in respect of 'Castle in the Sky' ? (para 14, starting 'A wholesale rewrite') http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/23/tech-giants-data But it has also got some prominence, in terms of its content, at 'The Economist' and 'The Guardian' http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21582490-celebrated-director-upsets-some-fans-and-angers-conservatives-above-fray http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/hayao-miyazaki-film-wind-rises Roger _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The historical distortion and wishful thinking are mind-boggling Ted Cook Sent from my iPhone On Aug 25, 2013, at 9:38 AM, "Roger Macy" > wrote: Maybe only old fogeys like me hadn't caught up with this, since I think that the reception of 'The Wind Rises / Kaze tachinu' may, in terms that its twitter response, have broken some world data traffic record this month - at least it's unlikely, surely, to have been in respect of 'Castle in the Sky' ? (para 14, starting 'A wholesale rewrite') http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/23/tech-giants-data But it has also got some prominence, in terms of its content, at 'The Economist' and 'The Guardian' http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21582490-celebrated-director-upsets-some-fans-and-angers-conservatives-above-fray http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/hayao-miyazaki-film-wind-rises Roger _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Anyone else who has an interest in that year please contact me of list at johan,nord at gmail.com Very best, Johan On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Alex Zahlten wrote: > Hello everyone, > > here is just a reminder that August 20 is the deadline for abstracts for > Kinema Club XIII at Harvard University on January 17, 2014. > > Thanks to everyone that has already sent in proposals. Currently it looks as > if we might expand the conference to a second day (the 18th) to accommodate > the number of papers. Since we are trying to put together some screenings to > accompany the conference that might give more time to see some interesting > films as well. > > Also, there have been some questions about how far the papers can stray from > each respective year. While of course everyone will probably have to talk > about context, I believe it is important to stick as much as possible to the > specific year you have chosen. One of the goals of the conference concept is > to force us to adjust to a certain, possibly contradictory moment ? that > does not conform to the smoother, long-term historiographic narratives we > usually put together. > > Again, if there are any questions, just write to me at > Kinemaclub13 at gmail.com > > All the best! > Alex > > > Call for Papers for?. > > > > Kinema Club XIII > > at Harvard University > > > > Three Times +X. Transitional Moments in Film and Media History in Japan. > > > > Dates: January 17, 2014 > > Reischauer Institute, Harvard University > > Deadine for submissions: August 20, 2013 > > > > > > We welcome submissions for the 13th Kinema Club Conference on Film and > Moving Images from Japan! > > > > This Kinema Club will focus on three transitional moments in the history of > film and media in Japan, centered around the years 1927, 1962, and 1995. > Additionally, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Reischauer Institute, > we will include the year 1973. > > Panel proposals on additional years are also possible (though not individual > papers), as are panels on questions of historiography in relation to > research on film and moving images from Japan. > > > > The concept is therefore somewhat different from previous Kinema Clubs. By > focusing respective sessions on specific years, we will be able to recognize > heterogeneous constellations. These can be what Harry Harootunian has (in > reference to Ernst Bloch) called ?noncontemporaneous contemporaneity?, or > due to other factors of industry or audience segmentation. These > constellations can include relations across different genres, distribution > networks, or media platforms at a given historical moment. It will allow > recognizing what we might call contradictory coherences of aesthetic, > social, and political history. > > > > For this we have selected three years that are often regarded, for different > reasons, as transitional: > > > > 1927 is the year that Tanaka Jun?ichir? and Komatsu Hiroshi see as > foundational for modernism in the cinema of Japan, strongly influenced by > the 1923 earthquake in Kant?. > > > > 1962/3 is the time of the appearance of Pink Film and Ninky? Yakuza film, > and the production of the first anime, Tetsuwan Atomu / Astro Boy (even if > the first broadcast took place on January 1, 1963). It the year after a > large part of Shin Toho?s archives were sold to television, making Japanese > films produced for the cinema available on TV for the first time. > > > > 1995 is often discussed as a year of crisis and rupture, deeply leaving its > mark on moving image culture. After the burst of the bubble and the > re-organization of the film industry, it is the year in which Neon Genesis > Evangelion is broadcast. It is the time when Japanese film is > re-?discovered? at international film festivals. > > > > and as a bonus option and due to the 40th anniversary, we include the year > 1973, the year of the founding of the Reischauer Institute. > > > > Panel submissions of at least three presenters that focus on additional > years are also welcome! > > > > > > Dates: > > The conference will be held on January 16 at the Reischauer Institute at > Harvard University. > > > > Submissions: > > Please send abstracts of up to 200 words or any questions to: > kinemaclub13 at gmail.com > > > > Panel submissions should consist of a panel abstract and the respective > paper proposals ? all of these around 100 words. > > > > Deadline for submissions is August 20, 2013. > > > > > > We hope to see you there! > > Alexander Zahlten > > > > ****************************************************************** > > > > What is Kinema Club? > > > > Kinema Club is an informal community of scholars, artists, and fans > interested in Japanese moving image media established in the early 1990s. A > group that Initially formed for informally swapping Xeroxes of tables of > content from Japanese film journals eventually established a newsgroup > called KineJapan, which instantly grew to 50 names. KineJapan now has over > 600 participants from every part of the world. > > > > From this description you might gather than Kinema Club is more an idea than > a group. The idea is that Kinema Club provides a rubric within which > anything is possible. No one owns it. Anyone can take it and do something > creative with it. We have no dues (and no budget or bank account). No system > of introductions. No office. It is amorphous, even anarchic, but it has > definitely played an important role in networking all the scholars, > programmers and fans interested in Japanese cinema. > > > > One of the most important activities has been our workshops and conferences. > At the end of the 1990s, the study of Japanese cinema was undergoing some > interesting transformations. Most notably, it was becoming increasingly > interdisciplinary. To confront these changes head-on, an intimate workshop > was held at the University of Michigan in 1999. One thing became immediately > evident: although there were many students and professors studying Japanese > film and television, no one really knew each other. KineJapan already had > over 200 members at that point, but few people had met face to face. So > subsequent workshops and conferences were held in Hawai'i (2003), NYU > (2004), McGill (2004), Tokyo (2005), NYU (2005), Yale (2006), Frankfurt > (2007), Harvard (2009), Hawai'i (2010), Vienna (2011) and Yale (2012). The > programs for many of these conferences are on the archives section of the > Kinema Club website. > > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From macyroger at yahoo.co.uk Wed Aug 14 17:44:32 2013 From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk (Roger Macy) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:44:32 +0100 Subject: [KineJapan] San Sebastian Festival~ "Animatopia" and Oshima retrospectives Message-ID: <7BA7BCC1D0B24A389FBC592E44586BA7@SamsungNetbook> Dear KineJapaners, Besides, an Oshima retrospective this year at San Sebastian, http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/pagina.php?ap=4&id=3479 I notice that there are three Japanese entries in the 'Animatopia' season. http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/in/pagina.php?ap=1&id=3613 I see that both strands will be accompanied by a book. 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Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Vincent To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Nomura Yoshitaro Thanks very much Roger. I have Alex's book, and will look at San Sebastion's catalogue when I'm next in London. Did you attended those screenings in Spain? Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk To: kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:05:51 +0100 Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Nomura Yoshitaro And, of course, how did I not think of it? - There's a review of Harikomi by Nicholas Rucka at Midnight Eye http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/the-chase/ Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Macy To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Nomura Yoshitaro Hi, Tom, Besides the entry in Alex's Critical Handbook ; Harikomi, 1958, and Zero no sh?ten, 1961, both showed at San Sebastian in 2008 and so must get some mention in Japon en Negro, which is in both Spanish and English and is in the BFI library. 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Tom From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk To: kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:05:51 +0100 Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Nomura Yoshitaro And, of course, how did I not think of it? - There's a review of Harikomi by Nicholas Rucka at Midnight Eye http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/the-chase/ Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Macy To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Nomura Yoshitaro Hi, Tom, Besides the entry in Alex's Critical Handbook ; Harikomi, 1958, and Zero no sh?ten, 1961, both showed at San Sebastian in 2008 and so must get some mention in Japon en Negro, which is in both Spanish and English and is in the BFI library. 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I'm sure I can find it again if you don't have it filed - what was the date it went to press ? The one point I remember was an arcane point about Revized/Modified Hepburn which, of course, won't matter a jot in a Japanese edition. And my query on KineJapan last winter - Waseda Tsubouchi library had no knowledge of a card-index of scripts. But I notice that you haven't referred to this apparently abandoned project in the new webpages, so you seem to have picked that up. Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: Markus Nornes To: kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 7:18 AM Subject: [KineJapan] Research Guide Crowd Sourcing Corrections Greetings friendly readers! Aaron and my Research Guide to Japanese Film has been picked up by Yumani for translation. We are going to add new entries to all sections and make corrections. Does anyone know of new collections (or changes to existing collections) that we should include in the new addition? 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I haven't checked the specific sites in question, but assume this was the case with the demolished theaters. This (condemning street frontages and property around the entrances to bridges and intersections for fire breaks) is a policy that dates at least as far back as the early Edo period. But it failed to prevent widespread damage, most horrendously in the air raids of Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe in March of 1945. Greg Johnson -----Original Message----- From: To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Subject: Re: [KineJapan] famous movie theaters from the silent era Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 18:13:56 -0400 > Thank you Aaron! > > ---- Gerow Aaron wrote: > > Sorry for the delay in responding. > > > > Actually, Asakusa Rokku was not hard hit by WWII bombing (those theaters that were destroyed were purposely taken down by authorities towards the end of the war), so not a few of the theaters built in the late 20s and early 30s actually continued to exist until the 70s and 80s. The three theaters that closed last year were actually built in 1927: > > > > http://www.cinema-st.com/classic/c030a.html > > > > Other theaters had their own histories. The grand Shochiku-za in Osaka, built in 1922, was in use as a legit theater until 1997, when they rebuilt it, only keeping the facade. The Musashinokan building existed until 1968. > > > > Aaron > > > > On Jul 27, 2013, at 10:24 AM, wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > I'm posting this question on behalf of a colleague. Can anyone help? > > > > > > > > > "At the end of the war, did any famous movie theatres from the > > > silent era remain open and intact? (e.g. Cinema Palace, Musashinokan, > > > Taishokan, Ushigomeakan, Aoikan etc. ?). I know several were destroyed > > > in the Earthquake, but rebuilt shortly thereafter. But did they survive > > > the war?" > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > Joanne Bernardi > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > KineJapan mailing list > > > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > > > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > KineJapan mailing list > > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From amnornes at umich.edu Sun Aug 4 20:04:26 2013 From: amnornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 20:04:26 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Manei in Minecraft In-Reply-To: <51B900EB.2030701@telepathic-movie.org> References: <51B900EB.2030701@telepathic-movie.org> Message-ID: Hi David, I put looking carefully at this off until now because I thought the link led to a download of the minecraft world, and I needed technical support from my boy! Little did I realize it was just a youtube video. Oh well. I was impressed at the size. I had no idea Manei was so large. Could you tell us how you researched the buildings? How accurate is the MC world? And.....is there anyway to explore the model itself?! My boy and I are asking! Markus On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:14 PM, David Blair wrote: > hi, revered KineJapan list, > > here is something odd for you, > > a recreation of Manei [the Japanese colonial studio in Shinkyo, Manchuria, > recently demolished] from photographs and some memories, > made in the sandbox 3-d world of Minecraft [a sort of online lego game, > popular at the moment] > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=BkQqlGO-760 > > Not procedural, those are all honest clicks, one after the other, brick by > brick.... > > this was made for an exposition I have at the Museum of Contemporary Art > in Antwerp, Belgium, > which circles around Manei in various ways... > > the other building is the Museum, frame in a frame, and there is also a > minecraft copy of a steam powered praxinoscope, etc.just to id what you see > if you look. > > just to be complete, here is a description of the exhibition: > > On the fa?ade of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, MuHKA, is a > banner for a 4-dimensional movie: "The Telepathic Place: from the Making of > The Telepathic Motion Picture of THE LOST TRIBES. This movie takes place in > 5 rooms, and combines 22 screens, each with an hour of video, placed within > an active pre- and post-cinema film studio, where are in play various > useful movie objects such as Magic Lanterns, the famous Lumiere > Cinematographe #12, Manchurian Film Projectors imported from Germany, and > various instruments used by narrators and directors of the Telepathic > Cinema?. Including a 15 meter static moving panorama, 75 telepathic > paintings, and other amusements associated with the production of the > silent sound film. Here the audience is told and makes the movie at the > same time, while wandering in space for 10 minutes or two hours? one > flexible advantage of a 4 dimensional presentation. > > If your geography, time, and interest will permit you, then I would to > invite you to visit the exhibiton of this film, which is playing all summer > [June 7 until Sept 7 2013], 6 days a week, indoors, during daylight hours. > > This exhibition is a project by David Blair, curated by Edwin Carels > (KASK/HoGent), and made in cooperation with MuHKA, using the Museum's > Vrielynck collection of historical cinema apparatus, which the fortunate > Mr. Vrielynck collected during his life as a Notary, and now, after that > life, is a cultural property located in the city of Antwerp. > > best, > David Blair > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-**state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-**state.edu/mailman/listinfo/**kinejapan > -- *Markus Nornes* Chair, Department of Screen Arts and Cultures Professor of Asian Cinema, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Professor, School of Art & Design *Department of Screen Arts and Cultures* *6348 North Quad* *105 S. 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The three theaters that closed last year were actually built in 1927: > > http://www.cinema-st.com/classic/c030a.html > > Other theaters had their own histories. The grand Shochiku-za in Osaka, built in 1922, was in use as a legit theater until 1997, when they rebuilt it, only keeping the facade. The Musashinokan building existed until 1968. > > Aaron > > On Jul 27, 2013, at 10:24 AM, wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm posting this question on behalf of a colleague. Can anyone help? > > > > > > "At the end of the war, did any famous movie theatres from the > > silent era remain open and intact? (e.g. Cinema Palace, Musashinokan, > > Taishokan, Ushigomeakan, Aoikan etc. ?). I know several were destroyed > > in the Earthquake, but rebuilt shortly thereafter. But did they survive > > the war?" > > > > thanks, > > > > Joanne Bernardi > > > > _______________________________________________ > > KineJapan mailing list > > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From carolslingo at sbcglobal.net Sat Aug 3 09:54:42 2013 From: carolslingo at sbcglobal.net (Carol Slingo) Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 06:54:42 -0700 Subject: [KineJapan] (no subject) Message-ID: <1375538082.19801.YahooMailNeo@web184401.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> UNSUBSCRIBE KINEJAPAN Carol Slingo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Da: kinejapan-bounces+franco.picollo=gmail.com at lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:kinejapan-bounces+franco.picollo=gmail.com at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] Per conto di matteo.boscarol at gmail.com Inviato: gioved? 1 agosto 2013 14:58 A: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Oggetto: [KineJapan] The Ugly One - Eric Baudelaire & Masao Adachi Hello everyone, Eric Baudelaire and Masao Adachi (second) collaboration: THE UGLY ONE - A FILM BY ERIC BAUDELAIRE FROM A STORY TOLD BY MASAO ADACHI the work will be at Locarno Film Fest You can watch a prelude here: http://www.pouletmalassis.com/index.php/films/the-ugly-one/ ????? ???? ??????????? - Torino Film Festival Asia consultant (Onde, Doc) http://www.torinofilmfest.org - Il Manifesto http://www.ilmanifesto.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Un caro saluto dallo stivale! > Laura > > Inviato da iPhone > > Il giorno 01/ago/2013, alle ore 14:58, ha scritto: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Eric Baudelaire and Masao Adachi (second) collaboration: >> THE UGLY ONE - A FILM BY ERIC BAUDELAIRE FROM A STORY TOLD BY MASAO ADACHI >> >> the work will be at Locarno Film Fest >> You can watch a prelude here: >> http://www.pouletmalassis.com/index.php/films/the-ugly-one/ >> >> ????? ???? >> ??????????? >> >> - Torino Film Festival >> Asia consultant (Onde, Doc) >> http://www.torinofilmfest.org >> >> - Il Manifesto >> http://www.ilmanifesto.it >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu >> https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From laurasangalli at yahoo.it Thu Aug 1 12:10:59 2013 From: laurasangalli at yahoo.it (Laura) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 18:10:59 +0200 Subject: [KineJapan] The Ugly One - Eric Baudelaire & Masao Adachi In-Reply-To: <5300C25E-8BB4-4C89-AE2E-F245CA3B2B23@gmail.com> References: <20130727012434.BYWZC.4370.root@hrndva-web10-z02> <5300C25E-8BB4-4C89-AE2E-F245CA3B2B23@gmail.com> Message-ID: <18ACC822-7926-42AB-9822-A6B7DF1DB81B@yahoo.it> Ciao matteo! Sei sempre sul pezzo!!!! Approfitto della tua email per farti gli auguri di buone ferie.. O buon agosto se nn le facessi( oltre che il solito sondaggio sui gokiburi)! Un caro saluto dallo stivale! Laura Inviato da iPhone Il giorno 01/ago/2013, alle ore 14:58, ha scritto: > Hello everyone, > > Eric Baudelaire and Masao Adachi (second) collaboration: > THE UGLY ONE - A FILM BY ERIC BAUDELAIRE FROM A STORY TOLD BY MASAO ADACHI > > the work will be at Locarno Film Fest > You can watch a prelude here: > http://www.pouletmalassis.com/index.php/films/the-ugly-one/ > > ????? ???? > ??????????? > > - Torino Film Festival > Asia consultant (Onde, Doc) > http://www.torinofilmfest.org > > - Il Manifesto > http://www.ilmanifesto.it > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From matteo.boscarol at gmail.com Thu Aug 1 08:58:13 2013 From: matteo.boscarol at gmail.com (matteo.boscarol at gmail.com) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 21:58:13 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] The Ugly One - Eric Baudelaire & Masao Adachi In-Reply-To: <20130727012434.BYWZC.4370.root@hrndva-web10-z02> References: <20130727012434.BYWZC.4370.root@hrndva-web10-z02> Message-ID: <5300C25E-8BB4-4C89-AE2E-F245CA3B2B23@gmail.com> Hello everyone, Eric Baudelaire and Masao Adachi (second) collaboration: THE UGLY ONE - A FILM BY ERIC BAUDELAIRE FROM A STORY TOLD BY MASAO ADACHI the work will be at Locarno Film Fest You can watch a prelude here: http://www.pouletmalassis.com/index.php/films/the-ugly-one/ ????? ???? ??????????? - Torino Film Festival Asia consultant (Onde, Doc) http://www.torinofilmfest.org - Il Manifesto http://www.ilmanifesto.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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