[KineJapan] The Beginning of the Road

[Linda Ehrlich]

I also saw the Kinoshita film in Dec. on an Air France flight, returning
from Paris. It was a lot better than the usual airplane offerings! In fact,
it felt rather natsukashii (nostalgic).
Linda Ehrlich


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Dear KineJapaners,
> *‘The Keisuke Kinoshita Story’*
> Quentin Turnour mentioned at the end of his post on the KineJun Best ten
> 2013, on the 9th, that
>       (Just as last year the hard to see film was the #2 THE DRUDGERY
> TRAIN and the #1 - Yang Yong-hi's brilliant    OUR HOMELAND - was only
> finally seen on the back of a JAL airline seat)
> *Our Homeland*, together with Yang Yong-hi, at least made it to Frankfurtand a few other places but, I agree, not enough
> .
> But your comment, Quentin, did make me pay more attention to the back of
> my American Airlines seat and what was listed under ‘Japanese’.
> Of the fifty, most were middling Hollywood (presumably available with
> Japanese language).
> The eight Japanese films among them (listed below) were, in my opinion,
> mostly uninspiring with several low-budget made-for-tv movies.  But one,
> although feeling like a tv dorama-doc, had a subject matter of interest to
> some KineJapan members, *Hajimari no michi*, 2013, by Hara Keiichi,
> billed on the menu as ‘The Keisuke Kinoshita Story – Dawn of a Filmmaker’.
> It was set in mid-1945 (opening with a clip of Kinoshita’s first film, *Hana
> saku minato*, 1943) and substantially related the transporting of
> Kinoshita’s mother by handcart along a mountain road in Shizuoka.  You
> would have to know what was coming to stay awake for the first fifty
> minutes – a four-hankie setting of the jewel of the last ten minutes Tanaka
> Kinuyo in *Rikugun* / *Army*, 1944.  At the end of the film, we also had
> clips from :-
> Waga koi seshi otome, 1946
> Ojōsan kanpai`, 1949
> Yaburedaiko, 1949
> Karumen kokyō ni kaeru, 1951
> Nihon no kigeki, 1953
> Nijūshino hitomi, 1954
> Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki, 1955
> Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki, 1957
> Narayama bushikō, 1958
> Fuefukigawa, 1960
> Eien no hito, 1961
> Kōge, 1964
> Shin yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki, 1986
> Some of these clips, at least, had been set up in the story by visual
> quotes in the journey.
> The clips had all been beautifully restored by this film’s producer,
> Shōchiku, and it looked like a show-case by them of Kinoshita’s work.  But
> this film was largely a trail of visual flourishes with next to no story;
> and it was in danger of showing, unfairly, that Kinoshita’s work might be
> similarly labelled .
> (It was subtitled in english, if you had initially selected ‘English’ as
> your language.  There was no translation credit.)
>
> (The 8 Japanese films on American Airlines are :-
> Keisuke Kinoshita Story, HARA Keiichi
> Fruits of Faith, NAKAMURA Yoshihiro
> Maruyama , the Middle Schooler, KUDŌ Kankurō
> Midsummer’s Equation, NISHITANI Hiroshi - a Fuji TV movie, distributed by
> Tōhō
> The After-Dinner Mysteries, HIJIKATA Masato - Hong Kong based heist caper
> Boy called H, FURUHATA Yasuo
> The Apology King, MIZUTA Nobuo
> The Human Trust, SAKAMOTO Junji  )
>
> Roger
>
>
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