[KineJapan] Early Mizoguchi film enquiry

[Roger Macy]

To attempt to clarify, The 'Film Society' of London, I agree, did not show any film by Mizoguchi, and neither did the english-language journal published in Switzerland from 1927-1933, 'Close Up' feature his films.  I've seen correspondence to the Close Up publishers, reporting that many 'Film Society' members turned up with a copy of the orange-covered journal under their arms, but they had not formal connection.
In Kawakita Nagamasa's 'Recollections', his future wife, Kashiko's first job was to translate 'Love Mad Music Teacher' into german (english version, page 9).  At page 11 Kawakita Nagamasa recalls taking the film to Germany. But 
It then suggests it was also
used in the “omnibus” with the components of what came to be called Nippon.  But the preserved films in Europe
apparently don’t support this.
Actually, I never pinned down a French exhibition and I'd appreciate any details that people have.
Roger



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>Cheers Jasper.
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>For some reason it never occurred to me to check Aurum, and you're right, they've included it but obviously couldn't see it. I was interested in it because I know it's a version of the Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi, and having watched Nakagawa, Yasuda and Hase adaptations I was curious to see what Mizoguchi brought to his version, although I'm guessing it wasn't as gruesome as the others or as utterly misanthropic and cynical as the Kazuo Hase version. I know few of the pre-war kaidan/horror films have survived. 
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>Right, thanks for your assistance!
>
>Jim.
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>On Tue, 17/6/14, Jasper Sharp <jasper_sharp at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Early Mizoguchi film enquiry
>To: "kinejapan" <kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
>Date: Tuesday, 17 June, 2014, 18:55
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>  It is lost
>I am pretty sure. I know probably the reason you are asking
>about it is because it was included as an early proto-horror
>in the Aurum Encyclopeda of Horror, and this was precisely
>because it was released in Europe (because the authors of
>Aurum would not have been able to see it and there are quite
>a few other titles that would fit the bill too).From my
>research a few years back, I know this film was released in
>France, but no in the UK, I think - there were simply no
>places that would show this kind of thing except Close Up
>film club, and from my consultation of their catalogues,
>there's no mention of this particular film - although a
>few other Japanese films from this period did play at Close
>Up. So best to consult french sources, but its worth
>remembering that the kind of film culture we are used to
>today did not exist so probably it screened a few times and
>no one even bothered to so much as register its presence in
>any language.This is all from memory, so forgive
>my lack of precision. I'm sure there's info out
>there, but you might have to head to Paris to find it.
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>> Date: Tue, 17 Jun
>2014 15:36:35 +0100
>> From:
>jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk
>> To:
>kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
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>Subject: [KineJapan] Early Mizoguchi film enquiry
>> 
>> Afternoon all
>> 
>> I'm not terribly
>familiar with Kenji Mizoguchi's early films, so I wanted
>to check a couple of things. Is Kyoren no onna shisho (1926)
>a lost film, or do prints (wholly or in part) still
>exist?
>> 
>> If it is
>lost, was their much written about the film (reviews,
>publicity etc) at the time of its release?
>> 
>> Any help would be
>much appreciated!
>> 
>>
>Thanks,
>> 
>> Jim
>Harper.
>> 
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