[KineJapan] Holder of Mizoguchi rights

Mon Jun 2 06:35:00 EDT 2014

Hello all,
many thanks for your suggestions regarding the rights - Ill contact Kadokawa and Shochiku once the lineup has been verified.

As to difficulties with NFC and in response to Mark and Quentin - the biggest issue lies in the fact that since most of cinemas in Europe are now digitised to DCP projection, there is a scarce of venues which can show
35mm, especially from the two-turret system as required by NFC to preserve the prints. Both print handling difficulties with platter based projection, and attractiveness of the venues (as filmotheques tend to cater to older audiences or fans) 
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Niijanaa Films
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And of course, we all know the reluctance of Japanese distributors to digitalise the films even if there is a demand from market / fest circuit.

With best wishes,
Sten

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On 2 Jun 2014 at 10:12:58, Quentin Turnour (quentin.turnour at nfsa.gov.au) wrote:

I probably don't want  to revive the last debate here about the NFC's openness to access requests - the mention of their name seems to get a few amongst our community a little itchy - but getting prints out of the Japan Foundation is now harder than the NFC. The JF no longer typically consider one-off print loans of their 35mm titles and access is normally only  in packages and as part of their annual funding processes. You're only work around might be a good contact in a  local Embassy or Consulate willing to arrange a loan.

You will find that sourcing prints from most European archival sources (and I know there are quite a few good sources in European archives and cinematheques) won't be cheap either. As well  Kadokawa's licensing fee (probably at least USD600 per screening), most European archives will ask their own access fees, with the BFI's starting at  UKS100. Sadly its the costs of doing retrospective screening business; we at the NFSA in Australia have a few Mizoguchi prints and would also ask at least AUD200 in addition to the licensing arrangement -  with your only work-around maybe being if you have the patronage of a FIAF affliated archive who will allow you to waive the access fee. Also remember that most film archives will place restrictions on how you can project the prints. And in IHMO not a few of the continental archives can be just as hard to contact as the NFC (or are even harder to crack).

Janus films have Nth American rights a number of Mizoguchis, but are unlikely to let them out beyond the US and Canada.

Remember also that some of Mizoguchi's key films were produced for at least released by other companies beside Daiei. From memory OHARU was made for Shintoho (does Kokusai Hoei  now have their rights?) whilst, UTAMARO, 47 RONIN THE STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUMS and a few other titles for Shochiku.

Best wishes

Quentin Turnour, Manager, Arc Canberra Cinema Programs,
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia,
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From:        Rob Smith <robixsmash at gmail.com>
To:        Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>,
Date:        02/06/2014 04:24 PM
Subject:        Re: [KineJapan] Holder of Mizoguchi rights
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The museum of the moving image in New York has a Mizoguchi retrospective going on right now. Perhaps their programmer might be able to help.
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2014/05/02/detail/mizoguchi/

On Jun 2, 2014 2:22 AM, "Eija Niskanen" <eija at helsinkicineaasia.fi> wrote:
Hi!

Finnish Audio-Visual Institute (former Finnish Film Archive) has screened several Mizoguchi classics during the past years - I subbed some of them into Finnish). You could contact them to ask the print sources and they might even hold a print or two.

www.kavi.fi

Eija

2014-06-02 8:47 GMT+03:00 Mark Roberts <mroberts37 at mail-central.com>:
Dear Sten,

Others can add more detail, but I believe most everything in the former Daiei catalog now belongs to Kadokawa.

I understand your reservations about the NFC. They no longer seem interested in working with festivals.

Have you considered the Japan Foundation as a source?

Best Regards,

Mark Roberts
Research Fellow, UTCP
http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/data/mark_roberts/index_en.php

On Jun 2, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Sten-Kristian Saluveer (Gmail) wrote:

Dear Kinejapaners,
I hope you'd be able to help with a small help request.
Namely, I am asked to help a colleague from the Baltics with a small retrospective of Mizoguchi and wonder if someone could point me to the Japanese rightsholder.
As far as I remember the latter films of his were Daiei, but I'm not sure if his catalog was transferred to Kadokawa later.

By any chance are there good quality prints in BFI or other European archives as I fear dealing with NFC and their print fees and procedures could be a bit too much for the organizers.

With many thanks in advance 
Sten Saluveer 
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