[KineJapan] Holder of Mizoguchi rights

[Quentin Turnour]

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,
quentin.turnour at nfsa.gov.au
Fax: +61 2 6249 8159
Ph +61 2 6248 2054
Mob: + 61 4 428 368908
[Please note that I am often absent Mondays]





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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