[KineJapan] 'Soy Cuba' in Japan

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Hello Roger,

I don't know much about the exhibition of the film but it might have come
out even earlier. Matsuda Masao wrote a long, critical article on the film
in Eiga hyoron 1967.10 in which he mentions that it's released that year.
According to my notes, he found the film insufficiently Trotskyist! He also
mentioned in May 1968 that one of the radical Trotskyist student groups had
arranged a screening, which he thought was ridiculous. That's all I've
got...

Michael

Michael Raine, Western University
Department of English and Writing Studies

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via
KineJapan <kinejapan at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Dear KineJapaners,
> I hope you are enjoying the holiday season.
> That season gave me the chance to catch up, at the ICA, on one of those
> famous films which I am reluctant to admit never having seen, and that was *Soy
> Cuba*, 1964, directed by Mikhail Kalatozov / Mikheil Kalatozishvilli.
> The en-wikipedia page says that, before its rediscovery in the 90s’, “the
> movie never reached western countries”.  That seems to be true literally,
> but not politically, as the film was shown in Japan in 1968.  Allcinema
> says that 怒りのキューバ had a theatrical release at or thru ‘Herald’.  I’m
> guessing that’s connected to the independent cinema in Nagoya in its
> heyday.
> After the various times on this forum we have noted the late arrival of
> many Soviet films to Japan, it makes an interesting turnaround for Japan to
> be over 20 years early.
> If anyone could fill in any further details I’d be very interested to
> learn, for instance, more about the early history of the Herald cinema,
> whether the film toured in Japan and whether it had a distribution life
> after 1968, at all.  1968, of course, was a highly influential year.  Even
> before I’d gleaned these few facts, I noticed the family resemblance of the
> student demo scenes in *Soy Cuba* to later ones, for example, in the
> early Ogawa Pro films.  That, needless to say, doesn’t prove any direct
> descent.
> Happy New Year,
> Roger
>
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