From kinejapan at lists.osu.edu Thu Jan 12 07:44:52 2017 From: kinejapan at lists.osu.edu (Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:44:52 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Danchi distributor In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Eija, We featured DANCHI at JAPAN CUTS last summer (http://www.japansociety.org/event/the-projects), and the distributor for North America (and I believe international) is Kino Films. I?ll send you the email address. Best, Joel Joel Neville Anderson PhD Candidate, Visual & Cultural Studies University of Rochester 978.394.3292 www.joelnevilleanderson.com Upcoming & Recent Programming: JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film (July 14-24, 2016) www.japansociety.org/japancuts On Jan 12, 2017, at 6:30 AM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan > wrote: Hi! Does anyone have any info on the international distributor of sakamoto Junji's Danchi? 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Does anyone have any info on the international distributor of sakamoto Junji's Danchi? Eija Uni of Helsinki Helsinki Cine Aasia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From kinejapan at lists.osu.edu Tue Jan 24 23:00:30 2017 From: kinejapan at lists.osu.edu (Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 23:00:30 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Movie industry data for 2016 Message-ID: Eiren, the Japanese film industry association, announced the box office data for 2016: Summary: Box office revenues in Japan hit a record high in 2016. Revenues from Japanese and foreign films combined stood at 235.5 billion yen ($2.08 billion), up 8.5% from the previous year and surpassing the previous record of 220.7 billion yen set in 2010. The number of moviegoers exceeded 180 million for the first time in 42 years. Revenues from domestic films accounted for 63.1%, making up a larger share than foreign films for the ninth straight year. Of the five top-grossing Japanese films, four were animated. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.japantoday.com_category_entertainment_view_japans-2Dbox-2Doffice-2Drevenue-2Dhits-2Drecord-2Dhigh-2Din-2D2016&d=DwIFAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=uhLs9lkFq43t9lP3zaWQu2_p30MDjb9YiSqqnmIOi6M&s=BeCevJjK4mySIACckYOiBNmC97Edg4vkaraw07_IG9M&e= The original Eiren stats, with a list of the top box office films, is here: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__eiren.org_toukei_index.html&d=DwIFAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=uhLs9lkFq43t9lP3zaWQu2_p30MDjb9YiSqqnmIOi6M&s=KlP_AFC9I6qp5rQwah8MZeMNFWwKxmbgmdWEvkm-dn8&e= Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Director of Graduate Studies, EALL Acting Chair, Council on East Asian Studies Yale University 320 York Street, Room 311 PO Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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With best wishes, Marcos View this email in your browser *War, work and witnessing: aesthetics and ideology in Shind? Kaneto?s cinema* *Speaker: Dr Lauri Kitsnik* *Chair: Dr Marcos Centeno Wednesday 25 January, 5-7pm, room G3, SOAS* Shind? Kaneto (1912-2012) was a prolific Japanese film director noted for works such as *Children of Hiroshima* (1952), *The Naked Island* (1960) and *Onibaba* (1964). He maintained an active and uninterrupted career for over seventy years, perhaps the longest in the entire cinematic history. His films have been both praised and criticised for their strong leftist agenda when dealing with social issues such as crime, poverty, disease and discrimination. However, there is currently a lack of consensus as to whether his work displays enough thematic or stylistic unity to be evaluated in auteurist terms. In this talk, by looking at Shind??s films from different decades, I argue that his visual style underlined by excessive repetition effectively created a self-referencial system of cumulative images which offers insights into his worldview in both aesthetic and ideological terms. Lauri Kitsnik (PhD Cantab) is Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in Norwich. His research interests include international film history and theory, literary adaptation and screenwriting. His work has appeared in the *Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema*, *Journal of Screenwriting* and *Women Screenwriters: An International Guide*. Dr Marcos Centeno is lecturer in film studies at SOAS, where he is also convener of the MA degree ?Global Cinemas and the Transcultural?. He has been Research Associate at Waseda University (Japan) and Research Fellow at the University of Valencia (Spain). His research currently focuses on Japanese youth cinema, post-war avant-garde and documentary film ? mainly Susumu Hani?s theoretical and practical contributions, and film representations of the Ainu people. *The Centre for Film Studies is grateful to the Centre for Media Studies, with whom we are co-host* -- Marcos Centeno PhD Lecturer in Film Studies Convenor: MA Degree Global Cinemas and the Transcultural Centre for Film Studies Department of Japan and Korea SOAS, University of London ainumemoryfilm.com -- Marcos Centeno PhD Lecturer in Film Studies Convenor: MA Degree Global Cinemas and the Transcultural Centre for Film Studies Department of Japan and Korea SOAS, University of London ainumemoryfilm.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Whilst writing, I could mention that Lauri has presentations on Frbruary 6th at Cambridge (UK) on female scriptwriters and later at the Japan Society in London on scriptwriters more generally.Roger From: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan To: KineJapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu Sent: Thursday, 19 January 2017, 23:03 Subject: [KineJapan] Fwd: Talk on the Japanese director Kaneto Shindo. Wednesday 25 January, 5-7pm room G3, SOAS Dear all, ?Lauri Kitsnik (Sainsbury Institute) will give a talk on Kaneto Shind? at SOAS on 26 February 5 ?7 pm at G3, blurb copied below. All are welcome. With best wishes, Marcos | View this email in your browser | | | | | War, work and witnessing: aesthetics and ideology in Shind? Kaneto?s cinema Speaker: Dr Lauri Kitsnik Chair: Dr Marcos Centeno Wednesday 25 January, 5-7pm, room G3, SOAS ? Shind? Kaneto (1912-2012) was a prolific Japanese film director noted for works such as Children of Hiroshima (1952), The Naked Island (1960) and Onibaba (1964). He maintained an active and uninterrupted career for over seventy years, perhaps the longest in the entire cinematic history. His films have been both praised and criticised for their strong leftist agenda when dealing with social issues such as crime, poverty, disease and discrimination. However, there is currently a lack of consensus as to whether his work displays enough thematic or stylistic unity to be evaluated in auteurist terms. In this talk, by looking at Shind??s films from different decades, I argue that his visual style underlined by excessive repetition effectively created a self-referencial system of cumulative images which offers insights into his worldview in both aesthetic and ideological terms. ? Lauri Kitsnik (PhD Cantab) is Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in Norwich. His research interests include international film history and theory, literary adaptation and screenwriting. His work has appeared in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, Journal of Screenwriting and Women Screenwriters: An International Guide. ? Dr Marcos Centeno is lecturer in film studies at SOAS, where he is also convener of the MA degree ?Global Cinemas and the Transcultural?. He has been Research Associate at Waseda University (Japan) and Research Fellow at the University of Valencia (Spain). His research currently focuses on Japanese youth cinema, post-war avant-garde and documentary film ? mainly Susumu Hani?s theoretical and practical contributions, and film representations of the Ainu people. The Centre for Film Studies is grateful to the Centre for Media Studies, with whom we are co-host -- Marcos Centeno PhD Lecturer in Film Studies Convenor: MA Degree Global Cinemas and the Transcultural Centre for Film StudiesDepartment of Japan and Korea SOAS, University of London ainumemoryfilm.com -- Marcos Centeno PhD Lecturer in Film Studies Convenor: MA Degree Global Cinemas and the Transcultural Centre for Film StudiesDepartment of Japan and Korea SOAS, University of London ainumemoryfilm.com _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.osu.edu https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.osu.edu_mailman_listinfo_kinejapan&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=JPbRPgZDFTGMW6iPPNScQWJIJ3WmRmKN7eN0A6aUFng&s=HYgSlTJ2CXSYphsWOkUJs7xRGRpdtPxL1kywTpeciP0&e= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He won the Academy Prize for best actor for Edojo tairan in 1991. His father was the jidaigeki star Konoe Jushiro and his wife the actress Nishina Akiko. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.daily.co.jp_gossip_2017_01_23_0009854582.shtml&d=DwIFAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=ge6kFi9cfvgo3iU825TG0Ae-yANXKVRVtDs-m-cHVgk&s=acC_iuivdKtMttdx7KRBzAW5fVnXe0iXVRXrMq4yuNE&e= Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Director of Graduate Studies, EALL Acting Chair, Council on East Asian Studies Yale University 320 York Street, Room 311 PO Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The animated film In This Corner of the World got both best film and best director: 1) Kono sekai no katasumi ni 2) Shin Gojira 3) Fuchi ni tatsu 4) Destruction Babies 5) Nagai iiwake 6) Rip Van Winckle no hanayome 7) Yu o wakasu hodo no atsui ai 8) Creepy 9) Over Fence 10) Imari For individual awards: Best actress: Miyazawa Rie Best actor: Yagira Yuya Best supporting actress: Sugisaki Hana Best supporting actor: Takehara Pistol Best new actress: Komatsu Nana Best new actor: Murakami Nijiro Best director: Katabuchi Sunao Best screenplay: Anno Tideaki https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.kinenote.com_sp_kinejun-5Fbest10_&d=DwIFAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=OMWENVF41tHV2mw5d6FiAAsJEOrWCYz-F2my7kkKtZw&s=8WETK1IYhdEOSBWstnPuKqCUiOJ7OkMEmrOhy5qLF5I&e= https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.kinenote.com_sp_kinejun-5Fbest10_japan.aspx&d=DwIFAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=OMWENVF41tHV2mw5d6FiAAsJEOrWCYz-F2my7kkKtZw&s=nN6S3TuFIfltioE0KZuGRXsRcHSeMmd-9khMieAcO0o&e= Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Director of Graduate Studies, EALL Acting Chair, Council on East Asian Studies Yale University 320 York Street, Room 311 PO Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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His last film role was a significant role in Kitano's Outrage Beyond. He died on January 3, but his death was only announced now. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nikkansports.com_entertainment_news_1766219.html&d=DwIFAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=gyaHDS_vu9Ok-z9waOjFgv_Ylb5Gwfdq5-fylW4aWbM&s=iaPRPCXzzSSQEYN1OrPQRodB4qjz97n000Sgk8UFhUY&e= Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Director of Graduate Studies, EALL Acting Chair, Council on East Asian Studies Yale University 320 York Street, Room 311 PO Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I?ll send you the email address. Best, Joel Joel Neville Anderson PhD Candidate, Visual & Cultural Studies University of Rochester 978.394.3292 www.joelnevilleanderson.com Upcoming & Recent Programming: JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film (July 14-24, 2016) www.japansociety.org/japancuts On Jan 12, 2017, at 6:30 AM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan > wrote: Hi! Does anyone have any info on the international distributor of sakamoto Junji's Danchi? Eija Uni of Helsinki Helsinki Cine Aasia _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.osu.edu https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.osu.edu_mailman_listinfo_kinejapan&d=DQICAg&c=kbmfwr1Yojg42sGEpaQh5ofMHBeTl9EI2eaqQZhHbOU&r=l3JcZp1MBePCWIDmIrqG8UfhVFDaSez5k8sBowW5WBij7SJ458EK8fyDIjX8aUo5&m=g46zCslOFYv2MvwsJb9s28Lr_KYSV3g3QKn4wsf0ApU&s=YohAwthvvn5j8RvZJN2w9HOy9fPS6HQImHOk9qw6NsA&e= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Other awards include: Best actor: Motoki Masahiro Best actress: Tsutsui Mariko Best director: Nishikawa Miwa Best supporting actor: Kagawa Teruyuki Best supporting actress: Ichikawa Mikako Best screenplay: Mukai Yosuke The Mainichi is one of the longest running film awards, but it is selected by a small number of critics and thus tends to have its own bent. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mainichi.jp_articles_20170119_ddm_012_200_139000c&d=DwIFAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=R6GhrNZLNKRqhCSPdJDCEPg9LM5520dIA5nmEFQv7uE&s=w79UKpuLhlGxGToBmxuL0I-GEhmuTU_See9ftoL7Pb8&e= Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Director of Graduate Studies, EALL Acting Chair, Council on East Asian Studies Yale University 320 York Street, Room 311 PO Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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FCCJ SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 at 6:45 pm (note early start time) CLOSE-KNIT (Karera ga Honki de Amu Tokiwa) Japan, 2017; 127 minutes; Japanese with English subtitles Followed by a Q&A session with director Naoko Ogigami Join the Film Committee for writer-director Naoko Ogigami?s (?Kamome Diner?) new film, one of the first Japanese releases to feature a sexual minority as its main character. That character is played, in a groundbreaking performance of extraordinary sensitivity and charm, by megastar Toma Ikuta (?The Mole Song). As with her previous work, Ogigami?s ?Close-Knit? is a gentle, humor-laced story about quirky, amiable characters: fifth-grader Tomo heads for her uncle Makio?s (Kenta Kiritani) place when her mother abandons her yet again. There, she meets his beautiful girlfriend Rinko (Ikuta), who warmly welcomes her and proves to be a much better mom than her own. But Rinko is transgender, and soon, Tomo is being bullied about her new ?weird family,? inviting the unwanted attention of Child Services inspectors. Rinko helps calm Tomo by showing her how to knit, working out her anger with each stitch. But will the family that stitches together be able to stay together? For more (Japanese only): https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__kareamu.com&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=65UNovI6FNeDHv-WgPo6ySD5Q7PWWMSN_KHnRry0tKc&s=U90AueV6csH7CRCYche4BhLGZP_kb4Yj3GDys1HRhyU&e= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For us film fans, this means the end of the Kawasaki Cinematheque, which has run wonderful weekly retrospective screenings for nearly 30 years (it's one of the first places I went to see old movies in Japan back in 1989). They may have occasional screenings after this, but that's all up to the company which will now run the entire museum as a for-profit venture. The Museum houses not only many works of art, but also one of the best manga collections in the world and very important film-related materials. When asked on her timeline what will happen to the priceless Ushiyama Jun'ichi collection (centered on one of the giants of TV documentary) and other film materials, Morimune said they will probably just gather dust in the vaults. 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These diverse materials are of value not only in regard to his career but to aspects of Japanese TV series productions, ATG films, his relations with other prominent film people and so on. The recent retrospective of his films at the Kyoto Bunka Hakubutsukan was produced by a kenkyukai that is organizing the materials and doing various kinds of research with the aim of further publications and retrospectives. Let us hope that those making decisions in Kawasaki will realize that the hope for financial health resides with maintaining and developing their collections with a broad range of people and researchers. Paul Berry Kyoto * Quote messages from < "Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan" > : On her Facebook timeline, Atsuko Morimune reports on one example of how the waves of neoliberalism are starting to ruin Japanese culture too. As of April, the Kawasaki City Museum will be run by a for-profit company. For us film fans, this means the end of the Kawasaki Cinematheque, which has run wonderful weekly retrospective screenings for nearly 30 years (it's one of the first places I went to see old movies in Japan back in 1989). They may have occasional screenings after this, but that's all up to the company which will now run the entire museum as a for-profit venture. The Museum houses not only many works of art, but also one of the best manga collections in the world and very important film-related materials. When asked on her timeline what will happen to the priceless Ushiyama Jun'ichi collection (centered on one of the giants of TV documentary) and other film materials, Morimune said they will probably just gather dust in the vaults. Aaron GerowProfessorFilm and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Director of Graduate Studies, EALL Acting Chair, Council on East Asian StudiesYale University320 York Street, Room 311PO Box 208324New Haven, CT 06520-8324USAPhone: 1-203-432-7082Fax: 1-203-432-6729e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.osu.edu https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.osu.edu_mailman_listinfo_kinejapan&d=DwIFAw&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=lnoljALB57K6fJA6ok099628i49vz15233QRACXOGq8&s=cwIMt-k4wZmA8WYYqIe6Ry2HBHlTnKLym8jDyYn4RY8&e= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Academy Prize is notorious for being biased towards the films produced and/or distributed by the majors, but it was nice to see Zeze Takahisa, who visited Yale a few years ago, get a couple of nominations. The other best picture nominees were Kazoku wa tsurai yo, Shin Gojira, Yu o wakasu hodo no atsui ai, and 64. Miyazaki Aoi and Hirose Suzu both earned nominations in both the best actress and best supporting actress categories. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.jp_2017_01_16_ikari-5Fn-5F14196766.html&d=DwIFAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=09YNvjk1lYMp2D-EC07L2Oasb5iTLHy-P4JGckdvDEU&s=PV_oQG_Hd1RkT15mtFeY_RKOCzpPR2Kv1VxPmGQI-yg&e= https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.japan-2Dacademy-2Dprize.jp_sp_prizes_40.html&d=DwIFAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=09YNvjk1lYMp2D-EC07L2Oasb5iTLHy-P4JGckdvDEU&s=CMm-hwwR6JfP1S6KKyb5HPo3fZGjOV9bKr8Sap9iLeI&e= Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Director of Graduate Studies, EALL Acting Chair, Council on East Asian Studies Yale University 320 York Street, Room 311 PO Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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