[KineJapan] Kawasaki City Museum Jissoji archive

[Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan]

Among the important archives at the Kawasaki City Museum are the items of director Jissoji Akio that were donated to the Museum after his death. Jissoji kept track of almost everything related to his career from his early TV programs, to his many films and theatrical productions. 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" <kinejapan at lists.osu.edu>> : 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.
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