From kinejapan at lists.osu.edu Fri Sep 29 06:32:58 2017 From: kinejapan at lists.osu.edu (Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:32:58 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] NANG magazine at Tokyo Art Book Fair Message-ID: Dear Kinejapanners, This might be of some interest to those living in Tokyo: NANG magazine at this year's Tokyo Art Book Fair (October 5-8; http://tokyoartbookfair.com/en/) NANG (ISSN: 2531-4912) is an English-language 10-issue magazine which covers cinema and cinema cultures in the Asian world with passion and insight. The aim is to publish, issue-by-issue, a wonderfully rich and profound collection of words and images on cinema, for knowledge, inspiration, and enjoyment. Each and every issue is structured around a specific theme and created in collaboration with a unique group of guest editors and contributors based both within and outside Asia. NANG is an independent, non-had-driven publication which solely relies on the support of readers, subscribers and sponsors. Issues are published in a single limited run and will not be reprinted. We will have the pleasure of exhibiting our first three issues - No. 1: SCREENWRITING, No. 2: SCARS AND DEATH, and the just-launched No. 3: FICTION - at this year's Tokyo Art Book Fair, to be held next week at Warehouse Terrada. Our booth will be located in the International section. Copies will be available for sale at a special Fair price; we would also be happy to receive inquiries regarding personal and institutional subscriptions. Truly hope to see you there! Davide Cazzaro Publisher & Editor-in-Chief info at nangmagazine.com Matteo Boscarol ????? ???? ??????????? - Documentary in Japan and Asia http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com - Sonatine2010 http://www.sonatine2010.blogspot.jp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Holders of a Ph.D. or an equivalent degree are eligible to apply, as are graduate students who have completed all requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation. The competition is open to scholars in all parts of the world and from any discipline, but historical topics are preferred. University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students may not apply. More information can be found on the Prange Collection website < http://www.lib.umd.edu/prange/research-awards/research-awards>. *The application deadline is* *November 17, 2017*. The grant must be used by October 26, 2018. Grant funds will be disbursed in the form of reimbursement for travel, lodging, meals, reproductions, and related research expenses. Such costs as computers or software are not eligible. Reimbursement will require submission of receipts for processing by the University. NOTE TO NON-U.S. CITIZENS: approximately 30% of the total award may be withheld for tax purposes, depending upon the recipient?s country of origin. The withholding may be reimbursed to the recipient after filing a tax form with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). All applications must be submitted electronically by attachment to millercenter at umd.edu with ?Twentieth-Century Japan Research Awards? in the subject line. Applications must include a curriculum vitae and a two-to three-page description (double-spaced) of the research project. Applications from graduate students must be accompanied by a letter from the principal faculty advisor attesting to the significance of the dissertation project and to the student?s completion of all other degree requirements. Materials in the Gordon W. Prange Collection include virtually all Japanese-language newspapers, news agency releases, magazines, pamphlets, and books dating from the period of Allied censorship, 1945-1949, in addition to over 10,000 newspaper photos. There are also materials published by Chinese and Korean residents, most of which are written in Japanese. Related collections in English include the personal papers of Charles Kades and Justin Williams. Office correspondence documenting policies and decisions of the Publications, Pictorial, and Broadcast Division, Civil Censorship Detachment (Civil Intelligence Section), Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers Japan, are complementary to official Occupation records housed at the National Archives, College Park. Japanese newspapers and magazines from the Prange Collection are available for research on microform. The East Asia Collection contains Japanese-language books published during the wartime period, scholarly monographs on Occupied Japan, and a wide variety of reference works. During the campus visit, the award recipient will give an informal talk on her/his research. At the conclusion of the visit, the recipient will submit a blog post reflecting on her/his research experience that will appear on Prange Collection social media sites. Reimbursements will be made after the blog post has been submitted to the Prange Collection staff. For further information about the collections, consult the following websites: http:/www.lib.umd.edu/prange and http://www.lib.umd.edu/EASIA/eastasia.html Yukako Tatsumi, Ph.D. (? ???) Curator, Gordon W. Prange Collection and East Asian Studies Librarian Hornbake Library North Room 4200 4130 Campus Drive University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Tel: 301-314-1768 | Email: yukako at umd.edu Academia.edu -- Eija Niskanen +358-50-355 3189 -------------- 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 Sep 26 01:29:57 2017 From: kinejapan at lists.osu.edu (Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:29:57 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] International symposium: Cinema and Social Change in Japan, Kyoto University, October 20-22, 2017 Message-ID: Dear KineJapan members, We are pleased to announce an international symposium on 'Cinema and Social Change in Japan' at Kyoto University, October 20-22 2017. For more details, please refer to the attached program or the schedule below. All are welcome and no registration is required. Please come by and join us in Kyoto! Best wishes, Jennifer Dr. Jennifer Coates Assistant Professor Hakubi Center for Advanced Research Kyoto University http://www.hakubi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/eng/02_mem/05coates.shtml http://www.hkupress.org/Common/Reader/Products/ShowProduct.jsp?Pid=1&Version=0&Cid=16&Charset=iso-8859-1&page=-1&key=9789888208999 Cinema and Social Change in Japan International Symposium October 20-22, 2017 Kyoto University, Japan This international symposium explores the impacts of cinema on social change, and vice versa. Taking Japan?s cinema-going culture as case study, we can trace how social change has been imagined, negotiated, or refuted through cinema texts. At the same time, everyday manifestations of social change may be influenced by cinematic imagery, narrative, or characterization. Encompassing new research on both Japanese cinema and imported cinema screened in Japan, as well as new or divergent platforms for film exhibition, this symposium brings together research from a variety of disciplines and time periods to compose a fuller picture of the intersections of cinema and social change in Japan. Place: Science Seminar House, Building 10, Kyoto University North Campus, Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho 3-7-1, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Japan, 606-8224 Organizer: Jennifer Coates, Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University Contact: coates.jennifer.2u at kyoto-u.ac.jp Sponsors: Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences Program: October 20th 17:00-18:30 Short film screening and reception When Cinema Was King (documentary short, Jennifer Coates, 2017), Japanese with English subtitles. October 21st 9:30-10:00 Welcome Remarks 10:00-12:00 Panel 1 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-15:00 Panel 2 15:00-15:30 Tea Break 15:30-17:30 Panel 3 October 22nd 10:00-12:00 Panel 4 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-15:00 Panel 5 15:00-15:30 Tea Break 15:30-16:00 Discussion 16:30-17:30 Closing Roundtable Panel Schedule October 21st 10:00-12:00 Panel 1: Season of Change: 1950-1970 Isolde Standish (SOAS, University of London), ?A Question of Form: Dissent and the Nouvelle Vague? Katsuyuki Hidaka (Ritsumeikan University), ?Collective Remorse for the Past: Transformation of Japanese Film and TV Representations of ?the 300-Million Yen Robbery? of 1968? Chika Kinoshita (Kyoto University), ?The Emergence of Teen Pregnancy Narratives in Post-Occupation Japanese Cinema? 13:00-15:00 Panel 2: War, Conflict, and Cinema Eyal Ben-Ari (Kinneret Academic College) and Atsuko Fukuura (Shiga University), ?The Japanese Self-Defense Forces and Cinematic Productions: Resonance and Reverberation in the Cultural Normalization of Organized State Violence? Iris Haukamp (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), ?The Four Lives of Matsugor? the Lawless? Jennifer Coates (Kyoto University), ?The Cinema Audience Under Occupation? 15:30-17:30 Panel 3: Race, Class, and Mixed Media Ayami Ushida (Kyoto University of Art and Design), ?Japan and Korea in Manga and Film? Deanna Nardy (Kyoto University), ?Tarzan In Japan: The Impact of Tarzan on Japanese Self-Representation in Comics and Film? Alisa Freedman (University of Oregon), ?Down in the Dumps: Tokyo Wastelands and Marginalized Groups in Japanese Film and Anime? October 22nd 10:00-12:00 Panel 4: At the Margins: Others, Outsiders, and the Non-Human Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Carleton University), ?Learning From Animals? Lindsay Nelson (Meiji Gakuin University), ?Cinema at the Edge of the World: Visions of Precarity in the films of Kazuyoshi Kumakiri? Ma Ran (Nagoya University), ?Border-Crossing Japan: Kuzoku?s Politics of (Dis)location? 13:00-15:00 Panel 5: Queer Cinemas Yuka Kanno (Doshisha University), ?Community Building and Queer Activism through Film Festivals? SPF Dale (Hitotsubashi University), ?Trans Representation in Japanese Film? Yutaka Kubo (Kyoto University), ?Cinematic Responses to Queer Aging? 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Since FCCJ is a private club, you must reserve your seats through Screenings Curator Karen Severns: karenseverns at gmail.com Be sure to reserve at least two days before the screenings, as seats are limited. *1) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3 at 5:45 pm [Note early start time]* *RADIANCE (Hikari)* Followed by a Q&A with director Naomi Kawase https://goo.gl/yHrXSS *2) *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 at 7:00 pm *PSYCHIC KUSUO (Saiki Kusuo no Sainan)* Followed by a Q&A with director Yuchi Fukuda https://goo.gl/VT9Pzm -- Eija Niskanen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All Kinejapaners, if you're around Nagoya, are very welcome to join! Best wishes, Wujung **Nagoya-Warwick Cinema Studies Workshop**Mediating Time and Space: Trans/national Cinema, Animation and Beyond Date: 22nd September, 2017 Venue: Rm 131, School of Humanities, Nagoya University http://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/map/index.html (B4-3) Website: https://eizogaku.wordpress.com/events/ Organized by: Cinema Studies, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University and Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick *Admission Free, No Registration Required* Time and space are integral elements of both cinema and animation and their intimate and flexible conjugation helps define the very nature of all audiovisual moving image media. The moving image not only configures the material flow of time and space, it also helps shape the ways in which we may actually imagine time and space to exist beyond the ordinary boundaries between reality and fantasy, between fiction and documentary and between the past and the present. In this sense, the mediation of time and space necessarily involves the continuous formation of history and geopolitics with specific consequences for our understanding of important questions of national identity and transnationality. This workshop, a unique collaboration between the University of Nagoya and the University of Warwick, will thus build on existing scholarship to explore further how time and space may be said to be specifically mediated within the moving image through a series of unique case-studies related to the nation, the transnational and other forms of socio-historical border crossing across the globe and within global history. ******* *09:50-10:00* Opening remarks *10:00-11:00* Alastair Phillips (University of Warwick) ?A Matter of Space: Paris in the Cinema ? A Journey Through the French New Wave? *11:00-11:45* Ran Ma (Nagoya University) ?A Landscape Over There: Rethinking Translocality in Zhang Lu?s Border Crossing Films? *Lunch* *01:00-02:00* Akiko Sugawa-Shimada (Yokohama National University) ?Interplay between Fantasy and Reality: "2.5-dimensional Culture" and Audiences' Participation in Japan? *02:00-02:45* Shota Ogawa (Nagoya University) ?Border-envy: Positioning Cine Qua Non (1989-2010) in East Asia?s Transnational Cinemascape? Break *03:00-04:00* Tiago de Luca (University of Warwick) ?A Matter of Time: Slow Cinema, Aesthetics and Spectatorship? *04:00-04:45* Woojeong Joo (Nagoya University) ?Shitamachi Space and Slow Time in Ozu Yasujiro?s The Only Son/Hitori Musuko (1936)? Break *05:00-06:00* Roundtable Chair: Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya University) *06:00-* Closing remarks This event is organized as part of the larger efforts to establish a joint-degree programme in cinema studies between Nagoya University and the University of Warwick, supported by the International Joint Degree and Research Programs Office, Graduate School of Humanities, and Japan-in-Asia Cultural Research Center at Nagoya University. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A very impressive feat of memory! https://books.google.com/books?id=8RQIAQAAMAAJ&dq=notes+for+a+study+on+imamura&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Actresses Kerim Yasar Sent from my iPhone On Sep 11, 2017, at 3:51 AM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan wrote: Dear Alex, I do not have an exact reference for you either, but it was indeed Richie who said it somewhere in "Notes for a Study on Shohei Imamura" (and possibly elsewhere). I seem to recall the quote originated from Toyoda Shiro. Best, Alo J?ekalda On 11 September 2017 at 19:36, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan wrote: I seem to remember this being a Donald Richie quote. It certainly is the kind of thing Richie would have said, although I can't remember the source. The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. Available to own and rent on iTunes in the US and Canada from 22 March 2016m and to schools, universities and libraries in through The Cinema Guild. The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds book out now from Alchimia Publishing. ???An improbably delightful documentary about slime molds.... good-humored but not campy in its regard of some genuinely fascinating research, and full of trippy visuals", Dennis Harvey, Variety "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicholas Rapold, The New York Times ________________________________ From: KineJapan on behalf of Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan Sent: 11 September 2017 10:04:16 To: kinejapan at lists.osu.edu Subject: [KineJapan] "Why do Japanese actresses give such good performances?" Dear all, Hisashiburi, etc, etc! I'm wondering if anyone might be able to help me out by identifying a puzzling sourceless quotation that I might like to use in an article introducing a forthcoming season of films about Japanese actresses at the British Film Institute. The quotation, as I remember it, is that either a famous Japanese actress, or a famous director, was asked something along of the lines of: "Why are Japanese actresses so good?" And the reply was something like, "Because Japanese women have to spend their whole lives acting." Several people I've talked to confirm that they think they've heard the line, but no one can remember where it comes from and where it's cited. I felt pretty sure that it was in one of the older books, e.g., an early Richie or a Mellen, but the closest I've found either googling or looking through my library is Ian Buruma, but he's making a general comment about Japanese society, not specifically about women, and it's his own point, not something ascribed to a Japanese commentator. It would be especially interesting if it had been an actress who had come out with the line - less interesting if I'm misremembering and it was a foreign critic who said it. 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From kinejapan at lists.osu.edu Mon Sep 11 06:56:35 2017 From: kinejapan at lists.osu.edu (Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 03:56:35 -0700 Subject: [KineJapan] "Why do Japanese actresses give such good performances?" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I think Alo wins the prize. A very impressive feat of memory! https://books.google.com/books?id=8RQIAQAAMAAJ&dq=notes+for+a+study+on+imamura&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Actresses Kerim Yasar Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 11, 2017, at 3:51 AM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan wrote: > > Dear Alex, > > I do not have an exact reference for you either, but it was indeed > Richie who said it somewhere in "Notes for a Study on Shohei Imamura" > (and possibly elsewhere). I seem to recall the quote originated from > Toyoda Shiro. > > Best, > Alo J?ekalda > > On 11 September 2017 at 19:36, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via > KineJapan wrote: >> I seem to remember this being a Donald Richie quote. It certainly is the >> kind of thing Richie would have said, although I can't remember the source. >> >> >> >> >> >> The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds >> and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. >> >> Available to own and rent on iTunes in the US and Canada from 22 March 2016m >> and to schools, universities and libraries in through The Cinema Guild. >> >> The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds book >> out now from Alchimia Publishing. >> >> ???An improbably delightful documentary about slime molds.... good-humored >> but not campy in its regard of some genuinely fascinating research, and full >> of trippy visuals", >> Dennis Harvey, Variety >> >> "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", >> Nicholas Rapold, The New York Times >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: KineJapan on behalf of Japanese >> Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan >> Sent: 11 September 2017 10:04:16 >> To: kinejapan at lists.osu.edu >> Subject: [KineJapan] "Why do Japanese actresses give such good >> performances?" >> >> Dear all, >> >> Hisashiburi, etc, etc! >> >> I'm wondering if anyone might be able to help me out by identifying a >> puzzling sourceless quotation that I might like to use in an article >> introducing a forthcoming season of films about Japanese actresses at the >> British Film Institute. >> >> The quotation, as I remember it, is that either a famous Japanese actress, >> or a famous director, was asked something along of the lines of: "Why are >> Japanese actresses so good?" And the reply was something like, "Because >> Japanese women have to spend their whole lives acting." Several people I've >> talked to confirm that they think they've heard the line, but no one can >> remember where it comes from and where it's cited. I felt pretty sure that >> it was in one of the older books, e.g., an early Richie or a Mellen, but the >> closest I've found either googling or looking through my library is Ian >> Buruma, but he's making a general comment about Japanese society, not >> specifically about women, and it's his own point, not something ascribed to >> a Japanese commentator. >> >> It would be especially interesting if it had been an actress who had come >> out with the line - less interesting if I'm misremembering and it was a >> foreign critic who said it. >> >> Thanks in advance for any leads, >> >> ALEX JACOBY >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at lists.osu.edu >> https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.osu.edu > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It certainly is the > kind of thing Richie would have said, although I can't remember the source. > > > > > > The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds > and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. > > Available to own and rent on iTunes in the US and Canada from 22 March 2016m > and to schools, universities and libraries in through The Cinema Guild. > > The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds book > out now from Alchimia Publishing. > > ???An improbably delightful documentary about slime molds.... good-humored > but not campy in its regard of some genuinely fascinating research, and full > of trippy visuals", > Dennis Harvey, Variety > > "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", > Nicholas Rapold, The New York Times > > > ________________________________ > From: KineJapan on behalf of Japanese > Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan > Sent: 11 September 2017 10:04:16 > To: kinejapan at lists.osu.edu > Subject: [KineJapan] "Why do Japanese actresses give such good > performances?" > > Dear all, > > Hisashiburi, etc, etc! > > I'm wondering if anyone might be able to help me out by identifying a > puzzling sourceless quotation that I might like to use in an article > introducing a forthcoming season of films about Japanese actresses at the > British Film Institute. > > The quotation, as I remember it, is that either a famous Japanese actress, > or a famous director, was asked something along of the lines of: "Why are > Japanese actresses so good?" And the reply was something like, "Because > Japanese women have to spend their whole lives acting." Several people I've > talked to confirm that they think they've heard the line, but no one can > remember where it comes from and where it's cited. I felt pretty sure that > it was in one of the older books, e.g., an early Richie or a Mellen, but the > closest I've found either googling or looking through my library is Ian > Buruma, but he's making a general comment about Japanese society, not > specifically about women, and it's his own point, not something ascribed to > a Japanese commentator. > > It would be especially interesting if it had been an actress who had come > out with the line - less interesting if I'm misremembering and it was a > foreign critic who said it. > > Thanks in advance for any leads, > > ALEX JACOBY > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.osu.edu > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan From kinejapan at lists.osu.edu Mon Sep 11 06:36:51 2017 From: kinejapan at lists.osu.edu (Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:36:51 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] "Why do Japanese actresses give such good performances?" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I seem to remember this being a Donald Richie quote. It certainly is the kind of thing Richie would have said, although I can't remember the source. The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. Available to own and rent on iTunes in the US and Canada from 22 March 2016m and to schools, universities and libraries in through The Cinema Guild. The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds book out now from Alchimia Publishing. ???An improbably delightful documentary about slime molds.... good-humored but not campy in its regard of some genuinely fascinating research, and full of trippy visuals", Dennis Harvey, Variety "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicholas Rapold, The New York Times ________________________________ From: KineJapan on behalf of Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan Sent: 11 September 2017 10:04:16 To: kinejapan at lists.osu.edu Subject: [KineJapan] "Why do Japanese actresses give such good performances?" Dear all, Hisashiburi, etc, etc! I'm wondering if anyone might be able to help me out by identifying a puzzling sourceless quotation that I might like to use in an article introducing a forthcoming season of films about Japanese actresses at the British Film Institute. The quotation, as I remember it, is that either a famous Japanese actress, or a famous director, was asked something along of the lines of: "Why are Japanese actresses so good?" And the reply was something like, "Because Japanese women have to spend their whole lives acting." Several people I've talked to confirm that they think they've heard the line, but no one can remember where it comes from and where it's cited. I felt pretty sure that it was in one of the older books, e.g., an early Richie or a Mellen, but the closest I've found either googling or looking through my library is Ian Buruma, but he's making a general comment about Japanese society, not specifically about women, and it's his own point, not something ascribed to a Japanese commentator. It would be especially interesting if it had been an actress who had come out with the line - less interesting if I'm misremembering and it was a foreign critic who said it. 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The quotation, as I remember it, is that either a famous Japanese actress, or a famous director, was asked something along of the lines of: "Why are Japanese actresses so good?" And the reply was something like, "Because Japanese women have to spend their whole lives acting." Several people I've talked to confirm that they think they've heard the line, but no one can remember where it comes from and where it's cited. I felt pretty sure that it was in one of the older books, e.g., an early Richie or a Mellen, but the closest I've found either googling or looking through my library is Ian Buruma, but he's making a general comment about Japanese society, not specifically about women, and it's his own point, not something ascribed to a Japanese commentator. It would be especially interesting if it had been an actress who had come out with the line - less interesting if I'm misremembering and it was a foreign critic who said it. 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Mayumo Inoue --- *Adjunct Instructor Position(s) in the Graduate School of Language and Society (????????, Hitotsubashi University * The Graduate School of Language and Society ????????? at Hitotsubashi University is looking for one or two adjunct instructors (hijokin koshi) for its graduate and undergraduate courses for the academic year 2018-19. *Teaching duty: *one graduate course taught in English on disciplines related to film, visual studies, art history or literary studies, and one or two first-year undergraduate, advanced-level ?discussion? courses on similar topics also taught in English. *Salary and Schedule:* Salary and commute expense will be determined according to the regulations set for adjunct instructors at Hitotsubashi University. The graduate course will meet once a week during the 13-week Spring-Summer or Fall-Winter semester. The undergraduate course(s) also can be taught once a week over a semester. There is also an option to teach these undergraduate course(s) twice a week over 7-week quarters (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter). Each course meeting, whether semester or quarter, is 105 minutes. *Qualifications: *Applicants should have a PhD and some prior teaching experience. We are especially looking for scholars who have a strong background in film, photography, art history, visual studies, or literary studies. Near native or native fluency in English is required. The university cannot sponsor a work visa application for adjunct teaching positions. *Program: *The graduate course will provide a great opportunity to teach and interact with both MA and PhD students in our interdisciplinary graduate program. Students come from and work across a number of disciplines, e.g., film, photography, art history, and literature, and many of them are pursuing inter-disciplinary projects. The adjunct instructors are welcome to participate in talks and events held within the program. For more about the program, please see: http://gensha.hit-u.ac.jp/ http://gensha.hit-u.ac.jp/news/events-new.html Please send your CV (and ??? in Japanese if possible) or inquiries to Mayumo Inoue, Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University ( m.inoue at r.hit-u.ac.jp) by September 22nd. -------------- 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 Wed Sep 6 06:05:17 2017 From: kinejapan at lists.osu.edu (Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 13:05:17 +0300 Subject: [KineJapan] Looking for accommodation Tokyo Oct-Dec Message-ID: Hi! Thought to post here in case someone knows of a place in Tokyo, exact dates would be Oct 18 or 19 until Dec 9 or 10. If you know anyone going away for some time between those dates. I can also do some pet sitting, if needed! Female, 1 person. Please contact off-list eija.niskanen at gmail.com Eija Niskanen University of Helsinki +358-50-355 3189 -------------- 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 Wed Sep 6 03:40:23 2017 From: kinejapan at lists.osu.edu (Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:40:23 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Sato Makoto retrospective In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Yes, everyone should come to Yamagata!!! (just emailed you, Matteo) Jeremy Harley Mabashi Movie Festival On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan wrote: > Thank you Jeremy, I've seen there will be also discussions/panels on Sat?, > very excited about the one on Oct 8th "Sat? Makoto Seen from aboad" > > > Matteo Boscarol > ????? ???? > ??????????? > - Documentary in Japan and Asia > http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com > - Sonatine2010 > http://www.sonatine2010.blogspot.jp > > > > On Aug 29, 2017, at 8:04, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan < > kinejapan at lists.osu.edu> wrote: > > Also at Yamagata (YIDFF) in October. It's 10 years since his passing. > > Scroll down the page here > for *Ten Trips Around the Sun: Sato Makoto?s Documentary Horizon Today* > > Jeremy Harley > Mabashi Film Festival > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via > KineJapan wrote: > >> Niigata is far for me, but I'm glad to know Sat? is slowly getting the >> deserved recognition, in Japan for now, hopefully at an international level >> in the future. >> >> Matteo Boscarol >> ????? ???? >> ??????????? >> - Documentary in Japan and Asia >> http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com >> - Sonatine2010 >> http://www.sonatine2010.blogspot.jp >> >> >> >> On Aug 28, 2017, at 18:55, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan >> wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> >> For those in Japan, especially those close to Niigata, there will be a >> retrospective screening of Sato Makoto's films and a number of related talk >> events to commemorate the 25th anniversary of *Aga ni ikiru*. The events >> run from 9/23 to 10/6. >> >> Visit Cine Wind for the flyer and more info: >> https://www.cinewind.com/news/satou-makoto/ >> >> All best, >> Justin Jesty >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at lists.osu.edu >> https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at lists.osu.edu >> https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> >> > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.osu.edu > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at lists.osu.edu > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Some may also remember him in Matsumoto Toshio's Funeral Parade of Roses as the patron. http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASK9554BFK95ULZU00N.html Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures 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... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan