[KineJapan] BBC Radio 3 Japan focus - Rashomon, war, and idol culture

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Jasper,
Thank you very much for this link, just listening ... excellent.
all my best,
verina

dr verina gfader
artist and researcher
Animate Assembly[1]
Cloud Chamber[2]

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<kinejapan at lists.osu.edu>:

> I thought this would be of interest to Kinejapanners, but BBC Radio 3
> is currently in the midst of a season of Japan programmes, including
> a couple on cinema.
>
>
> I know some list members have been involved in these. I myself was
> one of the pundits talking about Rashomon with Rana Mitter on the
> programme ‘Free Thinking’, which also included Yuna Tasaka and the
> proper writers David Peace and Natascha Pulley. The talk was perhaps
> more focussed on Akutagawa than Kurosawa and the international impact
> of his film – another 10 minutes in the studio would have helped.
>
> The programme was broadcast at 10pm on Wednesday night, but is
> available as a podcast. I’m not sure where it is listenable to non
> BBC licence payers outside the UK though:
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01vwk
>
>
> Coming up this Sunday at 6.45pm and similarly downloadable as a
> podcast after is the provocatively title ‘Japan's Never-Ending War’,
> once again hosted by Rana Mitter, about representations of war in
> recent Japanese cinema, such as ETERNAL ZERO et al. I was also
> interviewed for this one, as was Mark Schilling and (I believe) Adam
> Torel. I’ve not heard it yet, but a number of Japanese filmmakers are
> also interviewed, including Katabuchi Sunao, Harada Masato, Tsukamoto
> Shinya, and Arai Harahiko – so a very diverse canvas of opinions!
>
> Here are the details: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0wrpk
>
> [https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1200x675/p02jv56r.jpg]<https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0wrpk>
>
> Japan's Never-Ending War, Sunday Feature - BBC Radio
> 3<https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0wrpk>
> www.bbc.co.uk[3]
> Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to explore how Japan remembers World War Two
> today through movies
>
>
>
>
> Carrying on with the film focus, they have also made available online
> another programme originally recorded 5 years back on TOKYO STORY,
> which features, among others, the actor Richard Wilson of ONE FOOT IN
> THE GRAVE fame: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lnfss
>
> [https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1200x675/p01n7bnp.jpg]<https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lnfss>
>
> BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Landmarks: Tokyo
> Story<https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lnfss>
> www.bbc.co.uk[3]
> 50 years ago this month director Yasujiro Ozu died after making 53
> films. Tokyo Story follows an elderly couple who go to visit their
> busy grown up children and their widowed daughter-in-law. Rana Mitter
> presents a Landmark edition looking at this cinematic classic,
> hearing from actor Richard Wilson ...
>
>
>
>
> There’s another ‘Free Thinking’ programme ‘Japan and Nature’, with
> Eiko Honda from the University of Oxford and Professor Stephen Dodd
> from SOAS, and one of the featured interviewees another film-related
> figure (albeit talking about her photography work here), Ninagawa
> Mika: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01n2j
>
>
> ‘Free Thinking’ have also covered ‘Tokyo Idols and Urban life’, with
> one of the interviewees the director of the recent documentary TOKYO
> IDOLS, Miyake Kyoko, with whom I had the pleasure to sit on a panel
> at the University of Sheffield this year, when she was over for the
> Japan Now festival in the UK:
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01xk3
>
>
> And finally (as far as I can ascertain), there’s ‘Supernatural
> Japan’, which looks at the post-Fukushima boom in ghost sitings,
> RINGU and yokai: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zmvmm
>
>
> Hope you all find some time to be able to check at least some of
> these programmes out.
>
>
> Best
>
>
> Jasper Sharp



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