[KineJapan] 'Nanking', 1938

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Dear KineJapaners,

Thisis just a response to the posting by Mark Selden on Asia-Pacific Journal aboutthe film, Nanking, 1938: http://apjjf.org/2018/2/Selden.html. I think I got a slightly better picture by going direct to YouTube.

There’s some information on the film inMarkus Nornes’ Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era through Hiroshima,which is a more accurate source than JMDb, whose page seems to have beencompiled from secondary sources in the era when the film was ‘lost’.Unsurprisingly, the Massacre is off-screen in this film. I did, though, find itmore of interest than Markus, particularly the section where the film’snarration attempts to pars a position on Chiang Kai-shek (from 30 minutes in),along with his fascist-style architecture.

There is one credit that JMDb gets right,which the film’s awful subtitles do not. The music is by 江文也, JIĀNG Wén-yě, pronounced in Japanese as KŌ Bunya. Hewas the subject of research of the protagonist in Café Lumière, HOUHsiao-hsien’s Tokyo-based fiction feature.

Roger

macyroger at yahoo.co.uk

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