[KineJapan] Furukawa Takumi

Jasper Sharp jasper_sharp at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 12 12:32:40 EDT 2018


That certainly is a ripe old age. I remember when writing something for the Arrow releases of Suzuki Seijun films looking at his date of birth and thinking he must have passed away with no one noticing (as happened with the British director Cyril Frankel last year).

It is a shame so little of his work is known beyond Taiyo no kisetsu, and that is a film too which is better known than it is widely seen.


The Creeping Garden<http://www.creepinggarden.com/> - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films<https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>.
The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing<http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>.
"An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>.
"Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>.

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Subject: [KineJapan] Furukawa Takumi

News reports say that the film director Furukawa Takumi passed away on October 4th at age 101. He is most known for directing Taiyo no kisetsu / Season of the Sun (1956), the first "sun tribe" film. He also worked a lot on television.

https://www.sankei.com/life/news/181011/lif1810110048-n1.html<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sankei.com%2Flife%2Fnews%2F181011%2Flif1810110048-n1.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ca75bb81501bf498dd25e08d62feb619b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636749085326989393&sdata=L1XZAX2XbS%2Fo8zO6pAtbuIAoAQ0N6EfRtasJyZS5sP4%3D&reserved=0>

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