[KineJapan] Information about 2009 documentary on Nanjing Massacre

[Des Jardin, Molly C]

Good afternoon all,

I came across mention of the below documentary a few months ago and have been trying to follow up on it, on and off, to see if there is any practical way someone can get ahold of it outside Japan (or even inside Japan!). I don't buy a lot of film for our collection to begin with at Penn, so I'm not the most skilled at combing the internet to find DVDs anyway -- but I do know from what little I've bought that finding niche or documentary films from Japan or Korea can often be an exercise in frustration.

Does anyone know if this was released in a commercial format that might still be available, even used (I do sometimes buy from eBay and Yahoo Auctions for example)?

南京 引き裂かれた記憶 (seems to have the English title Torn Memories of Nanjing)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%AC_%E5%BC%95%E3%81%8D%E8%A3%82%E3%81%8B%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F%E8%A8%98%E6%86%B6

I see that Matsuoka Tamaki, who made the documentary, also wrote a book that has been translated into English with the same title (except as "Nanking") which makes it even less straightforward to sift through my search results.

Thank you in advance for any info or advice! I'm not going to kill myself over trying to track it down, but it certainly looks interesting and like a worthwhile addition to our collection if at all possible. And, it is not in WorldCat as far as I can tell.

Molly


Dr. Molly C. Des Jardin (she/her)
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University of Pennsylvania
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