[KineJapan] Rethinking Postwar Japanese Documentary Films

[Markus Nornes]

Dear Earl,

Here are a few recommendations:

15
I’m dying to see the first two. わが愛北海道 is a must see—the 35mm PR film at
its apex.

18
Higashi’s Okinawa film.

22
If you haven’t seen Matsumoto’s early short docs.

24
いよまんて 熊送り
Probably the most important ethnographic film in Japan (it’s this or
Himeda’s wedding film). Director Himeda was at the center of
anthropological doc in the postwar. Warning: it’s fairly conventional with
an emphasis on process, so you might be disappointed.

29 NDU
アジアはひとつ
BTW, YIDFF has a great catalog connected to this outfit.

There you go.

M




On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 5:36 PM Earl Jackson via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Dear Markus, Aaron and the many people who know more about documentaries
> than I do,
> The documentary retrospective looks fascinating. Could I ask for
> recommendations - which should I absolutely not miss- I will be in Tokyo
> from 1/26 to 2/09. I will really appreciate this. ;-)
> thank you
> best
> ej
> Earl Jackson
> Chair Professor
> Foreign Languages and Literatures
> Asia University
> Professor Emeritus
> National Chiao Tung University
> Associate Professor Emeritus
> University of California, Santa Cruz
> Co-Director
> Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:14 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> This is an amazing retrospective  with, count ‘em, 42 programs. The
>> programming is incredibly smart, with a bunch of surprises. One is
>> sidestepping Minamata and Sanrizuka to pose dam construction as a through
>> line in Japanese documentary history. I thought that was very interesting.
>> One of the pleasures of this series is seeing the choices for the canonical
>> directors. In many cases, they are not the works that are most popular or
>> best known, but rather the best overlooked films by the best directors. It
>> feels like a productive intervention; programming is, after all, the
>> writing of film history at a fundamental level.
>>
>>  In any case, these films are hard to see and the selection is
>> well-rounded, eye-opening and fantastic. I hope it is well attended,
>> especially by the increasingly youthful audiences at the documentary
>> festivals in Japan.
>>
>> Markus
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 1:38 AM matteo boscarol via KineJapan <
>> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Next year (Jan 21-March 8) the National Film Archive of Japan will hold
>>> a program dedicated to post-war documentary: Rethinking Postwar Japanese
>>> Documentary Films. Lots of well-known movies, but it will be also a chance
>>> to see some rarely screened works:
>>>
>>> https://www.nfaj.go.jp/exhibition/documentary201912/#section1-2
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Matteo Boscarol
>>> Asian Docs
>>> - Documentary in Japan and Asia
>>> http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com
>>> - Film writer for Il Manifesto
>>> http://ilmanifesto.it
>>>
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*Markus Nornes*
*Professor of Asian Cinema*
Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and
Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design

*Department of Film, Television and Media*
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