[KineJapan] Happy New Year and Kinema Club XVIII

[Gerow Aaron]

Here’s wishing you a happy and productive new year. I look forward to conversing with you all on KineJapan in 2019.

I also look forward to seeing many of you at Kinema Club XVIII at Yale. We were blessed with a lot of good nominations and ended up selecting the following films (six features and one animated short):

Fukujusō (Kawate Jirō, 1935)
『福寿草』（川手、1935年）

Flowers Have Fallen (Ishida Tamizo, 1938)
『花ちりぬ（石田、1938年）

Madam Butterfly’s Fantasy (1940)
『お蝶夫人の幻想』（1940年)

Gate of Flesh (Makino Masahiro, 1948)
『肉体の門』（マキノ、1948年）

The Eternal Breasts (Tanaka Kinuyo, 1955) 
『乳房よ永遠なれ』（田中、1955年）

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (Okamoto Kihachi, 1963)
『江分利満氏の優雅な生活』（岡本, 1963年）

Lily Festival (Hamano Sachi, 2001)
『百合祭』（浜野、2001年）

We are still putting together the panels and the actual daily schedule. We have asked Kataoka Ichiro to perform the benshi, and Matsumura Makia to accompany him on piano, for the screening of Fukujuso. 

There is the chance that the copyright owners for one of these films might not let us show it (though the chance of that is quite small), so there may be some changes to the schedule, but do at least mark your calendars for February 22 to 24, 2019, and plan to join us at Yale!

Aaron Gerow
Professor
Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Director of Graduate Studies, Film and Media Studies
Yale University
143 Elm Street, Room 210
PO Box 208324
New Haven, CT 06520-8324
USA
Phone: 1-203-432-7082
Fax: 1-203-432-6729
e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
website: www.aarongerow.com