[KineJapan] More problems for Shusenjo

Rob Schwartz gangamati at gmail.com
Fri Nov 1 08:57:08 EDT 2019


Nihon Eiga Daigaku (formerly Nihon Eiga Gakko) is also in
Shinyurigaoka....I wonder how close it is to the film festival...
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On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 9:25 PM John Junkerman via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> There's word going around that the film festival is actually going to
> screen the film after all. So far there's only this note on the festival
> homepage:
>
> 11月1日 追記:
>
> 『主戦場』の上映実現にむけて前向きに協議しています。決定次第またお知らせします。
>
> Meanwhile, the Japan Institute of the Moving Image (Nihon Eiga Daigaku,
> which is also in Kawasaki) is hosting a screening of the film and symposium
> with Miki on the 4th (free, but all seats spoken for).
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 4:29 PM Roger Macy via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> According to en.wikipedia, Sakurai "denies the Nanking Massacre and
>> sexual slavery". I meant the person who admitted to having denied them, but
>> recanted and acknowledged the evidence.
>> Please excuse my posting again. (Btw, There seems to be some snag, if I
>> click 'reply' to the email, below, it only goes to Jeremy.)
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, 31 October 2019, 11:19:12 GMT+9, Jeremy Harley <
>> jeremyharley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I believe you are referring to the photo of Sakurai Yoshiko?
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 10:16 AM Roger Macy via KineJapan <
>> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, as ever, for the briefings on Shusenjo, not least because it gave
>> me the heads-up that I could watch the film with english subtitles at the
>> 2100 screenings at Image Forum.
>>
>> My little take on comes near the end where more than one of the
>> neo-imperialists (or whatever you like to call them) come out with a
>> precept that I might paraphrase as ‘not doubting is doing well’. That’s
>> one-up on the motto of the town I found myself living in where, to enter
>> the town hall, you had to pass under the motto, ‘Do Well and Doubt Not’.
>> Since the neo-imperialists also claimed that not doubting was uniquely
>> Japanese, I thought I’d mention that. Back, I think in the 90s, I even
>> submitted a question to BBC ‘Brains Trust’ that the motto of Tunbridge
>> Wells was fundamentally immoral. Three panellists brought their own fear of
>> personal hesitation to the table and only Ben Okri saw where an absence of
>> doubt can lead.
>>
>> There were a lot of names and backgrounds to take in for one sitting. If
>> anyone could tell me the name and anything about the english-speaking woman
>> of Japanese descent who reflects, I’d be obliged.
>> https://www.shusenjo.com/ click on ‘Gallery’. She’s top row on the far
>> right, the one who faced her doubts, not the LDP member to her left who
>> can’t.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 12:09:45 GMT+9, Markus Nornes via
>> KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I dropped Miki a line about previous showings. There have been threats,
>> but so far the film has been screened in over 50 Japanese cities without
>> incident.
>>
>> Markus
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