[KineJapan] New Japanese Films at Shanghai

[matteo boscarol]

good line-up, as far as I understand, Minamata Mandala is divided in 3 parts, it’ll be interesting to see if they’re going to be screen and shown as 3 movies (like Soda’s Theatre 1,2 for instance)

Matteo Boscarol

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> On Jul 26, 2020, at 2:01, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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> Shanghai Int'l FF just opened. They breached the 500-film level a few years ago and it's unclear how large a festival they are shooting for this time around. It is in person, but with limited seating (30%), temperature taking, mandatory masking and no foreign guests. There are a ton of Japanese films this year.
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> In the competition: “One Summer Story” by Okita Shuichi, and 
> “Tracing Her Shadow,” a Sino-Japanese co-production from Pengfei. 
> Animation competition: “Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop,” by Japan’s Ishiguro Kyohei. Documentary competition: Minamata Mandala by Hara Kazuo
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> Asian New Talent: “Daughters,” from Japan’s Tsuda Hajime
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> Retrospectives of Kon Satoshi, Kitano Takeshi  and Shochiku. 
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> Master classes by Japanese helmers Kore-eda and Kawase. 
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> Soda's Zero, Sabu's Dancing Mary, Sakamoto. Junji's I Never Shot Anyone, Obayashi's Labrynth of Cinema, Suwa's Voices in the Wind and others. 
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> 4k restorations of Kawashima's Elegant Beast and Masumura's Irezumi. 
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> A bunch more. 
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> The one I'm most curious about is Hara's Minamata Mandala. He's been working on this for 15+ years. It sounds like it's over 6 hours long, and SIFF will have an online dialogue between Hara and Wu Wenguang. 
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> This and the master classes will all be online. I'm trying to find out if they will be opened up globally. 
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