From macyroger at yahoo.co.uk Mon Mar 2 14:02:26 2020 From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk (Roger Macy) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 19:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] Berlinale 2020 awards References: <1259224717.5131804.1583175746670.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1259224717.5131804.1583175746670@mail.yahoo.com> Dear KineJapaners, The Berlinale 2020 awards included two for Japanese filmmakers :- SUWA Nobuhiro?????? Kaze no denwa / Voices in the Wind, special mention ?Generation 14Plus? S?DA Kazuhiro??????? Ecumenicaljury award in ?Forum? section for Seishin 0 / Zero (?2500). https://www.berlinale.de/en/festival/awards-and-juries/all-prizes-and-juries.html Roger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mraine3 at uwo.ca Mon Mar 2 23:21:46 2020 From: mraine3 at uwo.ca (Michael Raine) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 04:21:46 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Call for papers: Special Section on Okinawan Images in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema Message-ID: Call for Papers: a Special Section on Okinawan Images in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, Spring Issue 2021 Postwar Okinawa in In/Visibility?Realigning Cinematic Images, Histories, and Archives Almost half a century since its reversion from America?s military rule to the Japanese state in 1972, Okinawa still embraces profound political-historical uncertainties and social precarity, while waves of protest and struggle continue to unfold as the islands negotiate their future squeezed in-between the power configurations of Japan and America. The tragic yet spectacular burning on October 31, 2019 of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Shuri Castle, a symbol of the former Ryukyu kingdom reconstructed after the war, dissolves into memories of the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 and other sights of historical annihilation and unrest that took place on the islands. The blazing castle complicates an exotic gaze onto Okinawa?s touristic landscape, where the pervasive presence of the US military bases remains ?unseen? by many of its visitors. How can we grasp postwar ?Okinawa? as/in cinematic images, both as a geopolitical site (island chain) and an assemblage of socio-cultural constructions, while attending to their intersecting histories, narratives, as well as archives? If, as pointed out by critics such as Nakazato Isao, the framing of ?Japanese cinema? cannot fully contain certain works by Okinawan filmmakers or some of the moving images on/about Okinawa, is it still possible to talk about ?Okinawa and cinema? together by thinking beyond any rigid paradigm of national cinema? The ?burning image? of the Castle registers as a vision of precarity from which the multiple temporalities charting Okinawa?s postwar transformations can be re-imagined and made perceptible, collapsing facile representational binarisms such as ?Okinawa versus Japan?/ ?Okinawans versus Japanese? and so forth. Also, the (moving) images of the burning, captured, mediated, streamed and circulated through various digitized audio-visual recording gadgets and via different social media platforms, confront us as a vision of abundance. It is inspiring that new cinematic images, be they streaming clips, documentary footage, fiction films, or artists? videos, are still being generated and circulated across various digital platforms to nourish the narratives of a ?self-speaking island?. Put into historical perspective, it is not true that ?Okinawa? has not possessed its own images beyond those produced and promoted within/by the American or Japanese visual regimes. Working with film and art historians and archivists, we have learned that Okinawa-based/related filmmakers have contributed to efforts to archive and make Okinawa visible through amateur and independent filmmaking since the 1970s. Taking cues from a burning image, this special section asks burning questions. It seeks to examine a wide spectrum of socio-historical and political issues revolving around postwar Okinawa from the perspective of cinema and cinema culture. Specifically, our survey of the ?cinematic? is opened up to various genres of moving images such as fiction films, documentary, essay film, newsreel, home video, and artist?s documentary and video work and so forth. By engaging the politics of in/visibility, we invite papers that explore new historical perspectives and theoretical undertakings that approach ?Okinawa? as/in cinematic images both within the framework of Japanese cinema and beyond. Possible topics include, but not limited to: ---Japanese nation/Japaneseness and the questions of subjectivity and identity ---World War II-related memories and trauma ---landscape, space, and Okinawa in cinema ---sound, voice, and music in Okinawa-related visual works ---Okinawa as time-image/movement-image ---film preservation and archiving in Okinawa ---gender and the experience of postwar US military occupation Please send your 300-word Abstract plus 100-word bio to Ma Ran (ranandran101 at gmail.com) and Kosuke Fujiki (fujiki at pub.ous.ac.jp) by 20 May, 2020. Decisions will be made by 15 June, 2020. Full Papers due: 1 October, 2020. For the detailed ?instructions for authors?, please refer to the official site of the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journalCode=rjkc20. 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It's a lovely film, and interesting for the way it doesn't privilege 311 loss or memory while managing not to negate it either. And Soda's new film is fantastic. It starts out as a sequel to *Mental* and halfway in?precisely half way, down to the minute?it pivots and turns into something else. He plays with flashbacks and sound in ways you rarely see in direct cinema (and in ways that don't break his 10 Commandments). I loved it. Markus --- *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* *6348 North Quad* *105 S. State Street* *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 4:02 AM Roger Macy via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Dear KineJapaners, > > The Berlinale 2020 awards included two for Japanese filmmakers :- > > SUWA Nobuhiro *Kaze no denwa* / *Voices in the Wind*, special > mention ?Generation 14Plus? > > S?DA Kazuhiro Ecumenical jury award in ?Forum? section for *Seishin > 0* */ Zero* (?2500). > > > https://www.berlinale.de/en/festival/awards-and-juries/all-prizes-and-juries.html > > Roger > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Sat Mar 7 23:47:01 2020 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron) Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 23:47:01 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Japanese silent horror In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <81106AAB-15A2-47F9-B3FB-8F8BD8DD1AE1@yale.edu> Some initial answers: > > Is it really the case that there are no horror (or horroresque) films between ?????(1926)?and ?? (1960)? Having written a book on Kurutta, I am a bit hesitant to call it a horror film, but putting that aside, there are still a lot of ghost films made between then. Some famous examples include Suzuki Sumiko?s ghost cat films in the late 1930s, Irie Takako?s ghost cat films in the early 50s, and the Shintoho ghost films in the late fifties, with Nakagawa?s Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (1959) being the most famous. There seem to have been about a dozen versions of Yotsuya kaidan made in the twenties alone, so there were plenty of silent ghost films. Most are not extant. > > Is ????? the only extant silent film from Kokame? I am assuming that since he stored them, something must exist but I am trying to find any of them online and coming up dry. Of course Jujiro is still extant and came out on DVD a number of years ago (in a cut rate version). The NFAJ has fragments of some of Kinugasa?s other silent films. Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(1960)? > > > Having written a book on Kurutta, I am a bit hesitant to call it a horror > film, but putting that aside, there are still a lot of ghost films made > between then. Some famous examples include Suzuki Sumiko?s ghost cat films > in the late 1930s, Irie Takako?s ghost cat films in the early 50s, and the > Shintoho ghost films in the late fifties, with Nakagawa?s Tokaido Yotsuya > kaidan (1959) being the most famous. There seem to have been about a dozen > versions of Yotsuya kaidan made in the twenties alone, so there were plenty > of silent ghost films. Most are not extant. > > > Is ????? the only extant silent film from Kokame? I am assuming that > since he stored them, something must exist but I am trying to find any of > them online and coming up dry. > > > Of course Jujiro is still extant and came out on DVD a number of years ago > (in a cut rate version). The NFAJ has fragments of some of Kinugasa?s other > silent films. > > Aaron Gerow > Professor > Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures > Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Sun Mar 22 22:06:04 2020 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:06:04 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Miyagi Mariko Message-ID: <239E74C8-F45D-4618-8D36-CCAB395D7E7F@yale.edu> I hope everyone is doing well! Sorry for the sad news, but the singer/actress Miyagi Mariko has died at the age of 93. Debuting as a singer, with a number of hit songs in the mid-1950s to early 1960s, she also appeared in films such as Kawashima Yuzo's Gurama-to no yuwaku and Ichikawa Kon?s Ten Dark Women. Anime fans might remember her for starring as the voice of Painyan in Hakujaden, Japan?s first feature length color animated film. Later in life, she founded the Nemu no Ki school for disabled children, and directed several documentaries about the school. In her personal life, she was the long-standing partner of the novelist Yoshiyuki Junnosuke. https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2020032300181&g=soc Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kmezur at sbcglobal.net Mon Mar 23 03:24:42 2020 From: kmezur at sbcglobal.net (Katherine Mezur) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 07:24:42 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] Question on online streaming sources for animation and films References: <1529008662.311650.1584948282313.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1529008662.311650.1584948282313@mail.yahoo.com> Dear All,I hope you are all well as can be in our current stay-home restrictions. Sorry if this is an old question. I am teaching all my classes on line as many of you probably are doing now as well. I am looking for your recommendations for Japanese, Korean, PRC, Hong Kong or Taiwanese animation online streaming sources. I know gogoanime, which is good for series but spotty streaming. I also would like to know what source you use for performing arts (contemporary and traditional) and best source for Japanese docs and films (with subtitles as I teach those who most often are bilingual Spanish/English and many Mandarin/English speaking). Please just contact me individually so we don't fill up the text-waves. Many thanks as I shift my classes from live encounters to screened "present-ness."Very Best Wishes,Katherine Mezur Katherine Mezur, PhDLecturerDepartment of Comparative LiteratureUniversity of California, Berkeley 1100 Miller Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708?? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From brianruh at gmail.com Mon Mar 23 12:31:51 2020 From: brianruh at gmail.com (Brian Ruh) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:31:51 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Question on online streaming sources for animation and films In-Reply-To: <1529008662.311650.1584948282313@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1529008662.311650.1584948282313.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1529008662.311650.1584948282313@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Apologies for not responding individually, but since you brought up Gogoanime I feel that I should mention to the group that it's not a "legitimate" site for streaming animation. (In other words, they don't have the rights to stream what they do and none of their revenue goes back to the original creators / localizers / translators / etc.) As film fans and scholars, I'm sure that many of us have accessed perhaps-not-quite-legal ways of getting what we needed to have in times of need, but I wouldn't feel right directing any students to a site like that. == Brian On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:24 AM Katherine Mezur via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Dear All, > I hope you are all well as can be in our current stay-home restrictions. > Sorry if this is an old question. I am teaching all my classes on line as > many of you probably are doing now as well. I am looking for your > recommendations for Japanese, Korean, PRC, Hong Kong or Taiwanese animation > online streaming sources. I know gogoanime, which is good for series but > spotty streaming. I also would like to know what source you use for > performing arts (contemporary and traditional) and best source for Japanese > docs and films (with subtitles as I teach those who most often are > bilingual Spanish/English and many Mandarin/English speaking). Please just > contact me individually so we don't fill up the text-waves. Many thanks as > I shift my classes from live encounters to screened "present-ness." > Very Best Wishes, > Katherine Mezur > > > > Katherine Mezur, PhD > Lecturer > Department of Comparative Literature > University of California, Berkeley > > 1100 Miller Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kmezur at sbcglobal.net Mon Mar 23 13:25:42 2020 From: kmezur at sbcglobal.net (Katherine Mezur) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:25:42 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] Question on online streaming sources for animation and films In-Reply-To: References: <1529008662.311650.1584948282313.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1529008662.311650.1584948282313@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2024822244.474070.1584984342236@mail.yahoo.com> yes, I agree. I don't direct students there! I'm sorry but I meant to say there is gogo, but I need a legitimate site but it would be great if it is free.Thank You!Katherine Katherine Mezur, PhDLecturerDepartment of Comparative LiteratureUniversity of California, Berkeley 1100 Miller Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708?? On Monday, March 23, 2020, 09:32:07 AM PDT, Brian Ruh via KineJapan wrote: Apologies for not responding individually, but since you brought up Gogoanime I feel that I should mention to the group that it's not a "legitimate" site for streaming animation. (In other words, they don't have the rights to stream what they do and none of their revenue goes back to the original creators / localizers / translators / etc.) As film fans and scholars, I'm sure that many of us have accessed perhaps-not-quite-legal ways of getting what we needed to have in times of need, but I wouldn't feel right directing any students to a site like that. == Brian? On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:24 AM Katherine Mezur via KineJapan wrote: Dear All,I hope you are all well as can be in our current stay-home restrictions. Sorry if this is an old question. I am teaching all my classes on line as many of you probably are doing now as well. I am looking for your recommendations for Japanese, Korean, PRC, Hong Kong or Taiwanese animation online streaming sources. I know gogoanime, which is good for series but spotty streaming. 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URL: From nornes at umich.edu Mon Mar 23 13:50:17 2020 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:50:17 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Question on online streaming sources for animation and films In-Reply-To: <2024822244.474070.1584984342236@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1529008662.311650.1584948282313.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1529008662.311650.1584948282313@mail.yahoo.com> <2024822244.474070.1584984342236@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Try your library catalog first. They certainly have Kanopy and Alexander Street and probably more. It?s mostly postwar, canonical feature film or minor documentary. But it?s legal and easy. Markus On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 1:25 PM Katherine Mezur via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > yes, I agree. I don't direct students there! I'm sorry but I meant to say > there is gogo, but I need a legitimate site but it would be great if it is > free. > Thank You! > Katherine > > > > Katherine Mezur, PhD > Lecturer > Department of Comparative Literature > University of California, Berkeley > > > 1100 Miller Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 > > > > > > On Monday, March 23, 2020, 09:32:07 AM PDT, Brian Ruh via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > > Apologies for not responding individually, but since you brought up > Gogoanime I feel that I should mention to the group that it's not a > "legitimate" site for streaming animation. (In other words, they don't have > the rights to stream what they do and none of their revenue goes back to > the original creators / localizers / translators / etc.) As film fans and > scholars, I'm sure that many of us have accessed perhaps-not-quite-legal > ways of getting what we needed to have in times of need, but I wouldn't > feel right directing any students to a site like that. > > == Brian > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:24 AM Katherine Mezur via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > Dear All, > I hope you are all well as can be in our current stay-home restrictions. > Sorry if this is an old question. I am teaching all my classes on line as > many of you probably are doing now as well. I am looking for your > recommendations for Japanese, Korean, PRC, Hong Kong or Taiwanese animation > online streaming sources. I know gogoanime, which is good for series but > spotty streaming. I also would like to know what source you use for > performing arts (contemporary and traditional) and best source for Japanese > docs and films (with subtitles as I teach those who most often are > bilingual Spanish/English and many Mandarin/English speaking). Please just > contact me individually so we don't fill up the text-waves. Many thanks as > I shift my classes from live encounters to screened "present-ness." > Very Best Wishes, > Katherine Mezur > > > > Katherine Mezur, PhD > Lecturer > Department of Comparative Literature > University of California, Berkeley > > > 1100 Miller Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 > > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -- --- *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* *6348 North Quad* *105 S. 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Wednesday at 6:00 (Eastern Time) Scar (Leilei Xia, Guangzhou, China | 2020) Friday at 6:00 There Were Four of Us (Cassie Shao, Hangzhou, China) The Ride (Huh Hyunjung, Seoul, Republic of Korea) Saturday at 6:00 Tokyo Story (Hal Torii, Shibuya, Japan) Leaking Life (Shunsaku Hayashi, Osaka, Japan | 2019) Oh, and Shelly Silver has a film shot in Japan, a tiny place that is hard to touch (Friday at 2:00). ++++++++++++++ Some of the people on KineJapan are familiar with Akiyama Tamako, the scholar of Chinese doc in Japan and a Yamagata regular since the early 90s. Her high school-aged enfant terrible is the Hal Torii of Tokyo Story?it's surely as far from Ozu as humanly imaginable. Well, it'd have to be. It's Ann Arbor Film Festival. Markus --- *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* *6348 North Quad* *105 S. 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On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:41 AM Markus Nornes via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Ann Arbor is locked down, but the festival goes on via Vimeo streaming. > The image quality is excellent and they are still doing Q and As! > > THE SCHEDULE: https://www.aafilmfest.org/live-stream-schedule > > > This page has an active link to the stream. > > I had put together a program of early Taiwanese experimental film with Wood > Lin > . > Unfortunately, that was cancelled. But the main competition is still on. > Dip in any time of the day or night between now and next Sunday! > > ++++++++++++++ > > There are a few East Asian films: > > Im Cheol-min's Glow Job starts in about half and hour and comes highly > recommended. > > Wednesday at 6:00 (Eastern Time) > Scar (Leilei Xia, Guangzhou, China | 2020) > > Friday at 6:00 > There Were Four of Us (Cassie Shao, Hangzhou, China) > The Ride (Huh Hyunjung, Seoul, Republic of Korea) > > Saturday at 6:00 > Tokyo Story (Hal Torii, Shibuya, Japan) > Leaking Life (Shunsaku Hayashi, Osaka, Japan | 2019) > > Oh, and Shelly Silver has a film shot in Japan, a tiny place that is hard > to touch (Friday at 2:00). > > ++++++++++++++ > > Some of the people on KineJapan are familiar with Akiyama Tamako, the > scholar of Chinese doc in Japan and a Yamagata regular since the early 90s. > Her high school-aged enfant terrible is the Hal Torii of Tokyo Story?it's > surely as far from Ozu as humanly imaginable. Well, it'd have to be. It's > Ann Arbor Film Festival. > > Markus > --- > > *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* > *6348 North Quad* > *105 S. State Street* > *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pslarson2 at gmail.com Wed Mar 25 14:47:16 2020 From: pslarson2 at gmail.com (Peter Larson) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:47:16 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] East Asian films at the streamed A2 Film Festival In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I caught some of it online last night, and was impressed at how well it worked out. Even the Q&A went smoothly. In some ways the Q&A was more engaging than in a live context. Film festivals should consider hybrid approaches, particularly festivals in places that I can't travel to without spending a lot of money. On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 1:51 PM U Kim via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Hi Markus, > > Thank you for sharing the live stream link of the AAFF with everyone. I > just talked to Im Cheol-min, and he's extremely thankful to you for > advertising East Asian films at the AAFF, including his own, to the > KineJapan members. As you know, his visit to the U of Michigan > was unfortunately cancelled as the outbreak of COVID-19 does not show any > sign of abating. Cheol-min nonetheless expressed his delightedness as his > film was successfully introduced to the general audience through online > streaming. Hopefully, we'll be able to invite him again to Ann Arbor in the > near future. > > Best, > Ungsan. > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:41 AM Markus Nornes via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >> Ann Arbor is locked down, but the festival goes on via Vimeo streaming. >> The image quality is excellent and they are still doing Q and As! >> >> THE SCHEDULE: https://www.aafilmfest.org/live-stream-schedule >> >> >> This page has an active link to the stream. >> >> I had put together a program of early Taiwanese experimental film with Wood >> Lin >> . >> Unfortunately, that was cancelled. But the main competition is still on. >> Dip in any time of the day or night between now and next Sunday! >> >> ++++++++++++++ >> >> There are a few East Asian films: >> >> Im Cheol-min's Glow Job starts in about half and hour and comes highly >> recommended. >> >> Wednesday at 6:00 (Eastern Time) >> Scar (Leilei Xia, Guangzhou, China | 2020) >> >> Friday at 6:00 >> There Were Four of Us (Cassie Shao, Hangzhou, China) >> The Ride (Huh Hyunjung, Seoul, Republic of Korea) >> >> Saturday at 6:00 >> Tokyo Story (Hal Torii, Shibuya, Japan) >> Leaking Life (Shunsaku Hayashi, Osaka, Japan | 2019) >> >> Oh, and Shelly Silver has a film shot in Japan, a tiny place that is hard >> to touch (Friday at 2:00). >> >> ++++++++++++++ >> >> Some of the people on KineJapan are familiar with Akiyama Tamako, the >> scholar of Chinese doc in Japan and a Yamagata regular since the early 90s. >> Her high school-aged enfant terrible is the Hal Torii of Tokyo >> Story?it's surely as far from Ozu as humanly imaginable. 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URL: From nornes at umich.edu Thu Mar 26 10:25:56 2020 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:25:56 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Schilling on Japanese Film Industry under Covid Message-ID: Mostly on the infection of Shimura Ken and the interruption of a new film by Yamada Yoji that has an intriguing title. https://variety.com/2020/film/asia/japan-ken-shimura-coronavirus-god-of-cinema-filming-halted-1203544266/ Markus --- *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* *6348 North Quad* *105 S. State Street* *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jonathanmarkhall at gmail.com Fri Mar 27 23:12:57 2020 From: jonathanmarkhall at gmail.com (Jonathan M. Hall) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:12:57 -0700 Subject: [KineJapan] Question on online streaming sources for animation and films In-Reply-To: References: <1529008662.311650.1584948282313.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1529008662.311650.1584948282313@mail.yahoo.com> <2024822244.474070.1584984342236@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear KineJapanners, Since many of us are 'white-collar' quarantining at home these days--and some also teaching from there too, Katherine's is a very pertinent question, and I'm surprised it hasn't had more of a public response. I'd venture that it's one that should NOT be answered off-list, or off-world, ...especially if we want KineJapan to be a place where conversations about J-film and J-film resources are shared. I always read the lists (*NY Times* or elsewhere) of what's to-be-seen on Netflix this month, and wonder whether we couldn't have a longer-term shared doc (google or another) where we list which films are available on which streaming sources, of course, indicating any costs/ differing availability per locale. If you're interested, please respond here or drop me a line. Of course, this hearkens back to the very beginning needs that helped inaugurate KineJapan. But, more specific to Katherine's need at this moment, let me mention a couple things here off the top of my head: 1) Markus makes the great suggestions of Kanopy and Alexander St. Still, many small colleges and universities can't afford Kanopy and Alexander Street, so, if not for Katherine alone, I wonder what other resources we can think up. I also hope Katherine might share with us the individual replies she's received, if any. Since my local UC Riverside has subscriptions to Kanopy and Alexander Street, I expect UC Berkeley does too. But on such services (and especially on Netflix), titles can cycle on and then off. A crowd-authored, and crowd-updated, .docx of the kind I'm suggesting might be good for instructors at places with smaller budgets or outside the US. 2) If you are comfortable requiring students buy a textbook, why not ask your US students to subscribe to The Criterion Channel, which really has a lot of great Jpn films. The trial subscriptions are free for the first 14 days, and regular subscriptions can be purchased on a month-to-month basis. You could bunch the Criterion Channel film screenings fairly close to each other on the syllabus, so students can sign up for the free trial and then sign off... and get in three or four films in the trial period. The monthly cost is around 14 USD. 3) If you're looking for something more recent, there are many places that stream free, if only for a short period. One of them is Japanese Film Festival. They have a collaboration with MOOSIC LAB, which helps produce music-oriented films, especially by young, independent women directors. You can stream many films there for free right now. [Full Disclosure: I co-subtitled (with subtitle partner Ayumi Kageyama) one of the films available there now, Kamimura Naho's *Wander Life.*] Here's the website: https://www.japanesefilmfest.org/streaming/ I'll think of some more and send what I can to this list in a future post. But, if you have thoughts/reactions/or interest in a crowd-authored doc, please don't hesitate to respond on-list or, if you must, off-! With best wishes to all, Jonathan M. Hall Japanese Studies, UC Riverside On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 10:50 AM Markus Nornes via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Try your library catalog first. They certainly have Kanopy and Alexander > Street and probably more. It?s mostly postwar, canonical feature film or > minor documentary. But it?s legal and easy. > > Markus > > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 1:25 PM Katherine Mezur via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >> yes, I agree. I don't direct students there! I'm sorry but I meant to say >> there is gogo, but I need a legitimate site but it would be great if it is >> free. >> Thank You! >> Katherine >> >> >> >> Katherine Mezur, PhD >> Lecturer >> Department of Comparative Literature >> University of California, Berkeley >> >> >> 1100 Miller Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 >> >> >> >> >> >> On Monday, March 23, 2020, 09:32:07 AM PDT, Brian Ruh via KineJapan < >> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: >> >> >> Apologies for not responding individually, but since you brought up >> Gogoanime I feel that I should mention to the group that it's not a >> "legitimate" site for streaming animation. (In other words, they don't have >> the rights to stream what they do and none of their revenue goes back to >> the original creators / localizers / translators / etc.) As film fans and >> scholars, I'm sure that many of us have accessed perhaps-not-quite-legal >> ways of getting what we needed to have in times of need, but I wouldn't >> feel right directing any students to a site like that. >> >> == Brian >> >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:24 AM Katherine Mezur via KineJapan < >> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> I hope you are all well as can be in our current stay-home restrictions. >> Sorry if this is an old question. I am teaching all my classes on line as >> many of you probably are doing now as well. I am looking for your >> recommendations for Japanese, Korean, PRC, Hong Kong or Taiwanese animation >> online streaming sources. I know gogoanime, which is good for series but >> spotty streaming. I also would like to know what source you use for >> performing arts (contemporary and traditional) and best source for Japanese >> docs and films (with subtitles as I teach those who most often are >> bilingual Spanish/English and many Mandarin/English speaking). Please just >> contact me individually so we don't fill up the text-waves. Many thanks as >> I shift my classes from live encounters to screened "present-ness." >> Very Best Wishes, >> Katherine Mezur >> >> >> >> Katherine Mezur, PhD >> Lecturer >> Department of Comparative Literature >> University of California, Berkeley >> >> >> 1100 Miller Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> > -- > --- > > *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* > *6348 North Quad* > *105 S. State Street* > *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kmezur at sbcglobal.net Sat Mar 28 19:14:01 2020 From: kmezur at sbcglobal.net (Katherine Mezur) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 23:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] Question on online streaming sources for animation and films In-Reply-To: References: <1529008662.311650.1584948282313.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1529008662.311650.1584948282313@mail.yahoo.com> <2024822244.474070.1584984342236@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2057748083.294741.1585437241025@mail.yahoo.com> Thank you Jonathan! My students may be UCB but they are currently dispersed about the planet so I am very happy to see if we can put something crowd-sourced together.?From Inside my Shelter,Katherine Katherine Mezur, PhDLecturerDepartment of Comparative LiteratureUniversity of California, Berkeley 1100 Miller Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708?? On Friday, March 27, 2020, 08:13:23 PM PDT, Jonathan M. Hall wrote: Dear KineJapanners, Since many of us are 'white-collar' quarantining at home these days--and some also teaching from there too, Katherine's is a very pertinent question, and I'm surprised it hasn't had more of a public response. I'd venture that it's one that should NOT be answered off-list, or off-world, ...especially if we want KineJapan to be a place where conversations about J-film and J-film resources are shared. I always read the lists (NY Times or elsewhere) of what's to-be-seen on Netflix this month, and wonder whether we couldn't have a longer-term shared doc (google or another) where we list which films are available on which streaming sources, of course, indicating any costs/ differing availability per locale. If you're interested, please respond here or drop me a line. Of course, this hearkens back to the very beginning needs that helped inaugurate KineJapan. But, more specific to Katherine's need at this moment, let me mention a couple things here off the top of my head: 1) Markus makes the great suggestions of Kanopy and Alexander St. Still, many small colleges and universities can't afford Kanopy and Alexander Street, so, if not for Katherine alone, I wonder what other resources we can think up. I also hope Katherine might share with us the individual replies she's received, if any. Since my local UC Riverside has subscriptions to Kanopy and Alexander Street, I expect UC Berkeley does too. But on such services (and especially on Netflix), titles can ?cycle on and then off. A crowd-authored, and crowd-updated, .docx of the kind I'm suggesting might be good for instructors at places with smaller budgets or outside the US.? 2) If you are comfortable requiring students buy a textbook, why not ask your US students to subscribe to The Criterion Channel, which really has a lot of great Jpn films. The trial subscriptions are free for the first 14 days, and regular subscriptions can be purchased on a month-to-month basis. You could bunch the Criterion Channel film screenings fairly close to each other on the syllabus, so students can sign up for the free trial and then sign off... and get in three or four films in the trial period. The monthly cost ?is around 14 USD. 3) If you're looking for something more recent, there are many places that stream free, if only for a short period. One of them is Japanese Film Festival. They have a collaboration with MOOSIC LAB, which helps produce music-oriented films, especially by young, independent women directors.?You can stream many films there for free right now. [Full Disclosure: I co-subtitled (with subtitle partner Ayumi Kageyama) one of the films available there now, Kamimura Naho's Wander Life.]?Here's the website:? https://www.japanesefilmfest.org/streaming/ ? I'll think of some more and send what I can to this list in a future post. But, if you have thoughts/reactions/or interest in a crowd-authored doc, please don't hesitate to respond on-list or, if you must, off-! With best wishes to all,Jonathan M. HallJapanese Studies, UC Riverside On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 10:50 AM Markus Nornes via KineJapan wrote: Try your library catalog first. They certainly have Kanopy and Alexander Street and probably more. It?s mostly postwar, canonical feature film or minor documentary.? But it?s legal and easy.? Markus On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 1:25 PM Katherine Mezur via KineJapan wrote: yes, I agree. I don't direct students there! I'm sorry but I meant to say there is gogo, but I need a legitimate site but it would be great if it is free.Thank You!Katherine Katherine Mezur, PhDLecturerDepartment of Comparative LiteratureUniversity of California, Berkeley 1100 Miller Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708?? On Monday, March 23, 2020, 09:32:07 AM PDT, Brian Ruh via KineJapan wrote: Apologies for not responding individually, but since you brought up Gogoanime I feel that I should mention to the group that it's not a "legitimate" site for streaming animation. (In other words, they don't have the rights to stream what they do and none of their revenue goes back to the original creators / localizers / translators / etc.) As film fans and scholars, I'm sure that many of us have accessed perhaps-not-quite-legal ways of getting what we needed to have in times of need, but I wouldn't feel right directing any students to a site like that. == Brian? On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:24 AM Katherine Mezur via KineJapan wrote: Dear All,I hope you are all well as can be in our current stay-home restrictions. Sorry if this is an old question. I am teaching all my classes on line as many of you probably are doing now as well. I am looking for your recommendations for Japanese, Korean, PRC, Hong Kong or Taiwanese animation online streaming sources. I know gogoanime, which is good for series but spotty streaming. I also would like to know what source you use for performing arts (contemporary and traditional) and best source for Japanese docs and films (with subtitles as I teach those who most often are bilingual Spanish/English and many Mandarin/English speaking). Please just contact me individually so we don't fill up the text-waves. Many thanks as I shift my classes from live encounters to screened "present-ness."Very Best Wishes,Katherine Mezur Katherine Mezur, PhDLecturerDepartment of Comparative LiteratureUniversity of California, Berkeley 1100 Miller Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708?? _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -- ---? Markus NornesProfessor of Asian CinemaDepartment of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps?School of Art & Design Department of Film, Television and Media6348 North Quad105 S. 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Pretty much everyone under the age of fifty in Japan grew up watching Shimura, so this is huge news, especially as Japan begins to think seriously about the coronavirus. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20200330/k10012357011000.html Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Michael Kerpan Boston On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:57 AM Gerow Aaron via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > The film director Sasabe Kiyoshi has died at the far too young age of 62. > His 2004 film "Half a Confession" won the Japan Academy Prize for best > picture. > > https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/202003310000500.html > > > Aaron Gerow > Professor > Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures > Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: