[KineJapan] Question on online streaming sources for animation and films

Fri Mar 27 23:12:57 EDT 2020

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
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/California,+Berkeley+1100+Miller+Ave.+Berkeley,+CA+94708?entry=gmail&source=g>
>>
>> 1100 Miller Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/California,+Berkeley+1100+Miller+Ave.+Berkeley,+CA+94708?entry=gmail&source=g>
>>
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>> 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
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/California,+Berkeley+1100+Miller+Ave.+Berkeley,+CA+94708?entry=gmail&source=g>
>>
>> 1100 Miller Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/California,+Berkeley+1100+Miller+Ave.+Berkeley,+CA+94708?entry=gmail&source=g>
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