[KineJapan] Terayama on García Márquez

Fri May 8 06:54:08 EDT 2020

Dear Roger,

Thanks, this is also a good piece of information!

Terayama died in 1983 and the film was released in 1984, coming to Cannes in 1985. So it is impossible that Terayama was present in that hypothetical screening in Cannes. We would have here a funny and surreal story say of both authors…

Does anyone know, then, the extent to which the editing belongs to Terayama, did he give indications to Yamaji Sachiko for this?

Best,

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De: KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> En nombre de Roger Macy via KineJapan
Enviado el: miércoles, 6 de mayo de 2020 13:57
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Asunto: Re: [KineJapan] Terayama on García Márquez

Dear Lorenzo and Steve,

I contacted Tony Rayns when I saw this question, due to his dealings and knowledge of Terayama, and he kindly offered this :-

About Saraba Hakobune:  I saw Terayama's three-ring-circus of a stage production in Tokyo (it took place on three widely distanced stages set up in a cavernous warehouse on Tokyo Bay), which the film derives from, and I did ask Terayama if he'd formally acquired the rights to adapt Garcia Marquez -- since the play was still called 100 Years of Solitude.  He told me that he did clear it with the publisher of the Japanese translation, which was probably true.

I never asked Madame Govaers about the film rights, so I never heard the anecdote which Prof Bordwell's colleague Steve Ridgely reports.  It rings true to me that Govaers would have shown the film to Garcia Marquez and asked his permission, but it's not possible that Terayama was present because his nephritis killed him in the very early stages of the post-production. Terayama would probably have wanted to keep Garcia Marquez's title, and the money-minded Govaers would definitely have wanted to market Terayama's last film as 100 Years of Solitude.  It also rings true that Garcia Marquez (always famously cagey about film adaptations of his work) would have judged the film a very free adaptation and asked for a title change.  Incidentally, the film's post-production wasn't finished until nearly a year after Terayama's death.

Roger

On Tuesday, 5 May 2020, 19:32:05 BST, Steve Ridgely via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:

Hi Lorenzo,

I asked Hiroko Govaers about this when I interviewed her in Paris (summer of 2002). She said that she and Terayama screened the film that would be released as Saraba hakobune before Cannes for García Márquez (I think in her apartment) as a way of asking his permission to use the title of his novel. But he felt that the narrative was too much of a departure, and asked them to release it under a different name. She presented it to me as an amicable exchange.

Steve Ridgely
UW-Madison

On May 5, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:

Dear friends,

I’m writing an article on the Terayama’s film adaptation on García Márquez’ Cien años de soledad.

It is a very free and unknown adaptation and, apparently, Terayama did not ask the Colombian for permission, or did he not like the result: do you know any reliable sources that clarify the subject?

Thank you in advance and encouragement with the pandemic,

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Departamento de Ciencias de la Comunicación y Sociología
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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