[KineJapan] Film researcher Hatano Tetsuro passed away

[Gerow Aaron]

I was sad to see this news. Hatano-sensei was an important figure in post 1960s film studies in Japan. He was one of the editors of the very influential journal Shinema 69 (later Shinema 70, etc.), which set the tone for film criticism of the 80s and 90s. He was a core member of the team that created Gendai Nihon eigaron takei (1970-72), still the best collection of postwar film criticism and theory. Later, he teamed with Iwamoto Kenji to produce Eiga riron shusei (1982), an important anthology of foreign and Japanese film theory. His other books include Eiga kantoku ni naru ni wa (1993) and translations of works such as Sheldon Renan’s An Introduction to Underground Film, and Jon Halliday’s interviews with Pasolini. He was also a filmmaker, most known for shooting his 16000 kilometer motorcycle trek across Eurasia, and was an emeritus professor at Tokyo Zokei University. I knew him through the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences, for which he served as president, and he helped me a lot with my article on the history of Japanese film criticism. I was most happy when he praised the piece I wrote. 

ご冥福をお祈りいたします。

> 2020/10/03 午前7:39、Schermann Susanne via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>のメール:
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> The film researcher Hatano Tetsuro 波多野哲朗 passed away on October 2nd, aged 84.
> The wake and funeral will be held on October 5th and 6th, respectively, family only, but you can send flowers.
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> Best from Tokyo,
> Susanne
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