[KineJapan] Film fests of yore in Yurakucho/Hibiya

[Jonathan M. Hall]

Hi Anne,

I think TIFF was only six years old in 1991, and Kurosawa definitely
presented at it in person that year. But was the Chanter the actual venue?
I seem to remember it was one of them.

http://history.tiff-jp.net/en/overviews?no=4

If only these weren’t pandemic times, this might help:

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ea/ldpd_7755896/dsc/16

I do remember a festival, but which one.

By the way, one more local resource: UC Irvine has an excellent collection
of film journals of the period, which I helped the library acquire through
a NEAC grant. That would be the easiest place. And those periodicals are
loanable. So a colleague there might request curbside loan for you if
inter-library loan doesn’t work.

With best wishes,
Jonathan


On Sunday, September 20, 2020, Anne McKnight via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi all~
>
> I’m wondering if anyone who has pounded the pavements and darkened the
> doors of the theatres in the Yurakucho area might know of any film fests
> particularly associated with the Hibiya Chanter (日比谷シャンテ) theatre?
> I ask because Kurosawa Akira was in about 1991 miffed that one of his
> films (The Bad Sleep Well) was not included at the retrospective of his
> films that screened there; he hints that it is too déclassé for the time
> and place. The whole Kurosawa feature was probably a part of a larger
> festival, as he does refer to a フェスティバル.
> If I had access to *PIA* I would go back and look at the listings, but I
> don’t, so if anyone has a memory of being there or reading about festivals
> that took place in Hibiya, or strolling by the marquees even, I would very
> much enjoy hearing about these events.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Anne
>
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