From aaron.gerow at yale.edu  Fri Apr  2 09:58:34 2021
From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 09:58:34 -0400
Subject: [KineJapan] Tanaka Kunie
Message-ID: <9571B5E6-855E-41CA-A223-362DAC2AB275@yale.edu>

The wonderful actor Tanaka Kunie has passed away at the age of 88. Training as an actor at the Haiyuza, Tanaka debuted in film in 1957 and appeared in films by Imai Tadashi and Kurosawa Akira before becoming a regular in youth films such as the Wakadaisho series. He was later a regular in yakuza films such as the Battles without Honor and Humanity series, but he became a national institution through his starring role in the long running TV drama Kita no Kuni kara. It seemed like every comedian had to do a Tanaka impersonation, pursing their lips and uttering "Jun!" I just showed one of the 2-hour episodes of Kita no kuni kara in class a couple of weeks ago and was reminded how great that series was. Tanaka also won awards for his acting in films by Yamada Yoji and Negishi Kichitaro?. He will be sorely missed.

https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/423003

Aaron Gerow
Professor
Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
320 York Street, Room 108
PO Box 208201
New Haven, CT 06520-8201
USA
Phone: 1-203-432-7082
Fax: 1-203-432-6729
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From annekmcknight at gmail.com  Fri Apr  2 18:24:27 2021
From: annekmcknight at gmail.com (Anne McKnight)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 15:24:27 -0700
Subject: [KineJapan] 13 at A2FF
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A colleague sent me this very thoughtful piece on ?Just a Guy.? 

https://www.skwigly.co.uk/shoko-hara/?fbclid=IwAR2TkHHnGzVwWv5EUrKAPYECcqPS4pC7fOM2nQpwQqYbeOxT5oMZQEbcwT4

I thought the film was phenomenal; the claymation in particular. I showed a still to students in my JPN doc film class, and several of them had vivid memories of parents recounting just how scary this moment was, in California history. One colleague recounted sleeping with a knife under his bed?at the age of 12, when he lived in SFO.  I think it was a huge topic of regional media, but didn't travel far outside, in those days. I would be curious to hear from people who grew up in the Christian/deathrock/metal/Chicano rock subcultures of the 90s and also saw the film. I was surprised not to find much on Svankmejer in my university library, but then I recalled I saw most of his stuff, and other works like it, in Japan?that link between (former Soviet, time-is-capital) E. Europe and Japan might be stronger than it is here?

Anne




> On Mar 30, 2021, at 9:58, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
> 
> I should have mentioned that if you run to the Ann Arbor Film Festival website you can watch the films online (for a reasonable ticket price). 
> 
> 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 30, 2021 at 5:52 AM Hilson Reidpath via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu <mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:
> Thank you for sharing this information. I am seeing that the Shoko Hara Youtube link is unavailable because it is private. Any idea if it is still viewable in any capacity?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Hilson Reidpath
> 
> PhD Student in Japanese
> 
> East Asian Language and Literature
> 
> University of Hawai'i at M?noa
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 8:11 AM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu <mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:
> The 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival just announced this year's awards and a Japanese filmmaker took the top prize. 
> 
> Isobe Shinya won the Ken Burns for Best of the Festival award. He's a grad of Zokeidai and the school at Image Forum. The film is 13 and filled me with awe. It starts out with a dot that drops into the upper left corner of the screen and for 13 seconds it streams to the lower right corner. It's the sun setting in time lapse. Then another dot and another and another and they start appearing in groups, moving across the same track. He shot the same view of the sunset in stop motion for 5 years. In the course of the film he uses a lighter neutral density filter and you see features and clouds along with the sun, and if your mind isn't already melting that does it. Wonderful, cosmic film. 
> 
> 
> <image.jpeg>
> In addition to this, a German originally from Okayama won The No Violence Award. It's a short that's been taking awards at the big animation festivals and is nominated for best animated short at the Oscars. It's  Just a Guy by Shoko Hara, an animated doc about serial killer Richard Ramirez's groupies. It's wild and disturbing and I watched it with my 90 year old parents. I had warned them that they were about to see some weird films, but that didn't prepare them for this madness. Really brilliant animation. It's actually online now: https://youtu.be/rMtkdFJTmFk <https://youtu.be/rMtkdFJTmFk>
> 
> 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
> 
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> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan <https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan>
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From aaron.gerow at yale.edu  Sun Apr  4 14:45:16 2021
From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron)
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2021 14:45:16 -0400
Subject: [KineJapan] NFAJ talk transcripts
Message-ID: <BD9E1653-0673-4803-93B8-272DD8A58FBB@yale.edu>

The National Film Archive of Japan has started uploading transcripts of the educational (yosei) talks it sponsored over 15 years ago from specialists in the industry. The first to be uploaded is from cinematographer Okazaki Kozo:

https://www.nfaj.go.jp/learn/others/yosei/ <https://www.nfaj.go.jp/learn/others/yosei/>
https://www.nfaj.go.jp/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/04/NFAJ_Filmmaker-_Lec_20030226.pdf <https://www.nfaj.go.jp/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/04/NFAJ_Filmmaker-_Lec_20030226.pdf>



Aaron Gerow
Professor
Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
320 York Street, Room 108
PO Box 208201
New Haven, CT 06520-8201
USA
Phone: 1-203-432-7082
Fax: 1-203-432-6729
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From joanne.bernardi at rochester.edu  Mon Apr  5 14:18:21 2021
From: joanne.bernardi at rochester.edu (Bernardi, Joanne)
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 18:18:21 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] Zoom event F 4/9 @12pm Author Talks: "The Routledge
 Handbook of Japanese Cinema" book launch
Message-ID: <7C333068-C65A-474A-A085-534E532E3076@ur.rochester.edu>

Hi everyone, just a reminder that this event that includes several KJ colleagues is coming up this Friday 4/9 @12noon EDT (New York, USA). Hope to see you there.
Stay well,

Joanne



A University of Rochester Humanities Center Virtual Event - UR Author Talks



The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema

Joanne Bernardi, Shota T. Ogawa, eds., 2020



This Friday, April 9 at 12:00pm to 1:30pm EDT (New York, USA)

Register at the following link:

https://events.rochester.edu/event/book_launch_routledge_handbook_of_japanese_cinema





Celebrate the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema, co-edited and featuring contributions by Joanne Bernardi, Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies in the Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures, and Shota T. Ogawa (Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies ?14), Assistant Professor at Nagoya University, Japan. A useful resource for students and scholars of Japanese studies, film studies, and cultural studies more broadly, the volume brings together the work of twenty-one authors with diverse backgrounds, including three University of Rochester alumni, to illuminate the hybridity of approaches that define the field. Divided into four parts, it recasts traditional questions of authorship, genre, and industry in broad conceptual frameworks such as gender, media theory, archive studies, and neoliberalism.



Providing a timely and expansive overview of Japanese cinema today, this is the first anthology of Japanese cinema scholarship to span the temporal framework of 200 years, from the vibrant magic lantern culture of the nineteenth century to the formation of the film industry in the twentieth century, culminating in cinema?s migration to gaming, surveillance video, and other new media platforms of the twenty-first century.



This event will include a Q&A and informal discussion after short presentations by the co-editors and three additional contributors:



Joanne Bernardi, Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures

Shota Ogawa, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University (?14 VCS)

Joel Anderson, Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Purchase (?20 VCS)

Daniel Johnson, Faculty Fellow, NYU Arts & Sciences (?05 FMS)

Kyoko Omori, Associate Professor, Hamilton College





Joanne Bernardi

Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies

Modern Languages and Cultures

University of Rochester, Rochester NY

joanne.bernardi at rochester.edu<mailto:joanne.bernardi at rochester.edu>






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From lindsayrebeccanelson at gmail.com  Wed Apr  7 19:28:11 2021
From: lindsayrebeccanelson at gmail.com (Lindsay Nelson)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 08:28:11 +0900
Subject: [KineJapan] Book talk: Circulating Fear: Japanese Horror,
 Fractured Realities, and Old / New Media
Message-ID: <CAB6JFdnvYZ2XF9TTF=owBik0TzYmjjWx2rVWyohKUmOayE00yA@mail.gmail.com>

Hello everyone,

I will be giving a Zoom talk about my forthcoming book, Circulating Fear:
Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and Old / New Media on Friday, April
16, at 6 pm EDT. Sadly the time is a bit early for anyone who's based in
Japan, but if you happen to be free please check it out! Registration link:
https://ncsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvcOippzgvGdz7_FJOjFIN216f_wBTsbj6

--Lindsay Nelson (Assistant Professor, Meiji University)
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From mbsas at berkeley.edu  Wed Apr  7 20:58:29 2021
From: mbsas at berkeley.edu (Miryam Sas)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:58:29 -0700
Subject: [KineJapan] pandemic Asian cinema for teaching
Message-ID: <CABvtXPbvsHSBgJf7TYSJ6SdgF_XEpxporSncp9xzZx8XeQYH9Q@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,
My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or
Asian films *made* *during* the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic
experience either formally or thematically.  Free streaming works (youtube
or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas
appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)   I have lots more from before
that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.
Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
Thanks!
Miryam

-- 
Miryam Sas
Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
University of California, Berkeley
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From nornes at umich.edu  Wed Apr  7 21:36:21 2021
From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 19:36:21 -0600
Subject: [KineJapan] pandemic Asian cinema for teaching
In-Reply-To: <CABvtXPbvsHSBgJf7TYSJ6SdgF_XEpxporSncp9xzZx8XeQYH9Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CABvtXPbvsHSBgJf7TYSJ6SdgF_XEpxporSncp9xzZx8XeQYH9Q@mail.gmail.com>
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This looks great.

https://fb.me/e/djzRytRqr

The CCD Workstation people have been doing a lot of creative stuff.

Markus

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 6:59 PM Miryam Sas via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
> My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or
> Asian films *made* *during* the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic
> experience either formally or thematically.  Free streaming works (youtube
> or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas
> appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)   I have lots more from before
> that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.
> Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
> Thanks!
> Miryam
>
> --
> Miryam Sas
> Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
> University of California, Berkeley
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 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*
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From aaron.gerow at yale.edu  Wed Apr  7 21:40:22 2021
From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 21:40:22 -0400
Subject: [KineJapan] pandemic Asian cinema for teaching
In-Reply-To: <CABvtXPbvsHSBgJf7TYSJ6SdgF_XEpxporSncp9xzZx8XeQYH9Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CABvtXPbvsHSBgJf7TYSJ6SdgF_XEpxporSncp9xzZx8XeQYH9Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <321E8C88-7E51-46B9-93B5-8270040ADE00@yale.edu>

I wrote about some of the first pieces to appear on the net in the first couple of months of the pandemic in Japan. But perhaps you have those already?

http://aarongerow.com/news/japanese-film-and-the-covid.html <http://aarongerow.com/news/japanese-film-and-the-covid.html>

Aaron

> 2021/04/07 ??8:58?Miryam Sas via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>????:
> 
> Hi all,
> My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or Asian films made during the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic experience either formally or thematically.  Free streaming works (youtube or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)   I have lots more from before that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones. 
> Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
> Thanks!
> Miryam
> 
> -- 
> Miryam Sas
> Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
> University of California, Berkeley
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> KineJapan mailing list
> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu
> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan

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From mathieucapel at gmail.com  Wed Apr  7 22:10:46 2021
From: mathieucapel at gmail.com (Mathieu Capel)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 11:10:46 +0900
Subject: [KineJapan] pandemic Asian cinema for teaching
In-Reply-To: <321E8C88-7E51-46B9-93B5-8270040ADE00@yale.edu>
References: <CABvtXPbvsHSBgJf7TYSJ6SdgF_XEpxporSncp9xzZx8XeQYH9Q@mail.gmail.com>
 <321E8C88-7E51-46B9-93B5-8270040ADE00@yale.edu>
Message-ID: <CAJptavTpdfBhg19NcdekMVJ6nh5SLWpHYQC=3pN_ZbEyy4VzOw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All, dear Myriam,

I don't know if you can access it worldwide, but there is a drama
(????????) now streaming on Amazon Prime (labeled as "documentary/drama"
and set as "season 1"), consisting of five short films shot by the likes of
Sono Sion, Mariko Tetsuya or Nakano Ryota.
Here is a link for more informations :
http://www.transformer.co.jp/m/kinkyujitai/
All the best,

Mathieu Capel
Tokyo




Le jeu. 8 avr. 2021 ? 10:40, Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a ?crit :

> I wrote about some of the first pieces to appear on the net in the first
> couple of months of the pandemic in Japan. But perhaps you have those
> already?
>
> http://aarongerow.com/news/japanese-film-and-the-covid.html
>
> Aaron
>
> 2021/04/07 ??8:58?Miryam Sas via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu
> >????:
>
> Hi all,
> My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or
> Asian films *made* *during* the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic
> experience either formally or thematically.  Free streaming works (youtube
> or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas
> appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)   I have lots more from before
> that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.
> Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
> Thanks!
> Miryam
>
> --
> Miryam Sas
> Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
> University of California, Berkeley
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> KineJapan mailing list
> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu
> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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From nornes at umich.edu  Wed Apr  7 22:49:51 2021
From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 20:49:51 -0600
Subject: [KineJapan] pandemic Asian cinema for teaching
In-Reply-To: <CAJptavTpdfBhg19NcdekMVJ6nh5SLWpHYQC=3pN_ZbEyy4VzOw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CABvtXPbvsHSBgJf7TYSJ6SdgF_XEpxporSncp9xzZx8XeQYH9Q@mail.gmail.com>
 <321E8C88-7E51-46B9-93B5-8270040ADE00@yale.edu>
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Aaron?s article is really good, in some ways better than the works
themselves.  It clearly has a lot to do with the lack of a sense of danger.

There is a Japanese guy who is in love with China and has a YouTube channel
on the pandemic in Wuhan.

https://youtu.be/N4ABOJ1y5iM

He?s painfully unaware of his own positionality so ends up discomfortingly
compatible with the official line. They?d be great for that assignment.

The most interesting Japanese work I have seen so far is a piece Michael
Arnold posted about by pink directors Imaoka, Meike, and two others. The
pandemic is more the context than the subject. The ending with Sano is
great.

https://youtu.be/gTwXSdtkytw

Markus




On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 8:11 PM Mathieu Capel via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Dear All, dear Myriam,
>
> I don't know if you can access it worldwide, but there is a drama
> (????????) now streaming on Amazon Prime (labeled as "documentary/drama"
> and set as "season 1"), consisting of five short films shot by the likes of
> Sono Sion, Mariko Tetsuya or Nakano Ryota.
> Here is a link for more informations :
> http://www.transformer.co.jp/m/kinkyujitai/
> All the best,
>
> Mathieu Capel
> Tokyo
>
>
>
>
> Le jeu. 8 avr. 2021 ? 10:40, Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a ?crit :
>
>> I wrote about some of the first pieces to appear on the net in the first
>> couple of months of the pandemic in Japan. But perhaps you have those
>> already?
>>
>> http://aarongerow.com/news/japanese-film-and-the-covid.html
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> 2021/04/07 ??8:58?Miryam Sas via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu
>> >????:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or
>> Asian films *made* *during* the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic
>> experience either formally or thematically.  Free streaming works (youtube
>> or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas
>> appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)   I have lots more from before
>> that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.
>> Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
>> Thanks!
>> Miryam
>>
>> --
>> Miryam Sas
>> Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
>> University of California, Berkeley
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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*
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From christian_hermansen at hotmail.com  Wed Apr  7 23:22:34 2021
From: christian_hermansen at hotmail.com (Christian Morimoto Hermansen)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 03:22:34 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] Pandemic Asian cinema for teaching
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3064.1617846031.1736.kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu>
References: <mailman.3064.1617846031.1736.kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu>
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Professor Miryam Sas,
Takase Shuuhou's "???????????  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuuKXYTaW2M would be a candidate for cinema dealing with the pandemic and available on YouTube. It was made last year, and recently screened at Obuse Short Film Festival.

Best,
Christian Hermansen
(Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AuuKXYTaW2M/maxresdefault.jpg]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuuKXYTaW2M>
????????????????? - YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuuKXYTaW2M>
??????????????????2020??30?????????????????? https://ryo-matsumoto.amebaownd.com/?? ...
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From mbsas at berkeley.edu  Thu Apr  8 00:28:59 2021
From: mbsas at berkeley.edu (Miryam Sas)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 21:28:59 -0700
Subject: [KineJapan] pandemic Asian cinema for teaching
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These are awesome! Thank you so much, Mathieu, Aaron, Michael, Robert and
Katherine! Lots to explore...

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 7:50 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Aaron?s article is really good, in some ways better than the works
> themselves.  It clearly has a lot to do with the lack of a sense of danger.
>
> There is a Japanese guy who is in love with China and has a YouTube
> channel on the pandemic in Wuhan.
>
> https://youtu.be/N4ABOJ1y5iM
>
> He?s painfully unaware of his own positionality so ends up discomfortingly
> compatible with the official line. They?d be great for that assignment.
>
> The most interesting Japanese work I have seen so far is a piece Michael
> Arnold posted about by pink directors Imaoka, Meike, and two others. The
> pandemic is more the context than the subject. The ending with Sano is
> great.
>
> https://youtu.be/gTwXSdtkytw
>
> Markus
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 8:11 PM Mathieu Capel via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear All, dear Myriam,
>>
>> I don't know if you can access it worldwide, but there is a drama
>> (????????) now streaming on Amazon Prime (labeled as "documentary/drama"
>> and set as "season 1"), consisting of five short films shot by the likes of
>> Sono Sion, Mariko Tetsuya or Nakano Ryota.
>> Here is a link for more informations :
>> http://www.transformer.co.jp/m/kinkyujitai/
>> All the best,
>>
>> Mathieu Capel
>> Tokyo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Le jeu. 8 avr. 2021 ? 10:40, Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <
>> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a ?crit :
>>
>>> I wrote about some of the first pieces to appear on the net in the first
>>> couple of months of the pandemic in Japan. But perhaps you have those
>>> already?
>>>
>>> http://aarongerow.com/news/japanese-film-and-the-covid.html
>>>
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>> 2021/04/07 ??8:58?Miryam Sas via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu
>>> >????:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or
>>> Asian films *made* *during* the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic
>>> experience either formally or thematically.  Free streaming works (youtube
>>> or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas
>>> appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)   I have lots more from before
>>> that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.
>>> Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
>>> Thanks!
>>> Miryam
>>>
>>> --
>>> Miryam Sas
>>> Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
>>> University of California, Berkeley
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> KineJapan mailing list
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>>>
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> --
> ---
>
> *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*
>
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From macyroger at yahoo.co.uk  Thu Apr  8 05:00:09 2021
From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk (Roger Macy)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 09:00:09 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [KineJapan] pandemic Asian cinema for teaching
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There was a webinar last month from Japanese Studies, Vienna,about a daytime TV series made under Covid, rimorabu. https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_japanologie/ujapanlectures/Scherer___Kottmann_-_ujapanlectures_s02e02.pdf

We saw a couple of clips which didn?t get me rushing for more, but it deal with the obvious production difficulties of depicting love/romance for socially distanced actors. I can?tsee a recording of the webinar, at least yet.

Roger


    On Thursday, 8 April 2021, 05:29:45 BST, Miryam Sas via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:  
 
 These are awesome! Thank you so much, Mathieu, Aaron, Michael, Robert and Katherine! Lots to explore...
On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 7:50 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

Aaron?s article is really good, in some ways better than the works themselves.? It clearly has a lot to do with the lack of a sense of danger.?
There is a Japanese guy who is in love with China and has a YouTube channel on the pandemic in Wuhan.?
https://youtu.be/N4ABOJ1y5iM
He?s painfully unaware of his own positionality so ends up discomfortingly compatible with the official line. They?d be great for that assignment.?
The most interesting Japanese work I have seen so far is a piece Michael Arnold posted about by pink directors Imaoka, Meike, and two others. The pandemic is more the context than the subject. The ending with Sano is great.?
https://youtu.be/gTwXSdtkytw
Markus



On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 8:11 PM Mathieu Capel via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

Dear All, dear Myriam,
I don't know if you can access it worldwide, but there is a drama (????????) now streaming on Amazon Prime (labeled as "documentary/drama" and set as "season 1"), consisting of five short films shot by the likes of Sono Sion, Mariko Tetsuya or Nakano Ryota.Here is a link for more informations :?http://www.transformer.co.jp/m/kinkyujitai/All the best,
Mathieu CapelTokyo



Le?jeu. 8 avr. 2021 ??10:40, Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a ?crit?:

I wrote about some of the first pieces to appear on the net in the first couple of months of the pandemic in Japan. But perhaps you have those already?
http://aarongerow.com/news/japanese-film-and-the-covid.html
Aaron


2021/04/07 ??8:58?Miryam Sas via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>????:
Hi all,My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or Asian films made during the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic experience either formally or thematically.??Free streaming works (youtube or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)? ?I have lots more from before that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.?Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.Thanks!Miryam
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From elisabeth.scherer at gmail.com  Thu Apr  8 11:37:32 2021
From: elisabeth.scherer at gmail.com (Elisabeth Scherer)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 17:37:32 +0200
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Dear Roger,

thank you for mentioning our talk about Rimorabu in Vienna! Unfortunately,
the recording will not be publicly available due to copyright problems.
Miryam, if you are interested, maybe I can give you a private link to our
talk!
And thanks to all others, great examples!

Best wishes,
Elisabeth



Am Do., 8. Apr. 2021 um 11:00 Uhr schrieb Roger Macy via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>:

> There was a webinar last month from Japanese Studies, Vienna, about a
> daytime TV series made under Covid, *rimorabu*.
> https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_japanologie/ujapanlectures/Scherer___Kottmann_-_ujapanlectures_s02e02.pdf
>
> We saw a couple of clips which didn?t get me rushing for more, but it deal
> with the obvious production difficulties of depicting love/romance for
> socially distanced actors. I can?t see a recording of the webinar, at least
> yet.
>
> Roger
>
>
> On Thursday, 8 April 2021, 05:29:45 BST, Miryam Sas via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>
> These are awesome! Thank you so much, Mathieu, Aaron, Michael, Robert and
> Katherine! Lots to explore...
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 7:50 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Aaron?s article is really good, in some ways better than the works
> themselves.  It clearly has a lot to do with the lack of a sense of danger.
>
> There is a Japanese guy who is in love with China and has a YouTube
> channel on the pandemic in Wuhan.
>
> https://youtu.be/N4ABOJ1y5iM
>
> He?s painfully unaware of his own positionality so ends up discomfortingly
> compatible with the official line. They?d be great for that assignment.
>
> The most interesting Japanese work I have seen so far is a piece Michael
> Arnold posted about by pink directors Imaoka, Meike, and two others. The
> pandemic is more the context than the subject. The ending with Sano is
> great.
>
> https://youtu.be/gTwXSdtkytw
>
> Markus
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 8:11 PM Mathieu Capel via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear All, dear Myriam,
>
> I don't know if you can access it worldwide, but there is a drama
> (????????) now streaming on Amazon Prime (labeled as "documentary/drama"
> and set as "season 1"), consisting of five short films shot by the likes of
> Sono Sion, Mariko Tetsuya or Nakano Ryota.
> Here is a link for more informations :
> http://www.transformer.co.jp/m/kinkyujitai/
> All the best,
>
> Mathieu Capel
> Tokyo
>
>
>
>
> Le jeu. 8 avr. 2021 ? 10:40, Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a ?crit :
>
> I wrote about some of the first pieces to appear on the net in the first
> couple of months of the pandemic in Japan. But perhaps you have those
> already?
>
> http://aarongerow.com/news/japanese-film-and-the-covid.html
>
> Aaron
>
> 2021/04/07 ??8:58?Miryam Sas via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu
> >????:
>
> Hi all,
> My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or
> Asian films *made* *during* the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic
> experience either formally or thematically.  Free streaming works (youtube
> or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas
> appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)   I have lots more from before
> that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.
> Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
> Thanks!
> Miryam
>
> --
> Miryam Sas
> Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
> University of California, Berkeley
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> KineJapan mailing list
> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu
> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan
>
>
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> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan
>
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>
> --
> ---
>
> *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
>
>
>
> --
> Miryam Sas
> Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
> University of California, Berkeley
>
>
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From nornes at umich.edu  Mon Apr 12 13:31:41 2021
From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 11:31:41 -0600
Subject: [KineJapan] =?utf-8?q?Sino-Japanese_Connections_in_Independent_F?=
	=?utf-8?q?ilm_Cultures_=281989_=E2=80=93_2020=29?=
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There is a great outfit in Newcastle establishing a Chinese Independent
Film Archive (CIFA, a new life for an older archive project based in
Beijing). The core people are Sabrina Yu, Chris Berry, Luke Robinson, Lydia
Wu and Zhang Xianmin. I've been happy to help on their advisory board.
They're doing all sorts of valuable activities that are difficult in
today's China.

They've been running some very fine events during the pandemic, and now
they've released their first issue of an open access journal, *The Chinese
Independent Cinema Observer*. The theme is the relationship of the Chinese
Indies to Japan, and the writers are a mix of artists, scholars and
programmers (some of whom are on KineJapan). It's edited by Ma Ran (Nagoya
U) and Akiyama Tamako (Kanagawa U), and it's over 300 pages long (!) and
downloadable as a pdf. Also designed by the great poster
designer/experimental filmmaker Wang Wo!

Their website is equally rich. One other Japan connection there is a
collection of photographs from the Yamagata International Documentary Film
Festival, from both the festival and my collection.

A couple years ago, I was struck by a comment by Waseda's Nakajima Seio. He
suggested that Tokyo might be the best place in the world to study Chinese
independent film. When you read this special issue, you'll probably think
he's right!

Markus

==================================
Sino-Japanese Connections in Independent Film Cultures (1989 ? 2020)
https://www.chinaindiefilm.org/issue-1-sino-japanese-connections-in-independent-film-cultures-1989-2020/?fbclid=IwAR0rVwfJhjyedaxn6vHZvNhW-KueOIg1UYtfZCYyAmihJZqB8_8joVMuyQ4

Photographs from Yamagatahttps://www.chinaindiefilm.org/10035/

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*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*
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From maiku at umich.edu  Tue Apr 13 03:04:11 2021
From: maiku at umich.edu (M Arnold)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:04:11 -0700
Subject: [KineJapan] pandemic Asian cinema for teaching
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Miryam and Everyone -

I hope you are all well.

I agree with Markus that the pink project was charming. I think the
participants have been working on new things with that 16mm camera since
then, but as far as I know nothing is complete yet.

Miryam, if you're open to shorter works that aren?t movies, have you spent
much time looking into network television programs? With nowhere else to
go, I've stayed at home watching a ridiculous amount of Japanese TV since
last year--at least hundreds of hours of mainstream news, commentary, and
comedy shows, mostly Asahi and Fuji with some NHK sprinkled in--and it's
been really interesting to see where things have changed in response to
COVID.

The live news commentary programs I watch have been experimenting: using
different kinds of face masks (though I don't think that lasted too long),
enlarging the set, separating the commentators' seats, placing clear
plastic walls between participants, and even replacing usual commentators
and guests with video chat on profilmic, in-studio TV monitors. The most
common setup now seems to be socially distanced seats, separated by
transparent plastic panels that are lit just so that the edges of the
panels are barely visible. Pre-recorded segments with on-the-street surveys
or restaurant visits usually have the reporter and all of the interviewees
wearing a mask or two, and occasionally place the crew?s long boom
microphones in-frame for establishing shots to emphasize that everyone is
more than two meters apart.

I always find it odd when commentators are replaced by TV screens. I
remember a period of time months ago, when restrictions were harsher, when
it seemed like every daily show had at least one or two HDTV screens taking
over regulars' spots. It implied that the screen-commentators were staying
home and were connected on video chat via laptops. However, the videos
appeared to be shot on sets that were only designed to look like 'home' (I
do think they were physical sets; not artificial green screen backgrounds).
The rooms looked so generic, and the camera angles and lighting looked so
polished and unnatural for a Zoom or Skype-type video chat, that I
suspected those people were actually showing up to work and then sneaking
off to a private corner of the studio to merely pretend as if they were
staying home and honoring lockdown.

The webcam/screen setups altered participation in other obvious and
distracting ways too. The seconds-long stretching and exercise segment of
Asahi's Morning Show, for example, fell flat when the usually very
physically responsive commentators were "staying home? and participating
from inside close-up video chat frames that amputated their swirling arms
and legs.

Fuji TV?s Friday night parody show Zenryoku! Datsuryoku Times has made fun
of that artifice in several recent episodes. One episode last June had the
three regular commentators replaced by video chat screens from obviously
fake homes, and the studio set modified with an absurdly long table (maybe
20 feet long) to fit the two guest stars, Yamasato Ryota and Hotta Mayu.
Yamasato ends up sitting so far away from the rest that he can't properly
hear or respond to the others? comments and questions. That becomes a
running gag.

After a few communication failures and distance jokes--like the moment when
Yamasato realizes he doesn't have a pen to write down an answer, and
someone on the crew strings one from a drone and tries to fly it to
him--host Arita decides that virtual communication would be more practical
and sends the two guests off the set so they can complete the episode via
video chat from ?home.? The gags continue from there. The opening and
ending of the episode also replaced live action footage of the participants
with a kamishibai of "courtroom sketch" drawings that illustrated everyone
on the panel sitting shoulder to shoulder.

It was the June 26, 2020 episode:
https://www.fujitv.co.jp/DNN/archive/index200626.html

I don't pay much attention to the Neta Parade manzai show that airs after
Datsuryoku Times, but from the short parts I have seen, it appears that
Netapare shifted last year from doing in-person, on-stage comedy skits to
using green screen effects for each shot, which makes all of the comedians
look like paper cut-out dolls and makes it impossible to tell who was
present where or how far the participants were from each other (or if they
were even reacting to each other in real time). That might be worth a look
too.

I think the latest episodes of some of these Fuji shows are available for
free on fod.fujitv.co.jp if you have a Japanese IP address. I?m sure it?s
not too difficult to find random clips on YouTube or Dailymotion.

Some of the other comedy shows I watched stopped shooting new material for
a while, or spent weeks airing edited clip fests or repeat episodes framed
by new introductions. Retro video gaming show Game Center CX has continued
without many obvious changes, but when the ADs sneak into frame to give
Arino-kacho gameplay tips and cheats, they show up masked. The segments
where Arino personally visits vintage game arcades and amusement parks have
been filled with recycled footage from older episodes.

The various Downtown programs haven't seemed to highlight pandemic
protections as clearly. The members might wear masks when they go out on
the town to gorge on fried chicken or yakisoba, but they do their regular
studio-based gag shows together, without masks, standing or sitting fairly
close to each other. The family members of Matsumoto-ke no Kyujitsu (which
was just canceled, unfortunately) started to sit farther apart during the
studio segments, but I don?t recall them using masks, even when they went
out to dine. I've seen more recent Downtown episodes making jokes about
Hamada's presumed dementia than episodes making jokes about the foibles of
social distancing.

In serious news and talk shows, the display of pandemic protections
sometimes peaks in a ridiculous mise en abyme where the practical tables,
chairs, charts, and illustrations on the studio set, the clear screens
separating live bodies, and the opaque screens replacing absent bodies are
edited in tune with window-in-window reaction close-ups that are
superimposed on live or recorded video reports of masked and separated cast
and crew members visiting real city locations. It?s strange to see these
talk shows experiment with different impressions and sensations of space in
a TV recording format that is structured as essentially communal, live,
immediate, and direct... anything but distant.

I haven't watched nearly as much drama in the last year. Since narrative
continuity is usually fine-tuned toward the opposite function--to sculpt
illusions of presence, proximity, and interaction out of subjects and
spaces that are already ephemeral, absent, or artificial--I expect that
fictional TV and film would reflect the pandemic somewhat differently, at
least in a formal sense, if they choose to reflect it at all. I can?t
recall any recent movies or drama episodes where the pandemic and social
distancing play a role in the setting or story either, but I haven?t really
been looking.

I've been avoiding anime too (aside from Pui Pui Molcar, which was great!),
probably because most limited animation already feels artificially distant,
at least on the surface. I do wonder how transnational anime production has
changed in response to the pandemic.

This is slightly off topic, but does anyone remember the cycle of pre-COVID
U.S. films from a few years ago that relied on (fake) webcam footage?
Searching (2018), Unfriended (2015), Unfriended: Dark Web (2018), parts of
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), etc. And others I've forgotten. They were all
horror movies. Were there any webcam or video chat films like that in Japan
before the pandemic hit?

Take care everyone,
Michael Arnold


On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 5:59 PM Miryam Sas via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
> My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or
> Asian films *made* *during* the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic
> experience either formally or thematically.  Free streaming works (youtube
> or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas
> appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)   I have lots more from before
> that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.
> Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
> Thanks!
> Miryam
>
> --
> Miryam Sas
> Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
> University of California, Berkeley
>
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From jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk  Tue Apr 13 07:15:40 2021
From: jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk (Jim Harper)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:15:40 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [KineJapan] pandemic Asian cinema for teaching
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 There was David Shin's The Room, from 2012, with Ayumi Ito. The entire film consisted of Ito chatting with her boyfriend over something like Skype (I can't remember if it was specified what they were using, to be honest).

Jim Harper.

On Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 16:04:56 GMT+9, M Arnold via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:



This is slightly off topic, but does anyone remember the cycle of pre-COVID U.S. films from a few years ago that relied on (fake) webcam footage? Searching (2018), Unfriended (2015), Unfriended: Dark Web (2018), parts of Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), etc. And others I've forgotten. They were all horror movies. Were there any webcam or video chat films like that in Japan before the pandemic hit?

Take care everyone,
Michael Arnold


On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 5:59 PM Miryam Sas via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or Asian films made during the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic experience either formally or thematically.??Free streaming works (youtube or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)? ?I have lots more from before that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.?
Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
Thanks!
Miryam

--
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Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
University of California, Berkeley


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From lindsayrebeccanelson at gmail.com  Tue Apr 13 18:20:41 2021
From: lindsayrebeccanelson at gmail.com (Lindsay Nelson)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 07:20:41 +0900
Subject: [KineJapan] pre-pandemic webcam films
In-Reply-To: <mailman.113.1618312548.1789.kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu>
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The DVD / video series 2channeru no noroi includes a couple of short horror
films that involve webcam chatting, including Webbu kamera tsuuwa (in
volume 1). Slightly different, but the later Ring sequels and spinoffs
(Sadako 3D, Sadako) focus on live webcam broadcasts. And the very recent
Jukai mura has a subplot about a group of paranormal enthusiasts meeting
online via webcam and watching live video broadcasts (though it went into
production during the pandemic, not sure if the script was written
pre-pandemic).

--Lindsay Nelson

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> Miryam and Everyone -
>
> I hope you are all well.
>
> I agree with Markus that the pink project was charming. I think the
> participants have been working on new things with that 16mm camera since
> then, but as far as I know nothing is complete yet.
>
> Miryam, if you're open to shorter works that aren?t movies, have you spent
> much time looking into network television programs? With nowhere else to
> go, I've stayed at home watching a ridiculous amount of Japanese TV since
> last year--at least hundreds of hours of mainstream news, commentary, and
> comedy shows, mostly Asahi and Fuji with some NHK sprinkled in--and it's
> been really interesting to see where things have changed in response to
> COVID.
>
> The live news commentary programs I watch have been experimenting: using
> different kinds of face masks (though I don't think that lasted too long),
> enlarging the set, separating the commentators' seats, placing clear
> plastic walls between participants, and even replacing usual commentators
> and guests with video chat on profilmic, in-studio TV monitors. The most
> common setup now seems to be socially distanced seats, separated by
> transparent plastic panels that are lit just so that the edges of the
> panels are barely visible. Pre-recorded segments with on-the-street surveys
> or restaurant visits usually have the reporter and all of the interviewees
> wearing a mask or two, and occasionally place the crew?s long boom
> microphones in-frame for establishing shots to emphasize that everyone is
> more than two meters apart.
>
> I always find it odd when commentators are replaced by TV screens. I
> remember a period of time months ago, when restrictions were harsher, when
> it seemed like every daily show had at least one or two HDTV screens taking
> over regulars' spots. It implied that the screen-commentators were staying
> home and were connected on video chat via laptops. However, the videos
> appeared to be shot on sets that were only designed to look like 'home' (I
> do think they were physical sets; not artificial green screen backgrounds).
> The rooms looked so generic, and the camera angles and lighting looked so
> polished and unnatural for a Zoom or Skype-type video chat, that I
> suspected those people were actually showing up to work and then sneaking
> off to a private corner of the studio to merely pretend as if they were
> staying home and honoring lockdown.
>
> The webcam/screen setups altered participation in other obvious and
> distracting ways too. The seconds-long stretching and exercise segment of
> Asahi's Morning Show, for example, fell flat when the usually very
> physically responsive commentators were "staying home? and participating
> from inside close-up video chat frames that amputated their swirling arms
> and legs.
>
> Fuji TV?s Friday night parody show Zenryoku! Datsuryoku Times has made fun
> of that artifice in several recent episodes. One episode last June had the
> three regular commentators replaced by video chat screens from obviously
> fake homes, and the studio set modified with an absurdly long table (maybe
> 20 feet long) to fit the two guest stars, Yamasato Ryota and Hotta Mayu.
> Yamasato ends up sitting so far away from the rest that he can't properly
> hear or respond to the others? comments and questions. That becomes a
> running gag.
>
> After a few communication failures and distance jokes--like the moment when
> Yamasato realizes he doesn't have a pen to write down an answer, and
> someone on the crew strings one from a drone and tries to fly it to
> him--host Arita decides that virtual communication would be more practical
> and sends the two guests off the set so they can complete the episode via
> video chat from ?home.? The gags continue from there. The opening and
> ending of the episode also replaced live action footage of the participants
> with a kamishibai of "courtroom sketch" drawings that illustrated everyone
> on the panel sitting shoulder to shoulder.
>
> It was the June 26, 2020 episode:
> https://www.fujitv.co.jp/DNN/archive/index200626.html
>
> I don't pay much attention to the Neta Parade manzai show that airs after
> Datsuryoku Times, but from the short parts I have seen, it appears that
> Netapare shifted last year from doing in-person, on-stage comedy skits to
> using green screen effects for each shot, which makes all of the comedians
> look like paper cut-out dolls and makes it impossible to tell who was
> present where or how far the participants were from each other (or if they
> were even reacting to each other in real time). That might be worth a look
> too.
>
> I think the latest episodes of some of these Fuji shows are available for
> free on fod.fujitv.co.jp if you have a Japanese IP address. I?m sure it?s
> not too difficult to find random clips on YouTube or Dailymotion.
>
> Some of the other comedy shows I watched stopped shooting new material for
> a while, or spent weeks airing edited clip fests or repeat episodes framed
> by new introductions. Retro video gaming show Game Center CX has continued
> without many obvious changes, but when the ADs sneak into frame to give
> Arino-kacho gameplay tips and cheats, they show up masked. The segments
> where Arino personally visits vintage game arcades and amusement parks have
> been filled with recycled footage from older episodes.
>
> The various Downtown programs haven't seemed to highlight pandemic
> protections as clearly. The members might wear masks when they go out on
> the town to gorge on fried chicken or yakisoba, but they do their regular
> studio-based gag shows together, without masks, standing or sitting fairly
> close to each other. The family members of Matsumoto-ke no Kyujitsu (which
> was just canceled, unfortunately) started to sit farther apart during the
> studio segments, but I don?t recall them using masks, even when they went
> out to dine. I've seen more recent Downtown episodes making jokes about
> Hamada's presumed dementia than episodes making jokes about the foibles of
> social distancing.
>
> In serious news and talk shows, the display of pandemic protections
> sometimes peaks in a ridiculous mise en abyme where the practical tables,
> chairs, charts, and illustrations on the studio set, the clear screens
> separating live bodies, and the opaque screens replacing absent bodies are
> edited in tune with window-in-window reaction close-ups that are
> superimposed on live or recorded video reports of masked and separated cast
> and crew members visiting real city locations. It?s strange to see these
> talk shows experiment with different impressions and sensations of space in
> a TV recording format that is structured as essentially communal, live,
> immediate, and direct... anything but distant.
>
> I haven't watched nearly as much drama in the last year. Since narrative
> continuity is usually fine-tuned toward the opposite function--to sculpt
> illusions of presence, proximity, and interaction out of subjects and
> spaces that are already ephemeral, absent, or artificial--I expect that
> fictional TV and film would reflect the pandemic somewhat differently, at
> least in a formal sense, if they choose to reflect it at all. I can?t
> recall any recent movies or drama episodes where the pandemic and social
> distancing play a role in the setting or story either, but I haven?t really
> been looking.
>
> I've been avoiding anime too (aside from Pui Pui Molcar, which was great!),
> probably because most limited animation already feels artificially distant,
> at least on the surface. I do wonder how transnational anime production has
> changed in response to the pandemic.
>
> This is slightly off topic, but does anyone remember the cycle of pre-COVID
> U.S. films from a few years ago that relied on (fake) webcam footage?
> Searching (2018), Unfriended (2015), Unfriended: Dark Web (2018), parts of
> Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), etc. And others I've forgotten. They were all
> horror movies. Were there any webcam or video chat films like that in Japan
> before the pandemic hit?
>
> Take care everyone,
> Michael Arnold
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 5:59 PM Miryam Sas via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or
> > Asian films *made* *during* the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic
> > experience either formally or thematically.  Free streaming works
> (youtube
> > or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all
> ideas
> > appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)   I have lots more from
> before
> > that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.
> > Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
> > Thanks!
> > Miryam
> >
> > --
> > Miryam Sas
> > Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
> > University of California, Berkeley
> >
> >
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> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
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>  There was David Shin's The Room, from 2012, with Ayumi Ito. The entire
> film consisted of Ito chatting with her boyfriend over something like Skype
> (I can't remember if it was specified what they were using, to be honest).
>
> Jim Harper.
>
> On Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 16:04:56 GMT+9, M Arnold via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
> This is slightly off topic, but does anyone remember the cycle of
> pre-COVID U.S. films from a few years ago that relied on (fake) webcam
> footage? Searching (2018), Unfriended (2015), Unfriended: Dark Web (2018),
> parts of Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), etc. And others I've forgotten. They
> were all horror movies. Were there any webcam or video chat films like that
> in Japan before the pandemic hit?
>
> Take care everyone,
> Michael Arnold
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 5:59 PM Miryam Sas via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
> My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or
> Asian films made during the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic
> experience either formally or thematically.??Free streaming works (youtube
> or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas
> appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)? ?I have lots more from before
> that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.?
> Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
> Thanks!
> Miryam
>
> --
> Miryam Sas
> Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
> University of California, Berkeley
>
>
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From timiles2003 at yahoo.com  Wed Apr 14 16:20:49 2021
From: timiles2003 at yahoo.com (Tim Iles)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 20:20:49 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [KineJapan] New Content on the ejcjs
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The electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 21, Issue 1, available at:

https://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol21/iss1/index.html


The contents of this edition are:

Peer-reviewed articles

Barbara Greene, Fanning the Flames: Narrative-Baiting and Flame-Ups as a Means of Raising Visibility in an Over-Saturated Media Market

Yamisle Barbara Roca, Origin of the Sun: Japanese Soft Power and Public Diplomacy Evaluated


Discussion Papers

Anthony Rausch, Furusato nozei Revisited

Tets Kimura, ?Cotton poet? latest victim of COVID-19: Obituary, Takada Kenzo

Film Reviews

Simon Paxton, Remembering March 11: A review of Fukushima 50

Translations

Tets Kimura

The Dark Master, by Tanino Kuro


Many thanks to our contributors, readers, and volunteer production team.

Best wishes to all,


Timothy Iles
General Editor, the ejcjs

From mikelarson100 at gmail.com  Sun Apr 18 13:23:53 2021
From: mikelarson100 at gmail.com (Michael Larson)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 02:23:53 +0900
Subject: [KineJapan] New Content on the ejcjs
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Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 4:39 AM
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To: <KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu>
Cc: Tim Iles <timiles2003 at yahoo.com>


The electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies is very pleased to
announce the publication of Volume 20, Issue 3, available at:

http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol20/iss3/index.html


The table of contents is:


Peer-reviewed articles

Kelly Hansen: The Little Girl in the Red Shoes: Nostalgia, Memory and the
Growth of a Narrative

Yuko Kawanishi: Sh?katsu utsu, the Psychological Toll of Job-Hunting in
Japan

Maciej Pletnia: Internal pressure?Japan War-Bereaved Families Association
and Its Influence on Japanese Politics of Memory

Anthony Rausch: Japan?s Regional Think Tanks: A Hidden Sector of
Significant (Research) Potential

Book Reviews

Patrick Foss: Traveling Across Time and Culture, a review of Alan Booth,
This Great Stage of Fools

Discussion Papers

Verina Gfader: Talk Geometries: Towards Anime?s sensorial vocabularies;
supplement: fragments from Tranquil hills fragile apparatus

Translations

Yukiko Shigeto: "Wildfire" by Tsushima Yuko


As ever, many thanks to our contributors, our readers and our global team
of volunteers.

Best,


Timothy Iles
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 5:21 AM Tim Iles via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> The electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies is pleased to
> announce the publication of Volume 21, Issue 1, available at:
>
> https://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol21/iss1/index.html
>
>
> The contents of this edition are:
>
> Peer-reviewed articles
>
> Barbara Greene, Fanning the Flames: Narrative-Baiting and Flame-Ups as a
> Means of Raising Visibility in an Over-Saturated Media Market
>
> Yamisle Barbara Roca, Origin of the Sun: Japanese Soft Power and Public
> Diplomacy Evaluated
>
>
> Discussion Papers
>
> Anthony Rausch, Furusato nozei Revisited
>
> Tets Kimura, ?Cotton poet? latest victim of COVID-19: Obituary, Takada
> Kenzo
>
> Film Reviews
>
> Simon Paxton, Remembering March 11: A review of Fukushima 50
>
> Translations
>
> Tets Kimura
>
> The Dark Master, by Tanino Kuro
>
>
> Many thanks to our contributors, readers, and volunteer production team.
>
> Best wishes to all,
>
>
> Timothy Iles
> General Editor, the ejcjs
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From maiku at umich.edu  Sun Apr 18 23:23:50 2021
From: maiku at umich.edu (M Arnold)
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:23:50 -0700
Subject: [KineJapan] pre-pandemic webcam films
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Thanks to Jim Harper and Lindsay Nelson for their pointers on pre-pandemic
Japanese movies involving video chat! I haven't seen any of these and I'll
definitely try to track them down.

I doubt Sadako 3D will quite live up to my imagination, but the thought of
a Ring movie with Sadako scratching around in simulated three-dimensional
space while all the living characters become flat 2D screens-within-screens
is positively dreamy.

Speaking of COVID films, I made it through about half of Hiroki Ryuichi's
new Netflix movie Ride or Die the other day. I'm surprised this is getting
so much attention in the English language press. Some of the reviews say it
was filmed entirely during the pandemic, so it seems perfectly positioned
as one answer to Miryam's original query, but so far I haven't noticed any
masks (aside from the brief plastic surgery scene), any video chat, or any
reference to COVID at all.

Best,
Michael Arnold

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 3:21 PM Lindsay Nelson via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> The DVD / video series 2channeru no noroi includes a couple of short
> horror films that involve webcam chatting, including Webbu kamera tsuuwa
> (in volume 1). Slightly different, but the later Ring sequels and spinoffs
> (Sadako 3D, Sadako) focus on live webcam broadcasts. And the very recent
> Jukai mura has a subplot about a group of paranormal enthusiasts meeting
> online via webcam and watching live video broadcasts (though it went into
> production during the pandemic, not sure if the script was written
> pre-pandemic).
>
> --Lindsay Nelson
>
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>> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:04:11 -0700
>> From: M Arnold <maiku at umich.edu>
>> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] pandemic Asian cinema for teaching
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>> Miryam and Everyone -
>>
>> I hope you are all well.
>>
>> I agree with Markus that the pink project was charming. I think the
>> participants have been working on new things with that 16mm camera since
>> then, but as far as I know nothing is complete yet.
>>
>> Miryam, if you're open to shorter works that aren?t movies, have you spent
>> much time looking into network television programs? With nowhere else to
>> go, I've stayed at home watching a ridiculous amount of Japanese TV since
>> last year--at least hundreds of hours of mainstream news, commentary, and
>> comedy shows, mostly Asahi and Fuji with some NHK sprinkled in--and it's
>> been really interesting to see where things have changed in response to
>> COVID.
>>
>> The live news commentary programs I watch have been experimenting: using
>> different kinds of face masks (though I don't think that lasted too long),
>> enlarging the set, separating the commentators' seats, placing clear
>> plastic walls between participants, and even replacing usual commentators
>> and guests with video chat on profilmic, in-studio TV monitors. The most
>> common setup now seems to be socially distanced seats, separated by
>> transparent plastic panels that are lit just so that the edges of the
>> panels are barely visible. Pre-recorded segments with on-the-street
>> surveys
>> or restaurant visits usually have the reporter and all of the interviewees
>> wearing a mask or two, and occasionally place the crew?s long boom
>> microphones in-frame for establishing shots to emphasize that everyone is
>> more than two meters apart.
>>
>> I always find it odd when commentators are replaced by TV screens. I
>> remember a period of time months ago, when restrictions were harsher, when
>> it seemed like every daily show had at least one or two HDTV screens
>> taking
>> over regulars' spots. It implied that the screen-commentators were staying
>> home and were connected on video chat via laptops. However, the videos
>> appeared to be shot on sets that were only designed to look like 'home' (I
>> do think they were physical sets; not artificial green screen
>> backgrounds).
>> The rooms looked so generic, and the camera angles and lighting looked so
>> polished and unnatural for a Zoom or Skype-type video chat, that I
>> suspected those people were actually showing up to work and then sneaking
>> off to a private corner of the studio to merely pretend as if they were
>> staying home and honoring lockdown.
>>
>> The webcam/screen setups altered participation in other obvious and
>> distracting ways too. The seconds-long stretching and exercise segment of
>> Asahi's Morning Show, for example, fell flat when the usually very
>> physically responsive commentators were "staying home? and participating
>> from inside close-up video chat frames that amputated their swirling arms
>> and legs.
>>
>> Fuji TV?s Friday night parody show Zenryoku! Datsuryoku Times has made fun
>> of that artifice in several recent episodes. One episode last June had the
>> three regular commentators replaced by video chat screens from obviously
>> fake homes, and the studio set modified with an absurdly long table (maybe
>> 20 feet long) to fit the two guest stars, Yamasato Ryota and Hotta Mayu.
>> Yamasato ends up sitting so far away from the rest that he can't properly
>> hear or respond to the others? comments and questions. That becomes a
>> running gag.
>>
>> After a few communication failures and distance jokes--like the moment
>> when
>> Yamasato realizes he doesn't have a pen to write down an answer, and
>> someone on the crew strings one from a drone and tries to fly it to
>> him--host Arita decides that virtual communication would be more practical
>> and sends the two guests off the set so they can complete the episode via
>> video chat from ?home.? The gags continue from there. The opening and
>> ending of the episode also replaced live action footage of the
>> participants
>> with a kamishibai of "courtroom sketch" drawings that illustrated everyone
>> on the panel sitting shoulder to shoulder.
>>
>> It was the June 26, 2020 episode:
>> https://www.fujitv.co.jp/DNN/archive/index200626.html
>>
>> I don't pay much attention to the Neta Parade manzai show that airs after
>> Datsuryoku Times, but from the short parts I have seen, it appears that
>> Netapare shifted last year from doing in-person, on-stage comedy skits to
>> using green screen effects for each shot, which makes all of the comedians
>> look like paper cut-out dolls and makes it impossible to tell who was
>> present where or how far the participants were from each other (or if they
>> were even reacting to each other in real time). That might be worth a look
>> too.
>>
>> I think the latest episodes of some of these Fuji shows are available for
>> free on fod.fujitv.co.jp if you have a Japanese IP address. I?m sure it?s
>> not too difficult to find random clips on YouTube or Dailymotion.
>>
>> Some of the other comedy shows I watched stopped shooting new material for
>> a while, or spent weeks airing edited clip fests or repeat episodes framed
>> by new introductions. Retro video gaming show Game Center CX has continued
>> without many obvious changes, but when the ADs sneak into frame to give
>> Arino-kacho gameplay tips and cheats, they show up masked. The segments
>> where Arino personally visits vintage game arcades and amusement parks
>> have
>> been filled with recycled footage from older episodes.
>>
>> The various Downtown programs haven't seemed to highlight pandemic
>> protections as clearly. The members might wear masks when they go out on
>> the town to gorge on fried chicken or yakisoba, but they do their regular
>> studio-based gag shows together, without masks, standing or sitting fairly
>> close to each other. The family members of Matsumoto-ke no Kyujitsu (which
>> was just canceled, unfortunately) started to sit farther apart during the
>> studio segments, but I don?t recall them using masks, even when they went
>> out to dine. I've seen more recent Downtown episodes making jokes about
>> Hamada's presumed dementia than episodes making jokes about the foibles of
>> social distancing.
>>
>> In serious news and talk shows, the display of pandemic protections
>> sometimes peaks in a ridiculous mise en abyme where the practical tables,
>> chairs, charts, and illustrations on the studio set, the clear screens
>> separating live bodies, and the opaque screens replacing absent bodies are
>> edited in tune with window-in-window reaction close-ups that are
>> superimposed on live or recorded video reports of masked and separated
>> cast
>> and crew members visiting real city locations. It?s strange to see these
>> talk shows experiment with different impressions and sensations of space
>> in
>> a TV recording format that is structured as essentially communal, live,
>> immediate, and direct... anything but distant.
>>
>> I haven't watched nearly as much drama in the last year. Since narrative
>> continuity is usually fine-tuned toward the opposite function--to sculpt
>> illusions of presence, proximity, and interaction out of subjects and
>> spaces that are already ephemeral, absent, or artificial--I expect that
>> fictional TV and film would reflect the pandemic somewhat differently, at
>> least in a formal sense, if they choose to reflect it at all. I can?t
>> recall any recent movies or drama episodes where the pandemic and social
>> distancing play a role in the setting or story either, but I haven?t
>> really
>> been looking.
>>
>> I've been avoiding anime too (aside from Pui Pui Molcar, which was
>> great!),
>> probably because most limited animation already feels artificially
>> distant,
>> at least on the surface. I do wonder how transnational anime production
>> has
>> changed in response to the pandemic.
>>
>> This is slightly off topic, but does anyone remember the cycle of
>> pre-COVID
>> U.S. films from a few years ago that relied on (fake) webcam footage?
>> Searching (2018), Unfriended (2015), Unfriended: Dark Web (2018), parts of
>> Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), etc. And others I've forgotten. They were
>> all
>> horror movies. Were there any webcam or video chat films like that in
>> Japan
>> before the pandemic hit?
>>
>> Take care everyone,
>> Michael Arnold
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 5:59 PM Miryam Sas via KineJapan <
>> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> > My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or
>> > Asian films *made* *during* the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic
>> > experience either formally or thematically.  Free streaming works
>> (youtube
>> > or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all
>> ideas
>> > appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)   I have lots more from
>> before
>> > that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.
>> > Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
>> > Thanks!
>> > Miryam
>> >
>> > --
>> > Miryam Sas
>> > Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
>> > University of California, Berkeley
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>> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:15:40 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>
>> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] pandemic Asian cinema for teaching
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>>  There was David Shin's The Room, from 2012, with Ayumi Ito. The entire
>> film consisted of Ito chatting with her boyfriend over something like Skype
>> (I can't remember if it was specified what they were using, to be honest).
>>
>> Jim Harper.
>>
>> On Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 16:04:56 GMT+9, M Arnold via KineJapan <
>> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> This is slightly off topic, but does anyone remember the cycle of
>> pre-COVID U.S. films from a few years ago that relied on (fake) webcam
>> footage? Searching (2018), Unfriended (2015), Unfriended: Dark Web (2018),
>> parts of Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), etc. And others I've forgotten. They
>> were all horror movies. Were there any webcam or video chat films like that
>> in Japan before the pandemic hit?
>>
>> Take care everyone,
>> Michael Arnold
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 5:59 PM Miryam Sas via KineJapan <
>> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> My students requested to view some good or interesting Japanese and/or
>> Asian films made during the pandemic that reflect on the pandemic
>> experience either formally or thematically.??Free streaming works (youtube
>> or other) and short works would be the best for easy access, but all ideas
>> appreciated. (Something about life on zoom?)? ?I have lots more from before
>> that could be brought into the conversation but not recent ones.?
>> Feel free to share to the list or to me privately offline.
>> Thanks!
>> Miryam
>>
>> --
>> Miryam Sas
>> Professor, Comparative Literature and Film & Media
>> University of California, Berkeley
>>
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From sissu at basicray.org  Mon Apr 19 08:31:07 2021
From: sissu at basicray.org (sissu tarka)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:31:07 +0200
Subject: [KineJapan] monasteries and dust
In-Reply-To: <CAKoCGZ060iRAH78v16-QVSb9-oNiHuPUHW5LSaEG3pHOksrVHw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <239024517.1229333.1618431649407.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
 <239024517.1229333.1618431649407@mail.yahoo.com>
 <CAKoCGZ060iRAH78v16-QVSb9-oNiHuPUHW5LSaEG3pHOksrVHw@mail.gmail.com>
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dear kine-japan communities and spirits,

As my research drifts, and current enquiries encompass monastic  
cell-life, and also dust (as in particles, atomism, anonymous  
materials, grain, sand, chemical matters); a question to you all:
Could anyone direct me, if possible, to anime work (anime as film,  
image, text, concept) that shows a monstery, or has to do with  
monastic life and cell-life?
And.
Could anyone direct me to anime work (anime as film, image, text,  
concept) that embodies something of 'dust' material?
visually, aurally, conceptually?

Much appreciate any link, even if marginal.

merci
verina

verina gfader
artist researcher
animate assembly[1]
The Last Resident[2]
Cloud Chamber[3]

Links:
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[1] https://art.gold.ac.uk/animate/
[2] https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/the-last-resident/
[3] https://antipyrine.dk/products/verina-gfader-cloud-chamber
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From rdavis at fullerton.edu  Mon Apr 19 14:26:17 2021
From: rdavis at fullerton.edu (Davis, Robert W.)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:26:17 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] Kitano bibliography
Message-ID: <DM5PR08MB26352A4367FE5AF48A8CF571CA499@DM5PR08MB2635.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

Hi folks,

I?ve been asked to compile the Kitano Takeshi pages for the Oxford Univ. Press? annotated bibliography project and am soliciting your help as I get started. If you?ve written on Kitano, I?d love to see your work, so please check the google doc linked below to make sure I?ve included it. And if you?ve got any expertise re Kitano scholarship, please also take a look at the doc. I?d very much appreciate your alerting me (either by off-list email to rdavis at fullerton.edu or by simply adding a line to the google doc) to any materials you think might profitably be included in the list.

The Oxford Kitano pages will focus on scholarly analyses of his writing/directorial work but can also highlight ?substantive? interviews with him or his collaborators. I would like to include relevant work on Kitano?s TV career and his acting if I can find it.

OK. Here?s the link to the google doc with the 70, 75 entries from a first, quick survey of what I have here and what I found online. [Note: yellow highlight on the google doc means I don?t yet have a copy of the article or book. If you happen to have easy access to any of these and can share them, I?d be forever obliged.]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PQQ8OkHod1KYoEkPFYnW1CgVlBey6sl59m8Ce5v2pn4/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks in advance!

Bob

Robert W. Davis Jr.
Professor, Department of Cinema and Television Arts
California State University, Fullerton
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From junkoyam16 at ucla.edu  Wed Apr 21 14:57:12 2021
From: junkoyam16 at ucla.edu (JUNKO YAMAZAKI)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:57:12 -0700
Subject: [KineJapan] Zoom event on 4/26: "Japan for (New) Media Studies"
Message-ID: <CAJHccMz2G58dC=5Es-9X8Ro6E+b2xL00oE+-r2GnonGYnjofLw@mail.gmail.com>

Hello everyone,

I'm writing to invite you to the roundtable discussion "Japan for (New)
Media Studies," which will take place on Monday, April 26 from 5-6:30 pm
PDT.

I hope to see many of you there!

Best wishes,

Junko

----

*UCLA Terasaki Center Junior Faculty Roundtable Series Part 4:*

*Japan for (New) Media Studies*

*Monday, April 26 *
*5-6:30 pm (PDT)*
Registeration link:
https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tqeiK0_9TXi7s3EJkictZA

Japanese cinema once played a rather unusual and significant role in the
transformation of film theory and criticism in the 1960s and 70s, shaping
the nascent discipline of English-language academic film studies. In our
current diverse and globalizing media environment, Japan continues to be a
productive site of various forms of modern technological media practices
and scholarly engagement with them. This roundtable brings together
scholars working on television, radio, and related audiovisual cultures in
the humanities tradition to share their insights on the ways in which Japan
remains relevant and vital to today?s media studies.

*Speakers:*
Hannah Airriess (University of Indiana, Bloomington)
Alex Murphy (University of Chicago)
Yuki Nakayama (University of Michigan)
Hideto Tsuboi (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University)


-- 
Junko Yamazaki
Assistant Professor
UCLA Asian Languages and Cultures
junkoyam16 at ucla.edu
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From nornes at umich.edu  Thu Apr 22 03:29:55 2021
From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 01:29:55 -0600
Subject: [KineJapan] RIP: Uplink in Shibuya
Message-ID: <CANoSnpC+etr83-8Ca7Nijp5Tii3JdNjac6g9+fCvucmvVbwXwA@mail.gmail.com>

Whoa, I hope this isn?t a bellwether.

Uplink is closing because of Corona. They?ll keep the outposts in Kichijoji
and Kyoto.

Markus

https://www.uplink.co.jp/news/2021/53583


???????????2021?5?20???????????

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1995??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????16???DVcam?????????????????2004?????????????X????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????26???????????????????

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

???
????????
-- 
---

*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*
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From swb8 at gol.com  Thu Apr 22 05:33:46 2021
From: swb8 at gol.com (shayne bowden)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 18:33:46 +0900
Subject: [KineJapan] RIP: Uplink in Shibuya
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I knew they were (obviously) suffering financially but there were also very public accusations regarding the power harassment/abuse of employees at Uplink which made the news last year.


> On Apr 22, 2021, at 16:30, kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu wrote:
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>   2. RIP: Uplink in Shibuya (Markus Nornes)
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:57:12 -0700
> From: JUNKO YAMAZAKI <junkoyam16 at ucla.edu>
> To: kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu
> Subject: [KineJapan] Zoom event on 4/26: "Japan for (New) Media
> 	Studies"
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> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm writing to invite you to the roundtable discussion "Japan for (New)
> Media Studies," which will take place on Monday, April 26 from 5-6:30 pm
> PDT.
> 
> I hope to see many of you there!
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Junko
> 
> ----
> 
> *UCLA Terasaki Center Junior Faculty Roundtable Series Part 4:*
> 
> *Japan for (New) Media Studies*
> 
> *Monday, April 26 *
> *5-6:30 pm (PDT)*
> Registeration link:
> https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tqeiK0_9TXi7s3EJkictZA
> 
> Japanese cinema once played a rather unusual and significant role in the
> transformation of film theory and criticism in the 1960s and 70s, shaping
> the nascent discipline of English-language academic film studies. In our
> current diverse and globalizing media environment, Japan continues to be a
> productive site of various forms of modern technological media practices
> and scholarly engagement with them. This roundtable brings together
> scholars working on television, radio, and related audiovisual cultures in
> the humanities tradition to share their insights on the ways in which Japan
> remains relevant and vital to today?s media studies.
> 
> *Speakers:*
> Hannah Airriess (University of Indiana, Bloomington)
> Alex Murphy (University of Chicago)
> Yuki Nakayama (University of Michigan)
> Hideto Tsuboi (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
> Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Junko Yamazaki
> Assistant Professor
> UCLA Asian Languages and Cultures
> junkoyam16 at ucla.edu
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> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 01:29:55 -0600
> From: Markus Nornes <nornes at umich.edu>
> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> Subject: [KineJapan] RIP: Uplink in Shibuya
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> Whoa, I hope this isn?t a bellwether.
> 
> Uplink is closing because of Corona. They?ll keep the outposts in Kichijoji
> and Kyoto.
> 
> Markus
> 
> https://www.uplink.co.jp/news/2021/53583
> 
> 
> ???????????2021?5?20???????????
> 
> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> 
> 1995??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????16???DVcam?????????????????2004?????????????X????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????26???????????????????
> 
> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> 
> ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> 
> ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> 
> ???
> ????????
> -- 
> ---
> 
> *Markus Nornes*
> *Professor of Asian Cinema*
> Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and
> Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design
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From nornes at umich.edu  Thu Apr 22 09:21:18 2021
From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 07:21:18 -0600
Subject: [KineJapan] RIP: Uplink in Shibuya
In-Reply-To: <6BE62B15-6BD4-418A-A04C-87471AC1BE2B@gol.com>
References: <mailman.2743.1619076609.1738.kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu>
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Yes, they apologize at the end of the press release. I did wonder if that
affected their bottom line.

At the same time, udagawa-cho rent must be something else for a micro
theater.

Markus

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 3:34 AM shayne bowden via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> I knew they were (obviously) suffering financially but there were also
> very public accusations regarding the power harassment/abuse of employees
> at Uplink which made the news last year.
>
>
> > On Apr 22, 2021, at 16:30, kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu wrote:
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:57:12 -0700
> > From: JUNKO YAMAZAKI <junkoyam16 at ucla.edu>
> > To: kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu
> > Subject: [KineJapan] Zoom event on 4/26: "Japan for (New) Media
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> > I'm writing to invite you to the roundtable discussion "Japan for (New)
> > Media Studies," which will take place on Monday, April 26 from 5-6:30 pm
> > PDT.
> >
> > I hope to see many of you there!
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Junko
> >
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> > *UCLA Terasaki Center Junior Faculty Roundtable Series Part 4:*
> >
> > *Japan for (New) Media Studies*
> >
> > *Monday, April 26 *
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> > Japanese cinema once played a rather unusual and significant role in the
> > transformation of film theory and criticism in the 1960s and 70s, shaping
> > the nascent discipline of English-language academic film studies. In our
> > current diverse and globalizing media environment, Japan continues to be
> a
> > productive site of various forms of modern technological media practices
> > and scholarly engagement with them. This roundtable brings together
> > scholars working on television, radio, and related audiovisual cultures
> in
> > the humanities tradition to share their insights on the ways in which
> Japan
> > remains relevant and vital to today?s media studies.
> >
> > *Speakers:*
> > Hannah Airriess (University of Indiana, Bloomington)
> > Alex Murphy (University of Chicago)
> > Yuki Nakayama (University of Michigan)
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> > From: Markus Nornes <nornes at umich.edu>
> > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
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> > Whoa, I hope this isn?t a bellwether.
> >
> > Uplink is closing because of Corona. They?ll keep the outposts in
> Kichijoji
> > and Kyoto.
> >
> > Markus
> >
> > https://www.uplink.co.jp/news/2021/53583
> >
> >
> > ???????????2021?5?20???????????
> >
> >
> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> >
> >
> 1995??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????16???DVcam?????????????????2004?????????????X????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????26???????????????????
> >
> >
> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> >
> >
> ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> >
> > ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> >
> > ???
> > ????????
> > --
> > ---
> >
> > *Markus Nornes*
> > *Professor of Asian Cinema*
> > Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages
> and
> > Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design
> >
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*Professor of Asian Cinema*
Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and
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From nornes at umich.edu  Thu Apr 22 12:04:13 2021
From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:04:13 -0600
Subject: [KineJapan] RIP: Uplink in Shibuya
In-Reply-To: <CANoSnpC+etr83-8Ca7Nijp5Tii3JdNjac6g9+fCvucmvVbwXwA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANoSnpC+etr83-8Ca7Nijp5Tii3JdNjac6g9+fCvucmvVbwXwA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CANoSnpB65xE_sqVJaMeGkqar9MoaefD_wNdixUzizcn_vKGrLQ@mail.gmail.com>

The collective of former workers that brought the power harassment charges
issued two stinging Tweets in response to the news about Shibuya Uplink?s
closing.

The first complains that, while Asai?s statement mentioned the harassment
charges it completely ignored the organization and its continuing efforts.
They also do their best to spoil anyone?s sense of loss or nostalgia about
Uplink?s demise.

A subsequent Tweet calls out the Asahi for the last line of their article, ?
?????6??????????????????
<http://www.asahi.com/topics/word/%E3%83%91%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8F%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88.html>
????????????????10??????????
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASP4Q62D7P4QULZU00H.html
There?s been no such reconciliation in their minds. Their fight clearly
continues.

BTW, they are called Uplink Workers? Against Harassment.
https://uwvah2020.wixsite.com/mysite

Markus

======================

???????????UWVAH????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

+++++++++++++++++++++

?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????UWVAH????????????????????????????????




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*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*
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From swb8 at gol.com  Sat Apr 24 19:02:50 2021
From: swb8 at gol.com (shayne bowden)
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 08:02:50 +0900
Subject: [KineJapan] =?utf-8?b?44CM54u844KS44GV44GM44GX44Gm44CNIOaoqg==?=
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Last night, Searching for the Wolf / ??????,  Kim Mi-re?s new documentary on the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front / ?????????? was screened at Yokohama Cinemarine. There was also a talk event with Haruhiko Arai, Junichi Inoue and Adachi Masao afterwards.  Not surprisingly, the screening attracted the attention and presence of the Japanese right-wing and both uniformed and plainclothes police. There was a 'defence team' stationed in front of the cinema to protect audience members and participants from possible attacks and/or harassment from the nationalists. 
https://twitter.com/eaajaf_movie <https://twitter.com/eaajaf_movie>






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From eija at helsinkicineaasia.fi  Wed Apr 28 10:34:59 2021
From: eija at helsinkicineaasia.fi (Eija Niskanen)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:34:59 +0300
Subject: [KineJapan] 
	=?utf-8?q?CFP_=22Suspensions_of_Concentration=3A_Kim?=
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Hi!
Have any of these papers been published or are abstracts online? I just saw
Kimetsu no yaiba today in a press screening here in Helsinki, and would
need some context to write about it.

Eija Niskanen




pe 4. jouluk. 2020 klo 10.16 Bryan Hartzheim via KineJapan (
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu) kirjoitti:

> Hello KineJapaners,
>
>
> We're holding an online spiritual sequel to our anime symposium at Waseda
> last year, updated for Covid and the biggest Japanese film hit of the year
> (ever?). Please see the CFP below if you're interested.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bryan Hikari Hartzheim
>
> Assistant Professor
>
> School of International Liberal Studies
>
> Waseda University
>
>
> ---
>
>
> *The Waseda Symposium on **????*
>
> *CALL FOR PAPERS*
>
>
>
> Title: ?Suspensions of Concentration: *Kimetsu no yaiba* and Blockbuster
> in the Year of the Global Pandemic?
>
> Date and Time: 15 March 2021 (09:30?17:30 JST)
>
> Place and Format: Online/Webinar
>
>
> The research project ?Location of Anime: Institutions, Disciplines, and
> Fields? was originally planned as an international symposium/seminar at
> Waseda University?s Brussels Office in collaboration with its partner
> institution, the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Fall 2020.
> Unfortunately, we had no choice but to cancel the event due to COVID-19. In
> the beginning, there was no plan to hold any alternative event online
> because we were too exhausted from a seemingly endless series of Zoom
> meetings and other online affairs. While contemplating the discontinuation
> of the project for good, a blockbuster anime movie was released in the
> midst of the coronavirus pandemic. ?????????????? or *Demon Slayer the
> Movie: Mugen Train* was first shown on October 16, 2020, and as of this
> writing, it is the second highest-grossing film in Japan ever. Regardless
> of whether it surpasses the number one film *Spirited Away* or not, the
> significance of *Demon Slayer the Movie *is undeniable. Intrigued by both
> the film itself and the wide-ranging social phenomena it has created, we
> have decided to reorganize the original project by focusing on *Kimetsu
> no yaiba *or *Demon Slayer*.
>
>
>
> The main objective of our project remains the same, i.e., the
> investigation of the location of anime. This one-day online symposium is an
> attempt to accomplish this objective by exploring a wide range of issues
> that are concretely related to *Kimetsu* *no yaiba *yet have implications
> beyond the single media franchise. The following are examples of possible
> topics for presentations and discussions: the anime industry and media mix,
> fan culture, cosplay and social media, anime songs and music, voice acting
> and actors, genre systems, intertextuality, action and spectacle, speed and
> kinetic dynamism, narrative motifs, iconography, visual style, historical
> imagination, the political unconscious, affect, violence, censorship,
> gender and authorship, transnational reception and consumption, labor and
> marketing, COVID-19 and the culture industry, etc. By scrutinizing *Kimetsu
> no yaiba* in relation to these and other issues, we will collectively
> reflect on the location of anime in its broadest sense.
>
>
>
> We invite papers that critically discuss any aspects of the *Kimetsu* phenomena
> including?but not limited to?the list of topics mentioned above. Please
> send a paper title, an abstract of approximately 250 words, and a short bio
> to wasedakimetsu at gmail.com by *January 9, 2021*.
>
>
>
> Organizers:
>
> Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (Waseda University)
>
> Bryan Hartzheim (Waseda University)
>
>
>
> This symposium is generously supported by Waseda University?s grant for
> international research collaboration, Waseda Brussels Office, and the
> Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies.
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From jasper_sharp at hotmail.com  Wed Apr 28 11:10:30 2021
From: jasper_sharp at hotmail.com (Jasper Sharp)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:10:30 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] Daido Eiga
Message-ID: <LO2P265MB43501B695FD118D07DF99F31F7409@LO2P265MB4350.GBRP265.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

Hi everyone,
I have a quick question for those of you who might know a little about Kyoto film history. Does anyone know of a film company called Daido Eiga (????) that was around circa 1946/47? The name came up in something I'm researching, and it seems to be a thing, but I can't find anything of substance about it on the internet.
Thanks for your help.
best
Jasper

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"An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>.
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From alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk  Wed Apr 28 16:08:04 2021
From: alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk (Alexander Jacoby)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:08:04 +0100
Subject: [KineJapan] Daido Eiga
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Hi Jasper,

You obviously have the context of what you've been researching, which I
don't, so forgive me for asking... but are you absolutely sure it's Kyoto-
(or even-Japan)-based? The first two characters read in Chinese are Datong,
a city in Shanxi Prefecture (a few hours' drive west of Beijing).

Chinese film pioneer Zhang Shichuan (1889-1953 or 1890-1954, depending on
the source consulted) is said in the Historical Dictionary of Chinese
Cinema to have worked for a Shanghai-based company called Datong Film
Company late in his career, after WWII. This was a problematic moment in
his career; he had worked in wartime Shanghai for a Japanese-controlled
studio and courted accusations of treason after the city was liberated,
although he was never indicted.

I found quite a few references online to a ?????? and then realised it does
have an English language Wikipedia entry suggesting that it started making
films in 1948:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datong_Film_Company

Although that entry claims it shut down in 1953, there seems also to have
been a ?????? active in Taiwan from the 1950s. See

http://hkmdb.com/db/companies/view.mhtml?id=2718

which includes links to several posters where the name is visible.

Searching "Datong Eiga" in kanji, within quotation marks, also brings up a
reference on a Japanese-language website to the same Chinese studio.

Best,


ALEX






On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 16:10, Jasper Sharp via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I have a quick question for those of you who might know a little about
> Kyoto film history. Does anyone know of a film company called Daido Eiga
> (????) that was around circa 1946/47? The name came up in something I'm
> researching, and it seems to be a thing, but I can't find anything of
> substance about it on the internet.
> Thanks for your help.
> best
> Jasper
>
> *The Creeping Garden <http://www.creepinggarden.com/> *- A Real-Life
> Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed
> by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
> Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films
> <https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>
> .
> The book, *The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial
> Slime Moulds *is out now from Alchimia Publishing
> <http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
> "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself",
> Nicolas Rapold, *The New York Times*
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>
> .
> "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, *Hollywood Reporter*
> <https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>
> .
> "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, *The Guardian*
> <https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>
> .
>
> _______________________________________________
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From unkleque at yahoo.com.au  Thu Apr 29 00:41:59 2021
From: unkleque at yahoo.com.au (quentin turnour)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 04:41:59 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [KineJapan] Daido Eiga
In-Reply-To: <CANN9ZtQXbfjCK5=NUBDsnVrpu5SS=_F3wz_n=UgoxJqow471mA@mail.gmail.com>
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 <CANN9ZtQXbfjCK5=NUBDsnVrpu5SS=_F3wz_n=UgoxJqow471mA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <997574558.2448302.1619671319021@mail.yahoo.com>

 Alex as always has done his research. Datong Film Company is a fairly familiar name in the post-war Cantonese-language cinema, with surviving films held in the Hong Kong Film Archive occasionally emerging in past retrospectives at the Archive's own venue, or back in the heyday of the Hong Kong International Film Festival. As the wiki entry notes, the film that gets the most attention is ??? / MY SON A-CHEUNG aka THE KID, as its the oldest surviving film with Bruce Lee. 

I'm not aware of any Japanese connection. But it wouldn't be the first Cantonese producer to have had a business partnership with a Japanese studio in the 1950s and '60s. 

Jasper, if this is not a research dead-end, and still of interest because its Cantonese, the Hong Kong film heritage community is unsurprisingly pretty rancorous these days. But contact someone like Bede Cheung at the HK office of L'Immagine Ritrovata or Sam Ho (somewhere in the Seattle these days I think) if you still want background on the company who can draw on Cantonese-language sources.

Quentin TurnourNational Archives of Australia.

    On Thursday, 29 April 2021, 6:08:46 am AEST, Alexander Jacoby via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:  
 
 Hi Jasper,
You obviously have the context of what?you've been researching, which I don't, so forgive me for asking... but are you absolutely sure it's Kyoto- (or even-Japan)-based? The first two characters read in Chinese are Datong, a city in Shanxi Prefecture (a few hours' drive west of Beijing).
Chinese film pioneer Zhang Shichuan (1889-1953 or 1890-1954, depending on the source consulted) is said in the Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema to have worked for a Shanghai-based company called Datong Film Company late in his career, after WWII. This was a problematic?moment in his career; he had worked in wartime Shanghai for a Japanese-controlled studio and courted accusations of treason after the city was liberated, although he was never indicted.
I found quite a few references online to a??????? and then realised it does have an English language Wikipedia entry suggesting that it started making films in 1948:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datong_Film_Company

Although that entry claims it shut down in 1953, there seems also to have been a ?????? active in Taiwan from the 1950s. See
http://hkmdb.com/db/companies/view.mhtml?id=2718

which includes links to several posters where the name is visible.
Searching "Datong Eiga" in kanji, within quotation?marks, also brings up a reference on a Japanese-language website to the same Chinese studio.
Best,

ALEX



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On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 16:10, Jasper Sharp via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

Hi everyone,?I have a quick question for those of you who might know a little about Kyoto film history. Does anyone know of a film company called Daido Eiga (????) that was around circa 1946/47? The name came up in something I'm researching, and it seems to be a thing, but I can't find anything of substance about it on the internet.Thanks for your?help.bestJasper
The Creeping Garden?-?A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them,?directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.?Available now on Dual-Format?Blu-ray/DVD?from?Arrow Films.The book,?The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds?is?out?now from?Alchimia Publishing."A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold,?The New York Times."An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore,?Hollywood Reporter."Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw,?The Guardian.
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From: tkarsavina at yahoo.com (Maria Jose Gonzalez)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 02:53:19 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [KineJapan] Daido Eiga
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 Hello Jasper.Daido Eiga was the failed project of Nikkatsu/ Daiei/ Shintoho director, scriptwriter and actor Ikeda Tomiyasu.Founded possibly in the spring of 1946, amidst the aftermath of the war, Ikeda seemed very keen on having his own company and managed to "steal" some actors from Daiei, most notably Tachibana Kimiko.However, Daido folded up without having produced a single film (accounts say Ikeda lost the initial energy and interest, I guess money also had to do with it) and it is often overlooked in any biographical account:http://toyfilm-museum.jp/news/infomation/4533.html
Both the directors and the actors then moved back to Daiei or to the theatre, as Tachibana herself.The studios were supposed to be at Kyoto Uzumasa, if I recall correctly.Best,
Mar?a Jos? Gonz?lezKwansei Gakuin UniversityNishinomiya, Japan

    On Thursday, 29 April 2021, 12:10:37 AM GMT+9, Jasper Sharp via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:  
 
  #yiv0087312057 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Hi everyone,?I have a quick question for those of you who might know a little about Kyoto film history. Does anyone know of a film company called Daido Eiga (????) that was around circa 1946/47? The name came up in something I'm researching, and it seems to be a thing, but I can't find anything of substance about it on the internet.Thanks for your?help.bestJasper
The Creeping Garden?-?A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them,?directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.?Available now on Dual-Format?Blu-ray/DVD?from?Arrow Films.The book,?The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds?is?out?now from?Alchimia Publishing."A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold,?The New York Times."An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore,?Hollywood Reporter."Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw,?The Guardian.
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From jasper_sharp at hotmail.com  Thu Apr 29 04:34:43 2021
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 08:34:43 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] Daido Eiga
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Hello Maria,

Thank you so much for this information. This indeed makes perfect sense within the context of what I was looking at, the career beginnings of cameraman Fujio Morita at Uzumasa, and the name Ikeda Tomiyasu was definitely seen in this context.
I was worried that the Japanese source I was checking didn't have a typo in it and that Daido might have been any one of a number of companies beginning with Dai, because as you mention, it seems to have overlooked in biographical accounts.

Thank you for the Toy Museum link. This article certainly fills in a few gaps in the picture.

all the best and thanks again.

Jasper



The Creeping Garden<http://www.creepinggarden.com/> - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films<https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>.
The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing<http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>.
"An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>.
"Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>.

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Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Daido Eiga

Hello Jasper.
Daido Eiga was the failed project of Nikkatsu/ Daiei/ Shintoho director, scriptwriter and actor Ikeda Tomiyasu.
Founded possibly in the spring of 1946, amidst the aftermath of the war, Ikeda seemed very keen on having his own company and managed to "steal" some actors from Daiei, most notably Tachibana Kimiko.
However, Daido folded up without having produced a single film (accounts say Ikeda lost the initial energy and interest, I guess money also had to do with it) and it is often overlooked in any biographical account:
http://toyfilm-museum.jp/news/infomation/4533.html
Both the directors and the actors then moved back to Daiei or to the theatre, as Tachibana herself.
The studios were supposed to be at Kyoto Uzumasa, if I recall correctly.
Best,

Mar?a Jos? Gonz?lez
Kwansei Gakuin University
Nishinomiya, Japan


On Thursday, 29 April 2021, 12:10:37 AM GMT+9, Jasper Sharp via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:


Hi everyone,
I have a quick question for those of you who might know a little about Kyoto film history. Does anyone know of a film company called Daido Eiga (????) that was around circa 1946/47? The name came up in something I'm researching, and it seems to be a thing, but I can't find anything of substance about it on the internet.
Thanks for your help.
best
Jasper

The Creeping Garden<http://www.creepinggarden.com/> - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films<https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>.
The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing<http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>.
"An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>.
"Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>.

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From jasper_sharp at hotmail.com  Thu Apr 29 04:40:58 2021
From: jasper_sharp at hotmail.com (Jasper Sharp)
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 08:40:58 +0000
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Thank you Quentin and Alex for answering my original response.
Indeed, this does seem like a dead-end (or maybe a fascinating digression) from my line of research, which was definitely in the context of what was happening in Kyoto in 1946, in which the name Ikeda Tomiyasu cropped up.

best
Jasper


The Creeping Garden<http://www.creepinggarden.com/> - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films<https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>.
The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing<http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>.
"An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>.
"Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>.


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Alex as always has done his research. Datong Film Company is a fairly familiar name in the post-war Cantonese-language cinema, with surviving films held in the Hong Kong Film Archive occasionally emerging in past retrospectives at the Archive's own venue, or back in the heyday of the Hong Kong International Film Festival. As the wiki entry notes, the film that gets the most attention is ??? / MY SON A-CHEUNG aka THE KID, as its the oldest surviving film with Bruce Lee.

I'm not aware of any Japanese connection. But it wouldn't be the first Cantonese producer to have had a business partnership with a Japanese studio in the 1950s and '60s.

Jasper, if this is not a research dead-end, and still of interest because its Cantonese, the Hong Kong film heritage community is unsurprisingly pretty rancorous these days. But contact someone like Bede Cheung at the HK office of L'Immagine Ritrovata or Sam Ho (somewhere in the Seattle these days I think) if you still want background on the company who can draw on Cantonese-language sources.

Quentin Turnour
National Archives of Australia.

On Thursday, 29 April 2021, 6:08:46 am AEST, Alexander Jacoby via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:


Hi Jasper,

You obviously have the context of what you've been researching, which I don't, so forgive me for asking... but are you absolutely sure it's Kyoto- (or even-Japan)-based? The first two characters read in Chinese are Datong, a city in Shanxi Prefecture (a few hours' drive west of Beijing).

Chinese film pioneer Zhang Shichuan (1889-1953 or 1890-1954, depending on the source consulted) is said in the Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema to have worked for a Shanghai-based company called Datong Film Company late in his career, after WWII. This was a problematic moment in his career; he had worked in wartime Shanghai for a Japanese-controlled studio and courted accusations of treason after the city was liberated, although he was never indicted.

I found quite a few references online to a ?????? and then realised it does have an English language Wikipedia entry suggesting that it started making films in 1948:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datong_Film_Company

Although that entry claims it shut down in 1953, there seems also to have been a ?????? active in Taiwan from the 1950s. See

http://hkmdb.com/db/companies/view.mhtml?id=2718

which includes links to several posters where the name is visible.

Searching "Datong Eiga" in kanji, within quotation marks, also brings up a reference on a Japanese-language website to the same Chinese studio.

Best,


ALEX






On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 16:10, Jasper Sharp via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have a quick question for those of you who might know a little about Kyoto film history. Does anyone know of a film company called Daido Eiga (????) that was around circa 1946/47? The name came up in something I'm researching, and it seems to be a thing, but I can't find anything of substance about it on the internet.
Thanks for your help.
best
Jasper

The Creeping Garden<http://www.creepinggarden.com/> - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films<https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>.
The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing<http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>.
"An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>.
"Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>.

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