[KineJapan] KineJapan Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

Fri Sep 10 14:17:25 EDT 2021

I saw this film thirty years ago —which is about all I can tell you at this
point. I suspect  Planet has it.

Markus

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:38 PM Michael Raine via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Off topic, but I guess "Arden" is the strategic port of "Aden".
>
> Years ago I read about Tsuburaya Eiji shooting Doto o kette -- I always
> wondered if the procession of battleships at the end of Hawai-Marei
> okikaisen came from that film.
>
> Michael Raine, Department of English and Writing Studies
> Western University, Canada
> co-editor, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema
> co-editor, The Culture of the Sound Image in Prewar Japan (Amsterdam UP,
> 2020)
> co-editor, Developments in the Japanese Documentary Mode (MDPI, 2020)
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:12 PM Roger Macy via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Iris. It gives me a wider perspective.
>>
>> When I first read this earlier in the week, it didn’t seem to make sense:
>> I knew the cruiser Ashigara had sailed, with the Chichibus’ passenger
>> liner, for Vancouver, so Singapore didn’t fit in. At that time, I’d only
>> stumbled on the embarkation report in the Nichibei Shinbun. That was in a
>> growing collection of expatriate newspapers, freely searchable at the Hoji
>> Shinbun Digital Collection. I don’t think we’ve mentioned it before here
>> https://hojishinbun.hoover.org/?a=p&p=home&e=01-03-1935-31-12-1939--en-10--1--img-%e5%be%b3%e5%b7%9d%e5%a4%a2%e5%a3%b0--------
>> .
>>
>> Since I could only find the Tokugawa report in the english-language pages
>> of that newspaper, I went to the library today to search Asahi Shinbun
>> through Kikuzo. There were several more reports in there, which fitted it
>> together. So, after dropping the royal party in Vancouver, the Ashigara
>> headed them off at the pass, as it were, going through the Panama canal,
>> picked up the artists after the coronation and returned via the
>> Mediterranean and  ... Singapore.
>>
>> In the first, embarkation report of March ’37 I can see the names of
>> Tokugawa, your Shirai Shigeru as PCL photographer, and also the
>> western-style painter Nakamura Ken’ichi.  The ‘export’ edited version of
>> Kaguya didn’t really ‘belong’ to PCL, or its predecessor JO by 1937 but to
>> the ‘International Cinema Association of Japan’, as they credit themselves
>> on the surviving print; and would be more likely to be shipped on the
>> Chichibus’ passenger liner, than the cruiser, already with the extra burden
>> of a film crew. They seem to be tasked with the production of the hour-long
>> 怒濤を蹴って / *怒涛を*蹴って（present day characters). JMDb has it at 76 minutes
>> http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1937/bm003840.htm  . So I get what you mean by
>> ‘the film’ But not by ‘Arden’.
>>
>> No one seems to have seen the film of the voyage since. Have you tracked
>> it down Iris? I can’t see it in the NFAJ catalogue but I recall Johan
>> Nordström telling me that all the PCL films survive. It won’t have anything
>> on *Kaguya-hime*, but in the blurb of the 2001 Yamagata catalogue,
>> although they didn’t show it, it’s given as a Kamei Fumio direction. I
>> can’t see his name in these news reports, attached*, but  I’d definitely
>> pay money to see what Kamei made of the coronation of the Emperor of India.
>> *DeepL* translates the title as ‘Kicking up a storm’.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> * I couldn’t get Kikuzo at the BL to deliver a digital file. I had to
>> make paper copies and then photograph them.
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, 9 September 2021, 03:24:05 BST, Iris Haukamp via KineJapan <
>> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> Roger, this is an intriguing topic. Incidentally, I'm currently reading
>> Shirai Shigeru's memoirs (Kamera to jinsei), and there are some pages on
>> the Ashikaga trip and film. He mentions disembarking with Tokugawa Musei in
>> Singapore and Arden in order to 'film beautiful girls dancing', and he also
>> writes about his other tasks on the trip, such as buying filmstock and
>> specific camera equipment abroad. Yet, he never mentions Kaguya hime or 'a
>> film' they were supposed to take to the UK at all. It is curious, indeed.
>>
>> All the best for now,
>> Iris
>>
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>>    1. Re: Tokugawa Musei (Aaron Gerow)
>>    2. Re: Tokugawa Musei (Roger Macy)
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>> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 15:56:30 -0400
>> From: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
>> To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei
>> Message-ID: <A8AD7D33-489A-4C24-94A7-B05CCD1CD007 at yale.edu>
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>> Both Kyoko Omori and Jeffrey Dym have done studies of Musei, but mainly
>> in his activities as a benshi.
>>
>> Dym: "Tokugawa Musei: A Portrait Sketch of One of Japan's Greatest
>> Narrative Artists." In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino
>> Mamoru.
>>
>> Omori: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315534374-12 <
>> https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315534374-12>
>>
>> So you could inquire with them about any archives they have used.
>>
>>
>> Aaron Gerow
>> Professor
>> Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
>> Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures
>> Yale University
>> 143 Elm Street, Room 210
>> PO Box 208324
>> New Haven, CT 06520-8324
>> USA
>> Phone: 1-203-432-7082
>> Fax: 1-203-432-6729
>> e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
>> site: www.aarongerow.com
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>> From: Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk>
>> To: 'Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum' <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei
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>> Thank you Adrian, Jasper and Aaron for yourinterest.
>> Adrian,?I've been incontact with the Royal Archives and the Royal
>> Collections Trust in Windsor, the archives at Buckingham Palace and the
>> Queen's private office, as well asthe Imperial Household Agency. From the
>> lower depths of London, where I come from, we would say I've hadmore royal
>> brush-offs than you've had hot dinners ;>)
>> In truth, Rachel Peat of the Royal Collections made useful suggestions
>> and they have allresponded. The BFI is a hopeless black hole. They've been
>> sitting on the printfor 70 years but have no knowledge how they got it and
>> no interest in it. I wastold six years ago that it was not on the list of
>> Palace acquisitions.? Ieven asked for the list, a couple of months ago to
>> check, but, as usual, havehad no response.
>> But I don't thinkit got to the Palace.? The plans of Prince and Princess
>> Chichibu werecurtailed by their illnesses and, one can hazard, other
>> developments in 1937.The Princess wrote a memoir, which even name-drops a
>> birth-family connection tothe Princess Elizabeth, but which doesn't mention
>> a princess Kaguya.
>> Nevertheless, a second, 1937print did get to London.? There had to be
>> some ambition. It's tantalizing.? What weretheir plans as they set sail ?
>> I'd like to hear from Japan's No. 1 film explainer, who was there onhand.
>> So, thank you, Aaron and Jasper, I'll take up your suggestions.Roger
>>
>>
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>>     On Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 13:13:38 BST, Adrian- Restoration
>> Asia <adrian at restorationasia.org> wrote:
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>>
>> Dear Roger,
>>
>>  ?
>>
>> When you say the Royal Archives are you speaking about the British Royal
>> Family?s archives at Windsor Castle?
>>
>>  ?
>>
>> >From what I know then the film materials, especially nitrate based
>> elements as I assume these to be, are on deposit with the BFI National
>> Archive. If you need contact details then feel free to ask.
>>
>>  ?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>  ?
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>> Adrian Wood
>>
>>  ?
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>> From: KineJapan On Behalf Of Roger Macy via KineJapan
>> Sent: 08 September 2021 20:14
>> To: KineJapan discussion forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
>> Cc: Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk>
>> Subject: [KineJapan] Tokugawa Musei
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>>  ?
>>
>> Dear KineJapaners,
>>
>> I?m writing to ask whether anyone has done work on Tokugawa Musei, or
>> knows where his archives are.
>>
>> I am interested in what he did in his trips to the UK, and, in
>> particular, in 1937. I see from a newspaper cutting that he was on the ship
>> with Prince and Princess Chichibu, bound for the coronation of King George
>> VI, traveling via Canada and New York.
>>
>> My quest, still, is to try and nail down any history of the Kaguya print
>> in the UK. I have a provenance without a surviving print ? the one sent to
>> the Japan Society in Nov>Dec ?36 and kept in London, but lost films are
>> not, alas, news ? and the second one sent in early ?37, which is the one
>> that survives (from the Imperial censorship stamp). My best guess, still,
>> is that it was on that ship.
>>
>> Mar?a Jos? has kindly looked at his published reminiscences but they have
>> not revealed anything relevant.
>>
>> I?ve already tried all the Royal Archives and the Imperial Household
>> Agency. Even if I can?t connect the print to Tokugawa, I?d still like to
>> know something of what he did in the UK.? He has no mention in the ten
>> volumes of Britain and Japan ? Biographical Portraits.
>>
>> Roger
>>
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