[KineJapan] BFI FILM CLASSIC: TOKYO STORY LAUNCH EVENT

Sun Sep 25 06:53:52 EDT 2022

Dear friends and colleagues,

The Daiwa Foundation in London is kindly hosting a launch event for my forthcoming BFI Film Classic on Tokyo monogatari.

It will take place on Friday 18th November 2022 6-8pm.

Bookings are now being taken via this weblink:

https://dajf.org.uk/event/tokyo-story

I look forward to seeing some of you there!

With warm wishes,

Alastair

Friday 18 November 2022
6:00pm – 7:00pm

Tokyo Story

Drinks reception: 7:00pm – 8:00pm

13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent's Park), London NW1 4QP

Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

Ozu Yasujirō’s celebrated family drama, Tokyo monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953), is universally acknowledged as one of the most significant Japanese films ever made, and regularly cited as one of the greatest films of all time in polls of leading critics and filmmakers around the world.

Telling the moving story of an elderly couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown-up children, the film contrasts the behaviour of their children, who are too busy to pay their parents much attention, and their widowed daughter-in-law who treats them with hospitable kindness. In its complex portrait of human motivation and lively sense of social space, it offers a profound and poignant insight into the generational shifts of postwar Japan.

Professor Alastair Phillips (University of Warwick), author of a new BFI Film Classic on Tokyo Story (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022), will give an extended illustrated talk on the film. The presentation will combine a close analysis of the film’s key locations – the city of Tokyo and the town of Onomichi – with discussion of its representation of Japanese society at a time of great cultural change. Drawing upon Japanese and English language sources, he will also situate Tokyo Story within various contemporary critical and industrial contexts and examine the multiple international dimensions of the film’s long after-life to understand its enormous contribution to global film culture.

Tokyo Story by Alastair Phillips is published by Bloomsbury (2022). It is available for pre-order via: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tokyo-story-9781911239239/<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bloomsbury.com%2fuk%2ftokyo-story-9781911239239%2f&c=E,1,NBuly-q-6r8n8Qtqklq_6bpB5tTGBBHbj_kJ3Qm3eqzntk9NM4hjgqI08YnviIDcMcYXJ8ifEtnfVoVcW3yZX7t4FO0dQrg9Lylz38szGbiwb9RURh9rwcIFW-VVQQ,,&typo=1>

A discount code will be provided for attendees of this event.

Professor Alastair Phillips

Film and Television Studies

School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures

Faculty of Arts Building
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7EQ
UK

E: Alastair.Phillips at warwick.ac.uk<mailto:Alastair.Phillips at warwick.ac.uk>
W: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/staff/phillips/<https://mywebmail.warwick.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/staff/phillips/>

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Today's Topics:

   1. tenure-track position in East Asian Film and Media Studies,
      Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Daisy Yan Du)
   2. Re: Adachi Masao's new film (matteoB)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:18:30 +0800
From: Daisy Yan Du <daisyyandu at uwalumni.com>
To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu>
Cc: Daisy Yan DU <daisyyandu at ust.hk>
Subject: [KineJapan] tenure-track position in East Asian Film and
        Media Studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Dear Colleagues,

The Division of Humanities of the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology is seeking a candidate to fill a tenure-track position in East
Asian Film and Media Studies. Japanese and Korean specialists are
especially welcome to apply. Please feel free to circulate the job
position. Thank you very much!

Apply here:
http://apply.interfolio.com/114001

Best,

Daisy

Daisy Yan Du, PhD
Associate Professor
Division of Humanities
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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Description

The Division of Humanities of the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology (HKUST) is searching for suitable candidates to fill a
tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor in the
disciplines of film, media, or cultural studies.  Areas of specialization
include Chinese-language films, Japanese films, Korean films, East Asian
films in comparative perspectives, media studies, or East Asian popular
culture.  Preference will be given to candidates whose research is
border-crossing, interdisciplinary, and integrates the formal analysis of
film and media with rigorous theoretical concerns.  The position is to be
filled beginning in Fall 2023.  The successful candidate is expected to
contribute to the introductory Common Core course, Critical Thinking, and
Data Literacy, and teach courses in east Asian cinema, world cinema, and
popular culture that complement current curricular offerings.

Apart from a master?s degree program in Chinese Culture and a research
postgraduate degree program at both the master?s and doctoral levels under
the broad umbrella of the Division of Humanities, the Division offers
general education courses for all undergraduates at HKUST.  Together with
the Division of Social Science, the Division of Humanities offers a
multidisciplinary undergraduate major program of BSc in Global China
Studies.
Qualifications

Applicants should have a PhD degree from a reputable university and show
promise of becoming a colleague with a publication record of international
impact, a record of grant/fellowship application, proven commitment and
performance in both undergraduate and graduate teaching, and demonstrated
service to the academic community and the public.  English is the medium of
instruction and administration at HKUST, but native or near-native
proficiency in one major East Asian language is expected.  HKUST is an
institution promoting diversity.  We therefore strongly encourage suitable
candidates of diverse backgrounds to apply.
Application Instructions

Applications should be sent via Interfolio together with (i) a cover
letter, including a brief statement of research and teaching; (ii) full CV;
(iii) two writing samples of chapter/article length work, all in PDF
format; and (iv) record of teaching performance and/ or outlines of two
proposed undergraduate courses.

Three reference letters should be submitted via Interfolio as the preferred
method, or directly sent to hmlit at ust.hk.

The Search and Appointments Committee of the Division will begin to review
the applications from 31 October 2022.  The review process will continue
until the position is filled.
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 11:37:50 +0900
From: matteoB <matteo.boscarol at gmail.com>
To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Adachi Masao's new film
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Dear all,

More details about the screenings of Adachi's Revolution + 1:

besides the screenings at Loft venues (Osaka and Tokyo), REVOLUTION + 1
will also have a one day screening at various mini-theaters around Japan on
September 26th, 27th and 28th:
Nagoya, Nagano, Niigata, Kyoto, Okinawa, Ishigaki island (!), Hyogo,
Ibaraki...

regards

Matteo

On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, 16:01 sissu tarka via KineJapan, <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> dear all,
> all that sounds very interesting and touching. Thank you for sharing
> but can anyone please translate the content of the new film into
> English? Sadly I do not have the skills of reading-writing Japanese
> language.
> My research on Adachi has started a number of years ago and I am
> currently connecting landscape film-theory to current ecological
> 'imagery and 'sensation' in anime/animation.
> reading weather manipulation past and present.
> thank you kindly,
> verina
>
>
>
> Quoting Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>:
>
> > I saw Adachi days after the incident, which he insisted was "murder" not
> > "assassination." He was already deep into the script
> > and preproduction tasks like lining up staff. He was giddy, especially
> > because he had lined up some amount of the budget as well and the plan
> was
> > to release it the day of the state funeral, which had just been
> announced.
> > To this end, his other idea was to skip (or more like "screw" in the
> spirit
> > of things) the usual distribution routes like mini-theaters and instead
> > show the film in clubs (thus, the Loft connection). Ueno Toshiya happened
> > to be at this gathering; needless to say, they had a lot to talk about.
> >
> > As you can imagine, this is his sequel to *Aka Serial Killer.*
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/
> > <http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/>*
> > *Department of Film, Television and Media*
> > *6348 North Quad*
> > *105 S. State Street**Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285*
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 3:42 AM Jeremy Harley via KineJapan <
> > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> KineJapan!
> >>
> >> Adachi Masao has already shot a movie about Abe's shooter Yamagami
> >> Tetsuya, to be released on the day of Abe's funeral, Sept. 27.
> >>
> >> https://smart-flash.jp/sociopolitics/200133/1
> >>
> >> Adachi called the film?????????????<---revenge against the state.
> >>
> >> Jeremy Harley
> >> Mabashi Movie Festival
> >>
> >>
> >>
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