[KineJapan] Kinema Junpo Best

[Anne]

I haven’t seen it, but I met the director at a literature conference back in October, the 社会文学会. One thing that was interesting was that a man on the sponsoring committee actually wrote, produced and distributed a rebuttal to the main jist of the film—that people from hisabetsu buraku backgrounds are still undergoing discrimination. (As opposed to things being much better, from am elder generation POV.) I talked to the director, and it sounded like subtitles were in the works. He was getting help on some of the more complicated terminologies and vernaculars from a couple of academics (Ian Neary, I remember, maybe more). So I would not be surprised if it were available somehow. 

He seemed open to popping in to talk about the film (in the context of programming, classes). And had a lot to say about producing labors of love, his own trajectory, observational tendencies in doc filmmaking post-Wiseman, etc. 

I would love to work on getting it screened in LA, if anyone in the area is up for it, as my university is pretty broke, and only works with collaborations…

Anne

> On Feb 2, 2023, at 9:51 AM, Roger Macy via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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> Has anyone seen Watashi no hanashi, buraku no hanashi ?
> https://buraku-hanashi.jp/
> I'm guessing at 205 minutes, it won't be quick to get shown outside of Japan, although the vinyl-length soundtrack seems widely available..
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> Roger
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> On Thursday, 2 February 2023 at 03:38:27 GMT, Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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> Kinema Junpo announced their awards for 2022. In recent years, they have only been publicly announcing the individual and picture awards, so as to make people buy the magazine in order to find out all the films in KineJun’s famous Best Ten. 
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> https://www.kinejun.com/2023/02/01/post-20472/
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> Here are some of the awards:
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> Best picture: Small, Slow but Steady
> Best documentary: Watashi no hanashi, buraku no hanashi
> Best actress: Kishii Yukino
> Best actor: Sawada Kenji
> Best supporting actress: Hirosue Ryoko
> Best supporting actor: Miura Tomokazu
> Best director: Takahashi Banmei
> Best screenplay: Kajiwara Aki
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> It seems Small, Slow but Steady (Miyake Sho) is getting most of the best picture awards for 2022. (Though the Japan Academy Prize ignored it for Best Picture, because that’s the nature of those awards, shaped as they are by the major studios.)
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> Aaron Gerow
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