[KineJapan] Hasumi's Ozu book

[Mathieu Capel]

This English version is long overdue, needless to say, since the book was
only translated to French and Korean, if I am not wrong (all apologies if I
am).
Actually, there are some embarrassing mistakes in the French translation,
even though it was reviewed by Hasumi himself (and, according to French
speaking Japanese friends, it is far from good, to what I would agree to
some extent...). And if I were to add an ironical kind of mixed-feelings
remark, despite what Frodon and Eisenschitz says, I am pessimistic somehow
how far Hasumi's view has changed in depth the way French viewers see Ozu's
films: if you check the literature that was published this year related to
the 60th/120th birthday events, I can't remember one quote of
Hasumi's text, and most texts etc. seem to rely upon the same old
clichés...
Anyway, is Ryan's version based on the Japanese definite edition ? Even
Cahiers du cinéma Publishing, who don't seem to care so much about the book
actually, have apparently not a single clue that there are three chapters
missing in the French version (the interviews at the end of the original
book were also scrapped from the Cahiers du cinéma translation).

Best regards,

Mathieu Capel
Tokyo


Le lun. 27 nov. 2023 à 10:58, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a écrit :

> Erice wrote a lovely blurb for the cover.
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> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 10:50 AM LCE via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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>> This is indeed a difficult book in Japanese, as are all of
>> Hasumi-sensei's essays about film. In the description of the author, they
>> omitted his close ties to Spanish director Víctor Erice (the two men
>> communicate in French). I have been with them in Japan.
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>> I'm rooking forward to this translation when it appears in March. Thanks
>> for the notice.
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>> On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 6:53 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
>> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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>>> We get so few translations in American film studies, it feels like a
>>> grand occasion when a classic like this appears:
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>>> https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396722/directed-by-yasujiro-ozu?fbclid=IwAR2dmRTnFeQhALbmMCromyUU-BVXWlFXXadXuSFJVDOmRvq1iR5R6mKcgnY
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>>> As anyone who has cracked this book knows, it was a bear to translate.
>>> Kudos to Ryan!
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>>> Markus
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