[KineJapan] Hasumi's Ozu book

[Ryan Cook]

I’m not sure if I should comment publicly about this, Markus. Haha



On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 4:48 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> At least Jean-Michel and Bernard wrote very nice, even useful, blurbs.
> Schrader, in contrast, phoned it in. But then he surely hates the book, if
> he got past the first section that castigates him. I know from an awkward
> conversation that he stands proudly on the position he staked out in *Transcendental
> Cinema!*
>
> Ryan, how did the Schrader blurb come about? I'm curious.
>
> Markus
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> *Markus Nornes*
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> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 11:42 AM Ryan Cook via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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>> Thanks very much for the gracious endorsements and interest in this
>> translation (a product of a lot of time spent at home during the
>> pandemic...).
>>
>> Mathieu: yes, this is based on the definitive edition and includes the
>> three chapters that were added in 2003 (there is also a Chinese
>> translation). The new English edition does include the interview with
>> Atsuta that appears as an appendix in the Japanese. (There is a French
>> translation of this interview that appeared somewhere at some point long
>> ago, but it is completely rearranged and hardly resembles the original.)
>> Unfortunately we were not able to print the interview with Yukiko Inoue
>> that also appears in the Japanese edition due to what I understood would be
>> a strict word limit. I also decided against asking Hasumi to write a
>> foreword for this reason, though in retrospect I wonder if we couldn't have
>> stretched the word limit since we seem to have blown through it anyway.
>> Maybe we can find another venue for Hasumi to comment in English on the
>> occasion of the translation, which comes just about 20 years after he last
>> expanded the book, on its 20th anniversary (and the Ozu centenary).
>>
>> Ryan Cook (the translator)
>> Honolulu
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>> On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 4:25 PM Mathieu Capel via KineJapan <
>> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Markus
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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
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> *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*
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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.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm rooking forward to this translation when it appears in March.
>>>>> Thanks for the notice.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396722/directed-by-yasujiro-ozu?fbclid=IwAR2dmRTnFeQhALbmMCromyUU-BVXWlFXXadXuSFJVDOmRvq1iR5R6mKcgnY
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As anyone who has cracked this book knows, it was a bear to
>>>>>> translate. Kudos to Ryan!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Markus
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