From aaron.gerow at yale.edu  Thu Jan 18 22:24:43 2024
From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 22:24:43 -0500
Subject: [KineJapan] Mainichi Film Awards
Message-ID: <FACAB722-B368-48CD-9B30-ED26FC159B2A@yale.edu>

The Mainichi Film Awards were announced, with Sakamoto Junji's Sekai no Okiku winning best film. Tsukamoto Shin'ya's Hokage received the runner-up Excellence award. Suzuki Ryohei won best actor for Egoist, and Sugisaki Hana best actress for Ichiko. Ishii Yuya received the best director award for Tsuki. Yakushimaru Hiroko was given the Tanaka Kinuyo Award.

https://mainichi.jp/articles/20240119/ddm/001/200/105000c

BTW, Sakamoto-san will be coming to Yale next academic year. 


Aaron Gerow
Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies
Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
320 York Street, Room 108
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From alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk  Sun Jan 21 14:51:47 2024
From: alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk (Alexander Jacoby)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 19:51:47 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] Putting a name to a face
Message-ID: <CANN9ZtQ-Dy9hBOaexdp7wLnFK+pwzvC7OiewGVFpBnTZT=RbdA@mail.gmail.com>

Can anyone confirm that the actress below, who plays the malicious
sister-in-law in She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum, is called Kazuko
Yamamoto?



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From shanerob1993 at gmail.com  Sun Jan 21 17:45:22 2024
From: shanerob1993 at gmail.com (Shane Robinson)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:45:22 -0500
Subject: [KineJapan] Putting a name to a face
Message-ID: <CAHS-vJfM1DJZC6GQr3dD2vYvzKq60s8S75hsHK0YuY8pmri5bQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Alexander, I unfortunately haven't seen the film myself to confirm.
However, it seems your hunch is correct, ???? is credited as playing Sada,
the sister-in-law married to the older brother in the film according to
kinejun. There is also a Twitter thread from her daughter talking a bit
about her early life that I found interesting, though somewhat unrelated:
https://twitter.com/mariyatomoko/status/1333370571233456131 and she has
more pictures of her mother on her website.

Good luck on your research!
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From aaron.gerow at yale.edu  Sun Jan 21 17:47:24 2024
From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:47:24 -0500
Subject: [KineJapan] Putting a name to a face
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The NFAJ database does say that the wife of the older brother is played by Yamamoto Kazuko. 

http://202.236.109.20/det.php?mode=0&data_id=14465

Aaron

> 1/21/24 ??2:51?Alexander Jacoby via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>????:
> 
> Can anyone confirm that the actress below, who plays the malicious sister-in-law in She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum, is called Kazuko Yamamoto?
> 
> 
> 
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From bhartzheim at gmail.com  Sun Jan 21 19:21:30 2024
From: bhartzheim at gmail.com (Bryan Hartzheim)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:21:30 +0900
Subject: [KineJapan] Job Posting: Open Call for Film Studies Position,
 Waseda University
Message-ID: <CA+7WHZZ0q0NDw9i41ywMm=gbyFppMN0Or-adh=v4cTmDjkt06w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

The Faculty of International Research and Education is seeking a candidate
to fill a tenured or tenure-track position in Film Studies. The position
will likely be a cross appointment in the School of International Liberal
Studies and Graduate School of International Culture and Communication
Studies. The call is not specific to Japanese Film Studies. Please feel
free to circulate.

Details here:
https://www.waseda.jp/fire/sils/assets/uploads/2023/12/2e58544385509fb605dccfd791ea2f21.pdf

Apply by March 22 here:
https://my.waseda.jp/application/noauth/application-detail-noauth?param=qwVR6olzpJkIxo4hv2c5kA

Best,
Bryan
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From swb8 at gol.com  Tue Jan 23 02:30:51 2024
From: swb8 at gol.com (shayne bowden)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:30:51 +0900
Subject: [KineJapan] =?utf-8?q?Fukuoka_City_Public_Library_Movie_Hall=2C_?=
 =?utf-8?b?Q2luw6lsw6A=?=
Message-ID: <66782771-998D-4066-92E2-3870324DFB51@gol.com>

Hi

I was recently in Fukuoka and visited the Fukuoka City Public Library Movie Hall, Cine-La. The library movie hall has a 242 seat cinema that runs monthly programs of Japanese and world cinema.  The January program was curated according to the theme of people and nature. I've included some links below.  The library has a film archive and film collections of local and international cinema. I managed to see a screening of Imamura Shohei?s Narayama Bushiko and also Ogawa Shinsuke?s 223-minute film, 1000-nen kizami no hidokei: Maginomura monogatari (1987), which was one of the most remarkable cinematic experiences I?ve had in a while.  On January 20th there was a full day screening of Hara Kazuo?s Minamata Mandara (2021) in three parts, which concluded with a talk by Hara himself.  Unfortunately, I had to leave after the screening of the first part of the 372-minute documentary, but what I saw of it was enthralling and, like Ogawa?s film, challenges one?s understanding of cinema and duration.  Some people might find it difficult to adjust to any film that goes beyond the usual 90 -120 minute conventional cinematic viewing experience.  Anyway, I?m not sure to what extent the Movie Hall is of benefit to researchers, but the monthly film schedule is interesting and at only 500 yen per film, it is worth the visit when in Fukuoka. 
https://toshokan.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/theater_schedules/
http://www.cinela.com/


shayne bowden BA, MA (USYD)
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From jonathanmarkhall at gmail.com  Tue Jan 23 03:00:48 2024
From: jonathanmarkhall at gmail.com (Jonathan M. Hall)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:48 -0800
Subject: [KineJapan] 
	=?utf-8?q?Fukuoka_City_Public_Library_Movie_Hall=2C_?=
	=?utf-8?b?Q2luw6lsw6A=?=
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Thank you for the post, Shayne!

The wonderfully eclectic avant-garde film critic and experimental filmmaker
Matsumoto Toshio taught for several years at Kyushu University of Art &
Design. He was a major influence on the impressive collection of
independent and experimental films held by Fukuoka City Public Library.
I've benefited tremendously from research there, and I was fortunate enough
to meet some of the early archivists and librarians. Your post is a
wonderful reminder to us all of Fukuoka's riches. It's really great to hear
the tradition is alive and well.

Jonathan

Jonathan M Hall
Department of World Languages & Literatures
California State University San Bernardino

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:31?PM shayne bowden via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> I was recently in Fukuoka and visited the Fukuoka City Public Library
> Movie Hall, Cine-La. The library movie hall has a 242 seat cinema that runs
> monthly programs of Japanese and world cinema.  The January program was
> curated according to the theme of people and nature. I've included some
> links below.  The library has a film archive and film collections of local
> and international cinema. I managed to see a screening of Imamura Shohei?s
> Narayama Bushiko and also Ogawa Shinsuke?s 223-minute film, 1000-nen kizami
> no hidokei: Maginomura monogatari (1987), which was one of the most
> remarkable cinematic experiences I?ve had in a while.  On January 20th
> there was a full day screening of Hara Kazuo?s Minamata Mandara (2021) in
> three parts, which concluded with a talk by Hara himself.  Unfortunately, I
> had to leave after the screening of the first part of the 372-minute
> documentary, but what I saw of it was enthralling and, like Ogawa?s film,
> challenges one?s understanding of cinema and duration.  Some people might
> find it difficult to adjust to any film that goes beyond the usual 90 -120
> minute conventional cinematic viewing experience.  Anyway, I?m not sure to
> what extent the Movie Hall is of benefit to researchers, but the monthly
> film schedule is interesting and at only 500 yen per film, it is worth the
> visit when in Fukuoka.
> https://toshokan.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/theater_schedules/
> http://www.cinela.com/
>
>
> shayne bowden BA, MA (USYD)
> --------------------------------------------
> PhD Candidate
> School of Languages and Cultures
> Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
> The University of Sydney
> --------------------------------------------
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From alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk  Tue Jan 23 04:07:06 2024
From: alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk (Alexander Jacoby)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:07:06 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] 
	=?utf-8?q?Fukuoka_City_Public_Library_Movie_Hall=2C_?=
	=?utf-8?b?Q2luw6lsw6A=?=
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References: <66782771-998D-4066-92E2-3870324DFB51@gol.com>
Message-ID: <CANN9ZtSsPWWaACueMbL4amgk8f8NJKHRgxKLuFRUazY0g0PpGA@mail.gmail.com>

"Some people might find it difficult to adjust to any film that goes beyond
the usual 90 -120 minute conventional cinematic viewing experience."

Yes, I found it pretty tough to adjust to Avengers: Endgame and Avatar: The
Way of Water myself!

Sorry for the tongue-in-cheek response... Thanks for the write-up! I
haven't seen the Ogawa for many years, but I remember it being captivating.

ALEX



On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 07:31, shayne bowden via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> I was recently in Fukuoka and visited the Fukuoka City Public Library
> Movie Hall, Cine-La. The library movie hall has a 242 seat cinema that runs
> monthly programs of Japanese and world cinema.  The January program was
> curated according to the theme of people and nature. I've included some
> links below.  The library has a film archive and film collections of local
> and international cinema. I managed to see a screening of Imamura Shohei?s
> Narayama Bushiko and also Ogawa Shinsuke?s 223-minute film, 1000-nen kizami
> no hidokei: Maginomura monogatari (1987), which was one of the most
> remarkable cinematic experiences I?ve had in a while.  On January 20th
> there was a full day screening of Hara Kazuo?s Minamata Mandara (2021) in
> three parts, which concluded with a talk by Hara himself.  Unfortunately, I
> had to leave after the screening of the first part of the 372-minute
> documentary, but what I saw of it was enthralling and, like Ogawa?s film,
> challenges one?s understanding of cinema and duration.  Some people might
> find it difficult to adjust to any film that goes beyond the usual 90 -120
> minute conventional cinematic viewing experience.  Anyway, I?m not sure to
> what extent the Movie Hall is of benefit to researchers, but the monthly
> film schedule is interesting and at only 500 yen per film, it is worth the
> visit when in Fukuoka.
> https://toshokan.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/theater_schedules/
> http://www.cinela.com/
>
>
> shayne bowden BA, MA (USYD)
> --------------------------------------------
> PhD Candidate
> School of Languages and Cultures
> Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
> The University of Sydney
> --------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> KineJapan mailing list
> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu
> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan
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From aaron.gerow at yale.edu  Tue Jan 23 13:57:47 2024
From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:57:47 -0500
Subject: [KineJapan] 2024 Oscars
Message-ID: <8E1191CF-3DBE-421D-AAAD-CFA30DACE877@yale.edu>

From a Japan angle, the news is that Perfect Days (international feature), A Boy and theHeron (animated feature), and Godzilla Minus One (visual effects) received Oscar nominations. While Perfect Days was directed by Wim Wenders, the MPPAJ (Eiren) submitted the film as Japan's nomination for the category.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oscars-nominations-2024-academy-awards-list/

Aaron Gerow

From nornes at umich.edu  Tue Jan 23 19:07:48 2024
From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:07:48 +0900
Subject: [KineJapan] 2024 Oscars
In-Reply-To: <8E1191CF-3DBE-421D-AAAD-CFA30DACE877@yale.edu>
References: <8E1191CF-3DBE-421D-AAAD-CFA30DACE877@yale.edu>
Message-ID: <CANoSnpD7J5CZK_yTYrv0acQ7Kb+yia-oiA6PJbrvEcGZJwiWXw@mail.gmail.com>

Perfect Days premiered at Tokyo Film Festival, and they announced that the
film would be Japan?s submission to the Oscar race. Wenders was visibly
embarrassed and mentioned that he was surprised and humbled by that news. I
talked to a lot of people who were scratching their heads about the
nomination (I?ve met few people who dislike the film), but why not? It?s
interesting to think about what?s generating their reaction.

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From adrian at restorationasia.org  Tue Jan 23 22:40:00 2024
From: adrian at restorationasia.org (adrian restorationasia.org)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:40:00 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] 
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Resident in Fukuoka for the past seven years I have collaborated with colleagues at the Fukuoka City Public Library Film Archive on several occasions, it has been a very rewarding experience.

Last month?s edition of the FIAF BULLETIN ONLINE<https://www.calameo.com/fiaf/read/0009185402f9f755f96fc> contains this news from the Archive:

?Eijun Sugihara is a newly-appointed curator of Fukuoka City Public Library Film Archive and Movie Hall Cine-la. After working in programming at Auditorium Shibuya in Tokyo, he served as a film curator at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media and Aichi Triennale 2019. His latest work as a producer is Gama (2023), directed by Kao?ri Oda. Sugihara was involved in various projects and exhibition curations, including the filmmaking group Kuzoku?s ?ILHA FORMOSA? (2023) at Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center (SCARTS).?

For those interested in knowing more about the archive?s Asian film collection, details can be found here<https://toshokan.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/files/FilmDetail/FilmDetail_509_file.pdf>.

Adrian Wood
Fukuoka


From: KineJapan On Behalf Of Alexander Jacoby via KineJapan
Sent: 23 January 2024 18:07
To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
Cc: Alexander Jacoby <alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk>; shayne bowden <swb8 at gol.com>
Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Fukuoka City Public Library Movie Hall, Cin?l?

"Some people might find it difficult to adjust to any film that goes beyond the usual 90 -120 minute conventional cinematic viewing experience."

Yes, I found it pretty tough to adjust to Avengers: Endgame and Avatar: The Way of Water myself!

Sorry for the tongue-in-cheek response... Thanks for the write-up! I haven't seen the Ogawa for many years, but I remember it being captivating.

ALEX


On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 07:31, shayne bowden via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:

Hi


I was recently in Fukuoka and visited the Fukuoka City Public Library Movie Hall, Cine-La. The library movie hall has a 242 seat cinema that runs monthly programs of Japanese and world cinema.  The January program was curated according to the theme of people and nature. I've included some links below.  The library has a film archive and film collections of local and international cinema. I managed to see a screening of Imamura Shohei?s Narayama Bushiko and also Ogawa Shinsuke?s 223-minute film, 1000-nen kizami no hidokei: Maginomura monogatari (1987), which was one of the most remarkable cinematic experiences I?ve had in a while.  On January 20th there was a full day screening of Hara Kazuo?s Minamata Mandara (2021) in three parts, which concluded with a talk by Hara himself.  Unfortunately, I had to leave after the screening of the first part of the 372-minute documentary, but what I saw of it was enthralling and, like Ogawa?s film, challenges one?s understanding of cinema and duration.  Some people might find it difficult to adjust to any film that goes beyond the usual 90 -120 minute conventional cinematic viewing experience.  Anyway, I?m not sure to what extent the Movie Hall is of benefit to researchers, but the monthly film schedule is interesting and at only 500 yen per film, it is worth the visit when in Fukuoka.
https://toshokan.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/theater_schedules/
http://www.cinela.com/


shayne bowden BA, MA (USYD)
--------------------------------------------
PhD Candidate
School of Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The University of Sydney
--------------------------------------------
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From halllewelyn at gmail.com  Wed Jan 24 04:29:31 2024
From: halllewelyn at gmail.com (Hal Young)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:29:31 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] 
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	=?utf-8?b?Q2luw6lsw6A=?=
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Hi All,

I'm actually visiting Fukuoka in April, on a research trip. The Fukuoka
City Public Library looks fascinating, and I know they have quite an
extensive archive of experimental films which I'm hoping to access whilst
over there. I've tried contacting them on their Facebook page to get some
more information, but I haven't heard back yet. I was wondering if any of
you had any particular advice for how to go about accessing films from
their archive?

Best,
Hal

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 3:41?AM adrian restorationasia.org via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Resident in Fukuoka for the past seven years I have collaborated with
> colleagues at the Fukuoka City Public Library Film Archive on several
> occasions, it has been a very rewarding experience.
>
>
>
> Last month?s edition of the FIAF BULLETIN ONLINE
> <https://www.calameo.com/fiaf/read/0009185402f9f755f96fc> contains this
> news from the Archive:
>
>
>
> ?Eijun Sugihara is a newly-appointed curator of Fukuoka City Public
> Library Film Archive and Movie Hall Cine-la. After working in programming
> at Auditorium Shibuya in Tokyo, he served as a film curator at Yamaguchi
> Center for Arts and Media and Aichi Triennale 2019. His latest work as a
> producer is *Gama *(2023), directed by Kao?ri Oda. Sugihara was involved
> in various projects and exhibition curations, including the filmmaking
> group Kuzoku?s ?ILHA FORMOSA? (2023) at Sapporo Cultural Arts Community
> Center (SCARTS).?
>
>
>
> For those interested in knowing more about the archive?s Asian film
> collection, details can be found here
> <https://toshokan.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/files/FilmDetail/FilmDetail_509_file.pdf>
> .
>
>
>
> Adrian Wood
>
> Fukuoka
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* KineJapan *On Behalf Of *Alexander Jacoby via KineJapan
> *Sent:* 23 January 2024 18:07
> *To:* Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> *Cc:* Alexander Jacoby <alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk>; shayne bowden <
> swb8 at gol.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [KineJapan] Fukuoka City Public Library Movie Hall, Cin?l?
>
>
>
> "Some people might find it difficult to adjust to any film that goes
> beyond the usual 90 -120 minute conventional cinematic viewing experience."
>
>
>
> Yes, I found it pretty tough to adjust to Avengers: Endgame and Avatar:
> The Way of Water myself!
>
>
>
> Sorry for the tongue-in-cheek response... Thanks for the write-up! I
> haven't seen the Ogawa for many years, but I remember it being captivating.
>
>
>
> ALEX
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 07:31, shayne bowden via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>
>
> I was recently in Fukuoka and visited the Fukuoka City Public Library
> Movie Hall, Cine-La. The library movie hall has a 242 seat cinema that runs
> monthly programs of Japanese and world cinema.  The January program was
> curated according to the theme of people and nature. I've included some
> links below.  The library has a film archive and film collections of local
> and international cinema. I managed to see a screening of Imamura Shohei?s
> Narayama Bushiko and also Ogawa Shinsuke?s 223-minute film, 1000-nen kizami
> no hidokei: Maginomura monogatari (1987), which was one of the most
> remarkable cinematic experiences I?ve had in a while.  On January 20th
> there was a full day screening of Hara Kazuo?s Minamata Mandara (2021) in
> three parts, which concluded with a talk by Hara himself.  Unfortunately, I
> had to leave after the screening of the first part of the 372-minute
> documentary, but what I saw of it was enthralling and, like Ogawa?s film,
> challenges one?s understanding of cinema and duration.  Some people might
> find it difficult to adjust to any film that goes beyond the usual 90 -120
> minute conventional cinematic viewing experience.  Anyway, I?m not sure to
> what extent the Movie Hall is of benefit to researchers, but the monthly
> film schedule is interesting and at only 500 yen per film, it is worth the
> visit when in Fukuoka.
>
> https://toshokan.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/theater_schedules/
>
> http://www.cinela.com/
>
>
>
>
>
> shayne bowden BA, MA (USYD)
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From Claire-Akiko.Brisset at unige.ch  Wed Jan 24 05:12:08 2024
From: Claire-Akiko.Brisset at unige.ch (Claire-Akiko Brisset)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:12:08 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] [EXTERNAL]  2024 Oscars
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Dear Markus (if I may),

This is not the first time this kind of thing happens: for instance, Dersu Uzala by Kurosawa was submitted by the USSR to the Oscar competition and won the Best Foreign Film Award in 1976 if I remember correctly.

Best wishes,

Claire-Akiko Brisset
PO histoire culturelle du Japon
Directrice du d?partement ESTAS
Facult? des lettres
Universit? de Gen?ve

Derni?re parution :
https://www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/sciences-politiques-et-sociologie/l-enfer-du-regard/

Le 24 janv. 2024 ? 01:07, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a ?crit :

Perfect Days premiered at Tokyo Film Festival, and they announced that the film would be Japan?s submission to the Oscar race. Wenders was visibly embarrassed and mentioned that he was surprised and humbled by that news. I talked to a lot of people who were scratching their heads about the nomination (I?ve met few people who dislike the film), but why not? It?s interesting to think about what?s generating their reaction.

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:22:59 +0000
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Hi Hal,

To contact any FIAF affiliate I would always suggesting going to the FIAF home page https://www.fiafnet.org/ and searching for the location in the upper right search box.

It will give you contact details for the people in Fukuoka City Public Library Film Archive.

Let me know if you have any problems.

Enjoy the trip!

Adrian


From: Hal Young
Sent: 24 January 2024 18:30
To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
Cc: adrian restorationasia.org <adrian at restorationasia.org>; shayne bowden <swb8 at gol.com>
Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Fukuoka City Public Library Movie Hall, Cin?l?

Hi All,

I'm actually visiting Fukuoka in April, on a research trip. The Fukuoka City Public Library looks fascinating, and I know they have quite an extensive archive of experimental films which I'm hoping to access whilst over there. I've tried contacting them on their Facebook page to get some more information, but I haven't heard back yet. I was wondering if any of you had any particular advice for how to go about accessing films from their archive?

Best,
Hal

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 3:41?AM adrian restorationasia.org<http://restorationasia.org> via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:
Resident in Fukuoka for the past seven years I have collaborated with colleagues at the Fukuoka City Public Library Film Archive on several occasions, it has been a very rewarding experience.

Last month?s edition of the FIAF BULLETIN ONLINE<https://www.calameo.com/fiaf/read/0009185402f9f755f96fc> contains this news from the Archive:

?Eijun Sugihara is a newly-appointed curator of Fukuoka City Public Library Film Archive and Movie Hall Cine-la. After working in programming at Auditorium Shibuya in Tokyo, he served as a film curator at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media and Aichi Triennale 2019. His latest work as a producer is Gama (2023), directed by Kao?ri Oda. Sugihara was involved in various projects and exhibition curations, including the filmmaking group Kuzoku?s ?ILHA FORMOSA? (2023) at Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center (SCARTS).?

For those interested in knowing more about the archive?s Asian film collection, details can be found here<https://toshokan.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/files/FilmDetail/FilmDetail_509_file.pdf>.

Adrian Wood
Fukuoka


From: KineJapan On Behalf Of Alexander Jacoby via KineJapan
Sent: 23 January 2024 18:07
To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>>
Cc: Alexander Jacoby <alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk<mailto:alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk>>; shayne bowden <swb8 at gol.com<mailto:swb8 at gol.com>>
Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Fukuoka City Public Library Movie Hall, Cin?l?

"Some people might find it difficult to adjust to any film that goes beyond the usual 90 -120 minute conventional cinematic viewing experience."

Yes, I found it pretty tough to adjust to Avengers: Endgame and Avatar: The Way of Water myself!

Sorry for the tongue-in-cheek response... Thanks for the write-up! I haven't seen the Ogawa for many years, but I remember it being captivating.

ALEX


On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 07:31, shayne bowden via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:

Hi


I was recently in Fukuoka and visited the Fukuoka City Public Library Movie Hall, Cine-La. The library movie hall has a 242 seat cinema that runs monthly programs of Japanese and world cinema.  The January program was curated according to the theme of people and nature. I've included some links below.  The library has a film archive and film collections of local and international cinema. I managed to see a screening of Imamura Shohei?s Narayama Bushiko and also Ogawa Shinsuke?s 223-minute film, 1000-nen kizami no hidokei: Maginomura monogatari (1987), which was one of the most remarkable cinematic experiences I?ve had in a while.  On January 20th there was a full day screening of Hara Kazuo?s Minamata Mandara (2021) in three parts, which concluded with a talk by Hara himself.  Unfortunately, I had to leave after the screening of the first part of the 372-minute documentary, but what I saw of it was enthralling and, like Ogawa?s film, challenges one?s understanding of cinema and duration.  Some people might find it difficult to adjust to any film that goes beyond the usual 90 -120 minute conventional cinematic viewing experience.  Anyway, I?m not sure to what extent the Movie Hall is of benefit to researchers, but the monthly film schedule is interesting and at only 500 yen per film, it is worth the visit when in Fukuoka.
https://toshokan.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/theater_schedules/
http://www.cinela.com/


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From pslarson2 at gmail.com  Wed Jan 24 07:36:32 2024
From: pslarson2 at gmail.com (Peter Larson)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:36:32 -0500
Subject: [KineJapan] [EXTERNAL] 2024 Oscars
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An obvious question, but do directors of films made in Japan have to
be directed by Japanese people? What if the director is Korean?

It is crazy that this is still something that people would fret about
in 2024 (vs. 1983) but I guess I'll prepare myself for the online
outrage.

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 5:12?AM Claire-Akiko Brisset via KineJapan
<kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Markus (if I may),
>
> This is not the first time this kind of thing happens: for instance, Dersu Uzala by Kurosawa was submitted by the USSR to the Oscar competition and won the Best Foreign Film Award in 1976 if I remember correctly.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Claire-Akiko Brisset
> PO histoire culturelle du Japon
> Directrice du d?partement ESTAS
> Facult? des lettres
> Universit? de Gen?ve
>
> Derni?re parution :
> https://www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/sciences-politiques-et-sociologie/l-enfer-du-regard/
>
> Le 24 janv. 2024 ? 01:07, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a ?crit :
>
> Perfect Days premiered at Tokyo Film Festival, and they announced that the film would be Japan?s submission to the Oscar race. Wenders was visibly embarrassed and mentioned that he was surprised and humbled by that news. I talked to a lot of people who were scratching their heads about the nomination (I?ve met few people who dislike the film), but why not? It?s interesting to think about what?s generating their reaction.
>
> Markus
>
>
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From r-ophuls at sophia.ac.jp  Wed Jan 24 07:59:29 2024
From: r-ophuls at sophia.ac.jp (Reinold Ophuls-Kashima)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:59:29 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] [EXTERNAL] 2024 Oscars
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John Williams, British and professor at Sophia University, is a Japanese filmmaker.

Reinold Oph?ls-Kashima
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??: Re: [KineJapan] [EXTERNAL] 2024 Oscars

An obvious question, but do directors of films made in Japan have to
be directed by Japanese people? What if the director is Korean?

It is crazy that this is still something that people would fret about
in 2024 (vs. 1983) but I guess I'll prepare myself for the online
outrage.

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 5:12?AM Claire-Akiko Brisset via KineJapan
<kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Markus (if I may),
>
> This is not the first time this kind of thing happens: for instance, Dersu Uzala by Kurosawa was submitted by the USSR to the Oscar competition and won the Best Foreign Film Award in 1976 if I remember correctly.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Claire-Akiko Brisset
> PO histoire culturelle du Japon
> Directrice du d?partement ESTAS
> Facult? des lettres
> Universit? de Gen?ve
>
> Derni?re parution :
> https://www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/sciences-politiques-et-sociologie/l-enfer-du-regard/
>
> Le 24 janv. 2024 ? 01:07, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> a ?crit :
>
> Perfect Days premiered at Tokyo Film Festival, and they announced that the film would be Japan?s submission to the Oscar race. Wenders was visibly embarrassed and mentioned that he was surprised and humbled by that news. I talked to a lot of people who were scratching their heads about the nomination (I?ve met few people who dislike the film), but why not? It?s interesting to think about what?s generating their reaction.
>
> Markus
>
>
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From aaron.gerow at yale.edu  Wed Jan 24 08:11:09 2024
From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:11:09 -0500
Subject: [KineJapan] [EXTERNAL] 2024 Oscars
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The current controversy over Miss Japan shows that the ideological bond between race, language, and nationality is still strong in Japan, at least. To many, only certain people can ?represent? Japan.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68078061

Aaron


From nornes at umich.edu  Wed Jan 24 08:14:50 2024
From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 22:14:50 +0900
Subject: [KineJapan] [EXTERNAL] 2024 Oscars
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Peter Larson wrote:

> An obvious question, but do directors of films made in Japan have to be
> directed by Japanese people?


Of course not. I haven?t heard of any outrage. But I do know a bunch of
film people who went ?Huh? when they heard. I think they would prefer to
see a local director feted and in the competition. Unlike immigrant John
Williams, Wenders dropped in to shoot with key German personnel and then
went home.

Anyway, it made me think how auteurism pegs the nationality of
co-productions at award competitions. And it?s all haunted by nationalism.

Markus
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From pslarson2 at gmail.com  Wed Jan 24 08:27:25 2024
From: pslarson2 at gmail.com (Peter Larson)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:27:25 -0500
Subject: [KineJapan] [EXTERNAL] 2024 Oscars
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My friend Roger Walch, from Switzerland who lives in Osaka, is a
Japanese filmmaker as well. He recently made a film starring Japanese
folk music hero Mikami Kan and shows his films throughout Japan.

Yes, that was a plug.



On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 8:11?AM Gerow Aaron <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> The current controversy over Miss Japan shows that the ideological bond between race, language, and nationality is still strong in Japan, at least. To many, only certain people can ?represent? Japan.
>
> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68078061
>
> Aaron
>

From eija.niskanen at gmail.com  Thu Jan 25 01:18:57 2024
From: eija.niskanen at gmail.com (Eija Niskanen/HCA)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 08:18:57 +0200
Subject: [KineJapan] The Ozue Diaries
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Hi!
Does anyone have info on the upcoming documentary The Ozu Diaries by Daniel
Raim?

-- 
Eija Niskanen
helsinkicineaasia.fi
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From halllewelyn at gmail.com  Thu Jan 25 09:31:10 2024
From: halllewelyn at gmail.com (Hal Young)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:31:10 +0000
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Hi Adrian,

Thanks so much for this! Hugely appreciated. I'll let you know if I run
into any problems.

Best Wishes,
Hal

On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:24?AM adrian restorationasia.org via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi Hal,
>
>
>
> To contact any FIAF affiliate I would always suggesting going to the FIAF
> home page https://www.fiafnet.org/ and searching for the location in the
> upper right search box.
>
>
>
> It will give you contact details for the people in Fukuoka City Public
> Library Film Archive.
>
>
>
> Let me know if you have any problems.
>
>
>
> Enjoy the trip!
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Hal Young
> *Sent:* 24 January 2024 18:30
> *To:* Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> *Cc:* adrian restorationasia.org <adrian at restorationasia.org>; shayne
> bowden <swb8 at gol.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [KineJapan] Fukuoka City Public Library Movie Hall, Cin?l?
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I'm actually visiting Fukuoka in April, on a research trip. The Fukuoka
> City Public Library looks fascinating, and I know they have quite an
> extensive archive of experimental films which I'm hoping to access whilst
> over there. I've tried contacting them on their Facebook page to get some
> more information, but I haven't heard back yet. I was wondering if any of
> you had any particular advice for how to go about accessing films from
> their archive?
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Hal
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 3:41?AM adrian restorationasia.org via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Resident in Fukuoka for the past seven years I have collaborated with
> colleagues at the Fukuoka City Public Library Film Archive on several
> occasions, it has been a very rewarding experience.
>
>
>
> Last month?s edition of the FIAF BULLETIN ONLINE
> <https://www.calameo.com/fiaf/read/0009185402f9f755f96fc> contains this
> news from the Archive:
>
>
>
> ?Eijun Sugihara is a newly-appointed curator of Fukuoka City Public
> Library Film Archive and Movie Hall Cine-la. After working in programming
> at Auditorium Shibuya in Tokyo, he served as a film curator at Yamaguchi
> Center for Arts and Media and Aichi Triennale 2019. His latest work as a
> producer is *Gama *(2023), directed by Kao?ri Oda. Sugihara was involved
> in various projects and exhibition curations, including the filmmaking
> group Kuzoku?s ?ILHA FORMOSA? (2023) at Sapporo Cultural Arts Community
> Center (SCARTS).?
>
>
>
> For those interested in knowing more about the archive?s Asian film
> collection, details can be found here
> <https://toshokan.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/files/FilmDetail/FilmDetail_509_file.pdf>
> .
>
>
>
> Adrian Wood
>
> Fukuoka
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* KineJapan *On Behalf Of *Alexander Jacoby via KineJapan
> *Sent:* 23 January 2024 18:07
> *To:* Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
> *Cc:* Alexander Jacoby <alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk>; shayne bowden <
> swb8 at gol.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [KineJapan] Fukuoka City Public Library Movie Hall, Cin?l?
>
>
>
> "Some people might find it difficult to adjust to any film that goes
> beyond the usual 90 -120 minute conventional cinematic viewing experience."
>
>
>
> Yes, I found it pretty tough to adjust to Avengers: Endgame and Avatar:
> The Way of Water myself!
>
>
>
> Sorry for the tongue-in-cheek response... Thanks for the write-up! I
> haven't seen the Ogawa for many years, but I remember it being captivating.
>
>
>
> ALEX
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 07:31, shayne bowden via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>
>
> I was recently in Fukuoka and visited the Fukuoka City Public Library
> Movie Hall, Cine-La. The library movie hall has a 242 seat cinema that runs
> monthly programs of Japanese and world cinema.  The January program was
> curated according to the theme of people and nature. I've included some
> links below.  The library has a film archive and film collections of local
> and international cinema. I managed to see a screening of Imamura Shohei?s
> Narayama Bushiko and also Ogawa Shinsuke?s 223-minute film, 1000-nen kizami
> no hidokei: Maginomura monogatari (1987), which was one of the most
> remarkable cinematic experiences I?ve had in a while.  On January 20th
> there was a full day screening of Hara Kazuo?s Minamata Mandara (2021) in
> three parts, which concluded with a talk by Hara himself.  Unfortunately, I
> had to leave after the screening of the first part of the 372-minute
> documentary, but what I saw of it was enthralling and, like Ogawa?s film,
> challenges one?s understanding of cinema and duration.  Some people might
> find it difficult to adjust to any film that goes beyond the usual 90 -120
> minute conventional cinematic viewing experience.  Anyway, I?m not sure to
> what extent the Movie Hall is of benefit to researchers, but the monthly
> film schedule is interesting and at only 500 yen per film, it is worth the
> visit when in Fukuoka.
>
> https://toshokan.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/theater_schedules/
>
> http://www.cinela.com/
>
>
>
>
>
> shayne bowden BA, MA (USYD)
>
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> Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
> The University of Sydney
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From: desser at illinois.edu (Desser, David M)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:22:14 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] greatest cast in a film I never heard of until now!
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Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of the greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!


Joshu to tomo ni (Hisamatsu Seiji, 1956)

with:

Hara Setsuko

Tanaka Kinuyo

Kogure Michiyo

Kagawa Kyoko

Kuga Yoshiko

Okada Mariko

Awaji Keiko

Yoko Tani (a forgotten figure of film history!)


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From aaron.gerow at yale.edu  Thu Jan 25 19:41:51 2024
From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:41:51 -0500
Subject: [KineJapan] greatest cast in a film I never heard of until now!
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Wow, a women?s prison film with Tanaka Kinuyo as the warden and Kuga Yoshiko (who in real life was the daughter of a marquis) as a prisoner! 

I haven?t seen it, but it doesn?t seem to be easy to find. The NFAJ does not have it and it is not out on DVD. SkyPerfect doesn't seemed to have shown it. But it has been screened at a rep house before:

https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/jinbocho-theater/program/women_list.html#movie09

Aaron Gerow

> 1/25/24 ??6:22?Desser, David M via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>????:
> 
> Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of the greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!
> 
> Joshu to tomo ni (Hisamatsu Seiji, 1956)
> with:
> Hara Setsuko
> Tanaka Kinuyo
> Kogure Michiyo
> Kagawa Kyoko
> Kuga Yoshiko
> Okada Mariko
> Awaji Keiko
> Yoko Tani (a forgotten figure of film history!)
> 
> David Desser
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From earljac at gmail.com  Thu Jan 25 20:39:57 2024
From: earljac at gmail.com (Earl Jackson)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:39:57 +0800
Subject: [KineJapan] greatest cast in a film I never heard of until now!
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Wow - I have never heard of this one! What I'd give to see this one!
ej
Earl Jackson
Chair Professor
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Asia University
Professor Emeritus
National Chiao Tung University
Associate Professor Emeritus
University of California, Santa Cruz


On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 7:22?AM Desser, David M via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of the
> greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!
>
> *Joshu to tomo ni* (Hisamatsu Seiji*, *1956)
>
> with:
>
> Hara Setsuko
>
> Tanaka Kinuyo
>
> Kogure Michiyo
>
> Kagawa Kyoko
>
> Kuga Yoshiko
>
> Okada Mariko
>
> Awaji Keiko
>
> Yoko Tani (a forgotten figure of film history!)
>
>
> David Desser
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From shanerob1993 at gmail.com  Thu Jan 25 21:58:48 2024
From: shanerob1993 at gmail.com (Shane Robinson)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 21:58:48 -0500
Subject: [KineJapan] greatest cast in a film I never heard of until now!
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Really interesting reading about that film, I found quite a few stills and
pamphlets on sites like Yahoo Auctions Japan. It was shown on the Japanese
Movie Channel in April 2017 (
https://x.com/nihoneiga/status/851698881108824064). I'm not familiar with
him, but a Twitter user by the name of Ken Shimomura seems to have
information that the prints were "junked" by Toho (
https://x.com/Shimo_x2/status/1622444741093883904). This seems to be their
area of expertise, so while I wouldn't take it as fact, it seems like
reliable information. Does anybody know this person?

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>
> with:
>
> Hara Setsuko
>
> Tanaka Kinuyo
>
> Kogure Michiyo
>
> Kagawa Kyoko
>
> Kuga Yoshiko
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> Wow, a women?s prison film with Tanaka Kinuyo as the warden and Kuga
> Yoshiko (who in real life was the daughter of a marquis) as a prisoner!
>
> I haven?t seen it, but it doesn?t seem to be easy to find. The NFAJ does
> not have it and it is not out on DVD. SkyPerfect doesn't seemed to have
> shown it. But it has been screened at a rep house before:
>
>
> https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/jinbocho-theater/program/women_list.html#movie09
>
> Aaron Gerow
>
> > 1/25/24 ??6:22?Desser, David M via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu
> >????:
> >
> > Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of
> the greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!
> >
> > Joshu to tomo ni (Hisamatsu Seiji, 1956)
> > with:
> > Hara Setsuko
> > Tanaka Kinuyo
> > Kogure Michiyo
> > Kagawa Kyoko
> > Kuga Yoshiko
> > Okada Mariko
> > Awaji Keiko
> > Yoko Tani (a forgotten figure of film history!)
> >
> > David Desser
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From tkarsavina at yahoo.com  Thu Jan 25 23:35:53 2024
From: tkarsavina at yahoo.com (Maria Jose Gonzalez)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 04:35:53 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [KineJapan] greatest cast in a film I never heard of until now!
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 In recent years this film has been shown several times at retrospectives related to any of the numerous and famous cast.?I even have the ?? somewhere in my collection.I first saw it in the Takarazuka Film Festival many years ago and then twice more.There is an incredible amount of films from that period relatively or completely unknown abroad, some of them truly interesting, as the Shintoho Cinema Nostalgia DVD series has been proving.The film is based on the autobiography of Mita Tsuneko, the first female warden of a prison in Japan who worked to improve the treatment and rehabilitation of female prisoners in Wakayama's Women Prison as part of GHQ's efforts to allow more women into the management of prisons.The book was published in 1955, just one year before Hisamatsu's work.Kinuyo Tanaka plays a somehow subdued warden. It's easy to get the impression that Toho wanted to put as many famous faces on the poster as possible as a reclaim. This was her fourth film that year (out of a total of six!) and somehow, as far as I can recall, that shows.?Even Hara gives the same impression.The weight and interest of the film really falls onto the prisoners, each with very difficult backgrounds and criminal records. There are some good performances overall, some over the top.?Sadly, the ending reflects once more that the only socially acceptable salvation for these women is marriage.



Mar?a Jos? Gonz?lez Mu?ozKwansei Gakuin UniversityCenter for International Education and Cooperation (CIEC)
Nishinomiya, Japan







    On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 11:59:06 AM GMT+9, Shane Robinson via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:  
 
 Really interesting reading about that film, I found quite a few stills and pamphlets on sites like Yahoo Auctions Japan. It was shown on the Japanese Movie Channel in April 2017 (https://x.com/nihoneiga/status/851698881108824064). I'm not familiar with him, but a Twitter user by the name of Ken Shimomura seems to have information that the prints were "junked" by Toho (https://x.com/Shimo_x2/status/1622444741093883904). This seems to be their area of expertise, so while I wouldn't take it as fact, it seems like reliable information. Does anybody know this person?
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Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of the greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!


Joshu to tomo ni (Hisamatsu Seiji, 1956)

with:

Hara Setsuko

Tanaka Kinuyo

Kogure Michiyo

Kagawa Kyoko

Kuga Yoshiko

Okada Mariko

Awaji Keiko

Yoko Tani (a forgotten figure of film history!)


David Desser
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Wow, a women?s prison film with Tanaka Kinuyo as the warden and Kuga Yoshiko (who in real life was the daughter of a marquis) as a prisoner! 

I haven?t seen it, but it doesn?t seem to be easy to find. The NFAJ does not have it and it is not out on DVD. SkyPerfect doesn't seemed to have shown it. But it has been screened at a rep house before:

https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/jinbocho-theater/program/women_list.html#movie09

Aaron Gerow

> 1/25/24 ??6:22?Desser, David M via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>????:
> 
> Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of the greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!
> 
> Joshu to tomo ni (Hisamatsu Seiji, 1956)
> with:
> Hara Setsuko
> Tanaka Kinuyo
> Kogure Michiyo
> Kagawa Kyoko
> Kuga Yoshiko
> Okada Mariko
> Awaji Keiko
> Yoko Tani (a forgotten figure of film history!)
> 
> David Desser
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From aaron.gerow at yale.edu  Thu Jan 25 23:45:33 2024
From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:45:33 -0500
Subject: [KineJapan] Eigei Best and Worst Ten 2023
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The magazine Eiga Geijutsu announced their Best and Worst Ten Japanese films of 2023, based on a poll of critics and film-related professionals. Here are just the top three results:

Best Ten:
1) Hanakutashi (Arai Haruhiko)
2) Fukudamura Jiken (Mori Tatsuya)
3) Sekai no Okiku (Sakamoto Junji)

Worst Ten
1) Tsuki (Ishii Yuya)
1) Kaibutsu (Koreeda Hirokazu)
3) Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki Takashi)
(Tsuki and Kaibutsu received the same number of worst votes)

The full results will be available in the issue of Eiga Geijutsu available from January 30.

https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/558452


Aaron Gerow
Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies
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From reeldrew at aol.com  Fri Jan 26 02:37:22 2024
From: reeldrew at aol.com (reeldrew at aol.com)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 07:37:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [KineJapan] information wanted on late Japanese silents (1936-41)
References: <1518784867.639706.1706254642433.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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?One part of Japanese cinema history I've found particularly elusive has been the late Japanese silent films over a five-year period from early 1936 to early 1941 when production finally ceased. How many of these late silents are extant? Have there been any documentation in articles and books in Japan providing detailed information about them? There is apparently almost nothing in English about these films. The sole exceptions are the lost two-part?The King Kong That Appeared in Edo?(1938) and the extant?Soto Ashuragai, known as?Bloody Town?in English, also released in 1938.
?This void is part of a wider traditional Western-centric presentation of film history in which the standard texts always stated that after the US transition to sound by late 1929 and Western Europe's similar conversion by the middle of the following year, the silent cinema was a thing of the past everywhere save for Chaplin. In reality, the years from 1930 to 1935 saw a final flowering of silent cinema in Latin America, the Soviet republics, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Asia, resulting in the production of hundreds and hundreds of films beyond the Western horizon. By the end of 1935, the Soviet Union, China and Japan were the last major film-producing countries still making silents. But while the USSR and China finally made the transition the next year, Japan, with its huge annual output of films, made well over 600 silents from 1936 until 1941. Undoubtedly, the major reason for this continuing production of silents in Japan was due to the popularity of the?benshi.?Although in recent decades there has been far more published in Western languages about the prewar Japanese cinema than in the past, there still seems to be a kind of mystery about the silents produced after Ozu became the last major director to adopt sound. From online sources including the IMDb, I have found that by the end of the '30s and the start of the '40s, there were three small independent companies making most of these last silents--Daito, Kyokuto, and Zenkatsu a.k.a. Zensho Cinema. Joseph L. Anderson had told me years ago that the last Japanese silents were released in 1941. The IMDb lists the following silent releases from 1941:?Hatsunobori choshichiro kago,?Shuju,?Moyuru tamashi, all produced by Kyokuto, and?Arashi no naka no kenshi, produced by Zenkatsu. But without an exact release date for any of these, I have no idea which one might have the distinction of being the last Japanese silent film apart from experimental works in later decades.
?As to what finally brought an end to 35mm. theatrical silents at Japan at this time, I think it might have been due to the ever-increasing power of Japan's militarist dictatorship on the eve of the Pacific War. I know that as part of their attempt to control the culture, the militarists oversaw the folding of small companies into large organizations such as when Daito was swallowed up by Nikkatsu. Also, I think the militarists' concern over possible "subversion" by radically-minded benshis may have played a role in killing off silent production. What remains a mystery to me is why virtually all the directors making these late silents--Yashiro Takeshi, Kumagai Soya, Kumagaya Kusaya, Masuda Haruo, Seigun Hiroshi and others--none of them were active in Japanese cinema in any capacity during the Pacific War and the postwar era if the IMDb credits for them are in any way complete. Does anyone have any information as to the seeming total disappearance of this group of filmmakers???I will very much appreciate any information researchers here can supply on this missing and fascinating chapter of Japanese film history.?William M. Drew
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:36:45 +0000
Subject: [KineJapan] Eigei Best and Worst Ten 2023
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Basically the two films that are going to be seen by the most people around the world are in the top 3 worst!


The Creeping Garden<http://www.creepinggarden.com/> - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp.
Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films<https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435>.
The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing<http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/>.
"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/movies/review-the-creeping-garden-on-the-wonders-of-the-slime-mold.html>.
"An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416>.
"Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/09/creeping-garden-review-slime-mould-film>.

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Subject: [KineJapan] Eigei Best and Worst Ten 2023

The magazine Eiga Geijutsu announced their Best and Worst Ten Japanese films of 2023, based on a poll of critics and film-related professionals. Here are just the top three results:

Best Ten:
1) Hanakutashi (Arai Haruhiko)
2) Fukudamura Jiken (Mori Tatsuya)
3) Sekai no Okiku (Sakamoto Junji)

Worst Ten
1) Tsuki (Ishii Yuya)
1) Kaibutsu (Koreeda Hirokazu)
3) Godzilla Minus One (Yamazaki Takashi)
(Tsuki and Kaibutsu received the same number of worst votes)

The full results will be available in the issue of Eiga Geijutsu available from January 30.

https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/558452


Aaron Gerow
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Thank you, Mar?a Jos?.

Sadly, I have not seen a single film by Hisamatsu.

Keiko McDonald gives a few pages in ?From Book to Screen? to Hisamatsu?streatment of some other women writers during this period (pp55-9).

Time for a travelling retrospective, ?Hidden treasures of Japan?sGolden Age? ??

Roger

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  In recent years this film has been shown several times at retrospectives related to any of the numerous and famous cast.?I even have the ?? somewhere in my collection.I first saw it in the Takarazuka Film Festival many years ago and then twice more.There is an incredible amount of films from that period relatively or completely unknown abroad, some of them truly interesting, as the Shintoho Cinema Nostalgia DVD series has been proving.The film is based on the autobiography of Mita Tsuneko, the first female warden of a prison in Japan who worked to improve the treatment and rehabilitation of female prisoners in Wakayama's Women Prison as part of GHQ's efforts to allow more women into the management of prisons.The book was published in 1955, just one year before Hisamatsu's work.Kinuyo Tanaka plays a somehow subdued warden. It's easy to get the impression that Toho wanted to put as many famous faces on the poster as possible as a reclaim. This was her fourth film that year (out of a total of six!) and somehow, as far as I can recall, that shows.?Even Hara gives the same impression.The weight and interest of the film really falls onto the prisoners, each with very difficult backgrounds and criminal records. There are some good performances overall, some over the top.?Sadly, the ending reflects once more that the only socially acceptable salvation for these women is marriage.



Mar?a Jos? Gonz?lez Mu?ozKwansei Gakuin UniversityCenter for International Education and Cooperation (CIEC)
Nishinomiya, Japan







    On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 11:59:06 AM GMT+9, Shane Robinson via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:  
 
 Really interesting reading about that film, I found quite a few stills and pamphlets on sites like Yahoo Auctions Japan. It was shown on the Japanese Movie Channel in April 2017 (https://x.com/nihoneiga/status/851698881108824064). I'm not familiar with him, but a Twitter user by the name of Ken Shimomura seems to have information that the prints were "junked" by Toho (https://x.com/Shimo_x2/status/1622444741093883904). This seems to be their area of expertise, so while I wouldn't take it as fact, it seems like reliable information. Does anybody know this person?
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Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of the greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!


Joshu to tomo ni (Hisamatsu Seiji, 1956)

with:

Hara Setsuko

Tanaka Kinuyo

Kogure Michiyo

Kagawa Kyoko

Kuga Yoshiko

Okada Mariko

Awaji Keiko

Yoko Tani (a forgotten figure of film history!)


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Wow, a women?s prison film with Tanaka Kinuyo as the warden and Kuga Yoshiko (who in real life was the daughter of a marquis) as a prisoner! 

I haven?t seen it, but it doesn?t seem to be easy to find. The NFAJ does not have it and it is not out on DVD. SkyPerfect doesn't seemed to have shown it. But it has been screened at a rep house before:

https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/jinbocho-theater/program/women_list.html#movie09

Aaron Gerow

> 1/25/24 ??6:22?Desser, David M via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>????:
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> Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of the greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!
> 
> Joshu to tomo ni (Hisamatsu Seiji, 1956)
> with:
> Hara Setsuko
> Tanaka Kinuyo
> Kogure Michiyo
> Kagawa Kyoko
> Kuga Yoshiko
> Okada Mariko
> Awaji Keiko
> Yoko Tani (a forgotten figure of film history!)
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"Hidden treasures of Japan?s Golden Age"

I'm always up for curating that. The only difficulty is, narrowing it down!

ALEX




On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 12:31, Roger Macy via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Thank you, Mar?a Jos?.
>
> Sadly, I have not seen a single film by Hisamatsu.
>
> Keiko McDonald gives a few pages in ?From Book to Screen? to Hisamatsu?s
> treatment of some other women writers during this period (pp55-9).
>
> Time for a travelling retrospective, ?Hidden treasures of Japan?s Golden
> Age? ??
>
> Roger
>
>
> On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 04:36:04 GMT, Maria Jose Gonzalez via
> KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>
> In recent years this film has been shown several times at retrospectives
> related to any of the numerous and famous cast.
> I even have the ?? somewhere in my collection.
> I first saw it in the Takarazuka Film Festival many years ago and then
> twice more.
> There is an incredible amount of films from that period relatively or
> completely unknown abroad, some of them truly interesting, as the Shintoho
> Cinema Nostalgia DVD series has been proving.
> The film is based on the autobiography of Mita Tsuneko, the first female
> warden of a prison in Japan who worked to improve the treatment and
> rehabilitation of female prisoners in Wakayama's Women Prison as part of
> GHQ's efforts to allow more women into the management of prisons.
> The book was published in 1955, just one year before Hisamatsu's work.
> Kinuyo Tanaka plays a somehow subdued warden. It's easy to get the
> impression that Toho wanted to put as many famous faces on the poster as
> possible as a reclaim. This was her fourth film that year (out of a total
> of six!) and somehow, as far as I can recall, that shows. Even Hara gives
> the same impression.
> The weight and interest of the film really falls onto the prisoners, each
> with very difficult backgrounds and criminal records. There are some good
> performances overall, some over the top.
> Sadly, the ending reflects once more that the only socially acceptable
> salvation for these women is marriage.
>
>
>
>
> Mar?a Jos? Gonz?lez Mu?oz
> Kwansei Gakuin University
> Center for International Education and Cooperation (CIEC)
> Nishinomiya, Japan
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 11:59:06 AM GMT+9, Shane Robinson via
> KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Really interesting reading about that film, I found quite a few stills and
> pamphlets on sites like Yahoo Auctions Japan. It was shown on the Japanese
> Movie Channel in April 2017 (
> https://x.com/nihoneiga/status/851698881108824064). I'm not familiar with
> him, but a Twitter user by the name of Ken Shimomura seems to have
> information that the prints were "junked" by Toho (
> https://x.com/Shimo_x2/status/1622444741093883904). This seems to be
> their area of expertise, so while I wouldn't take it as fact, it seems like
> reliable information. Does anybody know this person?
>
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> wrote:
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>
> with:
>
> Hara Setsuko
>
> Tanaka Kinuyo
>
> Kogure Michiyo
>
> Kagawa Kyoko
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> Yoshiko (who in real life was the daughter of a marquis) as a prisoner!
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> I haven?t seen it, but it doesn?t seem to be easy to find. The NFAJ does
> not have it and it is not out on DVD. SkyPerfect doesn't seemed to have
> shown it. But it has been screened at a rep house before:
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>
> https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/jinbocho-theater/program/women_list.html#movie09
>
> Aaron Gerow
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> > 1/25/24 ??6:22?Desser, David M via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu
> >????:
> >
> > Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of
> the greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!
> >
> > Joshu to tomo ni (Hisamatsu Seiji, 1956)
> > with:
> > Hara Setsuko
> > Tanaka Kinuyo
> > Kogure Michiyo
> > Kagawa Kyoko
> > Kuga Yoshiko
> > Okada Mariko
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 It has also been shown on telly.?I will ask my Eiga Tomos see if someone has a DVD and I can refresh my memory.;-)The film was a collection of stories from the book, scripted by Tanaka Sumie, and it felt slightly overwhelming. Of course, one of the main motors of the film is having such a powerful cast, to which I would add the prison itself, since the film was shot on the real location.A scene with Tanaka and Hara overlooking the corridor with prison cells from above stays in my mind.
    On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 08:31:48 PM GMT+9, Roger Macy via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:  
 
  
Thank you, Mar?a Jos?.

Sadly, I have not seen a single film by Hisamatsu.

Keiko McDonald gives a few pages in ?From Book to Screen? to Hisamatsu?streatment of some other women writers during this period (pp55-9).

Time for a travelling retrospective, ?Hidden treasures of Japan?sGolden Age? ??

Roger

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  In recent years this film has been shown several times at retrospectives related to any of the numerous and famous cast.?I even have the ?? somewhere in my collection.I first saw it in the Takarazuka Film Festival many years ago and then twice more.There is an incredible amount of films from that period relatively or completely unknown abroad, some of them truly interesting, as the Shintoho Cinema Nostalgia DVD series has been proving.The film is based on the autobiography of Mita Tsuneko, the first female warden of a prison in Japan who worked to improve the treatment and rehabilitation of female prisoners in Wakayama's Women Prison as part of GHQ's efforts to allow more women into the management of prisons.The book was published in 1955, just one year before Hisamatsu's work.Kinuyo Tanaka plays a somehow subdued warden. It's easy to get the impression that Toho wanted to put as many famous faces on the poster as possible as a reclaim. This was her fourth film that year (out of a total of six!) and somehow, as far as I can recall, that shows.?Even Hara gives the same impression.The weight and interest of the film really falls onto the prisoners, each with very difficult backgrounds and criminal records. There are some good performances overall, some over the top.?Sadly, the ending reflects once more that the only socially acceptable salvation for these women is marriage.



Mar?a Jos? Gonz?lez Mu?ozKwansei Gakuin UniversityCenter for International Education and Cooperation (CIEC)
Nishinomiya, Japan







    On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 11:59:06 AM GMT+9, Shane Robinson via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:  
 
 Really interesting reading about that film, I found quite a few stills and pamphlets on sites like Yahoo Auctions Japan. It was shown on the Japanese Movie Channel in April 2017 (https://x.com/nihoneiga/status/851698881108824064). I'm not familiar with him, but a Twitter user by the name of Ken Shimomura seems to have information that the prints were "junked" by Toho (https://x.com/Shimo_x2/status/1622444741093883904). This seems to be their area of expertise, so while I wouldn't take it as fact, it seems like reliable information. Does anybody know this person?
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Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of the greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!


Joshu to tomo ni (Hisamatsu Seiji, 1956)

with:

Hara Setsuko

Tanaka Kinuyo

Kogure Michiyo

Kagawa Kyoko

Kuga Yoshiko

Okada Mariko

Awaji Keiko

Yoko Tani (a forgotten figure of film history!)


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Wow, a women?s prison film with Tanaka Kinuyo as the warden and Kuga Yoshiko (who in real life was the daughter of a marquis) as a prisoner! 

I haven?t seen it, but it doesn?t seem to be easy to find. The NFAJ does not have it and it is not out on DVD. SkyPerfect doesn't seemed to have shown it. But it has been screened at a rep house before:

https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/jinbocho-theater/program/women_list.html#movie09

Aaron Gerow

> 1/25/24 ??6:22?Desser, David M via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>????:
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> Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of the greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!
> 
> Joshu to tomo ni (Hisamatsu Seiji, 1956)
> with:
> Hara Setsuko
> Tanaka Kinuyo
> Kogure Michiyo
> Kagawa Kyoko
> Kuga Yoshiko
> Okada Mariko
> Awaji Keiko
> Yoko Tani (a forgotten figure of film history!)
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Indeed, thank you Maria Jose for taking the time to write such a detailed response!

David

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On Jan 26, 2024, at 6:55?AM, Maria Jose Gonzalez via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

?
It has also been shown on telly.
I will ask my Eiga Tomos see if someone has a DVD and I can refresh my memory.
;-)
The film was a collection of stories from the book, scripted by Tanaka Sumie, and it felt slightly overwhelming. Of course, one of the main motors of the film is having such a powerful cast, to which I would add the prison itself, since the film was shot on the real location.
A scene with Tanaka and Hara overlooking the corridor with prison cells from above stays in my mind.

On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 08:31:48 PM GMT+9, Roger Macy via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:



Thank you, Mar?a Jos?.

Sadly, I have not seen a single film by Hisamatsu.

Keiko McDonald gives a few pages in ?From Book to Screen? to Hisamatsu?s treatment of some other women writers during this period (pp55-9).

Time for a travelling retrospective, ?Hidden treasures of Japan?s Golden Age? ??

Roger



On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 04:36:04 GMT, Maria Jose Gonzalez via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:


In recent years this film has been shown several times at retrospectives related to any of the numerous and famous cast.
I even have the ?? somewhere in my collection.
I first saw it in the Takarazuka Film Festival many years ago and then twice more.
There is an incredible amount of films from that period relatively or completely unknown abroad, some of them truly interesting, as the Shintoho Cinema Nostalgia DVD series has been proving.
The film is based on the autobiography of Mita Tsuneko, the first female warden of a prison in Japan who worked to improve the treatment and rehabilitation of female prisoners in Wakayama's Women Prison as part of GHQ's efforts to allow more women into the management of prisons.
The book was published in 1955, just one year before Hisamatsu's work.
Kinuyo Tanaka plays a somehow subdued warden. It's easy to get the impression that Toho wanted to put as many famous faces on the poster as possible as a reclaim. This was her fourth film that year (out of a total of six!) and somehow, as far as I can recall, that shows. Even Hara gives the same impression.
The weight and interest of the film really falls onto the prisoners, each with very difficult backgrounds and criminal records. There are some good performances overall, some over the top.
Sadly, the ending reflects once more that the only socially acceptable salvation for these women is marriage.




Mar?a Jos? Gonz?lez Mu?oz
Kwansei Gakuin University
Center for International Education and Cooperation (CIEC)
Nishinomiya, Japan








On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 11:59:06 AM GMT+9, Shane Robinson via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:


Really interesting reading about that film, I found quite a few stills and pamphlets on sites like Yahoo Auctions Japan. It was shown on the Japanese Movie Channel in April 2017 (https://x.com/nihoneiga/status/851698881108824064<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://x.com/nihoneiga/status/851698881108824064__;!!DZ3fjg!9wMbxTV3MqY7mzAYTApnjN71WrqKPYjiE6osO3zp1ul0Jcptocg0P-djHesNNFRuKangNqg53L_xkvmcko_hl8hNRUg$>). I'm not familiar with him, but a Twitter user by the name of Ken Shimomura seems to have information that the prints were "junked" by Toho (https://x.com/Shimo_x2/status/1622444741093883904<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://x.com/Shimo_x2/status/1622444741093883904__;!!DZ3fjg!9wMbxTV3MqY7mzAYTApnjN71WrqKPYjiE6osO3zp1ul0Jcptocg0P-djHesNNFRuKangNqg53L_xkvmcko_h2KzztN8$>). This seems to be their area of expertise, so while I wouldn't take it as fact, it seems like reliable information. Does anybody know this person?

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Has anyone heard of, let alone seen, the following film? It has one of the greatest casts in all of Japanese film history, I guess!


Joshu to tomo ni (Hisamatsu Seiji, 1956)

with:

Hara Setsuko

Tanaka Kinuyo

Kogure Michiyo

Kagawa Kyoko

Kuga Yoshiko

Okada Mariko

Awaji Keiko

Yoko Tani (a forgotten figure of film history!)


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Wow, a women?s prison film with Tanaka Kinuyo as the warden and Kuga Yoshiko (who in real life was the daughter of a marquis) as a prisoner!

I haven?t seen it, but it doesn?t seem to be easy to find. The NFAJ does not have it and it is not out on DVD. SkyPerfect doesn't seemed to have shown it. But it has been screened at a rep house before:

https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/jinbocho-theater/program/women_list.html#movie09<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/jinbocho-theater/program/women_list.html*movie09__;Iw!!DZ3fjg!9wMbxTV3MqY7mzAYTApnjN71WrqKPYjiE6osO3zp1ul0Jcptocg0P-djHesNNFRuKangNqg53L_xkvmcko_h-7fjK68$>

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> 1/25/24 ??6:22?Desser, David M via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>>????:
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:11:35 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [KineJapan] information wanted on late Japanese silents
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 Very much an unploughed film, I think, William, and there is little I cansay.
Looking briefly at those director names, I could only find Masuda Haruo inthe ?76 Kinejun directors? dictionary, and then seemingly mostly talking abouta continuing career. And the data seems largely absent from JMDb. JMDb isn?tperfect by any means but I think of it as far more complete on early Japanesefilms than IMDb.? I wonder what sources IMDbused.

And, if they were mainly made for benshi, is it possible they were alsopartly made by benshi ?

Roger


    On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 07:37:35 GMT, William M. Drew via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:  
 
 ?One part of Japanese cinema history I've found particularly elusive has been the late Japanese silent films over a five-year period from early 1936 to early 1941 when production finally ceased. How many of these late silents are extant? Have there been any documentation in articles and books in Japan providing detailed information about them? There is apparently almost nothing in English about these films. The sole exceptions are the lost two-part?The King Kong That Appeared in Edo?(1938) and the extant?Soto Ashuragai, known as?Bloody Town?in English, also released in 1938.
?This void is part of a wider traditional Western-centric presentation of film history in which the standard texts always stated that after the US transition to sound by late 1929 and Western Europe's similar conversion by the middle of the following year, the silent cinema was a thing of the past everywhere save for Chaplin. In reality, the years from 1930 to 1935 saw a final flowering of silent cinema in Latin America, the Soviet republics, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Asia, resulting in the production of hundreds and hundreds of films beyond the Western horizon. By the end of 1935, the Soviet Union, China and Japan were the last major film-producing countries still making silents. But while the USSR and China finally made the transition the next year, Japan, with its huge annual output of films, made well over 600 silents from 1936 until 1941. Undoubtedly, the major reason for this continuing production of silents in Japan was due to the popularity of the?benshi.?Although in recent decades there has been far more published in Western languages about the prewar Japanese cinema than in the past, there still seems to be a kind of mystery about the silents produced after Ozu became the last major director to adopt sound. From online sources including the IMDb, I have found that by the end of the '30s and the start of the '40s, there were three small independent companies making most of these last silents--Daito, Kyokuto, and Zenkatsu a.k.a. Zensho Cinema. Joseph L. Anderson had told me years ago that the last Japanese silents were released in 1941. The IMDb lists the following silent releases from 1941:?Hatsunobori choshichiro kago,?Shuju,?Moyuru tamashi, all produced by Kyokuto, and?Arashi no naka no kenshi, produced by Zenkatsu. But without an exact release date for any of these, I have no idea which one might have the distinction of being the last Japanese silent film apart from experimental works in later decades.
?As to what finally brought an end to 35mm. theatrical silents at Japan at this time, I think it might have been due to the ever-increasing power of Japan's militarist dictatorship on the eve of the Pacific War. I know that as part of their attempt to control the culture, the militarists oversaw the folding of small companies into large organizations such as when Daito was swallowed up by Nikkatsu. Also, I think the militarists' concern over possible "subversion" by radically-minded benshis may have played a role in killing off silent production. What remains a mystery to me is why virtually all the directors making these late silents--Yashiro Takeshi, Kumagai Soya, Kumagaya Kusaya, Masuda Haruo, Seigun Hiroshi and others--none of them were active in Japanese cinema in any capacity during the Pacific War and the postwar era if the IMDb credits for them are in any way complete. Does anyone have any information as to the seeming total disappearance of this group of filmmakers???I will very much appreciate any information researchers here can supply on this missing and fascinating chapter of Japanese film history.?William M. Drew_______________________________________________
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This is a very interesting topic. I scratched the surface a bit in my
research on the Japanese sound-version films and the resulting article,
that was published in the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema, presents
some data and context.

As far as I could see, many of the silent films produced after 1936 were
sound-version films, and it was common that their soundtrack included
benshi narration (sometimes utilising several benshi at the same time for
one film). Most of these films were made by second-rung production studios
and after a certain point not reviewed properly, for instance Kinema junpo
were highly dismissive of them before ignoring them completely. As to why
it ended in 1941, Joseph Anderson claims in his article 'Spoken Silents in
the Japanese Cinema; or Talking to Pictures' that it was due to "the
government prohibited silent film production on the grounds that they had
no redeeming social or moral values and their swordfighter heroes were
subversive of official ideology. A military procurement agency denounced
these cheap movies as a waste of precious resources because the raw
materials could be used to make explosives." Interestingly, he writes in
the footnote that the sources were 'lost' but states that he read it at the
Waseda Enpaku. If anyone on the list has also come across this information
and/or knows the source for Anderson's claim, I would be thrilled to know
more.

Regarding the survival ratio of these films, the situation is abysmal.
There are a few at the NFAJ, and when I was looking at unidentified
Japanese prints at the Gosfilmofond a few years back, I remember spotting a
few single reels of what I believed to be unidentified late
silent/sound-version films as well. One that stood out featured the
Shinsegumi in what looked like a time-slip or teleportation plot, where
they found themselves in Africa, complete with "borrowed documentary
footage" of lions and semi-naked African women dancing. Another short
jidaigeki fragment featured a gun wielding tengu. I hope someday someone
will get the chance to go through all those reels properly.

Johan

On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 2:11?AM Roger Macy via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Very much an unploughed film, I think, William, and there is little I can
> say.
>
> Looking briefly at those director names, I could only find Masuda Haruo in
> the ?76 Kinejun directors? dictionary, and then seemingly mostly talking
> about a continuing career. And the data seems largely absent from JMDb.
> JMDb isn?t perfect by any means but I think of it as far more complete on
> early Japanese films than IMDb.  I wonder what sources IMDb used.
>
> And, if they were mainly made for benshi, is it possible they were also
> partly made by benshi ?
>
> Roger
>
>
> On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 07:37:35 GMT, William M. Drew via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
> One part of Japanese cinema history I've found particularly elusive has
> been the late Japanese silent films over a five-year period from early 1936
> to early 1941 when production finally ceased. How many of these late
> silents are extant? Have there been any documentation in articles and books
> in Japan providing detailed information about them? There is apparently
> almost nothing in English about these films. The sole exceptions are the
> lost two-part *The King Kong That Appeared in Edo *(1938) and the extant *Soto
> Ashuragai*, known as *Bloody Town *in English, also released in 1938.
>
> This void is part of a wider traditional Western-centric presentation of
> film history in which the standard texts always stated that after the US
> transition to sound by late 1929 and Western Europe's similar conversion by
> the middle of the following year, the silent cinema was a thing of the past
> everywhere save for Chaplin. In reality, the years from 1930 to 1935 saw a
> final flowering of silent cinema in Latin America, the Soviet republics,
> the Balkans, the Middle East, and Asia, resulting in the production of
> hundreds and hundreds of films beyond the Western horizon. By the end of
> 1935, the Soviet Union, China and Japan were the last major film-producing
> countries still making silents. But while the USSR and China finally made
> the transition the next year, Japan, with its huge annual output of films,
> made well over 600 silents from 1936 until 1941. Undoubtedly, the major
> reason for this continuing production of silents in Japan was due to the
> popularity of the *benshi*.
>
> Although in recent decades there has been far more published in Western
> languages about the prewar Japanese cinema than in the past, there still
> seems to be a kind of mystery about the silents produced after Ozu became
> the last major director to adopt sound. From online sources including the
> IMDb, I have found that by the end of the '30s and the start of the '40s,
> there were three small independent companies making most of these last
> silents--Daito, Kyokuto, and Zenkatsu a.k.a. Zensho Cinema. Joseph L.
> Anderson had told me years ago that the last Japanese silents were released
> in 1941. The IMDb lists the following silent releases from 1941: *Hatsunobori
> choshichiro kago*, *Shuju*, *Moyuru tamashi*, all produced by Kyokuto,
> and *Arashi no naka no kenshi*, produced by Zenkatsu. But without an
> exact release date for any of these, I have no idea which one might have
> the distinction of being the last Japanese silent film apart from
> experimental works in later decades.
>
> As to what finally brought an end to 35mm. theatrical silents at Japan at
> this time, I think it might have been due to the ever-increasing power of
> Japan's militarist dictatorship on the eve of the Pacific War. I know that
> as part of their attempt to control the culture, the militarists oversaw
> the folding of small companies into large organizations such as when Daito
> was swallowed up by Nikkatsu. Also, I think the militarists' concern over
> possible "subversion" by radically-minded *benshis *may have played a
> role in killing off silent production. What remains a mystery to me is why
> virtually all the directors making these late silents--Yashiro Takeshi,
> Kumagai Soya, Kumagaya Kusaya, Masuda Haruo, Seigun Hiroshi and
> others--none of them were active in Japanese cinema in any capacity during
> the Pacific War and the postwar era if the IMDb credits for them are in any
> way complete. Does anyone have any information as to the seeming total
> disappearance of this group of filmmakers?
>
> I will very much appreciate any information researchers here can supply on
> this missing and fascinating chapter of Japanese film history.
>
> William M. Drew
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From aaron.gerow at yale.edu  Wed Jan 31 22:39:36 2024
From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:39:36 -0500
Subject: [KineJapan] 2023 Box Office
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The MPPAJ (Eiren) announced their statistics for the Japanese film industry in 2023. Basically both attendance and total box office were up by a slight amount, and Japanese films still commanded about 67% of the market. The number of films released also rose. The top 5 Japanese films at the box office were, in order:

  The First Slam Dunk
  Detective Conan
  The Boy and the Heron 
  Kingdom
  Godzilla Minus One 

Again, animated films took the top three slots. For "art" films, Koreeda's Monster was number 21 and Kitano's Kubi was number 29. There were 34 Japanese films that made over one billion yen at the box office (and only 15 foreign films). 
http://eiren.org/toukei/index.html <http://eiren.org/toukei/index.html>

Aaron Gerow
Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies
Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
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