[KineJapan] help with TV series in US in the mid-1970s

Mon Mar 11 14:26:37 EDT 2024

Hi David, Earl,

I just sent the list a response to this thread with some images, but it might be too big to get through. The series was in 1975, sponsored by KQED San Francisco and others. I have one pamphlet related to the series (one of the images in my earlier message). I saw the series when I was in college--it was the first time I had seen so many Japanese feature films and got an inkling of all I had been missing out on.

You can find info on the series here (you might need to scroll down the page)
http://yoshabunko.com/translations/Keene_Seidensticker_et_al.html#the_japanese_film

The Japanese Film
The off-camera editoral wars
in the production of the study guide for
KQED's 1975 PBS television series
featuring Reischauer et al.

Best wishes,
Joanne

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Hi -

Help, please, from anyone as old as I with a better memory or any who are better researchers (which is probably most of you):

in 1974 or 1975 PBS in the US had a film series hosted by Edwin O. Reischauer devoted to showing, then discussing or having interviews with actors, a range of Japanese films.  Former Pacific Film Archive director Sheldon Renan was heavily involved, too.  Films like Twenty-Four Eyes, Ugetsu, Night Drum, Boy, Double Suicide, Early Summer, were part of the series.  Donald Richie was a frequent guest; Mifune Toshiro was interviewed after the showing of Sanjuro (I think it was).  I think it was called The Japanese Film.  Anyone able to confirm the year and the title?  Thanks!

David
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I found this page from Jan 12, 1975 NYT if that helps

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 Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 12:13?AM Desser, David M via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Hi -
>
> Help, please, from anyone as old as I with a better memory or any who are
> better researchers (which is probably most of you):
>
> in 1974 or 1975 PBS in the US had a film series hosted by Edwin O.
> Reischauer devoted to showing, then discussing or having interviews with
> actors, a range of Japanese films.  Former Pacific Film Archive director
> Sheldon Renan was heavily involved, too.  Films like *Twenty-Four Eyes,
> Ugetsu, Night Drum, Boy, Double Suicide, Early Summer*, were part of the
> series.  Donald Richie was a frequent guest; Mifune Toshiro was interviewed
> after the showing of* Sanjuro *(I think it was).  I think it was called *The
> Japanese Film*.  Anyone able to confirm the year and the title?  Thanks!
>
> David
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