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

Bernardi, Joanne joanne.bernardi at rochester.edu
Mon Mar 11 14:18:58 EDT 2024 

Hi David, Earl,

I think this is the series produced by KQED, San Francisco, that I saw on TV when I was in college. I remember Edward Seidensticker, Edwin Reischauer, and others introducing and talking about a whole series of Japanese films, the most titles I had ever seen up until that point (1975). It was a year before I first went to Japan to study film at Osaka University of Arts. Someone later gave me a pamphlet that accompanied the series. I can’t find it just now and searched for it on the web instead.  I came across a scan of the pamphlet and another related one, and some info:

The pamphlet I have:

[A poster of two men holding swords  Description automatically generated]
Related one:

[A book cover with two men holding swords  Description automatically generated]

More info:
http://yoshabunko.com/translations/Keene_Seidensticker_et_al.html#the_japanese_film

(Scroll down to)
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.

The series was life-changing, literally.

Best,
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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