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

[Gerow Aaron]

I don’t have any info on this series, but I thought I might mention an earlier series broadcast in 1972. It was the Film Odyssey series on PBS which showed a range of foreign films from the Janus collection, including a couple of Kurosawa films. I watched Seven Samurai as part of the series (at age eight) and you could say it changed my life. 

https://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7291 <https://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7291>

I wonder if the series David mentions rode the coattails of this earlier series.

Aaron

> 3/11/24 午後12:13、Desser, David M via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>のメール:
> 
> 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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