From williamjamescarroll at gmail.com Sun Nov 3 07:30:40 2024 From: williamjamescarroll at gmail.com (William Carroll) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 06:30:40 -0600 Subject: [KineJapan] Films about the Hokoji Temple Bell Incident Message-ID: Hello all, A friend of mine is asking for recommendations for films depicting the Hokoji Temple Bell Incident, or at least films about the lives of monks in the Edo Period. Embarrassingly, I haven?t been able think of any off-hand. Are there any films like this that people know about? Thanks, Will -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Thu Nov 7 22:42:36 2024 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Aaron Gerow) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 22:42:36 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Fwd: New Films on Japan: "1923 Kanto Massacre" | Thursday, November 14, 2024 References: Message-ID: <025FBF81-639F-4F7A-ADA7-090A6ACF4EE1@yale.edu> > > Dear colleagues, > > Next Thursday, please be sure to register and join us for the next in our New Films on Japan series. As noted below, the film is in Japanese, Korean, and English with English subtitles. > > (US ET) Thursday, November 14, 2024 | 8:00 - 11:00 AM > (Japan) Thursday, November 14, 2024 | 10:00 PM - 1:00 AM > REGISTER FOR ZOOM > 1923 Kanto Massacre (directed by KIM Tae-yeong and CHOI Gyu-seok, Korea, 2024, 116 minutes) > Creative Producer: Jinhee Lee, Professor of History & Chair of Asian Studies, Eastern Illinois University > Discussant: Reinhard Z?llner , Professor of Japanese and Korean Studies, University of Bonn, Germany > Moderator: Sayaka Chatani , Associate Professor of History, National University of Singapore > The Modern Japan History Association invites scholars, teachers, and students of Japan and East Asia to the online premiere of a new documentary film, 1923 Kanto Massacre. The Great Kant? Earthquake of 1923 marked a moment of unprecedented material destruction and cultural rupture in modern Japan. The disaster soon became subject to varying interpretation and political manipulation. The tremors and subsequent fire produced not only physical chaos but also the rumors and violence against Koreans in the Tokyo-Yokohama area, revealing what was fearful and why at the heart of the Japanese Empire. After a century, this film reconstructs the course of the post-quake mayhem against the colonized, and traces the ways in which the history of this genocidal violence has been concealed and revealed, haunting those whose lives were never the same after encountering the forbidden truth. The event will be hosted by Professor Sayaka Chatani (National University of Singapore), featuring a discussion with historian and the film's creative producer Professor Jinhee Lee (Eastern Illinois University), and a comment by Professor Reinhard Z?llner (University of Bonn). The film is in Japanese, Korean, and English with English subtitles. > > > Robert M. 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URL: From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Tue Nov 12 10:32:29 2024 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Aaron Gerow) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:32:29 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Suntory Prize Message-ID: <73B1DB5C-22BA-4DAF-ABF6-81579575FA83@yale.edu> It was nice to see that Shibata Kotaro?s book on sound in the silent era movie theater, Eigakan ni narihibiita oto, was just awarded the prestigious Suntory Prize. https://www.suntory.co.jp/news/article/14700-1.html In a stroke of good luck, it so happens that Shibata-san will be giving a talk about his research at Yale this Thursday. https://macmillan.yale.edu/eastasia/events/2024-11/sounds-silent-cinema-japan-global-history-film-sound-and-tokyos-movie The summary of the talk: During the silent era, cinemas worldwide cultivated distinctive sound cultures to accompany silent films. Japanese cinemas, in particular, developed a particularly rich vocal tradition. While the role of benshi (film orator) is relatively well-known, Japanese theaters also featured a variety of other vocal performances, including giday?, shinnai, naniwabushi, and biwa songs. This presentation explores the diversity of vocal performance in prewar Japanese cinemas, with a focus on Tokyo, highlighting the historical development of biwa-accompanied screenings. By examining the concurrent evolution of biwa accompaniment and Western music within film venues in Japan, this lecture also considers the framework of film music and affective expression in Japanese cinema. 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 PO Box 208201 New Haven, CT 06520-8201 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com From lucie.rydzek at univ-lorraine.fr Wed Nov 13 07:02:40 2024 From: lucie.rydzek at univ-lorraine.fr (Lucie Rydzek) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:02:40 +0100 Subject: [KineJapan] Reaching Andre Hayato Saito Message-ID: <307bd263-eda5-4368-8d83-abddf80982e6@univ-lorraine.fr> Dear everyone, I'm trying to get in touch with director Andre Hayato Saito, or his producer, concerning his film /Amarela /(2024). Is anyone already in contact with him? Best regards, Lucie -- Lucie RYDZEK PhD Student University of Lorraine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matteo.boscarol at gmail.com Wed Nov 13 07:09:32 2024 From: matteo.boscarol at gmail.com (matteoB) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:09:32 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Reaching Andre Hayato Saito In-Reply-To: <307bd263-eda5-4368-8d83-abddf80982e6@univ-lorraine.fr> References: <307bd263-eda5-4368-8d83-abddf80982e6@univ-lorraine.fr> Message-ID: try here: https://www.andrehayatosaito.com/contato regards Matteo Il giorno mer 13 nov 2024 alle ore 21:02 Lucie Rydzek via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> ha scritto: > Dear everyone, > > I'm trying to get in touch with director Andre Hayato Saito, or his > producer, concerning his film *Amarela *(2024). Is anyone already in > contact with him? > > Best regards, > > Lucie > -- > Lucie RYDZEK > PhD Student > University of Lorraine > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexanderknoth at gmx.net Wed Nov 13 07:23:06 2024 From: alexanderknoth at gmx.net (alexander knoth) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:23:06 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Reaching Andre Hayato Saito In-Reply-To: <307bd263-eda5-4368-8d83-abddf80982e6@univ-lorraine.fr> References: <307bd263-eda5-4368-8d83-abddf80982e6@univ-lorraine.fr> Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Wed Nov 13 22:37:37 2024 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Aaron Gerow) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:37:37 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Makino Mamoru Message-ID: <156E9415-3D2E-4400-9DE2-E8ED17FAB9A0@yale.edu> We were waiting until the family said it was OK to announce this, but I am sad to say that our "shisho" Makino Mamoru passed away on September 18th. He was 94. Many of you know Makino-san as the man behind the phenomenal Makino Collection at Columbia University, as well as the author of important books on censorship and the editor of reprints of many important film-related books and magazines. For scholars like me, he was our sensei, who opened his home to us and let us dive into his collection years before it ended up at Columbia. He'd share some soba and some tales emerging from his vast knowledge of the Japanese film world. He was in fact also a documentary filmmaker, and I fondly remember his yearly bonenkai with members of his former film crew. While his writings on censorship are crucial, I have been most indebted to his groundbreaking work on the history of Japanese film theory, in which he not only collected and wrote about the early theorists, he went out to interview them. Markus and I decided back in the 90s to pay a little portion of the debt we owe him by publishing a festschrift in his honor, but there is no way to pay the debt in full. I made a point of visiting Makino-san regularly even after I returned to the States, even bringing Ian or Seiko on occasion. It was very much a family affair, as we got to know the entire Makino family. The last time I saw him was in August, when Markus and I visited him in his care facility, led by his son Satoru. Makino-san could barely speak, but his smile told a thousand words. Otsukaresama, Sensei. Makino Collection: https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/eastasian/special_collections/makino_mamoru.html In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino Mamoru: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/107972 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 PO Box 208201 New Haven, CT 06520-8201 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mwadamar at gmail.com Wed Nov 13 23:04:37 2024 From: mwadamar at gmail.com (Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:04:37 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Makino-san Message-ID: Dear Aaron and all KineJapan members, Thank you very much for sharing the sad news of Makino-san's passing. I was also indebted to Makino-san during the year I spent in Tokyo for research for my dissertation, too. I was not able to go to his funeral, but I am wondering if there is anything that KineJapan volunteers can do for Makino-san's family? Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Dr. Director of Joint Degree Transcultural Studies Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters Yoshida-honmachi Sakyo-ku Kyoto Japan 606-8501 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lucie.rydzek at univ-lorraine.fr Thu Nov 14 04:48:52 2024 From: lucie.rydzek at univ-lorraine.fr (Lucie Rydzek) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:48:52 +0100 Subject: [KineJapan] Reaching Andre Hayato Saito In-Reply-To: References: <307bd263-eda5-4368-8d83-abddf80982e6@univ-lorraine.fr> Message-ID: Hi Alexander, Actually, my collaborator already tried to reach him through these emails. So I was wondering if anyone here is in contact with Andre Hayato Saito or one of his producers and could introduce us to him... That would be a great help! Best, Lucie Rydzek Le 13/11/2024 ? 13:23, alexander knoth a ?crit?: > Hi Lucie, > > you can find all the contact data here: > Contact | Andr? Hayato Saito > Best, > Alexander Knoth > *Gesendet: *Mittwoch, 13. November 2024 um 13:02 > *Von: *"Lucie Rydzek via KineJapan" > *An: *"KineJapan mailing-list" > *CC: *"Lucie Rydzek" > *Betreff: *[KineJapan] Reaching Andre Hayato Saito > > Dear everyone, > > I'm trying to get in touch with director Andre Hayato Saito, or his > producer, concerning his film /Amarela /(2024). Is anyone already in > contact with him? > > Best regards, > > Lucie > > -- > Lucie RYDZEK > PhD Student > University of Lorraine > _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Fri Nov 15 23:21:03 2024 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Aaron Gerow) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:21:03 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] Fwd: New Position: Asst. Prof in Asian Film and Media (University of Cambridge) References: Message-ID: I have been asked to "publicise a new Assistant Professor position at the University of Cambridge in Asian Film and Media. The details can be found at this link: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49149/ The post will be primarily held by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics (MMLL) but will share some teaching with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)." 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 PO Box 208201 New Haven, CT 06520-8201 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baird at umass.edu Tue Nov 19 10:28:14 2024 From: baird at umass.edu (Bruce Baird) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:28:14 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Contact information for the rights holder for Donald Richie Message-ID: <3D3AD9B1-C194-4C94-99BA-8B111E2FE538@umass.edu> Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. A French dancer contacted me about screening Donald Richie?s Gisei (Sacrifice), but I don?t know who currently holds the rights to Richie?s oeuvre after his passing. Does anyone on this list know? If so, please contact me off list at baird at umass.edu. Thanks for your time, Bruce Bruce Baird Professor Japanese Program University of Massachusetts Amherst But?, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History 439 Herter Hall 161 Presidents Drive University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA 01003-9312 Phone: 413-577-2117 Fax: 413-545-3178 baird at umass.edu Recently Released: A History of But? 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Markus > On Nov 19, 2024, at 10:28?AM, Bruce Baird via KineJapan wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, > > Apologies for cross-posting. > > A French dancer contacted me about screening Donald Richie?s Gisei (Sacrifice), but I don?t know who currently holds the rights to Richie?s oeuvre after his passing. Does anyone on this list know? If so, please contact me off list at baird at umass.edu . > > Thanks for your time, > > Bruce > > > Bruce Baird > Professor > Japanese Program > University of Massachusetts Amherst > But?, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History > > 439 Herter Hall > 161 Presidents Drive > University of Massachusetts Amherst > Amherst, MA 01003-9312 > Phone: 413-577-2117 > Fax: 413-545-3178 > baird at umass.edu > > Recently Released: A History of But? 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