From earljac at gmail.com Wed Jul 9 08:20:02 2025 From: earljac at gmail.com (Earl Jackson) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 20:20:02 +0800 Subject: [KineJapan] The Cinema of Kinoshita Keisuke Message-ID: Dear everyone, I'm not sure if these kind of announcements are allowed, but just in case, I would like to offer a 30% discount code NEW30 for preorders for The Cinema of Kinoshita Keisuke. Films of joy and Sorrow. Coedited by David Desser and myself. I realize the price is high but, perhaps if one is ordering for the library this discount might make it easier. Here is the link. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-cinema-of-kinoshita-keisuke.html Earl Jackson Professor, Emeritus National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Associate Professor, Emeritus University of California, Santa Cruz, US -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Fri Jul 11 14:11:38 2025 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:11:38 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Mingei Film Archive event Message-ID: <728EE231-7453-408A-860B-50B5972D0033@umich.edu> The Mingei Film Archive is having a screening on July 27. They are interesting events for anyone interested in art and/or documentary. Markus -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Mingei Screening July 272025.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 449993 bytes Desc: not available URL: From nornes at umich.edu Sat Jul 12 15:14:46 2025 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:14:46 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] Atomic Bowl now streaming Message-ID: <5C997C37-C3E8-4CC8-B92A-4B11CBC49728@umich.edu> I was an advisor on a powerful new documentary called Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero. It?s already starting winning prizes at international festivals, and just went online for free streaming at PBS: https://www.pbs.org/show/atomic-bowl-football-at-ground-zero-and-nuclear-peril-today/? Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today pbs.org Incredibly, this is one of the few films to focus on the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The director is Greg Mitchell, the foremost journalist of the atomic bombings and director a film from a few years back on the genabaku eiga. This film introduces the ghastly and little-known Atomic Bowl, a ghastly new year?s football game the US military staged on the bombed out grounds of a school. (It had to be touch football because there was still too much broken glass in the ground.) It?s a particularly important film for anyone teaching the atomic bombings. Please take a look. Markus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It?s already starting winning prizes at international festivals, and just went online for free streaming at PBS: > > https://www.pbs.org/show/atomic-bowl-football-at-ground-zero-and-nuclear-peril-today/ > > Incredibly, this is one of the few films to focus on the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The director is Greg Mitchell, the foremost journalist of the atomic bombings and director a film from a few years back on the genabaku eiga. > > This film introduces the ghastly and little-known Atomic Bowl, a ghastly new year?s football game the US military staged on the bombed out grounds of a school. (It had to be touch football because there was still too much broken glass in the ground.) It?s a particularly important film for anyone teaching the atomic bombings. Please take a look. > > Markus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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That what happened was something different from Hiroshima (and perhaps also from the experience of the fire bombing memorial at?Yokoamich? Park)?is intensely felt by any visitor to the Nagasaki hypocentre, the rebuilt cathedral on the next hill, and the Peace Museum below. Those sites' role as a place of pilgrimage for Japanese school children (especially, those from Catholics schools), and from world wide religious communities gives it a different poignancy. I wasn't expecting it in this context, but to reference Japanese films about Nagasaki in contrast to the indifference of Hollywood would have been a nice treat. I kept thinking about Yamada Yoji's use of Kyushu's Catholic heritage in films like KAZOKU. And?the obliteration of Nagasaki catholic society is of course, central to his 2015? HAHA TO KURASEBA. There is a brief mention near the end of the films of a later soccer match between 'British' teams on the Nagasaki No.2 field, originally meant to be played as a rugby game.? Maybe not British? Click on this search return link to the Australian War Memorial's database [?https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search?query=football&collection=true&facet_type=Photograph&facet_related_conflict_sort=11%3ABritish%20Commonwealth%20Occupation%20Force%2C%201946-1952%20%28Japan%29?and you'll see extensive photographic coverage of the sporting sub-culture that proliferated around the British Commonwealth Occupation Force contingent when it took over from US troops, and took charge at the Kure naval base just outside of Hiroshima in 1947.? Kure was later and well down the road from the Hiroshima hypocentre. So it lacks quite the callousness?of the Nagasaki No.2 field game. But through the 1947-1955 years of the BCOF-then Korean War mission there were plenty of Australian Rules, Rugby League and Rugby Union leagues and athletics carnivals held on the playing fields of Kure and Iwakuni air base. And US personnel continued to play baseball and American football there, as some photos show. The AWM also has plenty of Kure sporting event paper memorabilia in its collection, similar to that depicted in Mitchell's film. The rugby union rivalry was especially intense between Australian and New Zealand teams. Although Australian rugby teams had toured (and lost) in Japan in the early 1930s (about the time?Shimuzu made his 1933 college rugby?romp DAIGAKU NO WAKADANNA)?the game's Australian administrators?saw the competition as an opportunity to promote the sport in Japan [?http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230740105].?The AWM has home movie footage on-line at the 1948 Duntroon Cup between them:?https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C190576 One other takeaway: this is the sort of television-making and message that will be suppressed if PBS gets defunded.? Quentin Turnour,National Archives of Australia. On Sunday, 13 July 2025 at 05:17:16 am AEST, Markus Nornes via KineJapan wrote: I should add the film?s homepage, which also has a link to an accompanying e-book.? Markus | | | | ?The Atomic Bowl? 2025 ? Exposed Filmsgregmitchphoto.com | | On Jul 12, 2025, at 3:14?PM, Markus Nornes wrote: I was an advisor on a powerful new documentary called Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero. It?s already starting winning prizes at international festivals, and just went online for free streaming at PBS: | | | | Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Todaypbs.org | | Incredibly, this is one of the few films to focus on the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The director is Greg Mitchell, the foremost journalist of the atomic bombings and director a film from a few years back on the genabaku?eiga.? This film introduces the ghastly and little-known Atomic Bowl, a ghastly new year?s football game the US military staged on the bombed out grounds of a school. (It had to be touch football because there was still too much broken glass in the ground.) It?s a particularly important film for anyone teaching the atomic bombings. Please take a look.? Markus _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Anyone interested in attending the conference can register at the following link, and we will send you information on the specific room locations shortly: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAnbmpz25M0mjnrq_Z-91IEPJG1B-WmT77d2soB9uLtG9Inw/viewform?usp=header Additionally, any inquiries can be sent to the official conference email: kc.kyoto.2025 at gmail.com We hope to see you there! All best wishes, Alex Kinema Club Conference for Film and Moving Images from Japan XXIV in Kyoto: Current Perspectives on Gender & Sexuality in Film from Japan Location: Doshisha University, Karasuma Campus Organizers: Yuka Kanno (Doshisha University) & Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University) Friday, August 1 1:30 ? 1:45 Opening Remarks (Yuka Kanno & Alex Zahlten) 1:45? 3:15 Panel 1: Diane Lewis (Washington University of St. Louis) "The Marriage Metaphor: Screenwriter Wada Natto and Creative Collaboration? Kenta Kato (Meiji University) Approaching the Queer Past: In the Case of Suzuki Seijun?s Ankoku no ryoken Christina Nikitin (Harvard University) Sowing the Homofascist Seed: The Messy Politics of Queer Musical Orientalism in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Kawahara Ryuki (Kyoto University) Analyzing Naruse?s ??????? ?????? ?1933????????????with DH methodology to analyze gender. 4:30 ? 7:30 + Q&A Screening: Imaizumi K?ichi Works (Imaizumi Koichi in attendance) (Screening only for conference participants) 8:00 ? 9:30 Dinner Saturday, August 2 9:15 ? 10:45 Panel 2: Paul Berry (Independent Scholar) Impact of Reevaluation of Shunga on the Sexual Themes Employed in Media Mix Productions found on Netflix Japan Ani Maitra (Colgate University): Pornographic (Non-)Relationality and Non-Pornographic Relationality in Ko?chi Imaizumi?s Berlin Drifters Gyoku Jo ?? (Nagoya Daigaku) ???????????? Lindsay Nelson (Meiji University): Facing Oiwa: Japanese Horror and the Disfigured Female Body 11:00 ? 12:30 Panel 3 Christophe Thouny (Ritsumeikan University) Object Bodies - Desire, Home and Landscape in Terayama Sh?ji?s Labyrinth of Grass Lucile Druet (Kansai Gaidai University): Contemporary Geisha in Japanese Culture and Moving Images: Towards a New Phase? Kanako Tajima (Columbia University): Circuiting Feminist Consciousness: Transnational Belonging and Moving Image in the 1970s Shota Uchiyama (Harvard University) Cinema, Affect, and the Female Spectatorship: Revisiting Osaki Midori?s Eiga mans? 12:30 ? 2:00 Lunch 2:00 ? 3:15 Panel 4: Gendered Narratives in Okinawa?s Environmental Imaginaries Sera Toshikazu ???? (Hosei Daigaku) ?????????? Fujiki Kosuke ???? (Okayama University of Science) ?????????? OKINAWAN BOYS??1983??????????????? Ma Ran (Nagoya University) Into the Depth of Gama?What?s Under Infrastructural Okinawa? 3:45 ? 6:30 Screening: Takashi Toshiko, ?Blessed ???+ Q&A Location: Doshisha University, Clover Hall 7:00 ? Conference dinner Sunday, August 3 9:15 ? 10:30 Panel 5: Haunted Screens, Erased Bodies: From Karayuki to Paipan in the Male-Gazed Subgenre of Sexual Victimhood in Japanese War Cinema (1945?2025) Dr. Esteban C?rdoba-Arroyo (Osaka University) Visualizing Gendered Memory: Postwar Sex Work and the Female Image in Japanese War Cinema (1945?2025) Xiaoyang Hao (Kyushu University) Erased Others: Korean and Chinese Ianfu in Japanese Cinema and the Politics of Gendered Memory Daniel E. Josephy-Hern?ndez (Ry?ts? 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There the people who think Heta Buraku is the pinnacle, and others to peg it at Sundial with a Thousand Years of Notches. I go back and forth by the day. But if you are in Tokyo and haven?t seen this film, by all means do. It?s one of the most profound meditations on time and history in film history. I thought I?d take this opportunity to mourn the passing of the still photographer for this film, Naito Masatoshi. He passed away a couple weeks ago. Naito was one of the great photographers of postwar Japan. His theme was ?yami,? and no one did blacks like he did. His book Tokyo captures the city at night like no other. Naito was interested in Buddhism and folk religions, and he did amazing photo series on the mummies and festivals of Tohoku. So it was inevitable that he?d hook up with Ogawa Pro in Kaminoyama. He did a long dialogue with Ogawa for the theater program of Sundail, and it seemed like he was always around. They were clearly dear friends. He had was one of the few people that could keep up with Ogawa in a conversation. Naito contributed most of the Magino era photographs in the Ogawa Pro books. If you?ve never seen Naito's photography, Google Image ???? and spend some time with him. Markus > On Jul 21, 2025, at 8:35?PM, matteoB via KineJapan wrote: > > Dear all, > > Many of you might be already aware of it, but Ogawa Pro's 1000-Year Sundial: Magino Village: A Tale has been digitally restored (DCP) from the original 16mm negative, and a screening will be held at the Ath?n?e Fran?ais Cultural Center on August 16th: > > https://athenee.net/culturalcenter/program/og/ogawa2025.html > > mb > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matteo.boscarol at gmail.com Tue Jul 22 00:15:17 2025 From: matteo.boscarol at gmail.com (matteoB) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:15:17 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Magino Village: A Tale digitally restored In-Reply-To: <4F072D52-04D0-4462-96A6-0F006D437636@umich.edu> References: <4F072D52-04D0-4462-96A6-0F006D437636@umich.edu> Message-ID: sad to hear about Naito, I'm wondering if it was him that introduced Yamazaki Hiroshi (who shot the time lapse scenes of the Sun) to Ogawa Pro... mb On Tue, 22 Jul 2025, 11:13 Markus Nornes, wrote: > This is wonderful. People tend to split into two groups when it comes to > Ogawa Pro. There the people who think Heta Buraku is the pinnacle, and > others to peg it at Sundial with a Thousand Years of Notches. > > I go back and forth by the day. > > But if you are in Tokyo and haven?t seen this film, by all means do. It?s > one of the most profound meditations on time and history in film history. > > I thought I?d take this opportunity to mourn the passing of the still > photographer for this film, Naito Masatoshi. He passed away a couple weeks > ago. > > Naito was one of the great photographers of postwar Japan. His theme was > ?yami,? and no one did blacks like he did. His book Tokyo captures the city > at night like no other. Naito was interested in Buddhism and folk > religions, and he did amazing photo series on the mummies and festivals of > Tohoku. > > So it was inevitable that he?d hook up with Ogawa Pro in Kaminoyama. He > did a long dialogue with Ogawa for the theater program of Sundail, and it > seemed like he was always around. They were clearly dear friends. He had > was one of the few people that could keep up with Ogawa in a conversation. > Naito contributed most of the Magino era photographs in the Ogawa Pro books. > > If you?ve never seen Naito's photography, Google Image ???? and spend some > time with him. > > Markus > > > > On Jul 21, 2025, at 8:35?PM, matteoB via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > Dear all, > > Many of you might be already aware of it, but Ogawa Pro's 1000-Year > Sundial: Magino Village: A Tale has been digitally restored (DCP) from the > original 16mm negative, and a screening will be held at the Ath?n?e > Fran?ais Cultural Center on August 16th: > > https://athenee.net/culturalcenter/program/og/ogawa2025.html > > mb > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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