[KineJapan] Kinema Club XXIV in Kyoto

[Zahlten, Alexander]

Hello All,



With apologies for the belatedness, please find below the schedule for Kinema Club XXIV in Kyoto. As mentioned previously the conference will be held at Doshisha University, on the Karasuma Campus (right by the Imadegawa subway station).



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<mailto: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 『君と別れて』 『夜毎の夢』 （1933、成瀬巳喜男監督・原作）with DH methodology to analyze gender.


4:30 – 7:30 + Q&A
Screening: Imaizumi Kōichi 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 Koîchi Imaizumi’s Berlin Drifters

Gyoku Jo 徐玉 (Nagoya Daigaku)
戦後日本映画と女同士の絆

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 Shūji’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 mansō



12:30 – 2:00  Lunch



2:00 – 3:15
Panel 4: Gendered Narratives in Okinawa’s Environmental Imaginaries
Sera Toshikazu 世良利和 (Hosei Daigaku)
映画『黒い雪』と沖縄

Fujiki Kosuke 藤城孝輔 (Okayama University of Science)
映画『オキナワの少年 OKINAWAN BOYS』（1983年）におけるコロニアルな男性性

Ma Ran (Nagoya University)
Into the Depth of Gama—What’s Under Infrastructural Okinawa?


3:45 – 6:30
Screening: Takashi Toshiko, 『Blessed 祝福』+ 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 Córdoba-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-Hernández (Ryūtsū Keizai Daigaku / UNED, Costa Rica)
Patriotism, Prostitution, and Post-Imperial Memory: The Karayuki-san on Screen


10:45 – 12:15
Roundtable: Rethinking Research on Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Films
Ayako Saito (Meiji Gakuin University), Chika Kinoshita (Kyoto University), Ani Maitra (Colgate University), Arnaud Stockinger (Fellow, Research Institute for Promoting Intercultural Studies, Kobe University)


12:15 – 1:45 Lunch


1:45 – 3:00
Panel 6

Alexander Pratt (Kyoto University)
A Star is Born in the Media Mix: Unstable Meaning in Kadokawa Haruki’s and Obayashi
Nobuhiko’s Idol Films

Naoto Machida 町田奈緒士 (Nara Women’s University)
日本映画におけるトランス男性・トランスマスキュリン表象の不在

Daryl Jamieson
Hirokazu Koreeda’s Monster (2023) through the prisms of both contemporary queer theory and medieval Japanese Buddhist philosophy


3:00 – 3:15
Closing Remarks











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