[KineJapan] RIP Roger Macy

[Alexander Jacoby]

Dear all,

I thought members of KineJapan might wish to be informed of the death of
Roger Macy, who often posed queries and engaged in discussion about
Japanese film via this mailing list. His son, who I don't know personally,
contacted me the other day by text to share the news.

Roger was a true enthusiast, whose interest in Japanese film and Japan in
general stemmed in part from family matters; his daughter had settled and
married in the country. He took his enthusiasm seriously and engaged in his
own private research into Japanese cinema. His opinions about the films he
watched and discussed were sometimes eccentric, even at times infuriating,
but always stimulating, and he was a source of entertaining and
knowledgeable conversation.

Although he had no academic post, he regularly travelled to conferences and
lectures on film and Japan-related themes, and voyaged across Britain, to
Paris and to the Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna to see rare movies.
Alas, this year he was not able to go to Bologna. When I visited him last
month in the nursing home to which his final illness confined him, he was
still lamenting that fact, as well as the failing eyesight which now
prevented him from watching films.

To many people on this list he will have been a name rather than a face,
and others will have known him only slightly. For anybody who knew him
well, the funeral will be on Saturday 8th November in London; I'm happy to
share details if messaged off-list.

Best wishes,


Alexander Jacoby
(Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, Oxford Brookes University)
alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk
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