[KineJapan] Looking for a film print of タスマニア物語, (Tasumania Monogatari) by Yasuo Furuhata

[quentin turnour]

 Hi Roger,
I looked at screening this on SP Beta (from memory, and I no long have access to the NFSA internal database to confirm the tape format) when I programmed at the NFSA in the late 2000s. From very hazy memory, the NFSA didn't have a copy then and so we were talking to local producer David Hannay when he was still alive about supplying media (he was the 'local producer' - in his day an active and high-profile Australian indie. known for various Asian co-pros). 
David indicated he just provided services for Fuji TV and we needed to go to them for rights. They never replied, and we never got as far as as Toho. I imagine they may only have had Japanese theatrical rights. I am certain they'd have ask for ++$.
I now wish I'd taken notes, and no longer have access to my then NFSA emails. But hazier memory suggested David suggested what he held was a SD TV version and (even hazier memory) his copy may not have had subtitles. That may have been one of the reasons it got too hard.
David passed in 2014. But he was a major donor to the NFSA, and I assume is probably the source of what's there now. Happy to be corrected if it turns out to have be subbed media. They may have a Hannay estate contact, but the NFSA's current access team can be slow to reply; an as all the listed items at 1657852 are Pres. materials, they are also going to ask for a copying fee and right's approval before they make any copy. As Marcus says: do your contacts really want a 35mm print, and are up for the $1000s to import a print? (assuming the State in Hobart and Star in Launceston may be the only places able these days to run 35mm in Tas these days)
Quentin Turnour (ex-NFSA, ex-Tasmanian)
    On Monday 19 January 2026 at 11:38:32 am AEDT, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:  
 
 Are enough looking for 35mm? I’m sure Toho has it, but they will not help you.  But you could ask. But you could ask the smaller production company, just in case. 
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia have it on disc and tape  (NFSA ID - 1657852). It looks like they may have the producer’s papers as well.
Tough one!
Markus


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On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 5:12 PM Tim Stone via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

Hello KineJapan,

I'm assisting a community group in Tasmania who are attempting to locate a film print of Tasmania Story (タスマニア物語, Tasumania Monogatari)  a 1990 Japanese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata, which was released on July 21, 1990 by Toho. The film was produced by Pacific Link Communications Japan, the Fuji Television Network and David Hannay Productions, and shot in southern Tasmania in the winter of 1989.I believe members of the community group have already contacted the National Film Archive of Japan and other obvious repositories without any success. So we are now looking to broaden the search. Any leads appreciated.
Timothy Stone


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