From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Wed Jul 1 04:42:03 2026 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Aaron Gerow) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 17:42:03 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] =?utf-8?b?RndkOiDjgJBKQU0yMDI2IOOCteODhuODqeOCpA==?= =?utf-8?b?44OI44K744OD44K344On44Oz44CR44CM5YyX57Gz44Gu5aSn5a2m44Gr44GK?= =?utf-8?b?44GR44KL5pig5YOP44Ki44O844Kr44Kk44OW44Gu54++54q25aCx5ZGK44O8?= =?utf-8?b?44O844Kk44Kn44O844Or5aSn5a2m44KS5Lit5b+D44Gr44CN44Gu44GU5qGI?= =?utf-8?b?5YaF?= References: Message-ID: <29BA0BF5-0580-409C-9DDA-E3D1F05B913D@yale.edu> I will be giving a talk at a special online session of JAMIA (Japan Association of Moving Image Archivists) on July 15, 2026, at 8pm Japan time. I will talk about Yale?s archives and Matsuyama Hitomi (of the Kobe Film Archive) will talk about the Midwest university archives that she visited last year. The session is free and open to all, though we?ve been restrained in our advertising, not wanting it to get too big. 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The session is free and open to all, though we?ve been restrained in our advertising, not wanting it to get too big. You need to register to participate. > > ?????????????????????? > > ?????? > ???2026?7?15????20:00?21:30?????????22:00??? > ???????????Zoom? > ????????????JAMIA????????????? > > ???? > ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > JAM2026 ?????????????????2026??JAMIA????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > ?????????????????????????????????????9?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > > ????? > ?????????????????????? > ???????????????????????????????? ???? > > ??????????????????????? > https://omu-ac-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/cczL564ISNu_GapzGii0tA > > ?????????????????????????????? > ???????????????? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Make of that what you will. Funny timing, isn't it: humanities budgets keep getting gutted everywhere, and here's a major Japanese broadcaster's big "global strategy" push betting on exactly two things ? unscripted content and AI. Nobody writes anything anymore, or worse, an algorithm does. Not saying it's a grand causal theory, but the pattern is hard to unsee once you notice it: less money for people who write/think/craft narrative, more money for content that doesn't need a writer in the first place. [cid:dee18847-6ead-4e3e-b3e9-4c1fcd91964e] Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano Catedr?tico de Comunicaci?n Audiovisual Full Professor of Audiovisual Communication (R4 ? EU Leading Researcher) ????????????? ???????????? (????) ?? Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicaci?n Departamento de Comunicaci?n y Publicidad Edificio Departamental - Despacho 22 Camino del Molino s/n, 28943 Fuenlabrada lorenzojavier.torres.hortelano at urjc.es Director Trama&Fondo. 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Thanks Shayne Bowden BA, MA (USYD) PhD Candidate School of Languages and Cultures Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The University of Sydney Dear all, Please join us for the next meeting of the Modern Japan History Workshop on Thursday, July 16 at 6 p.m. (JST). Our presenter will be Shayne Bowden (University of Sydney), who will present his work on f?keiron (landscape theory). We will meet in Building 10, Rm. 301 at Sophia University's Yotsuya Campus (map available here). The workshop is open to all, and no prior registration is required. Please direct any questions to William Andrews at william.david.andrews at gmail.com. We hope to see you there. _______________________ F?kei Film Locations and Knowledges Shayne Bowden (University of Sydney) This paper will discuss dissertation fieldwork undertaken during the first half of 2026 in Tokyo. My dissertation research is concerned with the creation of an intersection between rephotography, cinephilic pilgrimage, and f?keiron (landscape theory). The fieldwork involved revisiting and rephotographing a select number of locations associated with f?keiron, particularly locations associated with two films that have become synonymous with f?kei cinema, Ryakush?: Renzoku Shasatsuma (1969) and T?ky? Sens? Sengo Hiwa (1970). Using the methodology of rephotography, the fieldwork sought to assess the spatial changes occurring within the said locations evident by way of a comparative imaging of stills and sequences from those films and how these variations complement the main tenet of f?keiron, that all banal space is saturated with the invisible power dynamics of the state. In dissertation chapters on rephotography, film pilgrimage, and landscape theory, those topics were introduced as respective methodologies, spectatorial practice, and activist theory that are complementary by way of commonalities, the recognition/discussion of which has mostly been lacking from respective discourses and research. During this presentation, I want to consolidate these three factors and discuss how these parts were exercised in the field, in actual film locations associated with f?kei cinema, in order to demonstrate how these pieces or components complement and work as theoretical and practical visual means to measure how film locations spatially transition through time. 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Thanks Shayne Bowden BA, MA (USYD) PhD Candidate School of Languages and Cultures Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The University of Sydney Dear all, Please join us for the next meeting of the Modern Japan History Workshop on Thursday, July 16 at 6 p.m. (JST). Our presenter will be Shayne Bowden (University of Sydney), who will present his work on fukeiron (landscape theory). We will meet in Building 10, Rm. 301 at Sophia University's Yotsuya Campus (map available here). The workshop is open to all, and no prior registration is required. Please direct any questions to William Andrews at william.david.andrews at gmail.com. We hope to see you there. _______________________ Fukei Film Locations and Knowledges Shayne Bowden (University of Sydney) This paper will discuss dissertation fieldwork undertaken during the first half of 2026 in Tokyo. My dissertation research is concerned with the creation of an intersection between rephotography, cinephilic pilgrimage, and fukeiron (landscape theory). The fieldwork involved revisiting and rephotographing a select number of locations associated with fukeiron, particularly locations associated with two films that have become synonymous with fukei cinema, Ryakusho: Renzoku Shasatsuma (1969) and Tokyo Senso Sengo Hiwa (1970). Using the methodology of rephotography, the fieldwork sought to assess the spatial changes occurring within the said locations evident by way of a comparative imaging of stills and sequences from those films and how these variations complement the main tenet of fukeiron, that all banal space is saturated with the invisible power dynamics of the state. In dissertation chapters on rephotography, film pilgrimage, and landscape theory, those topics were introduced as respective methodologies, spectatorial practice, and activist theory that are complementary by way of commonalities, the recognition/discussion of which has mostly been lacking from respective discourses and research. During this presentation, I want to consolidate these three factors and discuss how these parts were exercised in the field, in actual film locations associated with fukei cinema, in order to demonstrate how these pieces or components complement and work as theoretical and practical visual means to measure how film locations spatially transition through time. 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URL: From alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk Tue Jul 7 06:03:20 2026 From: alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk (Alexander Jacoby) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 11:03:20 +0100 Subject: [KineJapan] NFAJ cuts In-Reply-To: <1010581620.2533780.1782547967337@mail.yahoo.com> References: <51A23DFA-B453-4B40-81B1-8D557E224ABD@yale.edu> <1010581620.2533780.1782547967337@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear KineJapan colleagues, We're coming back to this a little late, but we thought that members of this list might wish to know that the news about the NFAJ budget cuts broke while we were in Bologna, screening the Ito Daisuke programme we had arranged for Il Cinema Ritrovato in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, the Yanai Initiative, and the NFAJ itself. Tamada Kenta from the archive was present, introducing screenings of two quite amazing restorations from original nitrate negatives (what an advertisement they were for the work of a film archive! - Gero no kubi in particular looked incandescent!). Tamada-san gave an impassioned speech explaining the situation, and stayed back after the screening for some while fielding questions and receiving expressions of sympathy from members of the audience. The following day, when Johan and I did our final introduction for the series (for Hangyakuji), we again highlighted the issue (Johan gave his own impassioned speech!), and encouraged people to write to the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs / join in the crowd-funding which the NFAJ is now having to have recourse to, etc. We wonder if the celebrity proponents of film restoration, such as Martin Scorsese, are aware of this situation. Perhaps they could do some kind of good. Best wishes to all, ALEX and JOHAN On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 at 09:14, Maria Jose Gonzalez via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > After the disastrous closure of Chiyoda's National Theatre of Japan, yet > another reminder of how low the presence and preservation of art fares in > the government's current agenda. In the meantime, funded with TAXPAYERS' > money. . . "The government-backed > > After the disastrous closure of Chiyoda's National Theatre of Japan, yet > another reminder of how low the presence and preservation of art fares in > the government's current agenda. > In the meantime, funded with TAXPAYERS' money... "The government-backed > Cool Japan Fund has cost taxpayers 140.6 billion yen ($937 million USD) in > directly contributed capital, while approving 83 separate cultural > investments totalling 204 billion yen ($1.36 billion USD) since its launch > in 2013." (Nikkei Shimbun, June 24th). > > On Thursday, 25 June 2026 at 11:59:51 PM GMT+9, Aaron Gerow via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > > The Japanese government has cut the budget for the National Film Archive > of Japan by 40% for this fiscal year, asserting that the NFAJ has to earn > more of its budget on its own. There are many problems with this. While > Japan is now clearly rejecting a European model of public funding, its > attempt to embrace a neoliberal model of private funding for public > institutions won?t work until they revamp the tax code (Japanese tex law > does not provide for the same kind of tax breaks for donations that US law > does). The NFAJ will now have to pursue extreme cost cutting. > > It has also announced it will try to make up some of the loss through > crowd funding. They are aiming for 100 million yen (about 620,000 > dollars). Here's the link: > > https://readyfor.jp/projects/NFAJ2026 > > > > Aaron Gerow > Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures > and Film and Media Studies > Yale University > On leave AY 2025-2026 > 320 York Street, Room 108 > PO Box 208201 > New Haven, CT 06520-8201 > USA > Phone: 1-203-432-7082 > Fax: 1-203-432-6729 > e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu > website: www.aarongerow.com > > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan__;!!FapE6t-4AhA!NkUg8L4OK0lOOIIw7jD-jOnd5Ao9pcsO5Y0rITYW0jrWvoqVKihUVOM8f1oi9TE9oeaeQhvc9JGcyLHy3wXf2WB-ovb0v3HBzj7ngg$ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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RIP. > > > https://variety.com/2026/film/obituaries-people-news/tony-rayns-dead-east-asian-cinema-champion-1236804242/ > > Aaron Gerow > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk Thu Jul 9 07:25:39 2026 From: alexanderjacoby at brookes.ac.uk (Alexander Jacoby) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 12:25:39 +0100 Subject: [KineJapan] Tony Rayns In-Reply-To: References: <6B0C24A4-7E19-48A8-BD29-935F8F55B549@yale.edu> Message-ID: I didn't know Tony very well, but had been aware of him since my teenage years, when, as a young cinephile, I flicked through the old Time Out Film Guide and noticed that the reviews marked with the initials "TR" were usually among the most perceptive and interesting. Those of us who got into East Asian cinema in the 1990s owe him a real debt of gratitude. I met him a number of times over the years. He could be prickly, and we certainly had different tastes in films, but I generally got on well with him. I knew he had health troubles, but his sudden death in an accident comes as a shock. Last year in Bologna (I believe it was his first visit to the film festival there since the pandemic) we happened to sit next to each other in the cinema and chatted briefly before the lights went down. This year, I glimpsed him through the window of a cafe as he was passing along the Via delle Lame, but wasn't quick enough to dart out and say Hello. I assumed I'd bump into him again later in the week, but alas, it didn't happen. Jia Zhangke's tribute quoted in the Variety article is rather beautiful. "A free citizen of the kingdom of cinema" - that's a noble way to be remembered. ALEX On Wed, 8 Jul 2026 at 17:21, Steven Elworth via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > I never met him. I saw him talk once but I could not get close. I read him > For over 50 years starting in Sight and Sound on New German Cinema and then > to East Asian cinema. He will be missed. On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 10: 07 AM > Aaron Gerow via KineJapan > > I never met him. I saw him talk once but I could not get close. I read him > For over 50 years starting in Sight and Sound on New German Cinema and > then to East Asian cinema. He will be missed. > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 10:07?AM Aaron Gerow via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >> I was very sad to hear of the passing of Tony Rayns. While I only met him >> a few times, I learned much from his writing, especially when I was writing >> my book on Kitano Takeshi. He was key in introducing a lot of East Asian >> cinema of the 80s on to the world. 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What I haven?t seen in the tributes to far is a nod to his support of experimental film in Asia?from the Japanese structural types to the 8mm filmmakers of the Philippines. Markus > On Jul 9, 2026, at 1:25?PM, Alexander Jacoby via KineJapan wrote: > > I didn't know Tony very well, but had been aware of him since my teenage years, when, as a young cinephile, I flicked through the old Time Out Film Guide and noticed that the reviews marked with the initials "TR" were usually among the most perceptive and interesting. Those of us who got into East Asian cinema in the 1990s owe him a real debt of gratitude. > > I met him a number of times over the years. He could be prickly, and we certainly had different tastes in films, but I generally got on well with him. I knew he had health troubles, but his sudden death in an accident comes as a shock. Last year in Bologna (I believe it was his first visit to the film festival there since the pandemic) we happened to sit next to each other in the cinema and chatted briefly before the lights went down. This year, I glimpsed him through the window of a cafe as he was passing along the Via delle Lame, but wasn't quick enough to dart out and say Hello. I assumed I'd bump into him again later in the week, but alas, it didn't happen. > > Jia Zhangke's tribute quoted in the Variety article is rather beautiful. "A free citizen of the kingdom of cinema" - that's a noble way to be remembered. > > ALEX > > > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2026 at 17:21, Steven Elworth via KineJapan > wrote: >> I never met him. I saw him talk once but I could not get close. I read him >> For over 50 years starting in Sight and Sound on New German Cinema and then to East Asian cinema. He will be missed. >> >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 10:07?AM Aaron Gerow via KineJapan > wrote: >>> I was very sad to hear of the passing of Tony Rayns. While I only met him a few times, I learned much from his writing, especially when I was writing my book on Kitano Takeshi. He was key in introducing a lot of East Asian cinema of the 80s on to the world. 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Sudzuky wrote some articles for *Close Up* about Japan's movie industry in the late 20s and early 1930s. And the journal published a dozen or more images he supplied it from his own films. One said to be produced in Japan for Universal. The journal illustrated Andor Krazna-Krausz's 1932 book review of Rudolph Arnheim's *Film als Kunst* exclusively with frames from Sudzuky 'avantgardefilms,' including one titled *Jazz and Love. *The review does not refer to him or any of his films, or even to Japan. The only Suzuki's silent film I find much about in English is *What Made Her Do It?* (???????????, *Nani ga kanojo o s? saseta ka*) 1930. That one is viewable. Are any other Suzuki silents availabe? Thanks for any leads. ---- Dan Streible (917) 754-1401 NYU Cinema Studies wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Sat Jul 11 04:58:34 2026 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:58:34 +0200 Subject: [KineJapan] Seeking info on "The Flame in the Fog" [sic] a silent film In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Dan, That still is breathtaking. I wonder if the film is extant. The Film Archive doesn?t have it in their database. Maybe Shochiku has it. But you?d have to ask. I notice Ozu?s screenwriter Noda Kogo wrote the script, so it could be that is available at the Noda Kogo archive up in his old mountain getaway in Tateshina. I think most of Suzuki?s early work is lost. Here is what the NFAJ has. Markus No ???? ????? ?? ???? 1 ??????????? 1930 ??:???? ????? 2 ?????? 1938 ??:???/??:???? ???????[?????] 3 ????? 1931 ??:???? ???? 4 ????? 1931 ??:???? ???? 5 ????? 1931 ??:???? ???? 6 ??????? 1932 ??:???? ??????? 7 ??????? 1932 ??:???? ??????? 8 ?? 1930 ??:???? ????????? ???? 9 ?? 1930 ??:???? ????????? ???? 10 ?? 1930 ??:???? ????????? ???? 11 ???? 1927 ??:???? ??????? 12 ??? ????????? 1934 ??:???? ?????????[??] 13 ??? ????????? 1934 ??:???? ?????????[??] --- *Markus Nornes* *Professor of Asian Cinema* Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design *Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/ * *Department of Film, Television and Media* *6348 North Quad* *105 S. State Street**Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 9:57?AM Dan Streible via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Curious about this film frame published in the journal *Close Up* (January > 1929). > https://archive.org/details/closeup04macp/page/n69/mode/2up > The caption gives the English title *The Flame in the Fog**, *a narrative > feature filmed almost entirely during heavy natural fog. Someone on > social media tells me JA.wikipedia says this is ????? (Light/Lamp in the > Fog, 1926, Shochiku studio) > [Google translate says "Kiri no naka no akari" = A LIGHT IN THE MIST. > Thanks to "sae z. utte" on BlueSky. > > Elsewhere in the journal, director "J. Shige Sudzuky" [Shigeyoshi Suzuki] > is identified as a prolific Japanese filmmaker, who had directed some 30 > films by then, often 'experimental' in style. > Sudzuky wrote some articles for *Close Up* about Japan's movie industry > in the late 20s and early 1930s. And the journal published a dozen or more > images he supplied it from his own films. One said to be produced in > Japan for Universal. > > The journal illustrated Andor Krazna-Krausz's 1932 book review of Rudolph > Arnheim's *Film als Kunst* exclusively with frames from Sudzuky > 'avantgardefilms,' including one titled *Jazz and Love. *The review does > not refer to him or any of his films, or even to Japan. > > The only Suzuki's silent film I find much about in English is *What Made > Her Do It?* (???????????, *Nani ga kanojo o s? saseta ka*) 1930. > That one is viewable. > Are any other Suzuki silents availabe? > Thanks for any leads. > > > > ---- > Dan Streible (917) 754-1401 > NYU Cinema Studies > wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tkarsavina at yahoo.com Sat Jul 11 05:16:14 2026 From: tkarsavina at yahoo.com (Maria Jose Gonzalez) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:16:14 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] Seeking info on "The Flame in the Fog" [sic] a silent film In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1390524329.392236.1783761374471@mail.yahoo.com> Hello Dan, I am inclined to think that the photo caption regarding the fog is one of those exaggerations found at the time in written media about films, especially foreign film.Fog in early film always had very specific functions to relate the exotic (Chinatown, I am guessing in Yokohama) and the foreignness of the port and its unforeseeable dangers.Shochiku's laconic website lists the film:https://www.shochiku.co.jp/cinema/database/00611/ Suzuki's Japanese Wiki shows a certain amount of activity in the mid 1950s for Toei:https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%88%B4%E6%9C%A8%E9%87%8D%E5%90%89I am attaching a clip from (probably) KineJun where you can see another still, no fog present, and a synopsis. Mar?a-Jos? Gonz?lez On Saturday, 11 July 2026 at 05:58:56 PM GMT+9, Markus Nornes via KineJapan wrote: ?Hi Dan,? That still is breathtaking. I wonder if the film is extant. The Film Archive doesn?t have it in their database. Maybe Shochiku has it. But you?d have to ask. I notice Ozu?s screenwriter Noda Kogo wrote the script, so it could be that is available at the Noda Kogo archive up in his old mountain getaway in Tateshina.? I think most of Suzuki?s early work is lost. Here is what the NFAJ has.? Markus? | No | ???? | ????? | ?? | ???? | | 1 | ??????????? | 1930 | ??:???? | ????? | | 2 | ?????? | 1938 | ??:???/??:???? | ???????[?????] | | 3 | ????? | 1931 | ??:???? | ???? | | 4 | ????? | 1931 | ??:???? | ???? | | 5 | ????? | 1931 | ??:???? | ???? | | 6 | ??????? | 1932 | ??:???? | ??????? | | 7 | ??????? | 1932 | ??:???? | ??????? | | 8 | ?? | 1930 | ??:???? | ????????? ???? | | 9 | ?? | 1930 | ??:???? | ????????? ???? | | 10 | ?? | 1930 | ??:???? | ????????? ???? | | 11 | ???? | 1927 | ??:???? | ??????? | | 12 | ??? ????????? | 1934 | ??:???? | ?????????[??] | | 13 | ??? ????????? | 1934 | ??:???? | ?????????[??] | ---? Markus NornesProfessor of Asian Cinema Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps?School of Art & Design ? Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/ Department of Film, Television and Media 6348 North Quad 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 9:57?AM Dan Streible via KineJapan wrote: Curious about this film frame published in the journal?Close Up?(January 1929).? https://archive.org/details/closeup04macp/page/n69/mode/2upThe caption gives the?English title?The Flame in the Fog, a??narrative feature filmed almost entirely during heavy natural fog. Someone on social media tells me JA.wikipedia says this is ????? (Light/Lamp in the Fog, 1926, Shochiku studio) [Google translate says "Kiri no naka no akari" = A LIGHT IN THE MIST. Thanks to "sae z. utte" on BlueSky. Elsewhere in the journal, director "J. Shige Sudzuky" [Shigeyoshi Suzuki] is identified as a prolific Japanese filmmaker, who had directed some 30 films by then, often 'experimental' in style.?Sudzuky wrote some articles for?Close Up?about Japan's movie industry in the late 20s and early 1930s. And the journal published a dozen or more images he supplied it from his own films. One said to be produced in Japan for Universal. The journal illustrated Andor Krazna-Krausz's 1932 book review of Rudolph Arnheim's?Film als Kunst?exclusively with frames from Sudzuky 'avantgardefilms,' including one titled?Jazz and Love.?The review does not refer to him or any of his films, or even to Japan. The only?Suzuki's silent film I find much about in English is?What Made Her Do It??(???????????,?Nani ga kanojo o s? saseta ka) 1930. ?That one is viewable.?Are any other Suzuki silents availabe??Thanks for any leads.? ---- Dan Streible ?(917) 754-1401 ? ??NYU Cinema Studieswp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan _______________________________________________ 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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Here is what the NFAJ has. > > Markus > > No ???? ????? ?? ???? > 1 ??????????? > > 1930 ??:???? ????? > 2 ?????? > > 1938 ??:???/??:???? ???????[?????] > 3 ????? > > 1931 ??:???? ???? > 4 ????? > > 1931 ??:???? ???? > 5 ????? > > 1931 ??:???? ???? > 6 ??????? > > 1932 ??:???? ??????? > 7 ??????? > > 1932 ??:???? ??????? > 8 ?? > > 1930 ??:???? ????????? ???? > 9 ?? > > 1930 ??:???? ????????? ???? > 10 ?? > > 1930 ??:???? ????????? ???? > 11 ???? > > 1927 ??:???? ??????? > 12 ??? ????????? > > 1934 ??:???? ?????????[??] > 13 ??? ????????? > > 1934 ??:???? ?????????[??] > > > > > --- > > *Markus Nornes* > *Professor of Asian Cinema* > > Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages > and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design > > > > > *Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/ > * > *Department of Film, Television and Media* > *6348 North Quad* > *105 S. State Street**Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* > > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 9:57?AM Dan Streible via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >> Curious about this film frame published in the journal *Close Up* (January >> 1929). >> https://archive.org/details/closeup04macp/page/n69/mode/2up >> >> The caption gives the English title *The Flame in the Fog**, *a narrative >> feature filmed almost entirely during heavy natural fog. Someone on >> social media tells me JA.wikipedia says this is ????? (Light/Lamp in the >> Fog, 1926, Shochiku studio) >> [Google translate says "Kiri no naka no akari" = A LIGHT IN THE MIST. >> Thanks to "sae z. utte" on BlueSky. >> >> Elsewhere in the journal, director "J. Shige Sudzuky" [Shigeyoshi >> Suzuki] is identified as a prolific Japanese filmmaker, who had directed >> some 30 films by then, often 'experimental' in style. >> Sudzuky wrote some articles for *Close Up* about Japan's movie industry >> in the late 20s and early 1930s. And the journal published a dozen or more >> images he supplied it from his own films. One said to be produced in >> Japan for Universal. >> >> The journal illustrated Andor Krazna-Krausz's 1932 book review of Rudolph >> Arnheim's *Film als Kunst* exclusively with frames from Sudzuky >> 'avantgardefilms,' including one titled *Jazz and Love. *The review does >> not refer to him or any of his films, or even to Japan. >> >> The only Suzuki's silent film I find much about in English is *What Made >> Her Do It?* (???????????, *Nani ga kanojo o s? saseta ka*) 1930. >> That one is viewable. >> Are any other Suzuki silents availabe? >> Thanks for any leads. >> >> >> >> ---- >> Dan Streible (917) 754-1401 >> NYU Cinema Studies >> wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dan.streible at nyu.edu Sat Jul 11 07:01:34 2026 From: dan.streible at nyu.edu (Dan Streible) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:01:34 +0300 Subject: [KineJapan] Seeking info on "The Flame in the Fog" [sic] a silent film In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: TYVM ! Dan Streible NYU Cinema Studies 917-754-1401 https://www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 1:09?PM Dan Streible wrote: > Thnx Marcus. > Noda! Good to know > > > Dan Streible > NYU Cinema Studies > 917-754-1401 > https://www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm > > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 11:58?AM Markus Nornes wrote: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> That still is breathtaking. I wonder if the film is extant. The Film >> Archive doesn?t have it in their database. Maybe Shochiku has it. But you?d >> have to ask. I notice Ozu?s screenwriter Noda Kogo wrote the script, so it >> could be that is available at the Noda Kogo archive up in his old mountain >> getaway in Tateshina. >> >> I think most of Suzuki?s early work is lost. Here is what the NFAJ has. >> >> Markus >> >> No ???? ????? ?? ???? >> 1 ??????????? >> >> 1930 ??:???? ????? >> 2 ?????? >> >> 1938 ??:???/??:???? ???????[?????] >> 3 ????? >> >> 1931 ??:???? ???? >> 4 ????? >> >> 1931 ??:???? ???? >> 5 ????? >> >> 1931 ??:???? ???? >> 6 ??????? >> >> 1932 ??:???? ??????? >> 7 ??????? >> >> 1932 ??:???? ??????? >> 8 ?? >> >> 1930 ??:???? ????????? ???? >> 9 ?? >> >> 1930 ??:???? ????????? ???? >> 10 ?? >> >> 1930 ??:???? ????????? ???? >> 11 ???? >> >> 1927 ??:???? ??????? >> 12 ??? ????????? >> >> 1934 ??:???? ?????????[??] >> 13 ??? ????????? >> >> 1934 ??:???? ?????????[??] >> >> >> >> >> --- >> >> *Markus Nornes* >> *Professor of Asian Cinema* >> >> Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages >> and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design >> >> >> >> >> *Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/ >> * >> *Department of Film, Television and Media* >> *6348 North Quad* >> *105 S. State Street**Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 9:57?AM Dan Streible via KineJapan < >> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: >> >>> Curious about this film frame published in the journal *Close Up* (January >>> 1929). >>> https://archive.org/details/closeup04macp/page/n69/mode/2up >>> >>> The caption gives the English title *The Flame in the Fog**, *a narrative >>> feature filmed almost entirely during heavy natural fog. Someone on >>> social media tells me JA.wikipedia says this is ????? (Light/Lamp in >>> the Fog, 1926, Shochiku studio) >>> [Google translate says "Kiri no naka no akari" = A LIGHT IN THE MIST. >>> Thanks to "sae z. utte" on BlueSky. >>> >>> Elsewhere in the journal, director "J. Shige Sudzuky" [Shigeyoshi >>> Suzuki] is identified as a prolific Japanese filmmaker, who had directed >>> some 30 films by then, often 'experimental' in style. >>> Sudzuky wrote some articles for *Close Up* about Japan's movie industry >>> in the late 20s and early 1930s. And the journal published a dozen or more >>> images he supplied it from his own films. One said to be produced in >>> Japan for Universal. >>> >>> The journal illustrated Andor Krazna-Krausz's 1932 book review of >>> Rudolph Arnheim's *Film als Kunst* exclusively with frames from Sudzuky >>> 'avantgardefilms,' including one titled *Jazz and Love. *The review >>> does not refer to him or any of his films, or even to Japan. >>> >>> The only Suzuki's silent film I find much about in English is *What >>> Made Her Do It?* (???????????, *Nani ga kanojo o s? saseta ka*) 1930. >>> That one is viewable. >>> Are any other Suzuki silents availabe? >>> Thanks for any leads. >>> >>> >>> >>> ---- >>> Dan Streible (917) 754-1401 >>> NYU Cinema Studies >>> wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> KineJapan mailing list >>> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >>> >>> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joanne.bernardi at rochester.edu Sat Jul 11 08:39:16 2026 From: joanne.bernardi at rochester.edu (Bernardi, Joanne) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:39:16 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Seeking info on "The Flame in the Fog" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Dan, You might try Gosfilmofond, where the grandson of Teikine?s founder located prints of What Made Her Do It? in the 1990s. (Teikine was the production company.) Gosfilmofond had multiple prints that had been in local circulation, used them to create another positive element representing the most complete version of the film possible, and that?s what was purchased in 1993. It had Russian intertitles. Restoration was by Yoneo Ota, Kyoto?s Toy Film Museum director, in collaboration Kaoru Mizuguchi (once the film curator at The Museum of Kyoto). More info on the restoration is in my chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema. I did the subtitles, and the film was shown at Pordenone in 1999. My understanding is that Suzuki was popular with Soviet audiences. Good luck! Joanne -- Dr. Joanne Bernardi Professor Emerita of Japanese and Visual & Cultural Studies University of Rochester joanne.bernardi at rochester.edu Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:33:20 +0300 From: Dan Streible To: kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [KineJapan] Seeking info on "The Flame in the Fog" [sic] a silent film Curious about this film frame published in the journal *Close Up* (January 1929). https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://archive.org/details/closeup04macp/page/n69/mode/2up__;!!CGUSO5OYRnA7CQ!cD5Eu59AhLwphAsIDgI9fpkADW0XlKrny9kzYQ93iC5LkJvc4M-RroR3HmgGPl8bIlFe4KO96ycHLnY6_RwmmQ0frpoF10LmC7a0Hcd_Rguo$ The caption gives the English title *The Flame in the Fog**, *a narrative feature filmed almost entirely during heavy natural fog. Someone on social media tells me JA.wikipedia says this is ????? (Light/Lamp in the Fog, 1926, Shochiku studio) [Google translate says "Kiri no naka no akari" = A LIGHT IN THE MIST. Thanks to "sae z. utte" on BlueSky. Elsewhere in the journal, director "J. Shige Sudzuky" [Shigeyoshi Suzuki] is identified as a prolific Japanese filmmaker, who had directed some 30 films by then, often 'experimental' in style. Sudzuky wrote some articles for *Close Up* about Japan's movie industry in the late 20s and early 1930s. And the journal published a dozen or more images he supplied it from his own films. One said to be produced in Japan for Universal. The journal illustrated Andor Krazna-Krausz's 1932 book review of Rudolph Arnheim's *Film als Kunst* exclusively with frames from Sudzuky 'avantgardefilms,' including one titled *Jazz and Love. *The review does not refer to him or any of his films, or even to Japan. The only Suzuki's silent film I find much about in English is *What Made Her Do It?* (???????????, *Nani ga kanojo o s? saseta ka*) 1930. That one is viewable. Are any other Suzuki silents availabe? Thanks for any leads. ---- Dan Streible (917) 754-1401 NYU Cinema Studies wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From reeldrew at aol.com Sat Jul 11 17:19:49 2026 From: reeldrew at aol.com (reeldrew at aol.com) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:19:49 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] NFAJ cuts References: <1604456771.333154.1783804789905.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1604456771.333154.1783804789905@mail.yahoo.com> ? I have some observations and questions regarding the current disturbing information about the drastic cuts in funding for the National Film Archive of Japan. Although we have often heard about film archivists in the West pleading for increased funding to preserve cinema heritage, the NFAJ seems to be confronting a more severe situation than has been true of other archives in the USA and Europe. Indeed, it reminds me of the crisis five years ago with the Cinemateca Brasileira in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Despite my close contacts with Brazilian cineastes in the 2000s, it was a Facebook post by Kae Ishihara in 2021 that brought the difficulties then faced by the Cinemateca to my attention. Here, too, there was a severe reduction in funding for the archive by the very right-wing Bolsonaro regime. It soon became an international issue with Martin Scorsese in the vanguard of cinephiles around the world expressing concern, so much so that this pressure forced the Brazilian government to restore funding for the archive. The next year, of course, saw the return of Lula da Silva to the presidency and a far more favorable environment for cultural activities under this revived progressivism. ?Like Brazil some years ago, Japan has been drifting further and further to the right in recent years, generating a reactionary climate that seems inimical to cultural activities like film preservation. While the NFAJ's crowdfunding efforts are definitely helpful, I think they should also enlist the aid of Scorsese and other notable preservationists in bringing the issue of film preservation in Japan to greater international attention. This kind of pressure might have an effect on the Japanese government and steer it in a more positive direction. I also think the NFAJ should be more open to sharing its treasures of Japanese cinema of the 1920s and 1930s with the wider world-wide public via online streaming and DVD/Blu-ray releases following the lead of such other archives as Russia's Gosfilmofond, the Danish Film Institute, the Czech Republic's National Film Archive, and our own Library of Congress among many others.?The Cinemateca Brasileira was founded in 1946 by Paulo Emilio Sales Gomes, a leading public intellectual affiliated with the left who had studied film preservation at the Cinematheque Francaise under Henri Langlois. I believe the Cinemateca Brasilieira was the first film archive in either of the two vast, cinematically rich continents of Asia and Latin America whose early achievements were long neglected by most establishment cinema historians in the West. In its early years, the Cinemateca took shape as a department of the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo before branching out on its own, much like the Film Library of New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Film Center of Tokyo's Museum of Modern Art. In his efforts, Sales Gomes faced opposition from conservative guardians of culture who did not recognize cinema as an art while his radical politics often put him at odds with? various authoritarian governments in Brazil. Over the years, the Cinemateca has been plagued by several fires, the most recent of which in 2021 generated a sense of urgency accentuated by the Bolsonaro regime's neglect of the archive and contributed to the world-wide support for the Cinemateca. ?I know much less about the development of film archives in Japan and would very much appreciate any information about this from KineJapan members. The 1930s saw the birth of archives with the establishment of such institutions in Germany, the United States, Great Britain and France, all of whom came together as FIAF in 1938, while Italy, the Soviet Union and the Nordic countries also initiated similar activities in that decade. Does anyone know if there were any cineastes in Japan, inspired by these activities in the West, who either proposed or attempted to found a Japanese film archive in the 1930s? If so, was the realization of this idea prevented by the onset of WWII? It was not until 1952, one year after the success of?Rashomon?generated world-wide interest in Japanese cinema, that MOMA in Tokyo started a collection of historic Japanese films which formally became an archive, the Tokyo Film Center, in 1970. Did the beginning of film preservation efforts at the Tokyo MOMA owe anything to an individual visionary founder like Iris Barry, Henri Langlois or Paulo Emilio Sales Gomes, or was it mainly a group of cinema enthusiasts in Japan who thought it would be a good idea to include films in a museum dedicated to modern art???I would very much like to have a better grasp of the history of archiving activities in Japan than I presently have and, as I said, will appreciate any information KineJapan members can give me.?William M. Drew -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From reavolution at gmail.com Sun Jul 12 04:59:30 2026 From: reavolution at gmail.com (Rea Amit) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:59:30 -0500 Subject: [KineJapan] NFAJ cuts In-Reply-To: References: <51A23DFA-B453-4B40-81B1-8D557E224ABD@yale.edu> <1010581620.2533780.1782547967337@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hello everyone, I, too, have been incredibly grateful for the work of the NFAJ's amazing staff over the past several years, and I share everyone's concerns about what might lie ahead for them and for the institution as a whole. We are not alone in these concerns, though. This morning's Yomiuri editorial is devoted to the issue, which suggests that awareness of the problem is growing and will hopefully continue to increase. Perhaps, then, there is still some room for optimism. https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/note/hensyu-techo/20260712-GYT8T00002/ Best, Rea On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 5:04?AM Alexander Jacoby via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Dear KineJapan colleagues, > > We're coming back to this a little late, but we thought that members of > this list might wish to know that the news about the NFAJ budget cuts broke > while we were in Bologna, screening the Ito Daisuke programme we had > arranged for Il Cinema Ritrovato in collaboration with the Japan > Foundation, the Yanai Initiative, and the NFAJ itself. > > Tamada Kenta from the archive was present, introducing screenings of two > quite amazing restorations from original nitrate negatives (what an > advertisement they were for the work of a film archive! - Gero no kubi in > particular looked incandescent!). Tamada-san gave an impassioned speech > explaining the situation, and stayed back after the screening for some > while fielding questions and receiving expressions of sympathy from members > of the audience. The following day, when Johan and I did our final > introduction for the series (for Hangyakuji), we again highlighted the > issue (Johan gave his own impassioned speech!), and encouraged people to > write to the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs / join in the > crowd-funding which the NFAJ is now having to have recourse to, etc. > > We wonder if the celebrity proponents of film restoration, such as Martin > Scorsese, are aware of this situation. Perhaps they could do some kind of > good. > > Best wishes to all, > > > ALEX and JOHAN > > > > > > On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 at 09:14, Maria Jose Gonzalez via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >> After the disastrous closure of Chiyoda's National Theatre of Japan, yet >> another reminder of how low the presence and preservation of art fares in >> the government's current agenda. In the meantime, funded with TAXPAYERS' >> money. . . "The government-backed >> After the disastrous closure of Chiyoda's National Theatre of Japan, yet >> another reminder of how low the presence and preservation of art fares in >> the government's current agenda. >> In the meantime, funded with TAXPAYERS' money... "The government-backed >> Cool Japan Fund has cost taxpayers 140.6 billion yen ($937 million USD) in >> directly contributed capital, while approving 83 separate cultural >> investments totalling 204 billion yen ($1.36 billion USD) since its launch >> in 2013." (Nikkei Shimbun, June 24th). >> >> On Thursday, 25 June 2026 at 11:59:51 PM GMT+9, Aaron Gerow via KineJapan >> wrote: >> >> >> The Japanese government has cut the budget for the National Film Archive >> of Japan by 40% for this fiscal year, asserting that the NFAJ has to earn >> more of its budget on its own. There are many problems with this. While >> Japan is now clearly rejecting a European model of public funding, its >> attempt to embrace a neoliberal model of private funding for public >> institutions won?t work until they revamp the tax code (Japanese tex law >> does not provide for the same kind of tax breaks for donations that US law >> does). The NFAJ will now have to pursue extreme cost cutting. >> >> It has also announced it will try to make up some of the loss through >> crowd funding. They are aiming for 100 million yen (about 620,000 >> dollars). Here's the link: >> >> https://readyfor.jp/projects/NFAJ2026 >> >> >> >> Aaron Gerow >> Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures >> and Film and Media Studies >> Yale University >> On leave AY 2025-2026 >> 320 York Street, Room 108 >> PO Box 208201 >> New Haven, CT 06520-8201 >> USA >> Phone: 1-203-432-7082 >> Fax: 1-203-432-6729 >> e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu >> website: www.aarongerow.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >> >> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan__;!!FapE6t-4AhA!NkUg8L4OK0lOOIIw7jD-jOnd5Ao9pcsO5Y0rITYW0jrWvoqVKihUVOM8f1oi9TE9oeaeQhvc9JGcyLHy3wXf2WB-ovb0v3HBzj7ngg$ >> > _______________________________________________ > 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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Roberta was extremely important to Japanese film studies. We have lost a great colleague. https://www.unive.it/web/it/15165/articolo/8545 Aaron Gerow Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies Acting 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 nornes at umich.edu Wed Jul 22 03:15:52 2026 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:15:52 +0200 Subject: [KineJapan] Roberta Novielli In-Reply-To: <17CA7777-8C55-49E3-9BE4-86178E3590AD@yale.edu> References: <17CA7777-8C55-49E3-9BE4-86178E3590AD@yale.edu> Message-ID: <6B6E041F-2F5E-4244-AA7A-DFFBF1D36033@umich.edu> This is incredibly saddening news. Shocking. Roberta was always and ever an intense ball of energy. We communed over our love for Himatsuri. Conversations were always wide ranging and swinging between tall tales, academic frustrations and joys, movies movies movies and gossip, always. This is a serious loss to Japanese film studies and programming, especially for Italy. Roberta wrote/edited many books, including a general history and works on anime, violence, literature, and directors like Kawase and (this fall) Tsukamoto. She was also a good citizen, volunteering her time to organize conferences, edit book series and a website on Asian cinema (asiamedia.unive.it), and also work with governmental film committees at local and national levels. Roberta?s role as a conduit between Japan and Italy was particularly important because she was the point person for Japanese filmmakers showing at the Venice Film Festival, and she programmed director centered retrospectives in various locations in Europe for her entire career. She interpreted for them and took care of them. And she brought what she learned from these lengthy and repeated encounters into her teaching and scholarship. I actually included an anecdote about Roberta?s interpretation in my Cinema Babel. It was about a controversy she found herself in when Kitano Takeshi made an offhand comment that implied affinities with fascism?as interpreter, she felt she was in a tough spot and her translation choices made international news. Roberta was clearly running full speed ahead right up to her passing, and was racing to produce a multi-lingual collaboration with Tsukamoto by the next Venice Film Festival. Just last week we were exchanging email about retirement??. Markus > On Jul 22, 2026, at 4:18?AM, Aaron Gerow via KineJapan wrote: > > It was with great shock that I head of the death of Roberta Novielli, the wonderful Italian scholar of Japanese cinema. I was emailing her just a few weeks ago. She died suddenly on July 20 at the age of 62. > > Roberta taught at Ca? Foscari University of Venice and was the author of many texts and catalogs on Japanese cinema, including Storia del cinema giapponese and Animerama. She also helped found the Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival, one of the few successful festivals run by a university. Roberta helped organize many Japanese film events in Italy?I was fortunate to be invited to a couple?and was working on a book with Tsukamoto Shinya when she passed away (that?s why she emailed me). > > It?s far too sudden and I can?t quite process it. Roberta was extremely important to Japanese film studies. We have lost a great colleague. > > https://www.unive.it/web/it/15165/articolo/8545 > > > > Aaron Gerow > Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies > Acting 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 > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aarmher at yahoo.es Wed Jul 22 08:10:47 2026 From: aarmher at yahoo.es (Alejandra Armendariz) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:10:47 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] KineJapan Digest, Vol 98, Issue 15 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1944622610.1821390.1784722247326@mail.yahoo.com> Many thanks, Aaron, for sharing this sad news. I am also deeply shocked and saddened. Roberta was an inspiring teacher and scholar, full of energy, ideas, and enthusiasm. I was fortunate to be her student at Ca' Foscari, and thanks to her support and professional connections, I was able to travel to Japan on a scholarship to conduct research on Japanese cinema.?Thanks to her, I was also able to attend the Venice Film Festival on several occasions and interview many Japanese filmmakers. She was also very generous with her time and expertise; just at the end of last year she served as an external examiner for my PhD thesis and wrote an impressive report for the viva committee. One of my first readings as a student was her book on the history of Japanese cinema in Italian, which I still consult today.? I still cannot believe she is no longer with us. We have truly lost a driving force in the field, particularly in Italy. My heartfelt condolences to her two daughters, family, friends, and colleagues.Che riposi in pace. Alejandra En mi?rcoles, 22 de julio de 2026, 08:16:15 GMT+1, kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu escribi?: Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to ??? kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit ??? https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ??? kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu You can reach the person managing the list at ??? kinejapan-owner at mailman.yale.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of KineJapan digest..." Today's Topics: ? 1. Roberta Novielli (Aaron Gerow) ? 2. Re: Roberta Novielli (Markus Nornes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:18:16 +0900 From: Aaron Gerow To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Subject: [KineJapan] Roberta Novielli Message-ID: <17CA7777-8C55-49E3-9BE4-86178E3590AD at yale.edu> Content-Type: text/plain;??? charset=utf-8 It was with great shock that I head of the death of Roberta Novielli, the wonderful Italian scholar of Japanese cinema. I was emailing her just a few weeks ago. She died suddenly on July 20 at the age of 62. Roberta taught at Ca? Foscari University of Venice and was the author of many texts and catalogs on Japanese cinema, including Storia del cinema giapponese and Animerama. She also helped found the Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival, one of the few successful festivals run by a university. Roberta helped organize many Japanese film events in Italy?I was fortunate to be invited to a couple?and was working on a book with Tsukamoto Shinya when she passed away (that?s why she emailed me). It?s far too sudden and I can?t quite process it. Roberta was extremely important to Japanese film studies. We have lost a great colleague. https://www.unive.it/web/it/15165/articolo/8545 Aaron Gerow Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies Acting 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 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:15:52 +0200 From: Markus Nornes To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Roberta Novielli Message-ID: <6B6E041F-2F5E-4244-AA7A-DFFBF1D36033 at umich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This is incredibly saddening news. Shocking. Roberta was always and ever an intense ball of energy. We communed over our love for Himatsuri. Conversations were always wide ranging and swinging between tall tales, academic frustrations and joys, movies movies movies and gossip, always. This is a serious loss to Japanese film studies and programming, especially for Italy. Roberta wrote/edited many books, including a general history and works on anime, violence, literature, and directors like Kawase and (this fall) Tsukamoto. She was also a good citizen, volunteering her time to organize conferences, edit book series and a website on Asian cinema (asiamedia.unive.it), and also work with governmental film committees at local and national levels. Roberta?s role as a conduit between Japan and Italy was particularly important because she was the point person for Japanese filmmakers showing at the Venice Film Festival, and she programmed director centered retrospectives in various locations in Europe for her entire career. She interpreted for them and took care of them. And she brought what she learned from these lengthy and repeated encounters into her teaching and scholarship. I actually included an anecdote about Roberta?s interpretation in my Cinema Babel. It was about a controversy she found herself in when Kitano Takeshi made an offhand comment that implied affinities with fascism?as interpreter, she felt she was in a tough spot and her translation choices made international news. Roberta was clearly running full speed ahead right up to her passing, and was racing to produce a multi-lingual collaboration with Tsukamoto by the next Venice Film Festival. Just last week we were exchanging email about retirement??. Markus > On Jul 22, 2026, at 4:18?AM, Aaron Gerow via KineJapan wrote: > > It was with great shock that I head of the death of Roberta Novielli, the wonderful Italian scholar of Japanese cinema. I was emailing her just a few weeks ago. She died suddenly on July 20 at the age of 62. > > Roberta taught at Ca? Foscari University of Venice and was the author of many texts and catalogs on Japanese cinema, including Storia del cinema giapponese and Animerama. She also helped found the Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival, one of the few successful festivals run by a university. Roberta helped organize many Japanese film events in Italy?I was fortunate to be invited to a couple?and was working on a book with Tsukamoto Shinya when she passed away (that?s why she emailed me). > > It?s far too sudden and I can?t quite process it. Roberta was extremely important to Japanese film studies. We have lost a great colleague. > > https://www.unive.it/web/it/15165/articolo/8545 > > > > Aaron Gerow > Alfred W. 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URL: From matteo.boscarol at gmail.com Wed Jul 22 18:21:48 2026 From: matteo.boscarol at gmail.com (matteoB) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:21:48 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] KineJapan Digest, Vol 98, Issue 15 In-Reply-To: <1944622610.1821390.1784722247326@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1944622610.1821390.1784722247326@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Thank you for sharing the sad news, Aaron. Like many others, I was shocked. I never met Roberta personally, but I collaborated in a couple of publications she curated. She was truly an influential figure in introducing Japanese cinema in Italy. She will be missed. Che le sia lieve la terra Matteo On Wed, 22 Jul 2026, 21:10 Alejandra Armendariz via KineJapan, < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Many thanks, Aaron, for sharing this sad news. > > I am also deeply shocked and saddened. Roberta was an inspiring teacher > and scholar, full of energy, ideas, and enthusiasm. I was fortunate to be > her student at Ca' Foscari, and thanks to her support and professional > connections, I was able to travel to Japan on a scholarship to conduct > research on Japanese cinema. Thanks to her, I was also able to attend the > Venice Film Festival on several occasions and interview many Japanese > filmmakers. > > She was also very generous with her time and expertise; just at the end of > last year she served as an external examiner for my PhD thesis and wrote an > impressive report for the viva committee. > > One of my first readings as a student was her book on the history of > Japanese cinema in Italian > , > which I still consult today. > > I still cannot believe she is no longer with us. We have truly lost a > driving force in the field, particularly in Italy. > > My heartfelt condolences to her two daughters, family, friends, and > colleagues. > Che riposi in pace. > > Alejandra > > > En mi?rcoles, 22 de julio de 2026, 08:16:15 GMT+1, > kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu > escribi?: > > > Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kinejapan-request at mailman.yale.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kinejapan-owner at mailman.yale.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of KineJapan digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Roberta Novielli (Aaron Gerow) > 2. Re: Roberta Novielli (Markus Nornes) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:18:16 +0900 > From: Aaron Gerow > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Subject: [KineJapan] Roberta Novielli > Message-ID: <17CA7777-8C55-49E3-9BE4-86178E3590AD at yale.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > It was with great shock that I head of the death of Roberta Novielli, the > wonderful Italian scholar of Japanese cinema. I was emailing her just a few > weeks ago. She died suddenly on July 20 at the age of 62. > > Roberta taught at Ca? Foscari University of Venice and was the author of > many texts and catalogs on Japanese cinema, including Storia del cinema > giapponese and Animerama. She also helped found the Ca' Foscari Short Film > Festival, one of the few successful festivals run by a university. Roberta > helped organize many Japanese film events in Italy?I was fortunate to be > invited to a couple?and was working on a book with Tsukamoto Shinya when > she passed away (that?s why she emailed me). > > It?s far too sudden and I can?t quite process it. Roberta was extremely > important to Japanese film studies. We have lost a great colleague. > > https://www.unive.it/web/it/15165/articolo/8545 > > > > Aaron Gerow > Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and > Film and Media Studies > Acting 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:15:52 +0200 > From: Markus Nornes > To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Roberta Novielli > Message-ID: <6B6E041F-2F5E-4244-AA7A-DFFBF1D36033 at umich.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > This is incredibly saddening news. Shocking. Roberta was always and ever > an intense ball of energy. We communed over our love for Himatsuri. > Conversations were always wide ranging and swinging between tall tales, > academic frustrations and joys, movies movies movies and gossip, always. > This is a serious loss to Japanese film studies and programming, especially > for Italy. Roberta wrote/edited many books, including a general history and > works on anime, violence, literature, and directors like Kawase and (this > fall) Tsukamoto. > > She was also a good citizen, volunteering her time to organize > conferences, edit book series and a website on Asian cinema ( > asiamedia.unive.it), and also work with governmental film committees at > local and national levels. > > Roberta?s role as a conduit between Japan and Italy was particularly > important because she was the point person for Japanese filmmakers showing > at the Venice Film Festival, and she programmed director centered > retrospectives in various locations in Europe for her entire career. She > interpreted for them and took care of them. And she brought what she > learned from these lengthy and repeated encounters into her teaching and > scholarship. I actually included an anecdote about Roberta?s interpretation > in my Cinema Babel. It was about a controversy she found herself in when > Kitano Takeshi made an offhand comment that implied affinities with > fascism?as interpreter, she felt she was in a tough spot and her > translation choices made international news. > > Roberta was clearly running full speed ahead right up to her passing, and > was racing to produce a multi-lingual collaboration with Tsukamoto by the > next Venice Film Festival. > > Just last week we were exchanging email about retirement??. > > Markus > > > > > > > On Jul 22, 2026, at 4:18?AM, Aaron Gerow via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > > > It was with great shock that I head of the death of Roberta Novielli, > the wonderful Italian scholar of Japanese cinema. I was emailing her just a > few weeks ago. She died suddenly on July 20 at the age of 62. > > > > Roberta taught at Ca? Foscari University of Venice and was the author of > many texts and catalogs on Japanese cinema, including Storia del cinema > giapponese and Animerama. She also helped found the Ca' Foscari Short Film > Festival, one of the few successful festivals run by a university. Roberta > helped organize many Japanese film events in Italy?I was fortunate to be > invited to a couple?and was working on a book with Tsukamoto Shinya when > she passed away (that?s why she emailed me). > > > > It?s far too sudden and I can?t quite process it. Roberta was extremely > important to Japanese film studies. We have lost a great colleague. > > > > https://www.unive.it/web/it/15165/articolo/8545 > > > > > > > > Aaron Gerow > > Alfred W. Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and > Film and Media Studies > > Acting 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > KineJapan mailing list > > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20260722/5940875d/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > > > ------------------------------ > > End of KineJapan Digest, Vol 98, Issue 15 > ***************************************** > _______________________________________________ > 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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