Thema: good news
12. Februar 05 | Autor: thgroh | 0 Kommentare | Kommentieren
... eines Filmarchivs werden nun, nach langer Zeit, endlich wieder zugänglich. Schlichtweg atemberaubend, was mastersofcinema.org zu melden weiß:
Mainichi Shimbun newspaper today reports the death of a legendary Japanese film collector, Yoshishige Abe, aged 81. His father was a police doctor who worked for the Korean Consulate, and together they both collected fifty-thousand films both pre and post war at their storehouse. They had previously refused all investigations by scholars, and it is not clear just how many of the films are still viewable.
The article focuses mostly on Na Unkyu's debut Arirang (1926), one of the most influential films of early Korean cinema, and long thought lost. North and South Korea apparently each sent representatives to reclaim the film but Abe refused. Thinking of it as an anti-Japan movie he said he would be willing to give the film rolls to both nations only if Korea united.
Abe has no heir, so after the lawful procedures, National Film Center [Tokyo] will investigate the films. The catalogue contains Daichi wa Hohoemu [The Earth Smiles] (Mizoguchi, 1925) amongst its many treasures.
Bei dem Gedanken daran, was hier an Schätzen bergbar sein könnte, wird mir schwindelig. Vor allem die 20er Jahre des japanischen Kinos waren äußerst produktiv: Japan produzierte weltweit die meisten Filme. Dennoch ist aus den ersten Jahrzehnten der japanischen Kinematografie bislang nur eine Handvoll (ich glaube Bordwell spricht von etwa 50 Stück) überhaupt noch erhalten. Die große Hoffnung ist nun, dass durch diesen sagenhaften Fund klaffende Lücken nun endlich geschlossen werden können.
Mainichi Shimbun newspaper today reports the death of a legendary Japanese film collector, Yoshishige Abe, aged 81. His father was a police doctor who worked for the Korean Consulate, and together they both collected fifty-thousand films both pre and post war at their storehouse. They had previously refused all investigations by scholars, and it is not clear just how many of the films are still viewable.
The article focuses mostly on Na Unkyu's debut Arirang (1926), one of the most influential films of early Korean cinema, and long thought lost. North and South Korea apparently each sent representatives to reclaim the film but Abe refused. Thinking of it as an anti-Japan movie he said he would be willing to give the film rolls to both nations only if Korea united.
Abe has no heir, so after the lawful procedures, National Film Center [Tokyo] will investigate the films. The catalogue contains Daichi wa Hohoemu [The Earth Smiles] (Mizoguchi, 1925) amongst its many treasures.
Bei dem Gedanken daran, was hier an Schätzen bergbar sein könnte, wird mir schwindelig. Vor allem die 20er Jahre des japanischen Kinos waren äußerst produktiv: Japan produzierte weltweit die meisten Filme. Dennoch ist aus den ersten Jahrzehnten der japanischen Kinematografie bislang nur eine Handvoll (ich glaube Bordwell spricht von etwa 50 Stück) überhaupt noch erhalten. Die große Hoffnung ist nun, dass durch diesen sagenhaften Fund klaffende Lücken nun endlich geschlossen werden können.
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