Seijun Suzuki, Shohei Imamura, Kon Ichikawa… Some of the best japanese filmmakers directed films produced by the Nikkatsu studios. Which will be celebrating its 100th anniversary on Sept 12, 2012, but the celebrations will begin earlier. A world tour retrospective will be launched this Fall ’11, starting in America, moving then to Europe and next, Asia. Some details;
The flyer was spotted at Cannes, it mentions only 16 films (out of 3300 films produced by the studios!). But the definitive (?) line-up features more than 30 films, see the list here – revealed by the New York Film Festival, which is the first stop of the retro.
One could have expected more little unknown gems from the studio, letting us discovering some of the other films made by big-name directors like Kon Ichikawa or Seijun Suzuki. Not always the same 2 or 3 films. At least, it’ll give people the opportunity to (re)discover many subtitled rarities on the giant screen, all around the world!
Here’s the transcription:
Shohei Imamura (1926-2006) “Intentions of Murder” (1964) “Pigs and Battleships” (1961)
Kon Ichikawa (1915-2008) “The Burmese Harp” (1956) “Alone Across the Pacific” (1963)
Tomotaka Tasaka (1901-1974) “Mud and Soldiers (1939) ”A Pebble by the Wayside” (1938)
Yasuharu Hasebe (1932-2009) “Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter” (1970) “Retaliation” (1967)
Kei Kumai (1929-2007) “To Love” (1997) “Darkness in the Light” (2001)
Seijun Suzuki (1923-) “Branded to Kill” (1967) “Tokyo Drifter” (1966)
Toshio Masuda (1927-) “Rusty Knife” 1958) “Red Handkercheif” (1964)
Tatsumi Kumashiro (1927-1995) “A Woman With Red Hair” (1979) “The World of Geisha” (1973)
Also, The Warped World of Koreyoshi Kurahara, a new boxset from Criterion, will be coming out on August 23, 2011. Including 5 films to be discovered on DVD for the first time with english-subs, full details here — A Kurahara retro was held at the Tokyo FilmEx back in 2008, see the full program. Not the most popular nor best known Nikkatsu director, but all discovery is good anyway!
Source: ScreenDaily
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