Agency for Cultural Affairs
[National Film Archive] Notice of screening project “In memory of the dying filmmakers 2021-2022”
[Image: https://prtimes.jp/i/47048/604/resize/d47048-604-fad5b575f54e657870e3-0.jpg&s3=47048-604-f77e56a025c9be50f01a6f02700c753e-1910×2700.jpg] For two years, the National Film Archive of Japan has held a project called “In Memory of the Passing Filmmakers” to commemorate the filmmakers who made a brilliant history of Japanese cinema and passed away, by screening their representative works. It will be held for the first time. In the last two years, Japanese cinema has lost many irreplaceable people.
In this special feature, we will focus on those who passed away between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2022, and look back on the achievements of 100 filmmakers, from actors and directors to staff members, through screenings of their works.・We will reward you. The directors include Shinji Aoyama, Kazuki Omori, Masahiro Kobayashi, Yoichi Sai, and Yoshishige Yoshida, and the actors include Akira Takarada, Kunie Tanaka, Shinichi Chiba, and Moeko Ezawa, as well as costume designers Hanae Mori and Emi Wada. Setsu Sugihara, Keiko Morita, screenwriters Kaoruko Okano and Keiko Nobumoto.
It will be a large-scale special screening with a total of 85 works in a wide range of genres, from feature films to documentaries and animations. We look forward to seeing you there.
Overview of the event
Project name: In memory of the dying filmmakers 2021-2022
Date:
[Phase 1] Tuesday, July 4, 2023 – Sunday, September 3, 2023 [Phase 2] Tuesday, October 10, 2023 – Sunday, October 22, 2023
*Non-filming days during the exhibition: Mondays and October 13th (Friday) and 14th (Saturday)
Venue: National Film Archive Nagase Memorial Hall OZU (2nd floor) HP: https://www.nfaj.go.jp/exhibition/yukeru202305/
Inquiries: 050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial)
Fee: General 520 yen / High school/university/65 and over 310 yen/Elementary/junior high school students 100 yen/Persons with a disability certificate (in principle, up to one accompanying person)/Campus members free *Tickets are sold online It will be from noon 3 days before each screening date. Please check the website for ticket details such as other purchasing methods.
People mourned in this special feature (in alphabetical order, titles omitted) Shinji Aoyama (Director), Junko Asahina (Actor), Masaya Araki (Producer), Takashi Ishii (Director), Akira Ishihama (Actor), Toshi Ichiyanagi (Music), Masaaki Ito (Producer), Akira Inoue (Director), Inoue Osamu (Director), Yoichi Inoue (Katsudo Shashin Benshi), Koichiro Igawa (Director), Katsumi Iwanai (Director), Yoshiharu Ueoka (Director), Taiji Ueda (Producer), Tenmyo Ukumori (Producer), Moeko Ezawa (Producer) Actor), Shinjiro Ehara (Actor), Tatsuyoshi Ehara (Actor), Yasuo Otsuka (Director/Animation Director), Matsuo Ohno (Sound), Kazuki Omori (Director), Kaoruko Okano (Screenplay), Kinuko Obata (Actor), Onchi Hideo (director), Noboru Kaji (director), Yuko Katagiri (actor), Mitsuji Kane (cinematographer), Naoki Kaneko (editor), Yusuke Kawazu (actor), Mitsuyoshi Kawamura (producer), Gen Kimura (actor), Midori Kuwabara (actor) Recording), Teruo Koike (Filmmaker), Hisako Kakumiki (Recording), Takuro Mitsuchi (Recording), Shichiro Kobayashi (Art), Masahiro Kobayashi (Director), Yutaka Kodaira (Director), Shigeru Komatsubara (Cinematographer), Yoichi Sai (director), Teruhiko Saigo (actor), Seimei Saito (editor), Teiichi Saito (recorder), Hisashi Saito (director), Sumiko Sakamoto (actor), Shiro Sasaki (producer), Gajiro Sato (actor), Tadao Sato (actor) Film critic), Asao Sano (actor), Shinichiro Sawai (director), Yukihiro Sawada (director), Tadao Sawamoto (actor), Jerry Fujio (actor), Setsu Sugihara (director), Shiroyasu Suzuki (director), Tan Takaiwa (Producer), Ichiro Takahashi (Director), Takuya Takahashi (Producer), Akira Takarada (Actor), Kunie Tanaka (Actor), Masakazu Tamura (Actor), Koji Chino (Director), Shinichi Chiba (Actor), Akiyoshi Nakano (special effects director), Koji Nakamoto (comedian, actor), Masashige Narusawa (director), Masaya Nihei (actor), Ken Nunomura (director), Kazuo Numata (recording), Keiko Nobumoto (script), Akiko Nomura (actor) ), Sugako Hashida (Screenplay), Masato Hara (Producer), Seizo Fukumoto (Actor), Yukiko Fuji (Actor), Yoko Fujiyama (Actor), Jun Funato (Actor), Yonezo Maeda (Cinematographer), Yuji Makiguchi (Director) , Hiroo Matsuda (screenplay), Shingo Matsubara (director), Ryuji Matsumoto (articulation), Masako Mizuki (actor), Shinji Murayama (director), Hanae Mori (costume design), Tokihisa Morikawa (director), Keiko Morita (director) , Shiro Yanase (actor), Yoshihiro Yamazaki (cinematographer), Shizuo Yamauchi (producer), Eiichi Yamamoto (director), Kei Yamamoto (actor), Toyozo Yamamoto (actor), Yoshihiro Yuki (producer), Yoshishige Yoshida (director) ), Lee Reisen (actor), Daisuke Ryu (actor), Emi Wada (costume design), Chiaki Watanabe (script), Chumei Watanabe (music)
Films to be screened (in program order)
“Rice” (1957), “Sorry Spring Bird” (1959), “Tokaido Yotsuya Ghost Stories” (1959), “The Case Reporter” (1959), “Metropolitan Police Department Story: No Remains” (1959), “0-Line Female Wolves” (1960), “The Horizon is Glittering” (1961), “Funky Hat Boy” (1961), “Funky Hat Boy’s 20 Million Yen Arm” (1961), “B/G Story 20 Years Old” Design” (1961), “Two Sons” (1961), “Ginza Love Story” (1962), “Nude” (1962), “Black Super Express” (1964), “This Voiceless Scream” (1965), Zatoichi Double Slash (1965), Let’s Go! Wakadaisho (Wakadaisho) (1967), Ginza for Two (1967), My Movie Life: Director Noboru Kaji (2007), When Sugar Candy Breaks (1967), High School Geisha (1968), Youth Tachi (1968), Wet Lips (1972), I love the bag! (1981), “Belladonna of Sorrow” (1973), “Asia is One” (1973), “Sandakan No. 8 Brothel Nostalgia” (1974), “Where is the Drifters’ Paradise?” (1974), “Tamawari Yuki” (1975), “Tamawari Yuki” (1975), “Devil’s Poetry” (1975), “Shinjuku drunken address, man-cutting iron” (1977), “movies Talking Toei Oizumi Hen II” (2003), “Tenguri on the Grassland” (1977), “Urusei Yatsura 2 Beautiful Dreamer” (1984), “Cutting the Shadows of Grass” (1977), “Eighteen, To the sea” (1979), “I tried to live but Yasujiro Ozu biography” (1983), “The train ran to the plateau” (1984), “Funeral” [re-timing version] (1984), “Ran” (1985), “Hana Ichimonme” (1985), “Fireman” (1986), “Seishun Kakeochi Hen” (1987), “Whisper of the Spirit” (1987), “Taketori Monogatari” (1987) , “Love Story to You” (1988), “My Movie Life Directed by Masahiro Makino” (2002), “Shogun Iemitsu’s Madness Clash” (1989), “Death Thorn” (1990), “It’s okay to die” (1992), “Nurse Call” (1993), “Asian Blue Ukishima Maru Sakon” (1995), “Emergency Call Emergency Call” (1995), “Yesterday Once More” (2008), “Romance” (1996), “Eel” (1997), “French Dressing” (1998), “DEAD OR ALIVE Criminal” (1999), “EUREKA” (2001), “THWAY Blood Bonds” (2003), “Inspector Ashido Case Files” Kuiyama” (2009), “Summer with Whales” (2014), “Recovery Recipe” (2011), “Family Country” (2012), “Forty-Eight Color Paths: Takarabune” (2014), “ The World of Yoichi Inoue (2016), The Traveling Projector (2013), Flowers and Insects (1956), The Cat Walks (1962), Fabre: The World of Insects – Habits of Wasps and instinct-” (1977), “Japanese volcanoes seen from the sky” (1978), “The discovery of zero” (1963), “Winter day gogo no koto” (1964), “Ecosystem-29- Density 3” (2021), “Melody of Rebellion” (1970), “My Movie Life Directed by Yukihiro Sawada” (2009), “Nyotai” (1964), “Warabinoko Warabino Line” (2003), “Akitsu Onsen” (1962) ), “Eros + Massacre” (1970), “My friend, shut up” (1985), “Mountain of Marks” (1995), “Premonition of love” (2007), “Japanese tragedy” (2012) Details about this release:
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