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Does 20s Japanese Film Jasei No In Survive?
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 11:14 am
by filmnotdigital
Hi: I resaw the classic Kenji Mizoguchi film "Ugetsu" yesterday at the Pacific Film Archive and, reading up on it again, was
reminded that there was a previous 1920s Japanese movie, "Jasei No In," which used one of the Ueda Akinari stories that
"Ugetsu" was based on. In English translation it is given as "The Lewdness Of The Viper" or "The Obscenity Of The Viper" and was directed by Thomas Kurihara, who had been a cameraman for Thomas Ince.
I see that Pordenone is doing some Japanese silents this year. Does anyone know if "Jasei No In" survives?
Re: Does 20s Japanese Film Jasei No In Survive?
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:21 am
by Tintin
It's not listed in the FIAF database, but I don't know how good their coverage of Asian archives is.
Re: Does 20s Japanese Film Jasei No In Survive?
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 10:42 am
by filmnotdigital
Thanks, Tintin. I saw subsequently that in Joanne Bernardi's 1984 Columbia University thesis on "Ugetsu," she noted that "no prints are known to exist" as of "Jasei No In" but I hope that either she was incorrect or that a print has since surfaced in the past 30 years.
Re: Does 20s Japanese Film Jasei No In Survive?
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 4:53 am
by kaleidoscopeworld
Japanese silent films have a notoriously terrible survival rate, so odds are that it's lost.
Re: Does 20s Japanese Film Jasei No In Survive?
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 5:54 pm
by Gaucho
filmnotdigital wrote:Thanks, Tintin. I saw subsequently that in Joanne Bernardi's 1984 Columbia University thesis on "Ugetsu," she noted that "no prints are known to exist" as of "Jasei No In" but I hope that either she was incorrect or that a print has since surfaced in the past 30 years.
The most recent catalog for the National Museum of Modern Art's Film Center (the definitive source for surviving Japanese films) does not list this.
Re: Does 20s Japanese Film Jasei No In Survive?
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 4:53 pm
by goalieboy82
the only thing i know about japan is that it has Noh theater.
http://youtu.be/Sa-Kx5M-8Ak" target="_blank" target="_blank
Re: Does 20s Japanese Film Jasei No In Survive?
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 11:15 pm
by Christopher Jacobs
goalieboy82 wrote:the only thing i know about japan is that it has Noh theater.
http://youtu.be/Sa-Kx5M-8Ak" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank
That's pretty funny, actually, Abbott & Costello in puppets. But what you obviously need to do immediately is watch
http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/678-ak ... a-kurosawa" target="_blank" target="_blank
along with
http://www.criterion.com/films/28240-th ... f-narayama" target="_blank" target="_blank
and
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and
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and
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and
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and
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and of course
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among many others!
Re: Does 20s Japanese Film Jasei No In Survive?
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:12 pm
by Silencebound
I will looking for that film and as well for many others from the other sources in Japan. To let you all know that I've succeed found eight lost fragments from Japan but no title is yet being given and haven't upload the frame pictures just yet. Will announce it very soon.
