Just wrapped up Michael Raine's curiously cool Humanities Day session re the digital analysis of film, where we caught a peek of two hard to secure Japanese films (Raine specializes in Japanese film):
Mizoguchi Kenji's Story of the Last Chrysanthemums from 1939, and Yamamoto Kajiro's The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya (1942).
Toho Studios won't release The War at Sea to the U.S. market because of its subject matter -- a pro-Japanese perspective of the bombing of Pearl Harbor -- but the Last Chrysanthemum is screening next month at the Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago.
If the clip we saw is any indication of how magnificent a film it is, and if wherever you are is highly accessible to the Loop, then I highly recommend you GO.
I'm gonna. Possibly even wearing the same long sleeve silk screened chrysanthemum tee that I happen to be wearing today -- by sheer coincidence?
Perhaps.
;)
Posting by cameraphone from the U of C.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
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