by Chris MaGee
Got a heads up about this from Pow-Wow friend and Midnight Eye co-founder Jasper Sharp. He will be one of six members of a very impressive panel discussing the past and future of Japanese cinema at “The Kawakita Centenary Symposium” this coming weekend (July 12th) at the BFI Southbank in London.
Taking its name from the Kashiko and Nagamasa Kawakita, the couple who founded The Japan Film Library Council in 1960 and subsequently introduced the world to Japanese cinema via their touring film festivals the symposium will be split into two parts: “Before and After Kurosawa” which will cover “the history of early Japanese film exhibition in the UK, offering an insiders' view into the visionary individuals and organisations that changed the story we tell about the world's greatest film-making,” and “Today and Tomorrow in Japanese Cinema” which explores “the shifting dynamics in film production, distribution and reception” today.
Jasper will be joining respected film critic and author Tadao Sato, directors Ryosuke Hashiguchi and Kazuhiro Soda as well as Japanese cinema experts Alexander Jacoby and David Robinson for the two our and a half discussions.
For more details check out the “The Kawakita Centenary Symposium” page at the BFI website here.
Taking its name from the Kashiko and Nagamasa Kawakita, the couple who founded The Japan Film Library Council in 1960 and subsequently introduced the world to Japanese cinema via their touring film festivals the symposium will be split into two parts: “Before and After Kurosawa” which will cover “the history of early Japanese film exhibition in the UK, offering an insiders' view into the visionary individuals and organisations that changed the story we tell about the world's greatest film-making,” and “Today and Tomorrow in Japanese Cinema” which explores “the shifting dynamics in film production, distribution and reception” today.
Jasper will be joining respected film critic and author Tadao Sato, directors Ryosuke Hashiguchi and Kazuhiro Soda as well as Japanese cinema experts Alexander Jacoby and David Robinson for the two our and a half discussions.
For more details check out the “The Kawakita Centenary Symposium” page at the BFI website here.
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