Kinema Club VII – Regimen Revival and Recent Japanese Cinema
Dates: Friday, March 24, 2006 to Sunday, March 26, 2006
Venue: Yale University
City and State: New Haven, Connecticut
Organizers: Kurosawa Kiyoshi (film director) and Nakamura Hideyuki (film scholar)
Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies and the Film Studies Program at Yale University with assistance from the Japan Foundation
The seventh edition of the Kinema Club conference in Japanese film and moving image studies will be held at Yale University from March 24 to 26, 2006. This session will be subtitled “Regimen, Revival and Recent Japanese Cinema” and will focus on recent trends in Japanese cinema, especially as they relate to government film policy and film education. The main guests will be Kurosawa Kiyoshi, film director and professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and Nakamura Hideyuki, professor at Rikkyo University. We will screen Kurosawa’s most recent horror film Loft, and hold several discussions with the director. In a pre-event for the conference we will show another Kurosawa film, Serpent’s Path on March 23, and hold two workshops with the director. As a “post-event” on March 28 the Okinawan director Takamine Go will be presenting his film Untamagiru.
There is no registration fee for the conference and the film screenings and workshops are open to the public without pre-registration. Those who want to attend the Saturday and Sunday panels, however, are asked to pre-register by e-mail to jeffrey.levick@yale.edu by March 21, 2006.
March 23 (Thursday): Kinema Club VII Pre-Event:
- 4:00-6:00: 2-hour workshop with Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street - 6:00-7:00: Reception for Kurosawa Kiyoshi
- 7:00-10:00: Serpent’s Path (Hebi no Michi, 1998)
Discussion with Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street
March 24 (Friday): Kinema Club VII Opening:
- 4:00-6:00: 2-hour workshop with Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue - 6:00-7:00: Opening reception for Kinema Club VII
- 7:00-9:00: Keynote address by Nakamura Hideyuki
March 25 (Saturday): Kinema Club VII:
Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
- 9:45-12:00: Anime
Satomi Saito
Kumiko Sato
Dennis Washburn - 1:00-3:00: Japanese Horror Cinema
Mitsuyo Wada Marciano
Myoungsook Park
Kurosawa Kiyoshi - 3:15-5:15 Roundtable on Film Policy and Film Studies
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
Aaron Gerow
Nakamura Hideyuki - 7:00-10:00: Loft (2006)
Discussion with Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street
March 26 (Sunday): Kinema Club VII
Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
- 10:00-12:30: Issues of Translation
Abé Mark Nornes
Michael Raine
Yiman Wang - 12:30-2:00: Round-up Discussion
March 28 (Tuesday): Kinema Club VII Post-Event–Takamine Go:
- 7:30-10:30 Untamagiru (1989)
Discussion with director Takamine Go.
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street