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Toru Takemitsu [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: D4179 | KulturLanguage: Japanese Subtitle language: English Series: Music for the movies (West Long Branch, N.J.)Publication details: [New York, NY] : Alternate Current ; West Long Branch, NJ : Distributed by Kultur, [2007?]Description: 1 videodisc (58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0769785913
  • 9780769785912
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 781.542092 22
LOC classification:
  • ML410.T134 T67 2007
Contents:
Opening -- Empire of Passion -- Writing music for films -- Dodes'kaden -- Japan's new wave -- Pitfall -- Double Suicide -- Ran -- Face of Another -- Love -- Woman in the Dunes -- Kwaidan -- Japanese instruments in film -- Youth of Japan -- Tokyo Trials -- Black Rain -- Dream Window -- Under the Cherry Blossoms -- Himatsuri -- Credits.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Toyomichi Kurita ; editing, Bernadine Colish and Charlotte Zwerin ; original music, Toru Takemitsu ; translations, Linda Hoaglund and Sonoko Aoyagi Bowers.
Interviews conducted by Peter Grilli; commentators/interviewees, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Masaki Kobayashi, Masahiro Shinoda, Nagisa Oshima, Donald Richie; featured musicians, Sumire Yoshihara, Junko Arase, Yasunori Yamaguchi, Teruo Furuya, Teiko Kikuchi, Aki Takahashi, Yukio Tanaka, Seiko Miyazaki.Summary: Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996), well-known Japanese composer, wrote the scores for some of the most celebrated, seminal works of Japan's New Wave movement, and collaborated with Akira Kurosawa, Nagisa Oshima, Masahiro Shinoda, and Hiroshi Teshigahara--some very obsessive directors. Takemitsu emphasized the sound, images, and textures of natural living things, as he scored power struggles, paranoia, fractured family relations, and the two big subjects that often dominate the films his work accompanies: murder and suicide. Takemitsu's scores feature Japanese instruments and musical concepts, but he also used musician's performance techniques, engineering tweaks, and sometimes specific sound effects, which were performed, recorded, and edited into sharp musical statements for Japanese films that addressed issues heretofore rarely depicted in Japanese cinema. Interviews with Takemitsu, Teshigahara, Shinoda, Kobayashi and Oshima are illustrated with copious clips from their films.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 1280 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050124272

Originally produced as a documentary motion picture in 1994.

Opening -- Empire of Passion -- Writing music for films -- Dodes'kaden -- Japan's new wave -- Pitfall -- Double Suicide -- Ran -- Face of Another -- Love -- Woman in the Dunes -- Kwaidan -- Japanese instruments in film -- Youth of Japan -- Tokyo Trials -- Black Rain -- Dream Window -- Under the Cherry Blossoms -- Himatsuri -- Credits.

DVD; NTSC; Dolby Digital sound.

In Japanese with English subtitles, and occasional English.

MacEwan University: Licensed for private use only.

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