DIRECTOR TAKAMINE GO AT YALE
March 28, 2006
The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is proud to host a
visit by the Okinawan film director Takamine Go. Takamine is Okinawa’s
most prominent filmmaker, famous for combining myth, magic, humor,
realism, aesthetic experimentation and a strongly political stance to
potently explore the history and identity of the Okinawan islands in
the face of its two occupying powers, the United States and Japan. His
complex use of the vanishing Okinawan language is particularly
representative of his strategy to create a collage of the modern and
the traditional, the indigenous and the foreign.
He will present his most famous work, Untamagiru (1989), which
beautifully and satirically mixes the legend of Untama Giru, an
Okinawan Robin Hood, with the history of Okinawa in the years before
the United States returned it to Japan in 1972. The film has won
numerous awards, including the prestigious Caligari Film Award at the
Berlin Film Festival, and features Kobayashi Kaoru as Giru and the
American director John Sayles (Lone Star, Eight Men Out) as the
American high commissioner.
The screening is free and open to the public. A discussion with the
director will be held after the film.
Untamagiru (1989, 120 minutes, 35mm, color)
Time: 7:30 pm
Date: March 28, 2006
Place: Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street, Yale
University
Takamine will also present his 1973 short film Shashingwa (Dear
Photograph, 15 min., 16mm) in a small session in B-21, Whitney
Humanities Center, from 4:00-5:00 pm. Those who wish to attend this
session must register with Aaron Gerow at [log in to unmask]
The Takamine Go visit will be the last event associated with the Kinema
Club VII conference on Japanese moving image studies, which will be
held on March 24-26, 2006. For information and a schedule to that
conference, check the CEAS website:
http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/).
For more information on any of these events, contact Jeffery Levick at
the CEAS: [log in to unmask]
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