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 SCREENING on OCTOBER 8, 2011 of "The Skin Of The South" and "Rodan"
As
part of Honda's centennial celebration, "The Skin Of The South" and
"Rodan" will be shown at the Yamagata International Documentary Film
Festival which will be held from 10/6th through 10/13th.
The
screening will be a part of their special program titled "Films about
Yamagata", which will focus on Yamagata prefecture where Honda is
from. Along with the showing of the films, there will be a talk
show with Honda's son Ryuji and others as well as an exhibit of scripts
and photos, all free of charge.
Date: Oct. 8th (sat), 2011
Place: Yamagata Museum of Art
1-63 Otemachi, Yamagata,
Yamagata Prefecture 990-0046 Japan
tel: 023-622-3090 (main)
fax: 023-622-3145
Ishiro Honda Centennial Exhibition (3rd Fl. Room #5)
Program:
15:30-16:30 "Waga eiga jinsei - director Ishiro Honda - DGJ interview"
17:15-18:37 "Rodan" + talk session
20:00-21:35 "The Skin Of The South"
For more detailed information, please visit:
http://www.yidff.jp/2011/2011-e.html
EVENT: "Manatsu no Gojira" (Midsummer Godzilla) 8/19 (fri) - 8/21/2011 (sun)
As
part of the centennial celebration, a free exhibit event will be held
from Aug. 19th (Fri) - 21st (Sun) at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition
Hall in Komae, Tokyo. EVENT: "Manatsu no Gojira" (Midsummer Godzilla) 8/19 (fri) - 8/21/2011 (sun)
As
part of the centennial celebration, a free exhibit event will be held
from Aug. 19th (Fri) - 21st (Sun) at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition
Hall in Komae, Tokyo.
Photos from the filming as well as the storyboard of "Gojira" which Honda actually used will be displayed.
On the 21st at 2PM, an "Ishiro Honda Laboratory" cFM recording and talk show will be held.
For more details, please go to the venue's official website (Japanese only):
http://d5f.org/
Venue:
Tokyo Municipal Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall
(in the Yume no shima Park)
2-1-1 Yume no shima, Koto-ku, Tokyo Japan
tel: 03-3521-8494 fax: 03-3521-2900
EVENT: Book "Good Morning Godzilla - Director Ishiro Honda and an
Era at the Film Studio" reprint celebration 9/2/2011 (Fri)
In
celebrating the reprinting of Naofumi Higuchi's book by
Kokushokankokai, a special screening + talk event will be held at the
Ginza Cine Patosu in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
date: September 2, 2011 (Fri)
time: 7pm doors / 7:30pm show - 11:00pm
films: "Matango" and "Oen-san"
talk show guests: Naofumi Higuchi (author) and director Shinji Higuchi (editor)
Two different types of advance tickets are currently available.
For more details, please go to the venue's official website (Japanese only):
http://www.humax-cinema.co.jp/cinema/special/meigaza/ginza_meigaza.html
(information also available through Ticket Pia)
The book "Tokusatsu wo Meguru Hitobito - Nihon Eiga Showa no
Jidai" (People in SFX - the Shōwa Era of Japanese Film) will be
available in early August from Wides Shuppan publishing company.
(\1,600 + tax)
This book contains a long interview with director
Honda which was his first and was featured in the magazine "Uchūsen",
as well as testimonies from valuable special effects people such as
Akira Ifukube, Akira Watanabe and Nobuo Yajima.
A reissue of the
1992 book "Good Morning Godzilla - Director Ishiro Honda and an era at
the Film Studio" (author: Naofumi Higuchi) is now available from
Kokushokankokai in a renewed format by Shinji Higuchi. (\2,415
incl. tax)
The book "Mothra Film Encyclopedia", celebrating the
50th anniversary of the original Mothra, has just been released by
Yoensha (\1905). The book details all of Mothra's film appearances and
features articles, essays and interviews by sfx luminaries such as
Shusuke Kaneko, Masaaki Tezuka, Shinji Higuchi, Hiroshi Sagae, Shinji
Nishikawa, Yuji Kaida, and Norman England.
Reissue of "Godzilla and My Movie Life"
The
long awaited, out of print and sold out book will be put back in
print. This is a collection of interviews with Ishiro Honda, and
the reprint version will also contain a commentary by his son, Ryuji
Honda.
Publisher: Wani Books PLUS
On sale: December 8, 2010
Price: 840 yen
New Book - "Kanpon Tsuburaya Eiji Zuihitsu Hyoronshusei"
A
complete collection of various written materials by Eiji Tsuburaya will
be available in stores in December, 2010, published by Wides
Shuppan. Edited by Hiroshi Takeuchi, this book contains essays,
critiques, dialogues and symposium manuscripts and other miscellaneous
writings by the famous SFX director. It also includes contents
from an SF Magazine panel discussion titled "Film/SF is SF/What can be
expected out of films?" with Ishiro Honda.
FM radio program "Ishiro Honda Laboratory"
As a pre-celebration of Honda's centennial in 2011, an FM radio program is currently airing nationwide in Japan.
Each
program will introduce and give a brief explanation of a Honda film,
feature theme songs, BGMs and sound effects from the film, as well as
an interview with various people relating to Ishiro Honda.
Broadcasting
stations and time schedules can be viewed at "Kenji Sasaki's official
blog: Jinke Spider 2" at http://ameblo.jp/jinke/ (Japanese only
page / click on Ishiro Honda's name in the theme list on the right hand
side of page below the calendar)
The programs can also be heard on Simul Radio at www.simulradio.jp
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| Updates |
February 1, 2010 - Biography page updated with new entries
March 30, 2009 - Messages section updated--Tsuchiya, Mizuno, Takashima
January 21, 2009 - Messages section updated |
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