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John Petty [Visitor] in response to: Taku Furukawa

John Petty [Visitor] — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:30:57 +0000

I enjoyed reading your blog on Taku Furukawa. It was especially interesting because I am visiting with my Uncle Taku, his wife Michi, and his daughter Momoko and your article came up while I Google'd Taku-san. I was reading your blog out loud to Taku-san and Michi-san and they also enjoyed it.

Ben [Member] in response to: Taku Furukawa

Ben [Member] — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:34:44 +0000

I agree, I really wanted to see more of his recent films. The DVD was released in 1998, yet the last film is from 1990. That's a whole 20 years of films that need to see the light of day. But I don't really blame Anido. It's an exceptional DVD and already jam-packed with animation. I wish they had released more in this "Best animation in the world" series from other important indie animators. I've been going through the links on the side of your blog, and I was surprised to find quite a number whom I'd never heard of... I'm guessing you've gotten to see a lot of indie animation at festivals in Germany that I've never been exposed to over here. I know well how challenging it can be to find information about indie Japanese animation outside of Japan, so it's nice to have another person writing about this stuff as you do.

Cathy [Visitor] in response to: Taku Furukawa

Cathy [Visitor] — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:44:56 +0000

Thanks for sending some web traffic my way ;) I got the Furukawa DVD a while back and love all the extras on it. Furukawa's toy collection is amazing!

My only disappointment with the DVD was that they didn't add some of his more recent films. I saw Jyōkyō Monogatari (1999) at Nippon Connection in 2008 and just loved it. It's a humorous piece that is clearly spoofing Ozu's Tokyo Story. I hope Anido releases a follow up DVD at some point of his films of the past 10 years. It would also be nice if someone like Anido or Geneon wold put together a retrospective DVD of Kinoshita's work. It's a shame that his films aren't more widely available.