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Japanese film director (born 1936)
Kansu
金井勝
Born (1936-07-09) 9 July 1936 (age 88)
Kanagawa, Japan
NationalityJapanese
OccupationFilm director

Katsu Kanai (金井 勝, Kanai Katsu, born 9 July 1936) is a Japanese experimental and avant-garde film director. The Harvard Film Archive has called him "one of the most vital and inventive filmmakers in the history of Japanese underground film".

Career

Born the son of a farmer in Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanai graduated from the College of Art of Nihon University before finding work at Daiei Film. He later became a freelance cinematographer and founded Kanai Productions in 1968. His first film, The Deserted Archipelago (1969, aka The Desert Island) won the grand prix at the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival. His second film, Good-Bye (1971), was the "first post-war, post-liberation Japanese feature to be filmed in Korea," and according to the film scholar Oliver Dew, illustrated "how a surreal, decided non-representational approach could block the determinations of cultural essentialism". His 2003 work, Super Documentary: The Avant-Garde Senjutsu, was awarded the FIPRESCI award at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Kanai has been the subject of retrospectives at Oberhausen, the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, and the Harvard Film Archive.

Selected filmography

  • The Deserted Archipelago (1969)
  • Good-Bye (1971)
  • The Kingdom (1973)
  • The Stormy Times (1991)
  • Super Documentary: The Avant-Garde Senjutsu (2003)

References

  1. ^ "Under the Underground - The Visionary Cinema of Kanai Katsu". Harvard Film Archive. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  2. ^ Tamura, Masaki; Kanai, Katsu. "Documentarists of Japan, No. 8: Tamura Masaki". Documentary Box. YIDFF. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Kanai Katsu". Image Forum. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  4. "YIDFF: 2003: National Cultural Festival". YIDFF. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  5. Dew, Oliver (2016). Zainichi Cinema: Korean-in-Japan Film Culture. Springer. p. 48. ISBN 978-3-319-40877-4. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  6. "50th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen". FIPRESCI. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  7. Clark, George (25 November 2007). "Cinema and Beyond: The 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  8. Thevenot, Fabien (11 October 2013). "Le magicien de l'avant-garde". Le Courrier (in French). Retrieved 26 April 2020.

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