Star Sand Screening @UQ

今日みてきました。　　
前回アルツハイマーのドキュメンタリーのときもそうでしたが
遅刻したくなかったので会社を20分早くきりあげて
CitycatでUQまでいきました。

15分くらい早く到着しました。
入り口にいたPulversさんが「こんばんは」と日本語で
挨拶してくださいました。

そういえば自分がUQの学生だったときPulversさんの講演の
質疑応答でフィリッパちゃんと一緒にマイク係をしたことを思い出しました。
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映画は最初は眠気とたたかってみました　笑

構成はだいぶ改善の余地ありと思いました。
本ならもっとおもしろかったかも。
予算＄7Mil

寺島しのぶさんの撮影の時間は18時間しかなかったんですって
あそこはちょっとRedundantだったかな
でも寺島さんがでてくれるなら使いたい気持ちはわかります。
あそこだけ舞台風でしたね。

アメリカ兵と日本兵が同じ洞窟の中ということで
Into the Whiteに似てるのかなとも思ったけど（あちらはイギリス兵とドイツ兵）
こちらがもっと情感をもって描かれていましたね。

質疑応答ではこの映画をみて
人間の条件を思い出したと言っている人がいたけど
自分はそうかなと思いましたよ。
Pulversさんが小林正樹監督の9時間の映画といってました。
自分もSLQでみたんですよね。　（仲代達矢さんがまだご存命でうれしい）　

それからPulversさんご自身は沖縄と関係はないみたいなところが
Book Theftを書いた若い人と重なりました。

今日の一番の収穫は
「著者はちゃんと自分の本のAmazonの評価は読んでいる～！！」ということでした。
PulversさんのこのStarSandはアメリカではベストセラーになったそうですよ。
PulversさんはAmazonの読者コメントよく読んでいらっしゃるようでした。
...ということは自分がAmazonに残したコメント読んでもらってるのかな～と思いました。　
田辺聖子？？？う～ん読まないでしょうかね　笑　というか全然気にしてないかもしれないですね。

このオリジナルの本は、まず日本語版をかいて
つぎに英語版を書いたそうです。　翻訳でなく！！　

さすが日本に50年住んでいらしただけあります。そのうち15年間京都だったそうです。

Q&Aの質問で、沖縄弁にしなかったのは、テレビで標準語の俳優さんたちが
無理して京都弁しゃべってうまいねといわれつつも地元の人にはばかにされてるとう見たからみたいなことをおっしゃっていました。
私は方言にする必要はまったくないと思いました。　

6時から2時間ちょっと映画、そのあとは9時まで質疑応答でした。

最後予算がなくなってBobの息子役を自分で演じていました。
緑川魔子の息子役　笑。　　なんか夫婦みたいでしたよ。

字幕も日本語も英語もでてきまして、どちらもPulversさんが
翻訳されたそうです。　さすがですね。

あと、主題歌は坂本龍一先生です。　（何年かすると忘れていそうなので。。）
戦場のメリークリスマスのときから知り合いだったのでしょうね。

ちなみにPulversさんは戦場のメリークリスマスでは
大島渚さんが監督で、助監督をされた方です。


Date And Time
Wed., 5 June 2019

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm AEST

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Location
Steele Building #3

Room 206

The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus

Brisbane, QLD 4072

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For details, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/public-screening-of-the-acclaimed-film-star-sand-by-director-roger-pulvers-tickets-61132882096

Synopsis:

A Japanese soldier and an American soldier find themselves together in a cave on a small remote island south of Okinawa as the biggest land battle in Asian history rages up north. It is the first week of April 1945 and the Americans are attacking Okinawa. Though the two soldiers do not speak each other’s language, it is clear that they have vowed never to harm each other. They are joined by a 16-year-old bilingual girl who spent her early childhood years in Los Angeles. All goes well until the Japanese soldier’s brother appears. He has been wounded in battle but claims that, once recovered, he will kill the three traitors in the cave. Some days later there is a violent scene, and three of the four are dead … but we do not know which one has survived.

The story is taken up again in 2016, when a Japanese university student uncovers an amazing truth about the incidents in the cave in 1945. Who really survived, and what significance it has for people caught up in war … these are the themes of this dramatic historical thriller.

The film is in Japanese with English subtitles.

Website in Japanese and English: star-sand.com

Director:

Roger Pulvers, acclaimed author, playwright, theatre and film director, translator and journalist, has published more than fifty books in Japanese and English, including novels such as The Death of Urashima Taro, General Yamashita’s Treasure, Star Sand, Liv and The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn. In March he published his autobiography, The Unmaking of an American. In 2017 the feature film of Star Sand, written and directed by him, had wide release throughout Japan.
Roger has worked extensively in film and television. He was assistant to director Nagisa Oshima on the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, starring David Bowie, Tom Conti and Ryuichi Sakamoto. He also co-wrote the script for the Japanese film Ashita e no Yuigon (Best Wishes for Tomorrow), for which he won the Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Script at the 27th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran.

Roger received the prestigious Miyazawa Kenji Prize in 2008 and the Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature in 2013; in 2018, Japan’s highest honour, the Order of the Rising Sun; and in 2019, the Order of Australia. Over the past fifty years he has translated prose, drama and poetry from Japanese, Russian and Polish. His plays have been widely performed in Australia, Japan and the United States.

The screening will commence at 6pm, followed by a Q&A session with director Roger Pulvers.

This is a free event however please register to secure your seat.
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Date And Time
Wed., 5 June 2019

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm AEST

Add to Calendar

Location
Steele Building #3

Room 206

The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus

Brisbane, QLD 4072

==
For details, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/public-screening-of-the-acclaimed-film-star-sand-by-director-roger-pulvers-tickets-61132882096

Synopsis:

A Japanese soldier and an American soldier find themselves together in a cave on a small remote island south of Okinawa as the biggest land battle in Asian history rages up north. It is the first week of April 1945 and the Americans are attacking Okinawa. Though the two soldiers do not speak each other’s language, it is clear that they have vowed never to harm each other. They are joined by a 16-year-old bilingual girl who spent her early childhood years in Los Angeles. All goes well until the Japanese soldier’s brother appears. He has been wounded in battle but claims that, once recovered, he will kill the three traitors in the cave. Some days later there is a violent scene, and three of the four are dead … but we do not know which one has survived.

The story is taken up again in 2016, when a Japanese university student uncovers an amazing truth about the incidents in the cave in 1945. Who really survived, and what significance it has for people caught up in war … these are the themes of this dramatic historical thriller.

The film is in Japanese with English subtitles.

Website in Japanese and English: star-sand.com

Director:

Roger Pulvers, acclaimed author, playwright, theatre and film director, translator and journalist, has published more than fifty books in Japanese and English, including novels such as The Death of Urashima Taro, General Yamashita’s Treasure, Star Sand, Liv and The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn. In March he published his autobiography, The Unmaking of an American. In 2017 the feature film of Star Sand, written and directed by him, had wide release throughout Japan.
Roger has worked extensively in film and television. He was assistant to director Nagisa Oshima on the film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, starring David Bowie, Tom Conti and Ryuichi Sakamoto. He also co-wrote the script for the Japanese film Ashita e no Yuigon (Best Wishes for Tomorrow), for which he won the Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Script at the 27th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran.

Roger received the prestigious Miyazawa Kenji Prize in 2008 and the Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature in 2013; in 2018, Japan’s highest honour, the Order of the Rising Sun; and in 2019, the Order of Australia. Over the past fifty years he has translated prose, drama and poetry from Japanese, Russian and Polish. His plays have been widely performed in Australia, Japan and the United States.

The screening will commence at 6pm, followed by a Q&A session with director Roger Pulvers.

This is a free event however please register to secure your seat.