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No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema Free FREE NO BORDERS NO LIMITS: NIKKATSU ACTION CINEMA PDF Mark Schilling | 192 pages | 25 Feb 2015 | FAB Press | 9781903254431 | English | Godalming, United Kingdom No Borders, No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema - Mark Schilling - Google книги Influenced by both Hollywood and the French New Wave, these films reflect the Westernization that swept away old values, while teaching an entire generation a new Japanese meaning of cool. All films are presented on 35mm film with new digital subtitles. The film is brilliantly stylish and noir-inspired, a true undiscovered No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema. Yuji soon takes up with a hot springs geisha, the lover of a local boss, whose gang is facing stiff competition from an outside rival. After spending three years in prison for stabbing a hitman from a rival gang, Goro comes out disenchanted with yakuza life. When he decides to abandon gangster life entirely, tragedy intervenes, and he sets out for revenge. Big-shot cop Mikami Yujiro Ishihara fatally shoots a witness during a drug investigation and moves to the country to forget his tainted past. Years later, he returns to Yokohama to unravel the truth about the unsolved case and his shady ex-partner, now married to the woman he loves. Before he can achieve this, he becomes the unwilling savior of a pure-hearted, simple-minded prostitute Izumi Ashikawa on the run from her pimp. Hiding out in Kobe, life spices up for reckless gangster Goro Tetsuya Watari when he meets a gorgeous rich girl, in town investigating the disappearance of her fiance. But in the meantime, a robotic hitman from Tokyo has also come to town with another agenda for No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema97 min. Tags from the story. You may also like. No Borders, No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema by Mark Schilling After selling the gap-filling tome at its edition to coincide with a groundbreaking tribute to Nikkatsu's action films, once the festivities were over the festival no longer offered it for sale. This very valuable work on a hitherto obscure but important chapter in Japanese film history, we felt, deserved better, much like the films it covered. Well, it does appear that things have changed, for both the book and the films. FAB Press brings us a fully revised and redesigned edition, while the films themselves are touring North American theaters and a U. Mention the words Nikkatsu Action to a Japanese film fan and the first name that will spring to mind is Seijun Suzuki. Known for his daring visual shenanigans - fighting detectives swinging off chandeliers, raging yellow sand storms, frame-filling one-way mirrors, and theatrical sets bathed in primary colours - Suzuki's myth rests on the assumption that he was the rebellious odd one out in a No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema otherwise filled with well-behaved anonymous taskmasters who duly made their films to order. Mark Schilling's No Borders, No Limits, however, clears up that misunderstanding by finally giving us the big picture of the studio and environment that nurtured a style of filmmaking that was a radical break with genre movie conventions to begin with. Nikkatsu was one of Japan's oldest film studios when it was absorbed by Daiei on the eve of World War II, as the film industry was forced to pool its resources into three filmmaking conglomerates in an effort to both economise raw materials and facilitate cinema's support for the war effort. In the early s, it essentially had to start from scratch, what with all its production facilities still owned by Daiei, which continued to exist after the war had ended. When Nikkatsu finally resumed production, with the fortunes it had gathered by distributing foreign films to a hungry audience of city dwellers eager to escape their impoverished lives, it chose to bet not on Japan's indigenous genres like the jidai geki or the yakuza film, but on a new kind of dramatic action template modelled after the American and French films it had been bringing to cinemas in the previous years. Modelled on westerns, youth films, action comedies, and film noir, Nikkatsu's mukokuseki akushon 'no-nationality' or 'borderless' action spawned more than a decade's worth of quickly-made, but No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema the most part imaginative and vivacious genre potboilers, tailored around fledgling, fresh-faced stars like Yujiro Ishihara, Koji Wada, Akira Kobayashi, Jo Shishido, and Tetsuya Watari, and served up in weekly, double-bill doses i. Schilling's book starts with a fascinating, in-depth account of the post-war Nikkatsu story, going on to profile the studio's leading stars and directors including Suzuki and Yasuharu Hasebe, the sole other Nikkatsu action proponent to have found some notoriety in the Westand rounding things off with candid interviews with director Toshio Masuda and star Jo Shishidoboth of whom were guests in Udine. The focus is rightly on the actors here. Seijun Suzuki again proves to have been misrepresented, because Nikkatsu's production system was one tailored around its stars, not No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema directors. Starting out with their much-hyped Diamond Line, its first quartet of leading men spearheaded by seishun eiga star Yujiro Ishihara, Nikkatsu added new faces to the roster as the old ones either lost their appeal, were incapacitated, or, in the case of Keiichiro Akagi, died an early death. Schilling's book forms an excellent introduction to a vastly overlooked but crucial chapter in the history of Japanese film. It offers crucial information about the workings of the studio system that you won't find in any existing English-language volume on Japanese film history. The author takes a level-headed view, making no attempt No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema hide the fact that Nikkatsu's conveyor- belt mentality produced more than its share of camera fodder Shishido readily acknowledges this in a very entertaining interview, in which the formerly hamster-faced star manages to be both self-deprecating and self-aggrandizingbut at the same time Schilling praises the gems and the talents that honed them. All the No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema that marred the original Udine version of No Borders, No Limits have been ironed out for the FAB Press edition: here now are tons of large stills and poster reproductions in both black and white and full colour, a snazzy lay-out, and a text that has been thoroughly revised. In short, this new edition stands as a key volume in the rapidly expanding field of Japanese film books. Stay up to date with the latest and best in Japanese cinema. Be the first to hear about our new reviews, exclusive interviews and features. Buy at: Amazon. Mailing list Stay up to date with the latest and best in Japanese cinema. Subscribe Unsubscribe. YBCA presents NO BORDERS, NO LIMITS: s NIKKATSU ACTION CINEMA – CAAM Home Presented for the first time in the U. Influenced by Hollywood and the Nouvelle Vague, these films reflect the Westernization that swept away old values, while teaching an entire generation a new Japanese meaning of cool. Curated by Mark Schilling. Leading Japanese film critic Mark Schilling discusses the unique No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema of Nikkatsu action films from the s and the cultural moment that brought them to life. The design of the posters from this s action genre evoke the films' cool aesthetic and unique sense of style with graffiti-like lettering and action-packed photography. Toggle Japan Society. Fridays at pm! A program advisor to the Udine Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy sinceSchilling curated a retrospective of Nikkatsu Action films for the festival that was the first of its kind in the West. Calendar of Events. Cinema Mark Schilling on "Nikkatsu Action" Leading Japanese film critic Mark Schilling discusses the No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema appeal of Nikkatsu action films from the s and the cultural moment that brought them to life. Read More. DesignCinemaPopular Culture Nikkatsu Action Film Posters 8 images The design of the posters from this s action genre evoke the films' cool aesthetic and unique sense of style with graffiti-like lettering and action-packed photography..
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