Kenji Kanesaka

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Crazy Love Trailer

Filmmaker, critic, and photographer. Graduated in 1957 from Keio University, Faculty of Literature, Department of English Literature. Hired by the International Department of Shochiku Film, and assigned to be interpreter for the president, Shirō Kido. He became acquainted with underground filmmakers while participating in Harvard University international seminars, then took a sabbatical from Shochiku to attend Northwestern University for one year as a Fulbright scholar. He left school after finishing the film “America, America, America”, then returned to Japan, and in 1966 finished the film “Hopscotch”. In 1964, he collaborated with Takahiko Iimura, Kōichirō Ishizaki, Nobuhiko Ōbayashi, Yōichi Takabayashi, Shigechika Satō, Donald Richie, and Masao Adachi to found the experimental film group “Film Independent”.

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Crazy Love Trailer (1968)

22 September 1968

Correlated with Susan Sontag's theorization of kitsch as well as employing the queer lingo of "camp," this film's relentless equal opportunity pop-art montage shattered the foundations of conventional cinema, making it a true document of the Shinjuku underground scene.

Hopscotch Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

Kenji Kanesaka’s Hopscotch was presented as an event at Sogetsu Art Center in 1967, in order to create the sound recording for the film.

Super Up Trailer (1966)

02 October 1966

Kenji Kanesaka, one of the founding members of the “Film Independent” group and the Japan Filmmakers Co-op in Tokyo, was commissioned by Chicago producer Marv Gold to direct Super Up in 1965.