Art Theatre Guild
Art Theatre Guild (ATG) was a film production company in Japan that started in 1961 and ran through to the mid-1980s, releasing mostly Japanese New Wave films. ATG began as an independent agency which distributed foreign films in Japan. With the decline of the major Japanese film studios in the 1960s, an "art house" cinema group formed around ATG and the company moved into distributing Japanese works rejected by the major studios. By 1967 ATG was assisting with production costs for a number of new Japanese films. Some of the early films released by ATG include Shōhei Imamura's A Man Vanishes (1967), Nagisa Oshima's Diary Of A Shinjuku Thief (1968) and Death by Hanging (1968), Toshio Matsumoto's masterpiece Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), and Akio Jissoji's Mujo (1970).[1]
See also
References
- ^ Standish, Isolde (2005). A New History of Japanese Cinema. New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-1709-4.
Sources
- "Art Theatre Guild (jp)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
- Domenig, Roland (28 June 2004). "The Anticipation of Freedom; Art Theatre Guild and Japanese Independent Cinema". Midnight Eye. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
- Domenig, Roland; Stern, Michael (trans.); Maffre, Frédéric (trans.); Vieillot, Martin (trans.). "Cinéma indépendant & Art Theatre Guild" (in French). EigaGoGo!. Retrieved 6 June 2006. (orig. English article from Minikoni (N°70))
- Mes, Thomas (28 June 2004). "Art Theatre Guild: Unabhängiges Japanisches Kino 1962-1984 (Book Review)". Midnight Eye. Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
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