Brownbag Lecture: Sony: The Private Life

October 12, 1999

Brownbag Lecture: Sony: The Private Life
Prof. John Nathan (Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
918 International Affairs Bldg, Columbia University (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
12:00 -1:30 PM
John Nathan is the Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Also celebrated as a filmmaker and writer, he is author of a definitive biography of Yukio Mishima and principal translator of the Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe. His prizewinning documentary films include Full Moon Lunch, Blind Swordsman, Farm Song, and The Colonel Comes to Japan.
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Institute and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business

Lecture: Revisiting Full Moon Lunch: John Nathan’s Films on Japan
Prof. John Nathan (Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
567 Lerner Hall, Columbia University (115th St. and Broadway)
6:00 – 8:00 PM
During the late 1970s and 1980s, John Nathan produced a number of films on Japan that are still considered the most penetrating documentary portraits of contemporary Japanese society. His 3-part series, The Japanese (including Full Moon Lunch, Blind Swordsman, and Farm Song) has been broadcast repeatedly on PBS. The Colonel Comes to Japan, about Kentucky Fried Chicken in Japan, is a humorous and highly revealing look at American business and Japanese consumerism. Nathan’s films have won Emmy awards and numerous other international documentary-film prizes. In this program, John Nathan will show excerpts of several of his films and reflect on filmmaking in Japan then…and now.