Grateful to @sfchronicle.com for featuring the UCSF Archives & Special Collections! This international digitization and research collaboration, supported by @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social is helping bring Japanese medical history to wider audiences. Excited for what’s ahead!

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Today at Egyptian Theatre! Every-night Dreams & Apart From You by #MikioNaruse, with live benshi performance by Ichiro Kataoka and musical accompaniment by myself @amcinematheque.bsky.social @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/... #silentfilm #benshi #livemusic

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Today at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social! The Art of the #Benshi - “This special program offers audiences the opportunity to experience the mesmerizing artistry of Ichiro Kataoka, one of Japan’s most celebrated benshi, or “movie orators.” #silentfilm #livemusic @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social

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An article on our performance at BYU this past Wednesday is up on BYU Daily Universe 📰 “BYU benshi performance evokes appreciation for century-old silent films” universe.byu.edu/campus/byu-b... @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social #silentfilm #benshi #livemusic

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Today at @BYUIC! ic.byu.edu “Benshi performance by Kataoka Ichiro @katsudobenshi with the screenings of A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926), Snipped Snake (Chiho Maekawa, 1932) and Liberty (Leo McCarey, 1929).” #silentfilm #benshi #livemusic @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social

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