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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Could anyone recommend a good site for looking up the
kanji for film directors, etc. for a beginner to interrogate JMDb? I've
found Wikipedia (English) pretty good, provided it's in there. But I got
grounded on Tsuchimoto noriaki, although I eventually got it - <SPAN
class=ch>土本典昭. I can't see him in Wikipedia 日本語, either, but, in any case,
Wikipedia 日本語 doesn't consistently refer back to the romaji - e.g. you can find
'Kurosawa akira' directly but 'Kawabata yasunari' only with the
kanji.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=ch></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=ch>Incidentally, does JMDb cover shorts/
mediums? I can't see Tsuchimoto's superb early films, shown last
week in Sheffield :- </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=ch><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><EM>'An
Engineer's Assistant'</EM> '<SPAN class=ch><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Aru
kikanjōshi' </SPAN></SPAN>(That's my lengthened 'o'), 1963 <FONT
face="MS Mincho">[<SPAN lang=JA
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">ある機関上司
?]</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=ch><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN
lang=JA
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
face=Arial>or <EM>'</EM></FONT><SPAN class=Apple-style-span><FONT
face=Arial><EM>Document: On the Road'</EM></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><EM>, </EM>「ドキュメント路上」, <FONT
face=Arial>1964.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=ch><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN
lang=JA
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span><FONT
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=ch><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN
lang=JA
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span><FONT face=Arial>And does <SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">rojō
[<FONT face="Times New Roman">路上] </FONT><FONT face=Arial>translate better as
'road skills', or 'street cred.'
?</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=ch><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN
lang=JA
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span><FONT><FONT
face=Arial></FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=ch><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN
lang=JA
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span><FONT><FONT face=Arial>Roger
Macy</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>