<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 22, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Aaron Gerow wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">One way to get closer to what the individual himself thinks is to look at the members list of the Shinario Sakka Kyokai, which gives it as Tsutomu. Since this was probably based on the reading provided by the member himself, that is probably the best bet.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>Another important route to this kind of personal reading of the name is the 1995-1997 KineJun <i>Nihon eiga jinmei jiten. </i>Many of the entries were based on a surveys each individual filled out. </div><div><br></div><div>Goes to show you pretty much need to look around at more than one source to be sure. One of the special challenges (pains in our collective XXX) of Japanese film studies. </div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div></body></html>