<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Rights for the stills from old Shintoho films are owned by Kokusai Hoei; and I believe this is true for the films themselves, in most cases. I don't have their contact details with me right now as I'm in China, but as I recall you can look their phone number in the 2006 Filmex festival programme (the one with the Nakagawa retrospective). A few of Shintoho's productions were specifically bought by Toho - but these are isolated cases. You should enquire about Shintoho titles with Kokusai Hoei as a first port of call, and they will tell you if they are or are not the rightsholders for those particular films.<br><br>ALEX<br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 26/3/09, Michael Kerpan <i><mekerpan@verizon.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Michael Kerpan
<mekerpan@verizon.net><br>Subject: Re: Mikio Naruse - contact info<br>To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>Date: Thursday, 26 March, 2009, 9:04 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>Two of his films (Lightning and Older Brother, Younger sister) were made by Daiei -- so I assume Kadokawa owns them now.<br><br>There are also some Shintoho ones (Mother, for sure). I think the splitting up of the Shintoho was rather complicated. Not sure who owns this one (I would have thought toho would have gotten it, but I have no proof).<br><br>MEK<br>--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Aaron Gerow <<a ymailto="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu" href="/mc/compose?to=aaron.gerow@yale.edu">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br>> From: Aaron Gerow <<a ymailto="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu" href="/mc/compose?to=aaron.gerow@yale.edu">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a>><br>> Subject: Re: Mikio Naruse - contact info<br><br>> Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 8:57
PM<br><br>> In general, the copyright of a film<br>> in Japan resides with the production company that made it.<br>> So the first step would be to contact the company that made<br>> the film the clip is from. Given Naruse's career, that's<br>> probably Shochiku, PCL or Toho (PCL is the forerunner of<br>> Toho, so I think Toho claims rights for PCL films). T<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>