<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Frako, <div><br></div><div>You are very much in luck. There is one-stop shopping for this kind of info. It's drawn from a number of sources, so it's something like a clearing house of release information. There are separate volumes for Japanese and foreign films, as well as great filmographies for actors, staff members and directors. Here's the one you need. </div><div style="font-size: 8px; "><br style="font-size: 8px; "></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; "><h1 class="title" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 13px; "><div class="vernacular" lang="ja" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: green; font-size: 15px; ">舶来キネマ作品辞典. 戦後篇. I : 日本で戦後(19145-1988)に上映された外国映画一覧(I) = Complete dictionary of [imported movies] from August 1945 to December 1988 /</div>Hakurai kinema sakuhin jiten. Sengo hen. I : Nihon de sengo (1945-1988) ni jōei sareta gaikoku eiga ichiran (I) = Complete dictionary of [imported movies] from August 1945 to December 1988</h1><table border="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-size: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><th style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(106, 119, 128); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 14px; font-size: 9px; ">Author:</th><td style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 8px; font-size: 10px; "><span class="vernacular" lang="ja" style="color: green; font-size: 13px; ">世界映画史硏究会編.</span> ; ; <a href="http://berkeley.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ASekai+Eigashi+Kenkyu%CC%84kai.&qt=hot_author" title="Search for more by this author" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Sekai Eigashi Kenkyūkai.</a></td></tr><tr style="font-size: 10px; "><th style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(106, 119, 128); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 14px; font-size: 9px; ">Publisher:</th><td style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 8px; "><span class="vernacular" lang="ja" style="color: green; font-size: 13px; ">科学書院 : 発売元霞ヶ関出版,</span> Tōkyō : Kagaku Shoin : Hatsubaimoto Kasumigaseki Shuppan, 2004.</td></tr><tr style="font-size: 10px; "><th style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(106, 119, 128); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 14px; font-size: 9px; ">Series:</th><td style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 8px; "><a href="http://berkeley.worldcat.org/oclc/54979203&referer=brief_results#" title="todo:View all items in the '<a title='Search for other items in this series' href='/search?qt=hotseries&q=se%3A%22Sekai%2C+Nihon+eiga+sakuhin+jiten+shiri%CC%84zu%22'>Sekai, Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten shirīzu</a>, dai 4-shū' series" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "></a><a title="Search for other items in this series" href="http://berkeley.worldcat.org/search?qt=hotseries&q=se%3A%22Sekai%2C+Nihon+eiga+sakuhin+jiten+shiri%CC%84zu%22" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Sekai, Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten shirīzu</a>, dai 4-shū</td></tr><tr><th style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(106, 119, 128); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 14px; font-size: 9px; ">Edition/Format:</th><td style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 8px; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Book : Japanese : Shohan</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table></span><div>Unfortunately, not many libraries can afford this very important reference work....or even recognize how important it is; Berkeley seems to be one of these, but I see that UCLA has it.</div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div>PS: This is precisely the kind of research question we wrote our <i>Research Guide to Japanese Cinema </i>for. To give you a sense for why you need to buy this book (I know, so shameless), here is our entry for this dictionary: </div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Palatino; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; font-size: 13px; "><i>Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten/Complete Dictionary of Japanese Movies from </i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; font-size: 13px; "><i>1896 to 1945 August, </i>edited by Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; font-size: 13px; ">Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 1996.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hiragino Mincho Pro'; font-size: 12px; ">日本映画史研究会編 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hiragino Mincho Pro'; font-size: 12px; ">『日本映画作品辞典 戦前篇 = </span>Complete dictionary of </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">Japanese movies from 1896 to 1945 August<span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hiragino Mincho Pro'; font-size: 12px; ">』 科学書院: 発売元 霞ケ関出版</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hiragino Mincho Pro'; font-size: 12px; ">株式会社, <span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">1996</span>.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; font-size: 13px; "><i>Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten/Complete Dictionary of Japanese Movies from </i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; font-size: 13px; "><i>1945 August to 1988 December, </i>edited by Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; font-size: 13px; ">Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 1998.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hiragino Mincho Pro'; font-size: 12px; ">日本映画史研究会編 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hiragino Mincho Pro'; font-size: 12px; ">『日本映画作品辞典 戦後篇 = </span>Complete dictionary of </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">Japanese movies from 1945 August to 1988 December<span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hiragino Mincho Pro'; font-size: 12px; ">』 科学書院: 発売元 霞</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Hiragino Mincho Pro'; font-size: 12px; ">ケ関出版株式会社, <span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">1998</span>.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">This massive dictionary of films and filmmakers takes up an entire book-<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">shelf and is an indispensable tool for Japanese cinema studies. A project </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">run by the Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai, it is an attempt to list every film and </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">filmmaker in Japan (other related Kagaku Shoin projects cover staff and ac-<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">tors as well foreign films shown in Japan [see pp. 99 and 104-105]). Much </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">of the information is culled from only three sources—<i>Kinema junpô, Kura-</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; "><i>shikku eiga nyûsu, </i>and government censorship records—but this is by far </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">the most reliable resource for identifying release dates and filmographies </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">on this scale. It is composed of two six-volume sections on prewar and </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">postwar Japanese films (the other publications on prewar and postwar for-<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">eign films, Japanese actors and staff, and foreign actors are cross-referenced </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">when possible). For some sense of the coverage, <i>shikku eiga nyûsu, </i>and </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">government censorship records—but this is by far </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">the most reliable resource for identifying release dates and filmographies </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">on this scale. It is composed of two six-volume sections on prewar and </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">postwar Japanese films (the other publications on prewar and postwar for-<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">eign films, Japanese actors and staff, and foreign actors are cross-referenced </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">when possible). For some sense of the coverage, the Japanese section on </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">staff members lists 16,441 people, eight times that of the <i>Kinema junpô</i> refer-<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">ence dictionary. (For our entry on the biographical dictionary volumes, see </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">pp. 104-105.) This series also represents an important first step for entering </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">the archive. Because Japanese film periodicals are so poorly indexed, one </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">must often browse through volumes page-by-page. Entries here give exact </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">release dates, which makes trolling for articles much more expeditious, as </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">you can begin by pulling journals around that date. Prewar listings also in-<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">dicate first-run theaters, which allows one to navigate collections of theater </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">programs. Finally, all titles and personal names are thankfully rendered in </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; "><i>hiragana</i>, although one should always cross-check readings when possible. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">Do note, however, that given the size of the project, each filmographic entry </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">is rather short, only listing some personnel and a limited number of cast </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">members without character names. Given the selectiveness of the filmogra-<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">phy, one cannot assume that the filmographies given for actors and other </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">individuals are complete. These works are thus most helpful for core infor-<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; font-size: 12px; ">mation, not for full filmographies.<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 7px/normal Times; font-size: 11px; "><br></div></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 16px; font-size: 15px; "><h1 class="title" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 22px; "><div class="vernacular" lang="ja" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: green; font-size: 26px; "><br></div></h1></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Frako Loden 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; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Is there a handy online source in either Japanese or English giving the year of release in Japan of non-Japanese films?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm especially interested in the month and year Richard Lester's 1967 film<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How I Won the War</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was released in Japan.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Frako Loden</div><div>Berkeley, CA</div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>