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<div>Roland, where did YOU get this particular information?</div>
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<div>Frako Loden</div>
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<div>At 11:57 PM +0200 6/5/09, Roland Domenig wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I wonder whether the film Frako was
asking about is listed in the dictionary (which indeed is
prohibitively expensive), because it had no official cinema release in
Japan. The first chance for Japanese to watch Richard Lester's
"How I won the war" was when it was aired in the 1980s in a
night-program on TV under the title "Jon renon no boku no senso"
(John Lennon's My War). In the late 1980s Warner Home Video released
it on Video, in the 1990s Pioneer put it out on Laser Disc, and in
2003 SPO released it on DVD.<br>
Does the dictionary include the video-releases of films without proper
theatrical release?<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Roland<br>
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________________________________________<br>
Von: owner-KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
[owner-KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] im Auftrag von Mark Nornes
[amnornes@umich.edu]<br>
Gesendet: Freitag, 05. Juni 2009 18:57<br>
An: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>
Betreff: Re: release year of non-Japanese films in Japan<br>
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Frako,<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
îïóàÉLÉlÉ}çÏïié´ìT. êÌå“ï-. I :
ì™ñ{ljêÌå“(19145-1988)ÇŠè“âfÇ„ÇÍ<span
></span>LJäOçëâfâÊàÍóó(I) = Complete dictionary
of [imported movies] from August 1945 to December 1988 /<br>
Hakurai kinema sakuhin jiten. Sengo hen. I : Nihon de sengo
(1945-1988) ni jÿei sareta gaikoku eiga ichiran (I) = Complete
dictionary of [imported movies] from August 1945 to December 1988<br>
Author: ê¢äEâfâÊéjÊŽãÜâÔï". ; ; Sekai
Eigashi
Kenky•kai.<http://berkeley.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ASekai+Eigash<span
></span>i+Kenkyu%CC%84kai.&qt=hot_author><br>
Publisher: â»äwèëâ@ :
î‚îÑå„âýÉñä÷èoî‰, Tÿkyÿ : Kagaku Shoin :
Hatsubaimoto Kasumigaseki Shuppan, 2004.<br>
Series:
<http://berkeley.worldcat.org/oclc/54979203&referer=brief_resu<span
></span>lts#> Sekai, Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten
shir¥zu<http://berkeley.worldcat.org/search?qt=hotseries&q=se%<span
></span>3A%22Sekai%2C+Nihon+eiga+sakuhin+jiten+shiri%CC%84zu%22>,
dai 4-sh•<br>
Edition/Format: Book : Japanese : Shohan<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Markus<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>PS: This is precisely the kind of
research question we wrote our Research Guide to Japanese Cinema 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:<br>
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Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten/Complete Dictionary of Japanese Movies
from<br>
1896 to 1945 August, edited by Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai.<br>
Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 1996.<br>
ì™ñ{âfâÊéjå§ãÜâÔï"<br>
Åwì™ñ{âfâÊçÏïié´ìT êÌëOï- =
Complete dictionary of<br>
Japanese movies from 1896 to 1945 AugustÅx â»äwèëâ@:
î‚îÑå„ âýÉPä÷èoî‰<br>
äîéÆâÔé-, 1996.<br>
Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten/Complete Dictionary of Japanese Movies
from<br>
1945 August to 1988 December, edited by Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai.<br>
Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 1998.<br>
ì™ñ{âfâÊéjå§ãÜâÔï"<br>
Åwì™ñ{âfâÊçÏïié´ìTÅ@êÌå“ï- =
Complete dictionary of<br>
Japanese movies from 1945 August to 1988 DecemberÅx
â»äwèëâ@: î‚îÑå„ âý<br>
ÉPä÷èoî‰äîéÆâÔé-, 1998.<br>
This massive dictionary of films and filmmakers takes up an entire
book-<br>
shelf and is an indispensable tool for Japanese cinema studies. A
project<br>
run by the Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai, it is an attempt to list every
film and<br>
filmmaker in Japan (other related Kagaku Shoin projects cover staff
and ac-<br>
tors as well foreign films shown in Japan [see pp. 99 and 104-105]).
Much<br>
of the information is culled from only three sources-Kinema junpô,
Kura-<br>
shikku eiga nyûsu, and government censorship records-but this is
by far<br>
the most reliable resource for identifying release dates and
filmographies</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>on this scale. It is composed of two
six-volume sections on prewar and<br>
postwar Japanese films (the other publications on prewar and postwar
for-<br>
eign films, Japanese actors and staff, and foreign actors are
cross-referenced<br>
when possible). For some sense of the coverage, shikku eiga nyûsu,
and<br>
government censorship records-but this is by far<br>
the most reliable resource for identifying release dates and
filmographies<br>
on this scale. It is composed of two six-volume sections on prewar
and<br>
postwar Japanese films (the other publications on prewar and postwar
for-<br>
eign films, Japanese actors and staff, and foreign actors are
cross-referenced<br>
when possible). For some sense of the coverage, the Japanese section
on<br>
staff members lists 16,441 people, eight times that of the Kinema
junpô refer-<br>
ence dictionary. (For our entry on the biographical dictionary
volumes, see<br>
pp. 104-105.) This series also represents an important first step for
entering<br>
the archive. Because Japanese film periodicals are so poorly indexed,
one<br>
must often browse through volumes page-by-page. Entries here give
exact<br>
release dates, which makes trolling for articles much more
expeditious, as<br>
you can begin by pulling journals around that date. Prewar listings
also in-<br>
dicate first-run theaters, which allows one to navigate collections of
theater<br>
programs. Finally, all titles and personal names are thankfully
rendered in<br>
hiragana, although one should always cross-check readings when
possible.<br>
Do note, however, that given the size of the project, each
filmographic entry<br>
is rather short, only listing some personnel and a limited number of
cast<br>
members without character names. Given the selectiveness of the
filmogra-<br>
phy, one cannot assume that the filmographies given for actors and
other<br>
individuals are complete. These works are thus most helpful for core
infor-<br>
mation, not for full filmographies.<br>
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On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Frako Loden wrote:<br>
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Is there a handy online source in either Japanese or English giving
the year of release in Japan of non-Japanese films?<br>
<br>
I'm especially interested in the month and year Richard Lester's 1967
film How I Won the War was released in Japan.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Frako Loden<br>
Berkeley, CA</blockquote>
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