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<div>Markus, I failed to thank you for this valuable info earlier this
month. I'll have to get someone to get info from UCLA for me, but in
the meantime I'll order a copy of your (and Aaron's)<i> Research Guide
to Japanese Cinema</i>.</div>
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<div>Frako Loden</div>
<div>Berkeley, CA</div>
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<div>At 3:18 PM -0400 6/5/09, Mark Nornes wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Frako,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
size="+3"><b>îïóàÉLÉlÉ}çÏïié´ìT. êÌå“ï-. I :
ì™ñ{ljêÌå“(19145-1988)ÇŠè“âfÇ„ÇÍÇ<span
></span>‡äOçëâfâÊàÍóó(I) = Complete dictionary of
[imported movies] from August 1945 to December 1988
/</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+3"><b>Hakurai kinema sakuhin
jiten. Sengo hen. I : Nihon de sengo (1945-1988) ni jo¯ei sareta
gaikoku eiga ichiran (I) = Complete dictionary of [imported movies]
from August 1945 to December 1988</b></font><br>
<font size="+3"><b></b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>Author:ê¢äEâfâÊéjÊŽãÜâÔï". ; ; <a
href=
"http://berkeley.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ASekai+Eigashi+Kenkyu%CC%84kai.&qt=hot_author"><span
></span>Sekai Eigashi Kenkyu¯kai.</a>Publisher:â»äwèëâ@
: î‚îÑå„âýÉñä÷èoî‰, To¯kyo¯ :
Kagaku Shoin : Hatsubaimoto Kasumigaseki Shuppan, 2004.Series:<a
href="">Sekai, Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten shiri¯zu</a>, dai
4-shu¯Edition/Format:Book : Japanese : Shohan</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Markus</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten/Complete
Dictionary of Japanese Movies from </i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>1896 to 1945 August,</i> edited by
Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 1996.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>ì™ñ{âfâÊéjå§ãÜâÔï"</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>Åwì™ñ{âfâÊçÏïié´ìT êÌëOï- = Complete dictionary
of</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Japanese movies from 1896 to 1945
AugustÅx â»äwèëâ@: î‚îÑå„
âýÉPä÷èoî‰</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>äîéÆâÔé-,
1996.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten/Complete
Dictionary of Japanese Movies from </i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>1945 August to 1988 December,</i>
edited by Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 1998.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>ì™ñ{âfâÊéjå§ãÜâÔï"</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>Åwì™ñ{âfâÊçÏïié´ìTÅ@êÌå“ï- = Complete dictionary
of</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Japanese movies from 1945 August to 1988
DecemberÅx â»äwèëâ@: î‚îÑå„
âý</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>ÉPä÷èoî‰äîéÆâÔé-, 1998.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>This massive dictionary of films and
filmmakers takes up an entire book-</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>shelf and is an indispensable tool for
Japanese cinema studies. A project</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>run by the Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai, it
is an attempt to list every film and</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>filmmaker in Japan (other related Kagaku
Shoin projects cover staff and ac-</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>tors as well foreign films shown in Japan
[see pp. 99 and 104-105]). Much</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>of the information is culled from only
three sources-<i>Kinema junpô, Kura-</i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>shikku eiga nyûsu,</i> and
government censorship records-but this is by far</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>postwar Japanese films (the other
publications on prewar and postwar for-</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>eign films, Japanese actors and staff,
and foreign actors are cross-referenced</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>when possible). For some sense of the
coverage,<i> shikku eiga nyûsu,</i> and</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>government censorship records-but this
is by far</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>postwar Japanese films (the other
publications on prewar and postwar for-</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>eign films, Japanese actors and staff,
and foreign actors are cross-referenced</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>when possible). For some sense of the
coverage, the Japanese section on</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>staff members lists 16,441 people, eight
times that of the<i> Kinema junpô</i> refer-</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>ence dictionary. (For our entry on the
biographical dictionary volumes, see</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>pp. 104-105.) This series also represents
an important first step for entering</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>the archive. Because Japanese film
periodicals are so poorly indexed, one</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>must often browse through volumes
page-by-page. Entries here give exact</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>release dates, which makes trolling for
articles much more expeditious, as</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>you can begin by pulling journals around
that date. Prewar listings also in-</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>dicate first-run theaters, which allows
one to navigate collections of theater</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>programs. Finally, all titles and
personal names are thankfully rendered in</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>hiragana</i>, although one should
always cross-check readings when possible.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Do note, however, that given the size of
the project, each filmographic entry</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>is rather short, only listing some
personnel and a limited number of cast</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>members without character names. Given
the selectiveness of the filmogra-</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>phy, one cannot assume that the
filmographies given for actors and other</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>individuals are complete. These works are
thus most helpful for core infor-</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>mation, not for full
filmographies.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Frako Loden
wrote:</blockquote>
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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?</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I'm especially interested in the month
and year Richard Lester's 1967 film<i> How I Won the
War</i> was released in Japan.</