<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If you have problems, let me know and I could look it up when I get back to Michigan in mid-July. <div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div><br></div><div>markus</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:42 AM, 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">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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Research Guide to Japanese Cinema</i>.</div><div><br></div><div>Frako Loden</div><div>Berkeley, CA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>At 3:18 PM -0400 6/5/09, Mark Nornes wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Frako,</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">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><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><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="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><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="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">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="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">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="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Markus</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">PS: This is precisely the kind of research question we wrote our<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Research Guide to Japanese Cinema</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><i>Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten/Complete Dictionary of Japanese Movies from </i></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><i>1896 to 1945 August,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>edited by Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 1996.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">ì™ñ{âfâÊéjå§ãÜâÔï"</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Åwì™ñ{âfâÊçÏïié´ìT êÌëOï- = Complete dictionary of</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Japanese movies from 1896 to 1945 AugustÅx â»äwèëâ@: î‚îÑå„ âýÉPä÷èoî‰</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">äîéÆâÔé-, 1996.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><i>Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten/Complete Dictionary of Japanese Movies from </i></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><i>1945 August to 1988 December,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>edited by Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 1998.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">ì™ñ{âfâÊéjå§ãÜâÔï"</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Åwì™ñ{âfâÊçÏïié´ìTÅ@êÌå“ï- = Complete dictionary of</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Japanese movies from 1945 August to 1988 DecemberÅx â»äwèëâ@: î‚îÑå„ âý</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">ÉPä÷èoî‰äîéÆâÔé-, 1998.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">This massive dictionary of films and filmmakers takes up an entire book-</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">shelf and is an indispensable tool for Japanese cinema studies. A project</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">run by the Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai, it is an attempt to list every film and</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">filmmaker in Japan (other related Kagaku Shoin projects cover staff and ac-</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">tors as well foreign films shown in Japan [see pp. 99 and 104-105]). Much</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">of the information is culled from only three sources-<i>Kinema junpô, Kura-</i></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><i>shikku eiga nyûsu,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and government censorship records-but this is by far</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">the most reliable resource for identifying release dates and filmographies</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">on this scale. It is composed of two six-volume sections on prewar and</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">postwar Japanese films (the other publications on prewar and postwar for-</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">eign films, Japanese actors and staff, and foreign actors are cross-referenced</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">when possible). For some sense of the coverage,<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>shikku eiga nyûsu,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">government censorship records-but this is by far</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">the most reliable resource for identifying release dates and filmographies</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">on this scale. It is composed of two six-volume sections on prewar and</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">postwar Japanese films (the other publications on prewar and postwar for-</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">eign films, Japanese actors and staff, and foreign actors are cross-referenced</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">when possible). For some sense of the coverage, the Japanese section on</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">staff members lists 16,441 people, eight times that of the<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kinema junpô</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>refer-</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">ence dictionary. (For our entry on the biographical dictionary volumes, see</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">pp. 104-105.) This series also represents an important first step for entering</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">the archive. Because Japanese film periodicals are so poorly indexed, one</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">must often browse through volumes page-by-page. Entries here give exact</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">release dates, which makes trolling for articles much more expeditious, as</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">you can begin by pulling journals around that date. Prewar listings also in-</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">dicate first-run theaters, which allows one to navigate collections of theater</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">programs. Finally, all titles and personal names are thankfully rendered in</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><i>hiragana</i>, although one should always cross-check readings when possible.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Do note, however, that given the size of the project, each filmographic entry</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">is rather short, only listing some personnel and a limited number of cast</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">members without character names. Given the selectiveness of the filmogra-</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">phy, one cannot assume that the filmographies given for actors and other</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">individuals are complete. These works are thus most helpful for core infor-</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">mation, not for full filmographies.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Frako Loden wrote:</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br>Is there a handy online source in either Japanese or English giving the year of release in Japan of non-Japanese films?</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">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.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Thanks,</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Frako Loden</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Berkeley, CA</blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>