<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For Yokohama, don't forget the Hama Maiku films, since his office was on top of the old Nichigeki. <div><div><br></div><div>Do note that, as one old director told me long ago, Yokohama was one of the favorite sites for lower budget movies and TV dramas because it allowed for such a wide variety of location types within a short distance. I've seen Yamashita Koen or the wharves in many a Nikkatsu Action movie.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Also check out this:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.city.yokohama.jp/me/kyoiku/library/chosa/banduke2006/banduke_movie.html">http://www.city.yokohama.jp/me/kyoiku/library/chosa/banduke2006/banduke_movie.html</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>When looking for films set in a place, always check out two sources:</div><div><br></div><div>1) The local film commission. Most will include on their sites a list of films/shows shot there. So look at this, for instance, for Yokohama: <a href="http://www.welcome.city.yokohama.jp/film/2000.html">http://www.welcome.city.yokohama.jp/film/2000.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>2) A local film history. There are dozens and dozens of these local film histories, most of which focus on local exhibition and location history. Markus and I list many of them in our Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies, but here are the ones we list for Kanagawa:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 10.1px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Palatino; ">Maruoka Sumio, <span style="font: 10.0px Times"><i>Kanagawa shinema fudoki </i></span>(Yokohama: Kanagawa Shinbunsha, 1993); Maruoka Sumio, <span style="font: 10.0px Times"><i>Odeonza monogatari </i></span>(Yokohama: Mutsuzaki Akira, 1975); <span style="font: 10.0px Times"><i>Shinema shiti: Yokohama to eiga </i></span>(Yokohama: Yokohama Toshi Hatten Kinenkan, 2005). </div></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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-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: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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-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: 0px; "><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-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: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Aaron Gerow</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Associate Professor</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Yale University</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">53 Wall Street, Room 316</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PO Box 208363</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">New Haven, CT 06520-8363</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">USA</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Phone: 1-203-432-7082</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Fax: 1-203-432-6764</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">e-mail: <a href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a></div><div>site: <a href="http://www.aarongerow.com">www.aarongerow.com</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span></div> </div><br></div></body></html>