<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 22, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Jasper Sharp wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; 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="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; ">Does anyone know the correct reading of Itami Mansaku's birthname 池内義豊</span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Wikipedia entry begins ...</div><div><br></div><div><b>Mansaku Itami</b> (伊丹万作; real name Yoshitoyo Ikeuchi 池内義豊 1900-1946)
was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_%28language%29" title="Japanese (language)" class="mw-redirect">Japanese</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film" title="Film">film</a> director,
originally from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuyama,_Ehime" title="Matsuyama, Ehime">Matsuyama, Ehime</a>. His <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai" title="Samurai">samurai</a>
movies diverged from the norm in that they were not heroic epics of the
sort which had by that time become formulaic, but rather <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satires</a>
that used the established symbols and iconography of the samurai culture
to comment on both historical and modern society.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansaku_Itami">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansaku_Itami</a></div></body></html>