<div dir="ltr">Bruce, <div><br></div><div>The book you want to check is this one: </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54979203">http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54979203</a><br></div><div><br></div>
<div>Harvard has it.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, </div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div>PS: For these kinds of questions, you can check out Aaron and my Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies. It will usually have the route you are looking for.</div>
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舶来キネマ作品辞典. 戦後篇. I : 日本で戦後(19145-1988)に上映された外国映画一覧(I) = Complete dictionary of [imported movies] from August 1945 to December 1988 /</div>Hakurai kinema sakuhin jiten. Sengo hen. I : Nihon de sengo (1945-1988) ni jōei sareta gaikoku eiga ichiran (I) = Complete dictionary of [imported movies] from August 1945 to December 1988</h1>
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<span class="" lang="ja" style="font-size:16px">世界映画史硏究会編.</span> ; ; <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ASekai+Eigashi+Kenkyu%CC%84kai.&qt=hot_author" title="Search for more by this author" style="color:rgb(90,69,141)">Sekai Eigashi Kenkyūkai.</a></td>
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<span class="" lang="ja" style="font-size:16px">科学書院 : 発売元霞ヶ関出版,</span> Tōkyō : Kagaku Shoin : Hatsubaimoto Kasumigaseki Shuppan, 2004.</td></tr><tr id="bib-hotSeriesTitles-row"><th style="margin:0px;padding:0px 14px 8px 0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:top;font-size:12px;color:rgb(69,85,96);background-image:none">
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</ul></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Jasper Sharp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jasper_sharp@hotmail.com" target="_blank">jasper_sharp@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">Hi Bruce,<div><br></div><div>I'd second <span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:15px;line-height:21px"><a href="http://allcinema.net/" style="line-height:21px;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,104,207)" target="_blank">allcinema.net</a> </span>for U.S. release dates. Also you can check the relevant volume of Eigan nenkan's for the year in question, and finally, most (if not all) foreign releases are documented in :</div>
<div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:10.0px Times New Roman"><font face="Arial" style="font-size:10pt">Tanaka, Junichiro. <i>Nihon eiga hattatsu shi I-V </i>(<i>Developments in Japanese Film </i><i>History</i>, vols. I–V, 日本映画発達史 I-V).Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1957 (reprint 1980).</font></p>
</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Jasper<br><br><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div></span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="Tahoma"><b><i><a href="http://www.creepinggarden.com/" target="_blank">The Creeping Garden</a> </i>- A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them. </b></font><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><b>Currently in production, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. </b></span></div>
<div style="font-size:13px"><font face="Tahoma"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px"><i>The </i></b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt"><b style="font-style:italic">Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema </b>(2011)</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt"> </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma">is out now from <a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810857957" target="_blank">Scarecrow Press</a></span></div>
<font face="Tahoma" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div><br></div></span></span><span style="font-size:13px"><b><i>Midnight Eye - Visions of Japanese cinema</i></b><br>
<font><a href="http://www.midnighteye.com" target="_blank">http://www.midnighteye.com</a></font><br></span></font><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<b><i><span>Jasper Sharp, </span><span>writer & film curator</span></i></b></div><font face="Tahoma" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://jaspersharp.com/" style="font-size:10pt" target="_blank">http://jaspersharp.com/</a></font></span><br>
<br><div><hr>Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 01:50:00 -0400<br>From: <a href="mailto:raine.michael.j@gmail.com" target="_blank">raine.michael.j@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br>
Subject: Re: [KineJapan] John Sturges 1958 "Old Man and the Sea" in Japan<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Bruce, <br><br></div><a href="http://allcinema.net" target="_blank">allcinema.net</a> has October 25, 1958. There's a book called 20世紀アメリカ映画事典 : 1914-2000 日本公開作品記錄 that lists all the US films in the order the appeared, I think. I don't remember if it gives the actual release date. Short of that, you could look at Kinema junpo for that month and see if the film is listed. <br>

<br>Hope that helps,<br><br>Michael<br></div><div><br><br><div>On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Bruce Baird <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baird@umass.edu" target="_blank">baird@umass.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I am hoping to tap the wisdom of this list to save myself some legwork.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am considering an April 1959 dance performance "Old Man and the Sea" choreographed by Ono Kazuo with a script by Ikemiya Nobuo.  I would like to know if the 1958 John Sturges movie "Old Man and the Sea" starring Spencer Tracy screened in Japan (Tokyo Yokohama area) sometime before Nov. 1958 or else before April 1959? IMBD gives the release date of the Sturges movie as October 7 for the New York premier, Oct. 11 for general US release, and Oct. 21, 1958 as the Japan release date. Is this a trustworthy source?</div>

<div><br></div><div>Can anyone suggest a source for double checking the Japanese release date and location of the movie?</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>


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