<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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: 0px; font-size: medium; "><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-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; font-size: medium; "><div style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bruce Baird<br>Associate Professor<br>Asian Languages and Literatures<br>University of Massachusetts Amherst<br>Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History<br><br>717 Herter Hall<br>161 Presidents Drive<br>University of Massachusetts Amherst<br>Amherst, MA 01003-9312<br>Phone: 413-577-4992<br>Fax: 413-545-4975<br><a href="mailto:baird@asianlan.umass.edu">baird@asianlan.umass.edu</a></div><div style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For information about my book<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>see:</div><div style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/hijikatatatsumiandbutoh/BruceBaird">http://us.macmillan.com/hijikatatatsumiandbutoh/BruceBaird</a></div></span></div></span></span>
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