<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I was also asked the same question by Ota-san, and showed her this newspaper page from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from February 18, 1969. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/271234104/?fbclid=IwAR1cdXOghW8_yVBRaeS4sLTSz0K8NpwZGNpYnjy5dKYCMtCqF94i01U3gJc" class="">https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/271234104/?fbclid=IwAR1cdXOghW8_yVBRaeS4sLTSz0K8NpwZGNpYnjy5dKYCMtCqF94i01U3gJc</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Even without getting the full view, you can see there is an ad for the film showing at the Nippon theater. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">More needs to be done to figure out where else it showed and what happened to the print(s). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Aaron<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">2020/07/24 午後4:43、matteo boscarol via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" class="">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>>のメール:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Dear members, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The おもちゃ映画ミュージアム in Kyoto is trying to gather information on the theatrical release of <span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">祇園祭 </span>The Day the Sun Rose, aka Gion Festival (Yamanouchi Tetsuya, 1968) outside of Japan. We know that it was shown in USA in February of 1969 (in Hawaii in 1973), but they couldn’t get anything about other parts of the world. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any help would be appreciated. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards<br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Matteo Boscarol</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><div class=""><div style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">- Film writer for Il Manifesto</span></div></div><div style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><font style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><a href="http://ilmanifesto.it/" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">http://ilmanifesto.it</a></font></div><div style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Asian Docs</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">- Documentary in Japan and Asia</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><a href="http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com/" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font class="">http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com</font></a></div><div style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="line-height: 24px;" class=""></div></div><div style="line-height: 24px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""></span></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">KineJapan mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:KineJapan@mailman.yale.edu" class="">KineJapan@mailman.yale.edu</a><br class="">https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>