KineJun dictionaries

[Aaron Gerow]

>Its not complete, there are of course errors in a project so 
>large, but still a magnificent reference work.  Valerie Dhiver (on the list) 
>has praised the quality of the essays.  Anybody else who reads Japanese have 
>an opinion?  Yes, the whole thing is in Japanese.

They get the reading of Suwa Nobuhiro's name wrong!

Personally, I think you do need to get all the versions of the 
dictionaries if you want something fairly complete. The 1988 director's 
dictionary, for instance, dropped a lot of the early film directors 
included in the early 1970s edition, but added experimental filmmakers as 
well as short analytical essays for living filmmakers (why they split the 
living and the dead, I don't know).  The new edition adds a lot more 
filmmakers, but drops the analytical essays.  In some cases, no new essay 
has been written from the 1988 edition.

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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