how to locate early Japanese films

[Sybil Thornton]

The Film Center has a website: http://www.momat.go.jp/fc.html
The also have a catalogue of their holdings; mine is from the 1980s, so I don't
know what they've found since.   Most of their prewar collection is originally
from the US, so check Library of Congress, etc. for holdings.
Also try Matsuda (private and for profit, mind you) at their website:
http://www.infoasia.co.jp/subdir/matsuda.html
There are private collections in Japan, especially in the hands of benshi or
their families.  I don't know whether anyone has published even privately a
list of all available films.
SAT

junji yoshida wrote:

> Dear all members,
>
> I am now trying to initiate my research on the genealogy of comic cinema in
> Japan and various politics at work therein but facing the basic problem of
> identifying which films are still existent and where/whether they are
> available.  Is there any way to find out these things without going to
> Japan?  I assume that Kindai Bijutsukan has a film center but I have never
> been there and have no idea about their holdings or even whether they
> charge us any fee for viewing.  If anybody has any idea about my inquiries,
> please respond.  Thank you.
>
> best,
> junji yoshida

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