Tsutomu or Takeshi (E+J)
Aaron Gerow
gerowaaron at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 1 10:23:01 EDT 2004
Just a simple question: Which is the correct reading for the name of
the screenwriter for many of Oshima's and Shinoda's films, Tamura
Tsutomu or Tamura Takeshi (in Japanese 田村孟)?
The Japanese Diet Library gives Tsutomu, the KineJun database Takeshi.
The Japan Writers Guild gives Tsutomu, but many English texts give
Takeshi. The IMDb has both readings existing as if they are different
people.
I would tend to side with Tsutomu since the Diet Library is the
principal authority on name readings and since Tamura was a prominent
member of the Writers Guild. But I was wondering if anyone out there
has confronted this problem before and can tell us the Answer.
Aaron Gerow
Film Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
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