Tsutomu or Takeshi (E+J)

Schermann Susanne susanneschermann at yahoo.co.jp
Thu Jul 1 11:36:19 EDT 2004


映像メディア作家人名事典(日外アソシエーツ、1991)(Eizo
Media Sakka Jinmei Jiten, Nichigai Associates) which I
consider a very reliable source, gives Tsutomu.

Susanne Schermann 


--- Aaron Gerow <gerowaaron at sbcglobal.net> からのメッセ
ージ:
> 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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