Seeking 1920s Director's Name-Yomi Confirmation/Correction

[Jason Gray]

Michael & Aaron

Found this listing for the 1960 ver. of Tetsujin 28

http://www.minipara.com/movies2000-2nd/tetsujin/imode.shtml

Which shows it was the same man (directing under
Shiwa/Shiba Hiroyuki, with Shiwa/Shiba Seika in
parentheses)

enamdict
(http://ringtail.its.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/enamdict_doc.html)
lists "Seika" as the only reading for the kanji 
西果 

西果 [せいか] /Seika (g)/ 


> If Shiba Seika is in fact his geimei, with Hiroyuki
> being his real 
> name, we can assume that he is reading it in a
> Chinese fashion (like 
> Seijun does). Seika should be correct.

Aaron -- I've heard cases of people in the arts (and
perhaps other fields?) switching to the onyomi of their
name when they become famous. What's the origin or reason
for this? Is it just to stand out even more than they
already do? I'm thinking of doing it myself.

jg