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

[Michael McCaskey]

Dear Prof. Gerow,

Thank you very much for the information, and the time and effort. I appreciate it very much. It does seem that this director was active for a very long time, unless there were two of them. I'll go with Shiba Seika, as you suggest. I'm dealing with him just as the director of the first film version of Osaragi's Ako Roshi, back in 1929, so I need to put his name in only once--but as you indicate, he truly seems to have been highly prolific over a long span of time. The 1933 sequel film, or perhaps remake, also still silent, was directed by Ito Daisuke instead.

Thanks again,

Michael McCaskey



----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
Date: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:02 pm
Subject: Re: Seeking 1920s Director's Name-Yomi Confirmation/Correction

> I also would tend to read the name as Shiba Seika, although 
> sometimes 
> that family name is read Shiwa. Have you checked the KineJun 
> directors 
> dictionaries or the Nichigai Associates name reference books to 
> make 
> sure? That is the place to start (unfortunately, I don't have my 
> KineJun reference books with me).
> 
> Just looking on the internet, it seems like Shiba might be the 
> same one 
> who was involved in directing SF TV shows in the 1950s, which 
> would 
> make him one figure who moved from film into the TV industry. The 
> name 
> is the same (although he also went by the name Shiba  Hiroyuki), 
> and 
> given the name's rarity, I would assume it's the same person.
> 
> 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 Gerow
> Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies Program
> Assistant Professor
> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Yale University
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