AW: AW: Shimazu title translation

[Alexander Jacoby]

OK Roland - I'm going to bow to your superior knowledge. My Shimazu entry will be corrected forthwith to From Love to Love.
   
  I feel that is probably better than using the inaccurate-sounding TV release title, which I'd stick with only if it had been specifically applied to the Shimazu film itself.
   
  ALEX

  
Roland Domenig <roland.domenig at univie.ac.at> wrote:
  yori can have different meanings: (1) from; out of; since; than; (2) other than; (3) more; (4) more than.

Alex, I still have reservations against your interpretation of the title. My feeling is that the yori in "Ai yori ai e" has a different meaning than the yori in "Koi yori butai e". The former I'd say corresponds to (1), the latter to (3) or (4). I doubt that in the 1930s the term "ai" was used to refer to the love to one's family, especially the parents - that would have been "kô" or "oyakôkô" (filial piety). 

Michael, Minako in the film works as a so-called jokyû, which can be translated waitress or hostess. 

Roland 


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Betreff: Re: AW: Shimazu title translation

I don't know - I am still inclined to think that "Love Before Love" is OK in the sense of "Putting [One] Love Before [Another] Love". There is an early Shimizu film called "Koi yori butai e" which has been translated "Forsaking Love for the Stage", ie Putting the Stage Before Love.

>From Love to Love was the title I originally hit on, but I'm not convinced that it's accurate, unless the particle "yori" has some functions that I'm not aware of... Can anyone more fluent than I oblige?

ALEX




 		
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