kanji crib-sheet?

[Roger Macy]

Could anyone recommend a good site for looking up the kanji for film directors, etc. for a beginner to interrogate JMDb?  I've found Wikipedia (English) pretty good, provided it's in there.  But I got grounded on Tsuchimoto noriaki, although I eventually got it - 土本典昭.  I can't see him in Wikipedia 日本語, either, but, in any case, Wikipedia 日本語 doesn't consistently refer back to the romaji - e.g. you can find 'Kurosawa akira' directly but 'Kawabata yasunari' only with the kanji.

Incidentally, does JMDb cover shorts/ mediums?   I can't see Tsuchimoto's superb early films, shown last week in Sheffield :- 
'An Engineer's Assistant' 'Aru kikanjōshi' (That's my lengthened 'o'), 1963  [ある機関上司 ?]
or 'Document: On the Road',  「ドキュメント路上」, 1964.

And does rojō [路上] translate better as 'road skills', or 'street cred.' ?

Roger Macy
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