release year of non-Japanese films in Japan

Frako Loden frako at well.com
Fri Jun 5 18:00:55 EDT 2009


Roland, where did YOU get this particular information?

Frako Loden

At 11:57 PM +0200 6/5/09, Roland Domenig wrote:
>I wonder whether the film Frako was asking about 
>is listed in the dictionary (which indeed is 
>prohibitively expensive), because it had no 
>official cinema release in Japan. The first 
>chance for Japanese to watch Richard Lester's 
>"How I won the war" was when it was aired in the 
>1980s in a night-program on TV under the title 
>"Jon renon no boku no senso" (John Lennon's My 
>War). In the late 1980s Warner Home Video 
>released it on Video, in the 1990s Pioneer put 
>it out on Laser Disc, and in 2003 SPO released 
>it on DVD.
>Does the dictionary include the video-releases 
>of films without proper theatrical release?
>
>Roland
>
>
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>Von: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
>[owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] im 
>Auftrag von Mark Nornes [amnornes at umich.edu]
>Gesendet: Freitag, 05. Juni 2009 18:57
>An: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Betreff: Re: release year of non-Japanese films in Japan
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>Frako,
>
>You are very much in luck. There is one-stop 
>shopping for this kind of info. It's drawn from 
>a number of sources, so it's something like a 
>clearing house of release information. There are 
>separate volumes for Japanese and foreign films, 
>as well as great filmographies for actors, staff 
>members and directors. Here's the one you need.
>
>îïóàÉLÉlÉ}çÏïié´ìT. êÌå“ï-. I : 
>ì™ñ{ljêÌå“(19145-1988)ÇŠè“âfÇ„ÇÍLJäOçëâfâÊàÍóó(I) 
>= Complete dictionary of [imported movies] from 
>August 1945 to December 1988 /
>Hakurai kinema sakuhin jiten. Sengo hen. I : 
>Nihon de sengo (1945-1988) ni jÿei sareta 
>gaikoku eiga ichiran (I) = Complete dictionary 
>of [imported movies] from August 1945 to 
>December 1988
>Author: ê¢äEâfâÊéjÊŽãÜâÔï". ; ; Sekai Eigashi 
>Kenky•kai.<http://berkeley.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ASekai+Eigashi+Kenkyu%CC%84kai.&qt=hot_author>
>Publisher:      â»äwèëâ@ : î‚îÑå„âýÉñä÷èoî‰, 
>Tÿkyÿ : Kagaku Shoin : Hatsubaimoto Kasumigaseki 
>Shuppan, 2004.
>Series: 
><http://berkeley.worldcat.org/oclc/54979203&referer=brief_results#> 
>Sekai, Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten 
>shir¥zu<http://berkeley.worldcat.org/search?qt=hotseries&q=se%3A%22Sekai%2C+Nihon+eiga+sakuhin+jiten+shiri%CC%84zu%22>, 
>dai 4-sh•
>Edition/Format: Book : Japanese : Shohan
>
>Unfortunately, not many libraries can afford 
>this very important reference work....or even 
>recognize how important it is; Berkeley seems to 
>be one of these, but I see that UCLA has it.
>
>Markus
>
>PS:  This is precisely the kind of research 
>question we wrote our Research Guide to Japanese 
>Cinema for. To give you a sense for why you need 
>to buy this book (I know, so shameless), here is 
>our entry for this dictionary:
>
>
>Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten/Complete Dictionary of Japanese Movies from
>1896 to 1945 August, edited by Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai.
>Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 1996.
>ì™ñ{âfâÊéjå§ãÜâÔï"
>Åwì™ñ{âfâÊçÏïié´ìT  êÌëOï- = Complete dictionary of
>Japanese movies from 1896 to 1945 AugustÅx â»äwèëâ@: î‚îÑå„ âýÉPä÷èoî‰
>äîéÆâÔé-, 1996.
>Nihon eiga sakuhin jiten/Complete Dictionary of Japanese Movies from
>1945 August to 1988 December, edited by Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai.
>Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 1998.
>ì™ñ{âfâÊéjå§ãÜâÔï"
>Åwì™ñ{âfâÊçÏïié´ìTÅ@êÌå“ï- = Complete dictionary of
>Japanese movies from 1945 August to 1988 DecemberÅx â»äwèëâ@: î‚îÑå„ âý
>ÉPä÷èoî‰äîéÆâÔé-, 1998.
>This massive dictionary of films and filmmakers takes up an entire book-
>shelf and is an indispensable tool for Japanese cinema studies. A project
>run by the Nihon Eigashi Kenkyûkai, it is an attempt to list every film and
>filmmaker in Japan (other related Kagaku Shoin projects cover staff and ac-
>tors as well foreign films shown in Japan [see pp. 99 and 104-105]). Much
>of the information is culled from only three sources-Kinema junpô, Kura-
>shikku eiga nyûsu, and government censorship records-but this is by far
>the most reliable resource for identifying release dates and filmographies
>on this scale. It is composed of two six-volume sections on prewar and
>postwar Japanese films (the other publications on prewar and postwar for-
>eign films, Japanese actors and staff, and foreign actors are cross-referenced
>when possible). For some sense of the coverage, shikku eiga nyûsu, and
>government censorship records-but this is by far
>the most reliable resource for identifying release dates and filmographies
>on this scale. It is composed of two six-volume sections on prewar and
>postwar Japanese films (the other publications on prewar and postwar for-
>eign films, Japanese actors and staff, and foreign actors are cross-referenced
>when possible). For some sense of the coverage, the Japanese section on
>staff members lists 16,441 people, eight times that of the Kinema junpô refer-
>ence dictionary. (For our entry on the biographical dictionary volumes, see
>pp. 104-105.) This series also represents an important first step for entering
>the archive. Because Japanese film periodicals are so poorly indexed, one
>must often browse through volumes page-by-page. Entries here give exact
>release dates, which makes trolling for articles much more expeditious, as
>you can begin by pulling journals around that date. Prewar listings also in-
>dicate first-run theaters, which allows one to navigate collections of theater
>programs. Finally, all titles and personal names are thankfully rendered in
>hiragana, although one should always cross-check readings when possible.
>Do note, however, that given the size of the project, each filmographic entry
>is rather short, only listing some personnel and a limited number of cast
>members without character names. Given the selectiveness of the filmogra-
>phy, one cannot assume that the filmographies given for actors and other
>individuals are complete. These works are thus most helpful for core infor-
>mation, not for full filmographies.
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>On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Frako Loden wrote:
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>Is there a handy online source in either 
>Japanese or English giving the year of release 
>in Japan of non-Japanese films?
>
>I'm especially interested in the month and year 
>Richard Lester's 1967 film How I Won the War was 
>released in Japan.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Frako Loden
>Berkeley, CA
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