Mikio Naruse - contact info

[Alexander Jacoby]

Rights for the stills from old Shintoho films are owned by Kokusai Hoei; and I believe this is true for the films themselves, in most cases. I don't have their contact details with me right now as I'm in China, but as I recall you can look their phone number in the 2006 Filmex festival programme (the one with the Nakagawa retrospective). A few of Shintoho's productions were specifically bought by Toho - but these are isolated cases. You should enquire about Shintoho titles with Kokusai Hoei as a first port of call, and they will tell you if they are or are not the rightsholders for those particular films.

ALEX



--- On Thu, 26/3/09, Michael Kerpan <mekerpan at verizon.net> wrote:

From: Michael Kerpan <mekerpan at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Mikio Naruse - contact info
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Date: Thursday, 26 March, 2009, 9:04 PM


Two of his films (Lightning and Older Brother, Younger sister) were made by Daiei -- so I assume Kadokawa owns them now.

There are also some Shintoho ones (Mother, for sure).  I think the splitting up of the Shintoho was rather complicated.  Not sure who owns this one (I would have thought toho would have gotten it, but I have no proof).

MEK
--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:

> From: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> Subject: Re: Mikio Naruse - contact info

> Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 8:57 PM

> In general, the copyright of a film
> in Japan resides with the production company that made it.
> So the first step would be to contact the company that made
> the film the clip is from. Given Naruse's career, that's
> probably Shochiku, PCL or Toho (PCL is the forerunner of
> Toho, so I think Toho claims rights for PCL films). T



      
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