Imports: a correction and a question

[faith]

Roger, this may or may not help, but there's a 2002 encyclopedia of all American (only) films that played Japan, I attach the Yahoo Auction page so you can see it, very cheap indeed here.  "20th Century Amerika Eiga Jiten," Catalog House, ISBN 4905943507.
FB

--- On Thu, 2011/4/14, Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:






Thanks Markus.
Luck is a bit relative here.  I can't see the Hakurai kinema sakuhin jiten volumes outside of Japan and the US (The nihon eiga ones are at Oxford).  So, at 240,000 yen and up, if it ain't in Pia, or online, it seems it's gonna have to wait.
But at least I've got confirmation of where I stand.
best,
Roger

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Mark Nornes 
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Imports: a correction and a question

Roger,  


You are in luck (depending on the time period)!  Pull out the research guide and check out these titles: 


Pia cinema club, gaikoku eiga hen 



Hakurai kinema sakuhin jiten: Nihon de senzen ni jôei sareta gaikoku eiga ichiran = Complete dictionary of imported movies up to 1945 August, edited by Sekai Eigashi Kenkyûkai————Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 1997. 



Hakurai kinema sakuhin jiten. Sengo hen. 1: Nihon de sengo (1945-1988) ni jôei sareta gaikoku eiga ichiran (1)———Tokyo: Kagaku Shoin, 2004


Wikipedia and IMDB are increasingly good for this data as well. 


Markus

























On Apr 12, 2011, at 5:24 AM, Roger Macy wrote:



Dear KineJapaners,
 
First, the correction:
A few months back, I recall answering to a question on German-Japanese collaborations about Riefenstahl's 'Olympia' and saying something to the effect that the four-year delay would be incomprehensible today.  I've just stumbled on the fact that the 2006 UK film 'Amazing Grace' is currently on release in Japan and is being heavily advertised.  In my defense, the age of the film is not exactly being pushed ...
 
My question is - and I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can't locate it - I'll write it into the index of my 'Research Guide' this time - is what is an accessible resource for the release dates of foreign films into Japan.  The period I'm interested in right now is some UK films of the 50s.  For later periods, there's runs in the UK of Kinema Junpo, but is there any volume I could acquire which would hold this information please ?
 
Roger
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