[KineJapan] Stills from Tōhō

[Jasper Sharp]

Yes, Aaron is correct - Kawakita can supply you with the stills, and will do so very quickly and efficiently, but not the permission to use them.
However, if you are dealing with the Kurosawa Estate directly, you should be covered in this regard, and possibly contacting Toho about it could be muddying the waters, because I suspect it won't be top of their agenda and if they do reply, they'll come up with some outrageous fee to discourage you.



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Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Stills from Tōhō

In the old days, Kawakita was the source for stills and it seemed most books on Japanese film got their stills from them. I think they were a lot more lenient then, basically given people stills and letting them publish them, but in recent years they are mostly just providing the images and insisting that you still need to get permission from the copyright owner if the image is not public domain (that’s what they said to me with one of my books). Perhaps they can serve as an intermediary, but just because they provided you with a still does not mean they’ve given you permission to use it.

Aaron Gerow
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