Copies have just arrived at Stone Bridge’s San Francisco offices of the new edition of the Anime Encyclopedia. Helen McCarthy just won the internet by saying: “And of course, it’s even bigger on the inside.” 1200 pages, 1.1 million words.
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こんにちは、ジョナサン様。
『The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition』について質問があります。私は日本のライターであり在野研究者でもあり、日本で最も有名な映画雑誌『映画秘宝』で「カルト」と呼ばれる作品について研究しています。
特に『すヾみ舟』という作品を調査する過程で、ジョナサン様の著書『The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition』において「日本初のエロアニメ『すずみ舟』は、21世紀初頭、警察が長年押収していた危険で燃えやすいフィルムを処分しようとした際、フィルムセンターに寄贈された警察のアーカイブの一部として発見された」との記述があることを確認しました。
この情報について、どのような資料を参照されたのか、ご教示いただけると大変助かります。日本語の文献にはこのような情報が見当たらず、調査が難航しております。
現在、『すヾみ舟』の収蔵機関とも交渉を進めており、新たな展開が得られるかもしれません。何卒よろしくお願い申し上げます。
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Hello Mr. Jonathan, I have a question about “The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition”. I have a question about “The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition”. I am a Japanese writer, currently working for Japan’s most famous movie magazine, “Eiga Hiho”, and I am mainly researching what I call “cult” works.
In the process of researching the film “Suzumi-bune,” Jonathan wrote in “The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition” that “Japan’s first erotic anime ‘Suzumibune’ was made in the early 21st century when the police were trying to dispose of a dangerous and flammable film they had confiscated over the years. It was discovered in the early 21st century as part of a police archive donated to the Film Center while the police were trying to dispose of a dangerous and flammable film that had been confiscated over the years.
We would appreciate it if you could share with us what sources you have consulted for this information. I have not been able to find this information anywhere in the Japanese literature and am stuck in my research.
We are currently negotiating with the institution that houses the “Suzumi-bune” and perhaps this will lead to a new development.
虫塚虫蔵
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Hello Parerogas, that comment in the AE3 was based on a conversation I had at the Locarno Film Festival in 2009 with Akira Tochigi, who was then a curator at the Tokyo Film Center (National Museum of Modern Art).