Req: Actors Name Confirmed

[Guest Markgway]

千原志野布

Shinobu CHIHARA

波多野博

Hiroshi HATANO

河合綾子

Ryoko KAWAI

龜井洋子

Yoko KAMEI

塩貝美沙季

Misaki SHIOGAI

From the credits of THE CHRIST OF NANJING

Thanx.

[Guest Markgway]

A Japanese film forum with no Japanese speakers???

[Gaijin84]

It's not perfect, but this translator seems to confirm your English names:

http://nihongo.j-talk.com/kanji/

Kanji --> Romaji

[chanbara]

I can confirm that Hiroshi HATANO is definitely correct. I believe the others are correct too, with the possible exception of 河合綾子 which could be Ayako KAWAI.

[Guest Markgway]

Thanks, guys.

I did come up with both Ryoko and Ayoko as suitable translations but couldn't find any actor with the latter name. There is a Ryoko, however, at the IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442775/

Japanese cinema isn't my forte so I thought maybe someone here would know these guys.

[Takuma]

Japanese cinema isn't my forte so I thought maybe someone here would know these guys.

There's three problems:

1) Most of those people seem to be nobodies. Hiroshi HATANO is the only one of them who is even in Allcinema's movie database.

2) Reading kanji isn't simple because the same kanji can have different spellings. Something like Kyoko can be written in 500 different ways, and the kanji spelling can also have different romajisations. Even Japanese film databases sometimes have completely wrong kana translations for names.

3) Hell if my kanji reading is enough to tell you more that a few beginnings and endings and middle parts of those names...