Toshio Masuda edit
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So, the main weak point of the article might be that it primarily comes from one book—as mentioned in the article, Masuda's been glossed over in English language Japanese film scholarship and criticism—but I think it manages okay. Also, haven't found a reference for the Kinema Junpo readers choice award yet. Anyway, I'm looking for any glaring errors or omissions and maybe some opinions on whether this has GA or FA potential. Thanks very much, Doctor Sunshine talk 20:47, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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- "Naruse had the biggest impact on him for whom he was 2nd AD on Ginza Cosmetics (1951) and Mother (1952)." I do not like this phrase's wording.
- "Masuda continues to direct and write for television." What exactly? Can't you be more specific?
- "Filmmaking" isn't a bit overlapping with "Career"? There you have also analysis of his filmmaking. What differentiates the two sections? Personnally, in "filmmaking" I would like to see more overall critical assessments of Masuda as director and filmmaking if there are any.
- The same with Legacy. Analyzing Tora, Tora, Tora there also leads to overlaps with "Career". After all the receival of the film shouldn't IMO be analyzed in "Legacy" but in "Career" or "Filmaking", depending your structure. "Legacy" has to do with the influence of his art to the future generations.
- Is commercial use allowed for Image:Toshio Masuda 2005.jpg? Clarify that in the image's page.
- The prose seems fine, but I believe a copy-editing would help the article.--Yannismarou (talk) 12:38, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comments. I've begun copy editing and the like and will probably finish in the next day or two. I'm going to give the lead another go as well. It helps a lot to come back to it with fresh eyes. Point one is fixed. The specifics of his television career will be difficult. At some point I'll look into Japanese sources (not my strong suit) to at least provide a vague outline but currently I've only got a decade old Boshin War series from the IMDb to go on, which doesn't help much. The main idea between Career and Filmmaking is what he did versus how he did it—if there were more written on him I might have been able to add Themes and Style subsections to the latter. I've cleaned up Career a bit but there'll likely remain a little overlap just in terms of providing context, as people don't always read entire articles. In general, there's just not very much information available. A couple of his Nikkatsu films are due out on DVD next year and Chris D. has to finish his Yakuza Encyclopedia eventually, so hopefully things will change. I did forget about two reviews in Schilling's Yakuza Movie Book so I might be able to scrounge another sentence or two of analysis. I agree about Tora, I'll get that. For the image, commercial use is allowed, I think that's implicit in the permissions tag with "any purposes". It's also stated on the source's website (in Italian). I'll update here when everything's up to par. Doctor Sunshine talk 03:10, 23 July 2008 (UTC)