著者

島村 宣男

出版者

関東学院大学[文学部]人文学会

雑誌

関東学院大学文学部紀要 (ISSN:02861216)

巻号頁・発行日

no.127, pp.55-80, 2012

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On the release of a new foreign film in Japan, the Japanese companies go out of their way to put the original for instance, into `Japanese,' like 2001-nen: Uchuu no Tabi for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968), Michi tono So-gu- for Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977), etc. Some titles have nicely taken root among movie-goers, others have remained odd enough for some reason or other. In recent years, the trend is to give random katakana-transcribed titles. Such meaningless Japanese titles, for what?