Moontide. Tsuki no shio .????.(Motion Picture Library in bilingual principle. Eiwa taiyaku moshon pikuchua raiburari : Eiwa taiyaku). First edition.

Original pictorial wraps. 18.2 x 25.8cm. 52pp.The Motion Picture Library was a pioneering bilingual film publication launched in Tokyo in post-WWII Japan (1946-1948). Aimed at bridging American pop culture and Japanese audiences, it printed full English scripts, actor profiles, and bilingual synopses of imports like Casablanca. The emergence of these bilingual or heavily translated film resources during the mid-1940s marked a dramatic cultural shift. Following wartime censorship and the total ban of foreign films, the sudden influx of Hollywood movies under the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) created a boom in cine-literacy. ."M?shon pikuch? raiburar?" wa, dainijisekaitaisengo no Nihon (1946-nen ? 1948-nen) ni oite, T?ky? de s?kan sa reta senku-tekina bairingaru eiga shuppan-monodeatta. Amerika no poppukaruch? to Nihon no kankyaku to no kakehashi to naru koto o mezashi, d?shi wa "Kasaburanka" nado no yuny? eiga ni tsuite, kanzen'na eigo kyakuhon, haiy? no purof?ru, soshite nichiei taiyaku no arasuji o keisai shite ita. 1940-Nendai nakaba ni okeru, k?shita bairingaru aruiwa ?habana hon'yaku o hodokoshita eiga kanren shiry? no t?j? wa, gekitekina bunka-teki tenkan o sh?ch? suru monodeatta. Senji-ch? no ken'etsu ya gaikoku eiga no zenmen kinshi o hete, reng?-koku saik? shirei-kan s? shirei-bu (SCAP) no t?chi-ka de Hariuddo eiga ga totsujotoshite tairy? ni ry?ny? shita koto wa, eiga riterash? (eiga o yomitoku chikara) e no kanshin o ikkini takameru b?mu o makiokoshita nodearu.??????????????????????????????????1946??1948??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????1940????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????SCAP????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????..