Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenpei to barabara shibijin

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The result was Keep. Eluchil404 (talk) 11:03, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kenpei to barabara shibijin

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Non-notable Japanese film. It hurts... Six Sided Pun Vows (talk | contribs | former account) 01:52, 1 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question: An AfD could hurt too. Now that it's April 2, I just wanted to ask whether this was another April Fool's AfD, like some of the others Six Sided Pun Vows started on April 1.

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:27, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:27, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I found this result from Google News in Japanese, but I'm not sure that it actually counts as reliable. There were a lot of promising Japanese refs from Google Books, but they were all either passing mentions, unavailable, or the snippet was so short that I could only guess at the information inside. I am thinking that there must be reviews in Japanese papers and magazines from the 1950s, but I can't verify this without going to the library to check. — Mr. Stradivarius ^♫ 09:13, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Confirming that this was NOT a joke nomination. I believe that a possible connection to a 17-year-old video game doesn't exactly make this film notable. Six Sided Pun Vows (talk | contribs | former account) 12:57, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This is a film that is rather regularly mentioned in discussions of Japanese horror or schlock cinema, or in histories of Shintoho. Just a quick journey to my bookshelf found an entry on the film in Weisser's Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction and the film selected as one of "Japanese Ghost and Horror Film Masterpieces" in Bekkan Taiyō's Nihon horā eiga e no shōtai. It's also covered in Nihon tokusatsu gensō eiga zenshū [1]. Journalism at the time took it up, with Kinema Junpō, the major film magazine, publishing a review in the September 1959 issue (the separate "shōkai" is here). The National Film Center of Japan has even featured it in their retrospectives (see here--note that being "featured as part of a documentary, program, or retrospective on the history of cinema" is one of the conditions of WP:NF). It would not be hard to find more. Michitaro (talk) 15:52, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I also was able to find multiple references to this it is clearly a well known film. The stuff about the game person is just connecting trivia which belongs in the article about the game person, not in the article about the film. JoshuSasori (talk) 07:01, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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