Talk:Madadayo

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Madadayo is part of WikiProject Japan, a project to improve all Japan-related articles. If you would like to help improve this and other Japan-related articles, please join the project. All interested editors are welcome.
Stub This article has been rated as stub-Class on the quality scale.

This article is part of WikiProject Films, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to films and film characters on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Stub
This article has been rated as stub-Class on the quality scale.
Unknown
This article has not been rated on the importance assessment scale.

[edit] Spelling of the Professor's name

While adding to this article I noticed that the Professor - who is also a real life author has his name spelt in two different ways. The first is Uehida Hyakken-sama, which I saw on The Internet Movie Database and has subsequently copied onto many different Madadayo-related pages across the internet. The second is Uchida Hyakken which I have seen in List of Japanese authors:U and on websites selling his essays.

Is the difference just for the film or is it a Japanese naming issue. I was wondering as I would be interested in creating his page on Wikipedia. Jack 16:53, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Uchida Hyakken is the name of an author of approximately fifty books according to the catalog of the Library of Congress, while Uehida Hyakken is not on their file. My guess is that the IMDB is wrong here. "-sama" is an honorific suffix and not part of his name, or any other Japanese name for that matter (cf: Japanese titles). --Thorsen 20:33, 4 March 2006 (UTC)