Night457 wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:42 pm
IMDB does not have eveything, but Amazon is just a commerce site.
Yes, but at least in fact it provides a huge "database" and records a permanently associated number for each item. It is not the only gold standard, but it does provide help since it is widely known.
For example, there is a non-commercial substitute, but it is not so well-known:
https://www.themoviedb.org/
Night457 wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:42 pm
I approved a post that had all Japanese characters and that just will not do. We needed more information.
I tried to do this, but I can’t, there are few information about some old Japanese works.
Night457 wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:42 pm
The standard here is the Latin alphabet and other alphabets can be used to make it absolutely accurate. Russian movies without official English titles will have their titles printed in the Latin alphabet and the original Cyrillic included for search purposes. Example: Кукольник / Kukolnik (2023).
Russian has relatively simple relationships with English, but Japanese and Roman sounds are not so absolute.
This is also the case, I won't say which one is absolutely accurate:
Tengoku made hibi ke boku no sinbaru! Byouin nai gakkyuu monogatari
For this specific case, because its title is too "long", I think that using the original Japanese title is actually a better choice.
Because it is actually more likely to provide supplementary information and resources, it may be largely Japanese.
If people in other countries can provide it, as I said, they must also use the original Japanese title to index.
I think the alternatives is provides an English translation in post content, which is convenient for English readers to understand without extra translation tools.
On the other hand, I think we cannot always quote other websites. With the disappearance of some Internet information, here may become the only place where some information is retained. This is why I posted it here and encouraged people with related resources to supplement and publish.