JMDB gone?

[HungFist]

Another database bits the dust, it seems. And this time its what I would consider the most important database for Japanese cinema. JMDB may not have been as sexy as most other databases, but it's the database you use'd to add missing movies to all other databases!

JMDB was the site I'd use to check if a film was produced Toei Tokyo, Toei Kyoto, New Toei, The 2nd Toei etc. when other databases just state "Toei". It was the database I'd use to figure out which films came out as double or triple features using their annual film release calendars. And so on.

Thankfully Wayback Machine seems to have more or less archived the site. I'll drop just one (dead) link to the year 1972, which can be used as starting point and is easy to modify to access other years. Just copy the link below to Wayback Machine, and change the year in the link (twice).

http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1972/a1972.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000 ... /a1972.htm

[Guro Taku]

Yeah, that's a real bummer. They were the main place I relied on whenever I wanted to look up casts & crews for obscure pink films.