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Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1309–1310.
Published: 01 November 2009
...: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s , Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano studies the not yet fully explored field of Shōchiku cinema during the interwar period. Important works have been already published, centering on some single directors: for example, David Bordwell's Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (Princeton...
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Mishima on Stage: The Black Lizard and Other Plays
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 260–263.
Published: 01 February 2010
... includes a substantial sixty-page introduction to the volume, tracing Mishima's relationship to theater from his obsession with kabuki as a young man through his recruitment by Shōchiku to write new plays for its Kabuki-za theater (which is currently enjoying a resurgence thanks to plans to tear down...
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Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 610–612.
Published: 01 May 2003
... in Japanese film. The Taikatsu studio was established in 1920 by a Japanese zaibatsu to make domestic versions of the foreign films that it also distributed. It competed with Shochiku to hire filmmakers with experience in Hollywood and writers who would raise the cultural profile of cinema in Japan...
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Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima. 1956–1978
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (2): 427–428.
Published: 01 May 1993
... and 1978, arranged chronologically for the most part and grouped by the editor according to broad areas of concern. The essays are not confined strictly to film, although naturally considerations of cinema predominate. Oshima's essays, published when he was an assistant director at Shochiku's famed Ofuna...
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Eros plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 157–158.
Published: 01 February 1989
... locates the movement in the period between 1959 and the early 1970s. Its impetus came from the early demonstrations against the U.S.-Japan security treaty. It actually began with the decision of a very conservative movie company, Shochiku, to gamble on rebellious young talents. The end occurred when...
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Kabuki's Forgotten War: 1931–1945
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 996–999.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... While the new theater movement was stocked with left-leaning socialists and similarly oriented staff and actors, they wished to rebel against the confines of traditional Japanese performing arts productions and the stranglehold that monopolistic corporations, like Shōchiku, maintained over managerial...
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War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U.S. Narcotics Policy
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (2): 425–427.
Published: 01 May 1993
... are not confined strictly to film, although naturally considerations of cinema predominate. Oshima's essays, published when he was an assistant director at Shochiku's famed Ofuna Studio, reveal the sharp eye of a director-to-be. An already famous Oshima essay, "Is It a Breakthrough (The Modernists of Japanese Film...
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Becoming “Japanese”: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 612–614.
Published: 01 May 2003
... characterized the cinema of narrative integration more than already well-established changes in shot scale). Bernardi also assumes, perhaps unwisely, a direct relation between the length of a described action and the length of the shot (p. 219). The acknowledgement that Taikatsu was overshadowed by Shochiku...
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The Monkey's Straw Raincoat and Other Poetry of the Bashō School
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (4): 961–963.
Published: 01 August 1983
.... Sarumino contains a preface by Basho's foremost disciple, Kikaku (1661-1707), a postscript in Kambun by Joso (1662 1704), and calligraphy by Kitamukai Unchiku and his disciple, Shochiku (see sample in figs. 6, 7, facing p. xvii). Divided into six maki (sections), Sarumino also includes 382 sequentially...
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The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (4): 959–961.
Published: 01 August 1983
... and published in two woodblock-printed volumes in Kyoto in 1691, three years before the great haikai master's death. Sarumino contains a preface by Basho's foremost disciple, Kikaku (1661-1707), a postscript in Kambun by Joso (1662 1704), and calligraphy by Kitamukai Unchiku and his disciple, Shochiku (see...
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The Economic Purge in Japan
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 12 (3): 279–299.
Published: 01 May 1953
.... 538–541): 6, 10, 13, 16, 18, 41, 47, 48, 49, 50, 56, 58, 61, 62, 73, 77, 81, 88, 93, 106, 110, 111, 114, 119, 122, 130, 131, and 158. 15 The six deconcentrated companies not listed were Hokkaido Dairy, Japan Brewery, Japan Explosives, Oriental Can (Mitsui), Shochiku Cinema, and Toho Cinema...
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Modern Art Patronage and Democratic Citizenship in Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 821–841.
Published: 01 August 2010
... the opportunity to shape public opinion. From 1923 to 1928, when Ōmori was forced to resign his job because of his politics, Wakimura saw him every day (Arisawa, Miyazaki, and Wakimura 1953 ). After 1928, the two friends continued to see each other regularly—for example, visiting the Shōchiku studio together...
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Fiction in Post-War Japan
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 13 (1): 3–22.
Published: 01 November 1953
... published in serial form in the Asabi Shimbun. It was then printed in book form in January, 1951»5 By June of the same year it had sold 80,000 copies.8 Two movie companies, the Shochiku and Daiei, next filmed it and brought out their films at the same time. Both companies, it was said, grossed 50 million...
