Themes in Japanese society as seen through The Japanese film
- Document author(s):
- George A. DeVos and Audie Bock
- Document source:
- Pacific Film Archive
- Publication date:
- 1974
- Document language:
- English
- Document type:
- booklet
- Number of pages:
- 62
- Document name subject:
- Mikio Naruse, Akira Kurosawa, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Tadashi Imai, Masaki Kobayashi, and Nagisa Oshima
- Document contains:
- production co
- Related films:
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- Bakushu (Early summer) — Ozu, Yasujiro — Japan — 1951
- Ikiru (To live) — Kurosawa, Akira — Japan — 1952
- Jigokumon (Gate of Hell) — Kinugasa, Teinosuke — Japan — 1953
- Ugetsu monogatari (Ugetsu) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1953
- Sanshô dayû (Sansho the bailiff) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1954
- Nijushi no hitomi (Twenty-four eyes) — Kinoshita, Keisuke — Japan — 1954
- Yoru no tsuzumi (Night drum) — Imai, Tadashi — Japan — 1958
- Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki (When a woman ascends the stairs) — Naruse, Mikio — Japan — 1960
- Harakiri — Kobayashi, Masaki — Japan — 1962
- Tsubaki Sanjuro (Sanjuro) — Kurosawa, Akira — Japan — 1962
- Shonen (Boy) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1969
- Shinju ten no amijima (Double suicide) — Shinoda, Masahiro — Japan — 1969
- Biruma no tategoto (The Burmese harp) — Ichikawa, Kon — Japan — 1985
- Film country(ies):
- Japan
- Film language(s):
- Japanese
- Film production company:
- Art Theatre Guild of Japan Co. Ltd., Daiei Motion Picture Co. Ltd., Fuji Terebijon, Kabushiki Kaisha, Hakuhodo Incorporated, Hyogensha Inc., Kinema Tokyo, Kurosawa Productions, Shochiku Kabushiki Kaisha, Sozosha, and Toho Kabushiki Kaisha
- Film genre(s):
- Adaptation, Drama, Family, Feature, Historical, Melodrama, Remakes, Show business, Social problem, Thriller, War, and Women
- Film subject(s):
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- Abused children -- Japan -- Drama
- Accident victims -- Japan -- Drama
- Adultery -- Japan -- Drama
- Boys -- Japan -- Drama
- Burma -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 -- Drama
- Chikamatsu, Monzaemon, 1653-1725. Shunjo ten no amijima -- Film and video adaptations
- Clerks -- Japan -- Drama
- Family life -- Japan -- Drama
- Fatherless families -- Japan -- Drama
- Folklore -- Japan -- Drama
- Geishas -- Japan -- Drama
- Japan -- History -- 11th century -- Drama
- Legends -- Japan -- Drama
- Marriage -- Japan -- Drama
- Married people -- Japan -- Drama
- Mori, Ogai, 1862-1922. Sansho-dayu -- Film and video adaptations
- Nobility -- Japan -- Drama
- Parent and child -- Japan -- Drama
- Potters -- Japan -- Drama
- Puppet theater -- Japan -- Drama
- Samurai -- Japan -- 16th century -- Drama
- Samurai -- Japan -- 19th century -- Drama
- Slavery -- Japan -- Drama
- Soldiers -- Japan -- Drama
- Suicide -- Japan -- Drama
- Swindlers and swindling -- Japan -- Drama
- Teacher-student relationships -- Japan -- Drama
- Teachers -- Japan -- Drama
- Terminally ill -- Japan -- Drama
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Japan -- Drama
- Tsuboi, Sakae, 1900-1967. Nijushi no hitomi -- Film and video adaptations
- Ueda, Akinari, 1734-1809. Ugetsu monogatari -- Film and video adaptations
- Widows -- Japan -- Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma -- Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Drama
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