ABSTRACT
This topic area looks at the exciting period in Japanese cinema history when this previously isolated film industry (second only to Hollywood in size and number of
Suggested films from this period: Rashomon (Daiei, Japan, 1950, Dir: Akira Kurosawa)
Tokyo Nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter) (Nikkatsu, Japan, 1966, Dir: Seijun Suzuki)
Saikaku Ichidai Onna (The Life of Oharu) (Shin Toto, Japan, 1952, Dir: Kenji Mizogochi)
Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story) (Shochiku, Japan, 1953, Dir: Yasujiro Ozu)
Nihon no yuru to kiri (Night and Fog in Japan) (Shochiku, Japan, 1960, Dir: Nagisa Oshima)
Shinju ten no Amijima (Double Suicide) (Tokyo/Hyogensha/ATG, Japan, 1969, Dir: Masahiro Shinoda)
productions) broke into world markets, and achieved both critical and commercial success. Covering a period from postwar economic boom to the decline of studio power and the rise of the independents, this topic engages with the principal genres and styles of filmmaking of the time, the jidaigeki (including the chambara), the gendaigeki, the shomingeki, the yakuza and the keiko-eiga.
