Film and Theater

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Film and Theater

• The next stage?

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Lumieres CinematographeA device to capture
actualités
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Nanchi Theater, Osaka(Dotonbori) 15 Feb. 1897

• 16 feb. 1896 Osaka Mainichi A man dives into the
  water from a cliff and we actually see him
  sending up geysers of spray.

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Edisons VitascopeFeb. 1897 Osakas Shinmachi
Theater
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Two Amegoro competitorsNow dead creatures
flaunt their limbs in pictures that actually
move!

• Cinematographe
• Yokota Einosuke
• 1890s--S.F. dishwasher peddler in Midwest
  gadget hound (x-ray machine)
• Hall of Mysteries
• Successful hukster
• Kawakami theater, low prices

• Vitascope
• Arai Saburo
• Import businessman
• Worked at 1893 Chicago Exposition
• Tried to get Kabukiza, settled for Kikikan
  theater
• Komada Koyo benshi
• Sensationalist actualités, plus Death of Mary
  Queen of Scots

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Trip to the Moon 1902
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Asakusa Rokku
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Asakusa amusement quarter

• Storyboard men
• Peekboxes
• Kabuki, hawkers
• Chinseikan amazements hall vaudeville
• Taiseikan--jugglers, dancing girl magicians
• Yose theaters--rakugo samisen chants, biwa
  lantern shows
• Denkikan-electrictity hall became movie theater
  1903

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Asakusa amusement quarters

• Temple grounds traditional market area
• Asakusa developed
• Movie theaters
• Yose opera theaters
• Shinpa live theater

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Onoue Matsunosuke
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Kawakami Otojirô (1864-1911)
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Theater and Enka (connections Popular Rights)

• Oppekepe
• Oppekepe, oppekepe
• Oppekepeppouppeppoppou
• Kenri koufuku kirai na hito ni
• Jiyuutou o banomashitai
• Katai kamishimo kadotorete
• Manteru zubon ni jinrikisha
• Iki na sokuhatsu bonnetto
• Kinji ni shinshi no idetachi de
• Uwabe no kazari wa yokeredomo
• Seiji no shisou ga ketsubou da
• Tenchi no shinri ga wakaranai
• Kokoro ni jiyuu no tane o make.

• No goodygood, no goodygood
• No goodygood good no damn good.
• For those rascals who hate full rights
• Id like them to gulp down the drink of freedom
• Theyve taken off the stiff samurai kimono
• Put on capes and pants, use jinrikisha
• Fancy hair, fancy bonnets
• Done up like ladies and gentlemen
• They look good on the surface
• But dont know nothin of political theory
• Dont get the truth of things
• Plant the seeds of freedom in their hearts.

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Kawakami troupeOppekepe Sada Yacco
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New forms of theater

• Shimpa
• new school
• Kabuki the model
• Family dramas
• Traditional tales performed in modern context
• Dramatization of novels serialized in newspapers
• Shift from melodrama toward everyday life
  stories, female subcultures

• Shingeki
• new theater
• Translations of western plays Hamlet Ibsens
  Dolls House Sudermanns Die Heimat.
• Tsubouchi Shoyo (1859-1935)
• Shimamura Hôgetsu (1871-1918)
• Nakayama Shinpei

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Tsubouchi

• Waseda University
• Translator of Shakespeare
• Bungei Kyôkai
• 1905 trials
• 1909 drama study center
• Women also allowed to study
• 1911 Shimamura directs Dolls House

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Matsui Sumako
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Katyushas Song

• 80 yen commemorative

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Scandal