Genre in Japanese cinema

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Genre in Japanese cinema

• Jidaigeki
• Samurai film
• Chambara (silent cinema)
• Any historical film with a topic of prior 1868
  (Meiji Revolution)

• Gendaigeki
• Any film situated in time after 1868
• Meiji-mono 1868-19
• Different genres within gendaigeki
• Yakuza film as a continuation of jidaigeki

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Mizoguchi Kenji 1898-1956

• Naniwa Elegy/Osaka Elegy
• Gion no shimai/Sisters of Gion
• Genroku Chushingura/47 Ronin
• Ugetsu monogatari
• Chikamatsu monogatari
• Life of OHaru

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Ozu Yasujiro 1903-63

• Dragnet Girl
• Passing Fancy
• Tokyo Story
• Early Spring
• Late Summer
• Ohayo
• Equinox Flower

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Naruse Mikio 1905-69

• The Whole Family Works
• Drifting Clouds
• Late Chrysanthemum
• Wife
• Lightning
• When A Woman Ascends the Stairs
• Yearning

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Kurosawa Akira 1910-98

• The Most Beautiful
• Sugata Sanshiro
• The Men Who Thread on the Tigers Tail
• Stray Dog
• Rashomon
• Seven Samurai
• Yojimbo
• Ran