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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I don’t recall anyone using this term for films after the short period straddling 1930. <BR>
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Markus<BR>
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On 1/18/10 8:23 AM, "<a href="mccaskem@georgetown.edu">mccaskem@georgetown.edu</a>" <<a href="mccaskem@georgetown.edu">mccaskem@georgetown.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>It seems most likely that you are correct, according to standard Japanese<BR>
mainstream dictionary references. It's possible that the term "keikou eiga" was<BR>
revived later, but if so these references don't seem to be aware of that.<BR>
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The information in the following entry from the Sanseido Daijirin dictionary is<BR>
similar to that in other large Japanese dictionaries.<BR>
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$B;0>JF2(J $BBg<-NS(J<BR>
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<a href="http://www.weblio.jp/content/$B798~1G2h(J">http://www.weblio.jp/content/$B798~1G2h(J</a><BR>
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$B!Z798~1G2h![(J<BR>
$B!L%I%$%D8l(J Tendenzfilm$B$NLu!M(J1920$BG/Be8eH>$N@$3&BgIT674|$rCf?4$K!">&6H1G2h$NCf(J<BR>
$B$G<R2q$NL7=b$rAJ$($kFbMF$N%W%m%l%?%j%"1G2h!#F|K\$G$NBeI=:n$ONkLZ=E5H!V2?$,H`=w(J<BR>
$B$r$5$&$5$;$?$+!W$J$I!#(J<BR>
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Keikou eiga is a Japanese translation of the German term "Tendenzfilm."<BR>
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Keikoueiga were proletarian films (puroretaria eiga), made mainly during the<BR>
time of the Great Worldwide Depression in the latter half of the 1920s. They<BR>
were commercially made films whose content was critical of the contradictions<BR>
in society. A typical Japanese film of this type was Suzuki Yoshishige's "Nani ga<BR>
kano jo o sou saseta ka."<BR>
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There's also an interesting brief online piece from 2007 in Japanese on<BR>
"Mizoguchi Kenji and His Times (2) [Expressionism and Keikou eiga],"<BR>
referencing a few films by Mizoguchi and others in Japan and Europe, but the<BR>
latest film is from 1935.<BR>
<a href="http://www.planetplusone.com/memberonly/2_1.html">http://www.planetplusone.com/memberonly/2_1.html</a> <BR>
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I hope these snippets may be help a little.<BR>
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Michael McCaskey<BR>
Georgetown University<BR>
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